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What's your favorite song of the season? KPR staffers answer that question on this week's KPR Presents, with everything from the traditional to Elvis, the orchestral to the absurd.

Week of March 25, 2018: the popular detective V.I. Warshawski travels to Kansas in Sara Paretsky's latest thriller, Fallout. Join Kaye McIntyre for a conversation with Lawrence's own best-selling author Sara Paretsky.

How sports can change the world: a conversation on race, gender, and athletics, with sportswriter Dave Zirin.

Carly Fiorina -- former CEO of Hewlett Packard and the first woman to lead a Fortune 500 company -- on character, leadership, and what she learned running for president in 2016.

This week on KPR Presents: why facts matter. Alan Murray, CEO of Fortune Inc., on the importance of good journalism.

This week on KPR Presents, the little known story of the outlaw known as The Jayhawker Cleveland. David Hann of Lawrence is the author of The Jayhawker Cleveland: Phantom Horseman of the Plains.

The coming months will bring a 28 Days Later sequel and a new John Wick movie starring Ana de Armas. Midsommar's Ari Aster has a new Western thriller, and Pixar goes intergalactic.

Dignitaries gather in Manhattan for a ribbon cutting ceremony at a federal bio-security lab... four Kansas City area men have been indicted for illegally trafficking firearms... Kansas City's mayor appoints a committee to study reparations for Black residents... and a Missouri mom gets more than 50 years in prison for leaving her two children to die in a hot car. Those headlines and more... here.

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Kevin Merida is the editor of the Los Angeles Times and winner of the 2023 William Allen White National Citation.