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Monday, January 27, 2025

The country inaugurated its newest president last week. Which led Beccy Tanner to start thinking about former presidents who have visited our state. Beccy takes us to a place that has two memorials remembering a presidential visit more than 100 years ago.

Plus more on these stories:

  • Kansas anti-abortion leaders want to expand funding for crisis pregnancy centers and increase abortion data reporting requirements.
  • The amount of American crop, pasture and forestland owned by foreign investors continued to increase in 2023. That’s according to analysis by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
  • Some rural Kansans have more options for health appointments outside regular work hours thanks to a federal grant.
  • Kansas has seen at least two cases of timber theft from wildlife areas in recent years.
  • A Wichita nonprofit will host a workshop next month focused on Healthy Relationships for Teens.
  • Ilia Malinin won his third straight men’s U-S figure skating title yesterday in Wichita.
  • The Kansas City Chiefs are headed to a third straight Super Bowl.

Producers: Beth Golay
Editors: Beth Golay and Tom Shine
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Theme music: Torin Andersen
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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.