When Abdul El-Sayed eventually spoke to his supporters at Detroit’s Majestic Theater early on Wednesday morning, hundreds of them had been waiting for hours, fidgeting and glancing at their phones. There was still no official call for the race. El-Sayed, however, spoke with the cool assurance of a man who knew the math was on his side. He was ultimately predicted by NBC News to win, making him the Democratic nominee for the vacant Senate seat in Michigan, which Gary Peters is leaving after deciding not to run for a third term. Even though the Michigan Senate primary results were…
Author: Sierra Foster
Sierra Foster
Born in Kansas City, Sierra Foster writes about politics and serves as Senior Editor at kbsd6.com. She was raised paying attention to this city, not just living in it. Sierra has a strong, deep connection to Kansas City, from the neighborhoods east of Troost to the discussions that take place in the city hall halls. Sierra, who is presently enrolled at the University of Kansas to pursue a degree in Political Science, applies the rigor of academic study to her journalism. She writes about politics in Missouri and Kansas as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to the people in these communities—the policies that impact them, the leaders who represent them, and the civic forces influencing their futures—rather than as an outsider watching from a distance. Her editorial coverage encompasses state-level policy, local government, and the national political currents that permeate bi-state regional life. Whether it's a city council vote or a Senate race, she has a special gift for turning complex policy language into writing that feels urgent, relatable, and worthwhile. Sierra seldom sits still off the page. She claims that playing soccer on a regular basis has sharpened her instincts for political reporting because of the sport's teamwork, strategy, and requirement to read a changing game in real time. She's probably somewhere in Kansas City with her friends when she's not writing or on the pitch, discovering new reasons to adore a city she already knows so well.
The internet in the early 2000s, with its dial-up connections, crowded homepages, and a few people who really thought blogging could make a difference, seems almost nostalgic. One of them was Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. He was born in Miami to Cuban parents and grew up in Little Havana. He went to an all-boys Catholic prep school and then to NYU to study acting, but his career never quite took off. The next part is what no one saw coming. He wrote a blog. He said himself that he did it because it looked easy. Part of what makes the…
If you got a letter from Flagstar Bank in 2021 or 2022, it was probably one of those notices that comes in a plain envelope and is easy to miss. You probably put it down and forgot about it. A lot of people did. It turns out that letter might have been useful to keep. The last day to file a claim in the Flagstar Bank data breach settlement is August 11, 2026, and most customers who were affected don’t seem to realize how quickly time is running out. The backstory is pretty clear, but it’s still scary. More than…
Ryanair hired pilots for years based on a simple but legal idea: they weren’t really employees of the company. They worked as contractors. Work for yourself. Working through personal service companies set up by agencies and run by accountants that the pilots didn’t talk to much. The deal was good because it kept costs low and freed the airline from having to pay sick days and holidays. Everything was neat until it wasn’t. This system became very clear again last week when a group claim was brought to London’s Commercial Court. Richard Phillips, a former pilot for Ryanair, filed a…
Paul Child didn’t want to get into trouble that Saturday. He was on his way to a neighbor’s house through a quiet, fielded stretch outside of Spokane, Washington. His grandson was in the passenger seat. And then they saw a man pacing on the side of the road. As they drove by, he looked at them. The child saw. Put it away. Didn’t give it much thought. But 15 minutes later, on their way back with his grandson’s friend, they saw the same thing. The same man was still there, but this time he was bent over near the bushes…
People on the internet are very interested in how tall Hasan Piker is, which I find sort of funny. It seems strange that one of the most talked-about things about him is whether he’s more like 6’2″ or 6’4″, since he streams events that have hundreds of thousands of viewers at the same time, like presidential debates and Capitol riots. Still, here we are. Piker has said that he is 6’4″ more than once, but he usually plays it down in a way that makes it seem like he doesn’t care. “I’m just 6’4″, I’m not that tall” is something…
Kalshi traders aren’t really hedging their bets on the Democratic primary for Senate in Michigan. On the prediction market platform, Abdul El-Sayed is currently in a strong lead going into today’s vote. Traders think he has a 62% chance of winning by 15 points or more. That’s not a lean; it’s a question. The more interesting question is whether the markets know something that the polls don’t. Haley Stevens, a moderate four-term congresswoman who has spent a lot of this race trying to position herself as the stable, electable choice, is running against El-Sayed in the primary. El-Sayed is a…
There’s a history of country music that says the style never comes back after the early 1980s. When the synthesizers cover up the pedal steel, the rhinestones give way to pop gloss, and the whole thing slowly turns into adult contemporary with a cowboy hat sound. That version almost came true. It all changed when Randy Travis walked into a nightclub in Charlotte, North Carolina. Travis was born Randy Bruce Traywick on May 4, 1959, in Marshville, North Carolina. He didn’t have the kind of upbringing that makes you think you’ll end up in the Hall of Fame. Harold, his…
October 14 has become one of the more important dates on the calendar for people who live on a fixed income. The Social Security Administration will likely announce the official cost-of-living adjustment for 2027 at that time. This number will affect how millions of retirees budget for the coming year for things like food, utilities, and prescriptions. Numbers show that it will be somewhere between 3.6 and 3.8 percent right now. AARP predicts a 3.6% rise based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index and projections from the Federal Reserve on inflation. A different, nonpartisan advocacy…
There had already been a number of high-stakes technology disputes in the San Francisco courtroom. However, on July 20, 2026, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín signed an order that put a number on something the publishing industry had been silently fearing for years: what happens when an AI company appropriates your life’s work without your consent. Apparently, $1.5 billion is the answer. The Anthropic copyright lawsuit settlement, which is currently the biggest copyright settlement in American legal history, settles allegations made by a group of writers that the AI company downloaded pirated copies of their books in order to create…