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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Legislation promoting the CROWN Act was discussed during a hearing recently at the Kansas Statehouse. We take a look at the bill that would prohibit discrimination pertaining to hair styles in the workplace.

Plus more on these stories

  • The Arctic air mass that broke daily records in several Kansas cities is beginning to ease.
  • The Wichita City Council has approved its legislative agenda now that the state legislature is back in session.
  • Wichita city council members deferred a vote Tuesday on repealing a new campaign finance ordinance.
  • Kansas voters would have fewer ways to apply for mail-in ballots under a bill being considered by state lawmakers.
  • Renovations have begun at the former Kansas Masonic Home near Maple and Seneca.
  • The Cosmosphere in Hutchinson will close parts of its Hall of Space gallery later this month for renovation.

Producers: Beth Golay and Lu Anne Stephens
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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.