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A Rural Exodus
Reports from the U.S. Census Bureau tell a familiar Kansas story, of growth in the metropolitan northeast and the Sedgwick-Butler County region. For the...
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Debt and the ceiling
Congress has been in a twist over raising the nation's $28 trillion debt limit by deadlines that seem to be on perpetual reset. At...
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A matter of life
A recent state survey of young adults has clarified a problem and reset some thinking on life in rural Kansas – why they live...
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Going electric
The campaign has begun to turn us from a country of gas guzzlers to a nation of watt-burners.
President Biden hopes half the cars sold...
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A 7-county party
Many years ago, a young man at an Overland Park car rental agency, trying to be congenial, asked where I was headed.
"Hutchinson," I said.
His...
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Power to the Northeast
The first burst of data from the 2020 U.S. Census has been a trove of numbers for statisticians to moon over. The City has...
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‘Values’ and other trouble
The coming election season is likely to bring another round of chatter about "values." This is a tricky undertaking for anyone, especially candidates for...
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Highways and health
Before the Interstate highways, a ride from Kansas on the old roads was a trip along the shifts in American life and living. Up...
