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Price of Progress: Grain Belt Express Pits Public Benefit and Private Property Rights in Race Against Climate Change

The Grain Belt Express, an 800-mile transmission line that would connect renewable wind energy in Kansas with customers in several states to the east, is facing opposition from landowners in its path.

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A row of police line up in the middle of the street on the Country Club Plaza, flanked by demonstrators on the left and right.

Imagine That: What If Police Unconditionally Respected the Community?

Two former Kansas City Police Department officers are now training people in how to use “unconditional respect” to help reform law enforcement.

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Center pivot irrigation systems like this one in Finney County pump water up from the Ogallala aquifer to spray on crops. This part of southwest Kansas experienced some of the state's worst aquifer declines last year as drought pushed farmers to pump more water from underground.

How Kansas Could Lose Billions in Land Values as its Underground Water Runs Dry

The water in the Ogallala aquifer is worth billions of dollars to western Kansas, but it’s rapidly disappearing. And it’s been a challenge to find ways to slow the depletion.

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Former Haviland mayor Robert Ellis stands between pipes inside the small town's multimillion-dollar water treatment plant.

As Fertilizer Pollutes Tap Water in Small Towns, Rural Kansans Pay the Price

For towns with only a few hundred residents, keeping tap water clean and safe can pose a crippling expense. The predicament is likely to become more common in western Kansas as farm chemicals seep into dwindling water supplies.

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Banner announcement with photo of Vicky Diaz-Camacho, community reporter for Flatland at Kansas City PBS. Diaz-Camacho was awarded a prestigious higher education fellowship.

Reporter Vicky Diaz-Camacho Awarded Higher Education Media Fellowship

Vicky Diaz-Camacho, reporter, host and engagement editor, is among 13 journalists named in a national Higher Education Fellowship.

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