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Celebrate the season with your friends at Kansas Public Radio! Join the KPR staff for stories and songs of the season on "A Very Merry KPR Presents!"

This week on KPR Presents: "KU for Ukraine." Join us for an hour of personal stories, poems, and music in support of students and scholars displaced by the war in Ukraine.

The Dole Institute of Politics fall series on the 2022 elections continues with a look at the Kansas races with former governor Jeff Colyer and former congressman Jim Slattery.

How do we remember and honor the women who settled Kansas and the West? Dr. Cynthia Culver Prescott explores the statues that commemorate them in Pioneer Mother Monuments.

Former U.S. Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker joins Dole fellow Bob Blaemire at the Dole Institute's "Giants of the Senate" series.

For much of the past several decades, one issue dominated Kansas politics: school finance. Education scholar Bruce Baker talks about school finance, equity, and what Kansas got right.

The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. We preview this year's line-up with director Audrey Coleman.

A Dillons grocery store closed. Three central Topeka census tracts became federally designated food deserts. Now a local movement aims to fill the gap.

In the Big 12 women's basketball tournament, Kansas and Kansas State each picked up victories last (FRI) night in Dallas. The seventh-seeded Kansas Jayhawks defeated TCU, 83-61, so they advance to take on number-2 seed Iowa State tonight (SAT) at 6. K-State has a more difficult test today (SAT). After a 51-49 victory over Texas last (FRI) night, the Wildcats are now matched against Baylor at 2 this (SAT) afternoon. The Lady Bears finished 18-0 in the Big 12's regular season. In NCAA Division II play, the top-seeded Washburn Lady Blues play fourth-seeded Emporia State in the M-I-A-A semifinals. Tipoff is at 6 tonight (SAT) in Kansas City.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer is the KU Common Book for fall 2021 and the latest selection in the KPR Presents Book Club. Join us for the radio version of KPR Presents Book Club with Professors Bob Hagen, Jennifer Moody, and Ray Pierotti of the University of Kansas and Dan Wildcat of Haskell Indian Nations University.