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Tickets on sale Wednesday, May 15! Kansas Public Radio is thrilled to ring in 30 years of Trail Mix with a special concert featuring singer/songwriter Dar Williams on November 11.
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Planned Parenthood Great Plains’ Pittsburg health center will offer abortions, contraception and other care beginning this fall.
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Black women hoping to conceive using donor sperm often have to choose a donor from a different race or put their fertility journey on hold because of a shortage of Black sperm donors. Researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center are trying to find out why.
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On this edition of Conversations, Joan Marie Galat talks with host Dan Skinner about “Make Your Mark, Make a Difference – A Kid’s Guide to Standing Up for People, Animals, and the Planet.”
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Planting is well underway across the Midwest, but farmers are still grappling with dry conditions that led to lower than normal corn yields last fall. It’s the third year of a near historic drought for parts of the Corn Belt.
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Traffic tickets for low-income drivers can snowball into thousands of dollars of debt and revoked licenses. A new law aims to reduce fines and fees to help get them reinstated.
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On this week's Retro Cocktail Hour, we'll hear new music by Mr. Moai and the Tikiheads and Skip Heller's Voodoo 5. Also, Martin Denny with strings on Hypnotique, a budget label classic on Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat, plus percussionist Ray Barretto's Seňor 007.
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On May 8th, 2024, Kansas Public Radio veteran live performer Po Sim Head brought her Polish friend Agnieszka Lasko to preview their upcoming four hands piano concerts. The two pianists will play together at the Lawrence Public Library on May 9, 2024 and at the Kansas State University Union Hall May 16, 2024 at 6:00pm.
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Green Lady Lounge's in-house recording of one of their most popular acts: guitarist Danny Embrey. This May 11th, 2024, recording has Brian Steever on drums and Gerald Spaits on base. With David Basse presenting, you can experience KC's rich jazz tradition and listen to your favorite local artists right here on Kansas Public radio.
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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 Florida Highway Patrol has arrested the driver of a pickup truck that crashed into a farmworker bus early Tuesday on charges of driving under the influence-manslaughter. At least 40 were injured.
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The Canadian writer was known for her masterfully crafted short stories. Throughout her long career, she earned a number of prestigious awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.
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The Justice Department is expected to argue that its clamp down on TikTok is about national security, but Constitutional lawyers say there is no way around grappling with the free speech implications.
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Williams was young when he was thrust into the public eye as the star of Everybody Hates Chris. Now a teacher on Abbott Elementary, he works to help his child actor colleagues feel comfortable.
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A new study warns that millions of people around the world who are 69 years or older will be at risk of dying in heat waves by 2050.