Kansas City is known for its beautiful fountains, but Parks and Rec says the city doesn’t have the funds to maintain this source of civic pride.
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These small towns in Kansas are offering land and housing at a steal in an attempt to fortify their shrinking tax bases. What does this mean for the future of rural America?
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One family’s history tells volumes about the development of Kansas City since the 1950s.
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Cities must be discerning in how they incentivize development. Let’s look at two examples to see what to do, and what not to do.
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What the debate over a historic building—Wichita’s Century II—can teach us about local democracy and government.
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This spring, hundreds of cities and towns moved swiftly to allow restaurants, bars and shops to open temporary outdoor seating areas. What have we learned?
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Making a street safer, more bikeable, and more accessible should be a no-brainer…right? But skeptics in Topeka—and probably in your city too—are hung up on two chicken-and-egg problems.
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Our preference for the incremental, iterative, and bottom-up is well-known. But does that mean there is no room for big dreams and master plans?
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In this podcast episode, Chuck interviews Corie Brown, Zester Media co-founder and a writer on the food system, about the depopulation of rural Kansas, as mechanized agriculture reduces the need for farm labor, and the social toll that it is taking in isolated, shrinking towns.
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