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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on motherhood, soccer, and her book, It Goes So Fast, now out in paperback. Also, the story of the University of Kansas Jayhawk, and a conversation with Ada Límon who just completed her second term as U.S. Poet Laureate.

As we mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War, we hear from Kansas veterans about their military service in Vietnam. It's a special encore presentation of "Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War," a statewide oral history project sponsored by Humanities Kansas.

The Watkins Museum of History in Lawrence is the first stop for "Americans," a new Smithsonian traveling exhibit that looks at how Native Americans stories and images infuse American life and culture. We visit "Americans" with Steve Nowak, director of the Watkins Museum, and Andrew Stockmann, curator of exhibitions. We also preview the Paper Plains Zine Fest, taking place Labor Day weekend in Lawrence.

Bill Kurtis: legendary broadcaster, Kansas native, KANU alumnus, and now...author! He joins us to talk about his new memoir, "Whirlwind: My Life Reporting the News," in advance of his Lawrence book launch, September 18th. We also preview the Kansas Book Festival, coming up September 20th in Topeka.

The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected legislative maps three times. With weeks to go until the primary, voters don't know who their candidates are and candidates don't know where their districts are.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is expected to attend. So is Apple's Tim Cook. A look inside the Sun Valley conference for top media and tech moguls organized by a little known investment firm.

The Kansas House has approved its version of the budget for 2012. After a marathon session yesterday (THUR), the House voted 69-52 to approve the package, which includes about 6 billion dollars in state spending. The proposal would leave the state with around 80 million dollars at the end of the fiscal year. House Speaker Mike O’Neal, a Hutchinson Republican, was happy with the outcome.00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa794240000Paul Davis of Lawrence is the top Democrat in the House. He wasn’t satisfied with millions of dollars in cuts to social services and school funding.00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa794240001Complicating matters is yesterday's (THUR) revenue report for March showing the state missed a tax collection estimate by 19 million dollars. The Senate approved its version of the budget on Tuesday. Negotiators will meet in the coming weeks to iron out differences between the bills, before lawmakers return to the Statehouse in late April.

Florida has been a major access point for abortion in the South. Now its residents, along with thousands more in the region, will have to seek abortion care elsewhere after six weeks of pregnancy.

On this edition of Conversations, Tom Seeman talks with host Dan Skinner about about his memoir, “Animals I Want to See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds.”

On this edition of Conversations, Angeline Boulley talks with host Dan Skinner about "Sisters in the Wind - When the Past Comes for Revenge It's Fight or Flight."