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A new art exhibit in Kansas City about the Kansas River will help you see the Kaw in new ways. Commentator Rex Buchanan tells us more about the art and the artist, Lawrence resident Lisa Grossman.

Lorenzo Fuller, who grew up in Stockton, Kansas, became a Broadway sensation in the mid 1900s. This singer, musician and performer was the first Black man to have a network TV variety show (nearly a decade before Nat "King" Cole).

Have you ever made a contribution to KPR? Want to make another one? Double up on KPR on this Groundhog Day. Thanks.

In the early 1870s, Dr. Brewster Higley stepped outside his cabin in Smith County, Kansas and wrote a poem to express his love for the land he now called home. His poem became the state song, Home on the Range.

Water is running low in parts of western Kansas. This has been true for years. But Commentator Rex Buchanan says the situation is getting worse.

It's tumbleweed season and these hazards of the highway are piling up across the prairies of western Kansas.

Screwworm flies used to be a deadly plague on cattle and other livestock in the United States and Mexico until a couple American scientists came up with a brilliant strategy to fight the parasitic insect. As Commentator John Richard Schrock explains, it was science to the rescue once again.