The Metro Brief

Five minutes. Every weekday. No filler.

One email each weekday morning with the Kansas City stories that actually moved: what council did, what broke ground, what closed, and the number that explains it.

What is in it

  • Three stories we think matter most, with a sentence on why.
  • The number of the day — one statistic from the metro, explained.
  • On the calendar — public meetings worth showing up to this week.
  • One thing to read from somewhere other than us.

A sample

THE METRO BRIEF · Wednesday

Good morning. Council passed the budget at 11:40 p.m. after seven hours, and the housing amendment survived by one vote. Here is what that means for the four projects waiting on gap financing.

The number: 3.1%. Industrial vacancy in the Northland. That is not a healthy market — it is a market that has run out of room.

On the calendar: Thursday, 6 p.m., the levee district takes public comment on the riverfront trail detour.

— Marisol

How often, honestly

We publish Monday to Friday. During a big story — a budget vote, a stadium deal, a flood — we send an extra edition. We have never sent more than two in a day and we do not intend to.