Luke X. Martin
Luke X. Martin is an assistant producer for KCUR's Up To Date.
Born in Manhattan, Kansas, and raised in Wichita, Luke fell in love with public radio listening to KMUW. He got his start pulling early morning DJ shifts at KJHK in Lawrence while he was a student at KU.
Luke was previously an intern for Up To Date, and joined the team as a producer in 2016. His work has appeared online for UPI.com,The Daily Caller,Politics DailyandThe Pitch.
He has a Master of Science degree from theMedillSchool of Journalism at Northwestern University. If you see him limping along a running trail in Kansas City or the suburbs, please offer him a drink of water or a high-five.
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The Kansas City Chiefs, who overcame multiple injuries prior to and during the game against the Cincinnati Bengals, were hosting the AFC Championship for the fifth year in a row. They'll face the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Feb. 12. -
Kansas City's pro football team has retired a longtime on-field personality, Warpaint the horse, over concerns about the use of Native American imagery. Groups insist the Chiefs' name be changed.
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In a hearing that only included witnesses on one side of the debate, lawmakers attempted to determine if concepts from a controversial legal framework have made their way into public school curriculum. -
The omnibus public safety bill received overwhelming bipartisan support, and includes more than 40 provisions that will affect how police, corrections officers, and prosecutors do their jobs. -
A joint lawsuit from the City and County of St. Louis seeks to overturn the state's new Second Amendment sanctuary law. Jackson County lawmakers want to lend their support to the legal action. -
Missouri's new gun law, which imposes a $50,000 fine on any state or local official who enforces a federal gun law that is not also state law, has a "chilling effect" on some police. -
Whether they were on the financial edge before or not, Kansas Citians agree the stimulus payments are a welcome, and needed, relief. -
Authorities in Georgia have said it's too early determine if a string of killings there was motivated by race, but some Asian Americans see a clear connection to this country's history of discrimination. -
The academy's director hopes to help increase the diversity of police forces in Missouri and the region. -
If you placed a Super Bowl wager in Missouri or Kansas this year, chances are good it was probably illegal. But in Missouri, the smart money is...
