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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

For community organizers, coming up with event ideas to get people to turn out can be difficult. For this month’s Culture Pop, Hugo Phan talks with a representative of People’s Pride ICT about an inventive way to get people to gather.

Plus more on these stories:

  • Kansas lawmakers overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto on a bill to protect crisis pregnancy centers.
  • Sedgwick County leaders will host another town hall tonight to gather public feedback on data-center development.
  • Hundreds of faculty members at the University of Kansas will soon get a significant pay raise.
  • A Kansas bill that makes kratom illegal has been sent to Governor Laura Kelly.
  • The Kansas City International Airport is planning to translate its signs into other languages for the World Cup travel boom that’s expected this summer.
  • Great Plains Nature Center has announced that it will close for two years starting this summer.
  • State money is available for programs that help children walk safely to school.

Producers: Haley Crowson and Fletcher Powell
Editors: Haley Crowson and Suzanne Perez
Contributors: Zach Boblitt, Roger Nomer, Suzanne Perez, Hugo Phan, Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga, Kowthar Shire and Sam Zeff
Theme music: Torin Andersen
Digital editor: Haley Crowson

Fletcher Powell has worked at KMUW since 2009 as a producer, reporter, and host. He's been the host of All Things Considered since 2012 and KMUW's movie critic since 2016. He also co-hosts the PMJA-award winning show You're Saying It Wrong, which is distributed around the country on public radio stations and around the world through podcasts. Fletcher is a member of the Critics Choice Association.