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EPISODE · Aug 18, 2026 · 25 MIN

Kansas has few opinion writers left. Is the state losing the ability to tell its own story?

from Up To Date · host Steve Kraske

In “Opinionated: Kansas Journalists Who Proved Why Commentary Matters Then and Now,” Clay Wirestone, opinion editor of the Kansas Reflector, tells the stories of the writers who came before him, and contemplates the importance of the form today.

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