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Brooke Gariss

Brooke Gariss is an intern writing for The Heartlander.

Public Education
Personal info of thousands of students and teachers at risk after massive hack of Colorado education department

Names and social security numbers are among the sensitive student data leaked in a data breach reported last week by the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE).   The hack… Read More

August 9, 2023
Missouri
Missouri State Fair is back; here’s everything you need to know

The annual Missouri State Fair is back, beginning Aug. 10 and continuing until Aug. 20 in Sedalia.  The fair’s theme this year is “Where Tradition Grows.” Fair-goers will enjoy live… Read More

August 4, 2023
Kansas City, Uncategorized
Kansas City Council ushers in era with new four-year terms Tuesday. Here are those taking, and leaving, office

Kansas City swears in its new city council and incumbent Mayor Quinton Lucas Tuesday. The 12 new council members, a mix… Read More

July 31, 2023
Courts, Missouri
Missouri AG vows not to ‘let left-wing ideologues experiment on children,’ in lawsuit attacking state’s ban on trans treatments for kids

The ACLU of Missouri and two other organizations filed a lawsuit this week challenging Missouri’s new law protecting minors from transgender treatments. Senate Bill 49, called the “Missouri Save Adolescents from… Read More

July 27, 2023
Public Education
Texas charter school requires boys be boys, girls be girls, in its two renowned choirs

A Fort Worth public charter school has banned boys from the girls’ choir, and vice versa. The Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts voted 4-2 recently to require unaltered birth… Read More

July 19, 2023