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Rebekah Taussig is the author of "Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body," the Kansas City Public Library's Big Read selection for 2025.
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From the Docking years and the Brownback tax experiment to the election of Governor Laura Kelly, it's a look at the push and pull of Kansas politics over the past 70 years, with the co-editors of "Reform and Reaction: The Arc of Kansas Politics."
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We mark Women's History Month with the story of women challenging gender roles within the Mennonite Church. Dr. Lois Barrett and Dorothy Nickel Friesen are the authors of Proclaiming the Good News: Mennonite Women's Voices, a Kansas Notable Book.
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We celebrate Women's History Month with a basketball trailblazer: former University of Kansas Coach Marian Washington. Her new book is "Fierce: My Fight for Nothing Less."
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Set during the Great Depression, Karen Russell's latest book takes on climate, community, history, storytelling and more.
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Matt Beat is an educator, popular podcaster/YouTuber, and host of the spring discussion series at KU's Dole Institute of Politics, looking at the expanding role of the president.
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Cozy up with the first in the new Josie Posey mystery series, Doomed by Blooms, by Anna St. John. Doomed by Blooms was named a Kansas Notable Book by the State Library of Kansas.
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Dozens of Kansans turned out on President's Day to protest many of the sweeping changes enacted by President Trump in the past month. We hear from many of them in this audio postcard from the State Capitol in Topeka.
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott joins us for a sneak peek at the Kevin Willmott Film Festival, taking place February 18-21 at Lawrence's Liberty Hall.
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Former Kansas governors Kathleen Sebelius and Mike Hayden express their concern about the shifting balance of power in the Kansas Statehouse. It's the 2025 Dole Forum from KU's Dole Institute of Politics, moderated by Katie Bernard of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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We celebrate Kansas Day with a couple of poems submitted by Peg Nichols of Olathe and Diane Sorensen of Wichita.
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We visit with artist Phyllis Garibay Coon Pease, the creator of "Rebel Women," the new mural at the Kansas Capitol honoring the Kansas women who fought for the right to vote. Also, we hear from travel writer and explorer Roxie Yonkey, author of "Historic Kansas Roadsides." Finally, a couple of Kansas-themed poems to celebrate Kansas Day.