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Some Kansans are spooked by data centers as the likelihood of the state hosting more big tech facilities is rising. They’re worried about potential harmful impacts to the environment and just being heard during preliminary public meetings. One positive to all the hullabaloo? Heightened civic engagement early in local proceedings. -
The incumbent senator and his allies have massively outspent the pro-Paxton side, though polling points to a tight finish in the May 26 election. -
Overland Park Sen. Cindy Holscher’s running mate is Wichita Rep. KC Ohaebosim -
The Army captain’s letters and testimony helped break through decades-long efforts to hide the massacre’s brutal truth behind a facade of frontier myth. -
Kansas State University experts also warned in a recent memo of disease emerging in wheat fields in nine Kansas counties.
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We will hear music by film composers John Williams, Hans Zimmer, and Howard Shore on the show this week! -
White bass have finished with their spring spawn, and are in deeper water feeding on baitfish. This week, Luke and his buddy Brandon Sargent tell how to catch them! -
Weeds don’t exactly seem like they’re all that helpful in a garden, but sometimes they can end up giving you some useful guidance. In this week’s episode, we’ll talk about how to learn to “listen” to what the weeds are trying to tell you! -
Mladen Bozickovic, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHi. I’m Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, a poet born in Northwest Texas, here for Poets on the Plains. I’ve got some coffee on the table and I’m here to offer a poem titled “fish bones” from Texas Tech poet jo reyes-boitel.
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