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Monday, September 25, 2023

The French Tearoom in Wichita will officially open next month. But the Black-owned business already has guests sipping cups of Earl Grey inside of a pink and white house in College Hill. We learn more about the new venture.

Plus more on these stories:

  • A more than $300,000 dollar grant will help more Kansans get their driving privileges back. The grant comes as more than 200,000 Kansas drivers have a suspended license.
  • Authorities are investigating the third death in the Sedgwick County Jail in the last week.
  • A new audit says that nearly a third of all Kansas state employees work full time or part time from home, and that could increase.
  • Ottawa will allow urban farming after an aspiring beekeeper sued the city, and other residents pushed for the right to keep chickens.
  • A ceremony to honor members of the U-S submarine service who lost their lives during World War II will be held Sunday.
  • A memorial service to remember those killed in the 1970 Wichita State University plane crash will be held next Monday at WSU.


Producers: Beth Golay and Lu Anne Stephens
Editors: Beth Golay and Tom Shine
Contributors: Celia Llopis-Jepsen, Blaise Mesa, Tom Shine, Taliyah Winn and Sam Zeff
Theme music: Torin Andersen
Digital editor: Karlee Cooper

Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans.