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Suzanne Perez/KMUWConsultants say the Wichita district needs to reduce its number of buildings. That could involve a massive bond issue or series of bonds to build and renovate schools, and it likely will mean closing many smaller schools. -
wstrachan1, flickr Creative CommonsIt’s the latest step in a long, winding judicial process since the brothers were convicted of a series of robberies, assaults and murders in Wichita more than 20 years ago. Both are on death row. -
J. Schafer/Kansas Public Radio/File photoThe board has paused further allocating the state's settlement funds as a result of the legislature's actions. -
On this edition of Conversations, Samuel T. Wilkinson talks with host Dan Skinner about “Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply.” -
Eva Horne/Konza Prairie Long-Term Ecological ResearchA juggernaut unleashed by humans is grinding slowly across the Great Plains, burying some of the most threatened habitat on the planet beneath dense junipers and shrubland. -
Eric Lee/St. Louis Public RadioAs the country tries to meet its climate goals, tackling emissions from farming will be key. One climate-smart agriculture strategy sequesters carbon while recycling agricultural waste and improving soil.
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A judge has denied a new sentencing hearing for the Carr brothers, who were condemned to death for a quadruple killing known as the “Wichita massacre”... a drug bust on I-70 nets 11 pounds of cocaine... Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoes extra tax money for pregnancy counseling centers... three people die in a weekend fire in Butler County and... researchers examine why wildfires may be getting worse across the High Plains. Those headlines and more, inside.
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Silent films were rarely silent. There was, of course, piano accompaniment in many theaters, and occasionally composers even wrote full orchestral scores. We'll hear some of those on this week's Film Music Friday, including music from Nosferatu, Metropolis, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Thief of Bagdad and more. -
The Medical Arts Symphony of Kansas City community orchestra has given amateur musicians in the health care profession a place to perform since 1959. For the doctors, nurses, dentists, medical students, and more who take part, the music can be therapeutic. -
Former Kansas Congressman Jim Slattery has been to Ukraine dozens of times and now, he's headed back to the war-torn country. He tells KPR's Jim McLean that continued U.S. support for Ukraine is critical for Europe and the U.S.
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The Senate is poised to pass the bill the House advanced over the weekend. President Biden is set to sign it. From there, TikTok says the battle will move to the courts. -
Journalist Ari Berman says the founding fathers created a system that concentrated power in the hands of an elite minority — and that their decisions continue to impact American democracy today. -
The prosecution is arguing that Donald Trump wanted to keep information out of the public fearing that it would turn off voters in 2016. The defense argues Trump did nothing illegal. -
Yale University, Emerson College and New York University are among the few schools where students are staging encampments calling for divestment from Israel. -
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