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On this edition of Conversations, Aida Salazar talks with host Dan Skinner about her middle-grade novel, "Ultraviolet." -
Dylan Lysen/Kansas News ServiceKelly says the $470 million cost of the latest proposal is not sustainable. -
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. -
Brandon O'Connor/U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource Conservation ServiceThe 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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Today marks the 70th anniversary of the historic Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case that led to school desegregation... Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoes a bipartisan tax cutting package and says she'll call lawmakers back to Topeka for a special session... college tuition at state universities is likely going up this fall... and Spirit AeroSystems says it will layoff 400 hourly employees in Wichita. Those headlines and more, inside.
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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. -
Sam Tsui and Casey Breves join host Dan Skinner to talk about the picture book "Why Do We Sing?" -
The landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that outlawed racial segregation in public schools may have played out differently if it hadn’t been for a tenacious group of women in Johnson County, Kansas, who led their own integration lawsuit five years earlier. The case centered around a two-room schoolhouse and included a lengthy boycott, big-shot NAACP lawyers, FBI surveillance — and six very brave children. -
Planned Parenthood Great Plains’ Pittsburg health center will offer abortions, contraception and other care beginning this fall. -
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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Harrison Butker of the Kansas City Chiefs urged female graduates to embrace the title of "homemaker" in a controversial commencement speech. The NFL says he was speaking "in his personal capacity."
