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Kelly says the $470 million cost of the latest proposal is not sustainable.
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As we mark the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, we hear about the girls and young women who led the fight to desegregate America's schools.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service recently announced it is discontinuing a few market surveys due to budget cuts. Some lawmakers and industry groups have expressed concern and want the decision to be reversed.
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On this edition of Conversations Amanda Montell talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality.”
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People from all across the country are coming to Kansas to see a bird. The lesser prairie chicken used to roam the Great Plains by the millions, but now... the population has dwindled to around 25,000. Commentator Rex Buchanan recently took some out-of-state folks to see the rare bird in its native habitat.
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Legendary newsman, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me scorekeeper, and KANU and KU alum Bill Kurtis reflects on his 60-year career in broadcasting in this year's Dole Lecture at the Dole Institute of Politics
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The law will help protect people from criminal prosecution if they seek medical help for someone experiencing a drug overdose.
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The works of William Shakespeare have been filmed more than 1,800 times, dating back to 1899. This week on Film Music Friday, we'll hear music from Shakespeare films, including scores by Dimitri Shostakovich, William Walton, Aram Kachaturian and others for adaptations of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing and Henry V.
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As many as 100 million or 200 million birds will fly northward along the Central Flyway on Saturday night. Kansas, Missouri and neighboring states lie in the hottest of hotspots.
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Solar flares are causing a geomagnetic storm that should make it possible for Kansas City and other cities in the middle of the country to see the aurora borealis, which can usually only be glimpsed in northern latitudes. The best views are expected around midnight.
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