Telling local stories — on Kansas college campuses and elsewhere — demands elusive courage

States Newsroom · November 13, 2026

“I should write about that,” I said to my wife as we walked through our Leawood neighborhood a few weeks ago. “Yeah,” she agreed. “You should.” With our dog leading the way, we had just walked past a front yard decorated for Halloween — but with a bizarre political twist. Fake cemetery headstones jutted from the lawn…

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