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Thursday, January 30, 2025

News this morning:

  • A passenger airliner traveling from Wichita to Washington, D.C. crashed near Reagan national airport last night after colliding with a helicopter.
  • Following a presentation by a national urban planning expert Wednesday, Wichita's mayor says the city will consider reducing restrictive zoning laws.
  • Anti-abortion protesters, lawmakers and faith leaders rallied at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka Wednesday for the annual March for Life.
  • Kansas lawmakers are once again considering a bill that would give families a tax break for sending their child to a private school or home school.
  • New test scores released Wednesday show continued declines for Kansas students in both reading and math.
  • Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach wants to stop counting noncitizens in the U.S. Census. Opponents say that’s a bad idea that will hurt communities.
  • The Kansas Bureau of Investigation confirmed Tuesday that former Kansas City, Kansas, Police Detective Roger Golubski died by suicide the day his federal trial was set to begin.

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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.