The town of Presidio has an almost surreal quality. Most Americans wouldn’t be able to locate it on a map. It is located on the Rio Grande in the bone-dry Big Bend region of West Texas. About 3,200 people live there. A functional border crossing. After a devastating flood in 2008 prompted millions of dollars’ worth of improvements, the town has been kept dry by a levee that has quietly performed its function for decades. And now the federal government wants to construct a wall right through that levee. The lawsuit over the Presidio border wall was not unexpected. Local…
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.
During election years, there’s a certain amount of tension in the air. It’s in the way people talk at dinner, the number of tabs open on someone’s laptop at a coffee shop, and the question, “Is this one going to be okay?” that people ask in a casual but slightly worried way. More weight than most is being put on the 2026 midterm election in the United States, which is now getting closer to a date that no president can legally change on the calendar. Also, it’s important to make this point clear right away: the election is happening. Since…
Military spouses know a certain kind of tiredness all too well. It’s not just being tired from a rough week at work. Every two or three years, you have to start over with your career in a new city, state, set of licensing rules, and sometimes even a different profession. Lots of gaps show up on resumes. The professional licenses run out. You can’t take commissions from one state with you to another. In this context, military spouse commission programs have quietly become one of the most important changes in military family support policy in the last few years. In…
One of the more improbable second acts in American sports media was created by Shannon Sharpe. He created a completely different persona behind a microphone after playing in the NFL for 14 seasons, winning three Super Bowl rings, and being inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011. Club Shay Shay, his podcast, gained a sizable following. It felt like an arrival when he moved to ESPN. After a lawsuit was filed in April 2025, not much has changed. Under the pseudonym Jane Doe, a woman filed a complaint alleging that Sharpe had sexually assaulted and raped her twice, in…
Visiting a clinical lab, giving a blood sample or a urine cup, and having faith that the organization on the other end of the transaction is acting in your best interests can be subtly unsettling. The majority of people don’t read the fine print. They believe that the test being conducted is the one they truly require. It turns out that this assumption wasn’t always true in the case of Laboratory Corporation of America, or Labcorp. Two distinct legal settlements involving Labcorp this summer have brought the business under intense public scrutiny. Together, they amount to almost $50 million in…
Something about it seems almost too obvious. The Justice Department that once looked into Donald Trump is now led by Todd Blanche, the man who sat next to him in a Manhattan courtroom and defended his innocence. Not too long ago, this arrangement would have seemed like political fiction. And yet here we are, silently witnessing that arrangement fall apart. Recent reports from a variety of sources depict a Justice Department that has been manipulated, coerced, and, in some cases, successfully repurposed to further the White House’s political objectives. The legal ramifications are beginning to manifest. Cases have been challenging.…
Enes Etlik had a well-defined plan when he arrived in Calgary. He enrolled in the University of Calgary’s foreign trained lawyers program, a one-year certification track intended for foreign-credentialed attorneys who wish to practice law in Canada. He is a dual citizen of Turkey and Belgium. There were six courses separating him from that objective. Five of them were passed by him. Everything else collapsed along the sixth, which turned into the fault line. There is more to the U of C international student lawsuit Etlik filed in September 2025 than just a single exam that was missed or a…
It’s only August, but weather experts are already arguing about what will happen in February. That doesn’t happen very often—making long-range predictions has become a seasonal sport in and of itself—but this year there’s a reason why the arguments are stronger than usual. As a Super El Niño forms in the Pacific, models are beginning to show what that might mean for the coming months. The country is pretty much split in half by the basic picture as it stands. It will be warmer than usual this winter in the West, especially along the Pacific Coast and in the northern…
We didn’t plan for the final to go this way. Many people thought Jessica Pegula would win the match against a 21-year-old who had never won a WTA title before. She had won the first set and was serving for the second. It started to rain. A delay of five hours. The game was moved to Monday. Something had changed at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington when the games started up again. The second set was won by Alex Eala 6-4. After that, she beat him 6-0 in the third set. It was the first time in…
There’s a certain kind of quiet that falls over a team when they trade the player they built their whole team around. The Baltimore Orioles traded Adley Rutschman, a catcher, to the Boston Red Sox on Monday, just hours before the trade deadline. The face of a seven-year rebuilding project was quickly driving up I-95 to play for a rival team in the same division. Rutschman, who is 28, was the first player Mike Elias picked as Baltimore’s general manager. He was picked No. 1 overall in 2019, five months after the team had lost 115 games. When he got…