Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Celia comes to the Kansas News Service after five years at the Topeka Capital-Journal. She brings in-depth experience covering schools and education policy in Kansas as well as news at the Statehouse. In the last year she has been diving into data reporting. At the Kansas News Service she will also be producing more radio, a medium she’s been yearning to return to since graduating from Columbia University with a master’s in journalism.
Celia also has a master’s degree in bilingualism studies from Stockholm University in Sweden. Before she landed in Kansas, Celia worked as a reporter for The American Lawyer in New York, translated Chinese law articles, and was a reporter and copy editor for the Taipei Times.
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The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests also wants Kansas to change its laws on old cases so that more abusers could potentially face justice.
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Crews divert Kansas creek in the race to clean Keystone pipeline spill and prevent further pollutionA Michigan scientist warns that dilbit can seem to disappear, only to turn up later. This mystery may have to do with how the oil binds to other particles in water.
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The oil spill is the biggest in the Keystone pipeline's history and it dumped a sludgy form of crude oil that poses special challenges for a cleanup.
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Thirty-four-year-old Tanner first tried opioids as a teenager. Since then, he says doctors have helped him by prescribing medications that reduce cravings.
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The spill in Kansas is now the second-largest spill of tar sands crude on U.S. soil. And scientists say this stuff comes with major complications for containing and cleaning it.
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Canadian company TC Energy estimated that 14,000 barrels of oil spilled near the Kansas-Nebraska border.
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What if jacuzzi-like water jets could save a lake or make sure reservoirs stay full of drinking water? Scientists in Kansas will test this as they work to prevent a reservoir from filling up with mud.
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Feds give 'threatened' protection to lesser prairie chickens in Kansas with flexibility for industryOnly about 30,000 of the birds are left, down from millions. And they've been at the heart of political and conservation debates for years.
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A new lawsuit accuses two global companies of paying distributors to suppress competition, so that U.S. farmers overspend by millions of dollars annually
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On nights with good tailwinds, tens of millions of birds fill Kansas skies. And when the moon is full, you can watch their silhouettes fly by.