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Wichita created a land bank to ease affordable housing development in the center of the city. City staff have suggested dissolving it, but proponents are seeking a way forward.

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Kansas Republicans and anti-abortion groups are dismissing concerns that a child support bill is an effort to codify “fetal personhood” into Kansas law.

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Families at four Wichita schools that will close say they are concerned that the community fostered in the buildings will be lost in the district’s facilities plan.

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Mass layoffs at USDA leave an uncertain future for researchers and rural areas

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Review: A new, 10th-anniversary edition of "Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls" includes 22 new profiles of women, including Greta Thunberg, Judy Blume and Taylor Swift.

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Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall ended a rural town hall meeting early after people angry about budget cuts, funding freezes and other actions by President Trump shouted the senator down.

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The House releases their debut LP, “Soft Stuff.”

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On “Flyover Food,” Chef Travis Russell reflects on how pizza brought strangers together at Pizza School NYC. 🍕

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Today on “The Range,” from Kansas to Africa, a life’s journey. Plus, we explore an overlooked piece of Kansas history.

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On “Wichita’s Early Edition,” a Kansas man talks about a life spent in Africa.

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The nonprofit says staff and students are still reeling from a federal decision to fire 35 employees at Haskell Indian Nations University.

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Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed

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Kansas panel weighs discipline for prosecutors who listened to lawyer-inmate conversations

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A new exhibit at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum tells the city's history through thrift shop finds.

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A Midwest farmer was promised money for a new delivery truck. Then Trump froze the funds

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University of Kansas leaders say they won’t offer gender-inclusive living assignments at one dormitory beginning next academic year, and they will get rid of a gender-neutral bathroom there.

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Unofficial results updated Wednesday by the Sedgwick County election office show bond issue opponents leading by just less than 300 votes, with potentially up to 4,000 mail and provisional ballots still to be counted.

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The band The House releases its debut album tomorrow. KMUW’s Jedd Beaudoin recently spoke with band members Caleb Curry-Miller, Will Morris, and Nathan Harrison and has more on “Wichita’s Early Edition.”

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Past and Present: Dr. Robert E. Weems, Jr. suggests that the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 demonstrates that Donald Trump’s contemporary call for a variety of tariffs will end disastrously for the United States.

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Organizers say the name change comes from the idea of making Wichita “somewhere” musicians can think of to explore their creative freedom.

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Marginalia: Sophie Madeline Dess on her debut novel, "What You Make of Me"

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New reforms to Kansas’ suspended license rules went into effect at the start of 2025. Here’s what it means for drivers

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The Wichita school district's proposed $450 million bond issue would build several new schools, close others and reduce the district's overall footprint.

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Southwest Kansas communities are feeling the effects of intensifying anti-immigrant rhetoric in politics. On “Wichita’s Early Edition,” hear about how fear is already part of the daily lives of these Kansans.

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A Kansas woman working with the U.S. Forest Service has lost her job as a result of President Donald Trump's efforts to eliminate government inefficiencies.

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Wichita Brewing Company’s new Delano brewpub opens next week with a rooftop patio

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One suburban Kansas resident is pressing state lawmakers to legalize raccoons as pets. He says they're smarter and friendlier than people give them credit for.

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Why artists are drawn to The Red Barn in Lindsborg

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To prevent wildfires in the Great Plains and Midwest, more landowners are burning their land

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Today, voters in the Wichita school district will decide on a $450 million bond issue that would build several new schools, close others and reduce the district's overall footprint.

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Anxiety has spread through southwest Kansas after policy promises of mass deportations from the Trump administration. That mental exhaustion is now part of the daily lives of Kansans in an area where immigrants are a large part of the population.

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Sophie Madeline Dess's novel, "What You Make of Me," follows two tight knit adult siblings, Demetri and Ava, artists of very different mediums. On “Wichita’s Early Edition,” Beth Golay speaks with Dess about her debut.

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Kansas woman terminated from Forest Service as Trump cuts workforce Kaylee Fritchen has worked at the U.S. Forestry Service since 2022, spending half the year undertaking intense manual labor to clear trails in an Idaho forest.

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Pros and cons: Hour-long program explores the Wichita school district's proposed bond issue

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If Trump's layoffs hit the Kansas City FBI office, job cuts are 'only going to make us less safe'

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After 10 months of providing behavioral health support, Maria Loconsolo was ready to commit 20 years at her federal job with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Those plans went out the window last weekend.

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Two new Wichita restaurants and a new approach for a Kechi favorite headline this week’s dining report on “Dining with Denise.”

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One of the casualties of the government's cost-cutting efforts is the Food for Peace program, which fed people around the world and helped Kansas farmers. We have more on that on “Wichita’s Early Edition.”

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KMUW is seeking a Major Giving Officer to help support public radio’s mission in Wichita and beyond. If you’re passionate about fundraising and community service, apply today: https://buff.ly/4gPjMIV.

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A new bill in Topeka proposes legalizing the use of prison labor to build housing.

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Today on “The Range,” a beauty pageant … that’s the cat’s meow. Plus, our new segment on pop culture explains that playing with Lego is not just for kids.

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Pros and cons: Hour-long program explores the Wichita school district's proposed bond issue.

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Today on “Wichita’s Early Edition,” we have the first episode of “Culture Pop,” where Hugo Phan meets a group of people still enjoying Lego, well into adulthood. https://buff.ly/4hSE9Xe

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1,000 IRS workers in Kansas City expect to get laid off, federal employee union warns

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Tonight at 6 p.m., tune in to KMUW for a recorded discussion on the proposed $450 million USD 259 bond issue. KMUW’s Suzanne Perez led the conversation and asked questions from the community. Don’t miss this important conversation ahead of the Feb. 25 election.

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Victim's family files $250M in legal claims against FAA, Army over DC aircraft crash

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In-person voting at satellite polling locations across Wichita begins today.

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“These are the things that you do when you become an empty nester. You start playing with raccoons in the backyard.”

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