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Kansas

Health

When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested

Welcome to Coffeyville, Kansas, where the judge has no law degree, debt collectors get a cut of the bail, and Americans are watching their lives — and liberty — disappear in the pursuit of medical debt collection.

Lizzie Presser ProPublica Oct 2019 25min Permalink

Country Pride: What I Learned Growing Up in Rural America

For me, country was not a look, a style, or even a conscious attitude, but a physical place, its experience defined by distance from the forces of culture that would commodify it.

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Excerpted from Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth.

Sarah Smarsh The Guardian Sep 2018 15min Permalink

Tech

How an Internet Mapping Glitch Turned a Random Kansas Farm Into a Digital Hell

An IP horror story.

Kashmir Hill Fusion Apr 2016 10min Permalink

Science

Life and Death in Brownback’s Kansas

The plight of the uninsured in a red state.

Kai Wright The Nation Jun 2015 25min Permalink

The Wet Stuff

The men who built the great American water park.

Bryan Curtis Grantland Sep 2014 15min Permalink

Crime Sports

Murder of Football Player Shakes Town

Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.

Rolf Potts Sports Illustrated Nov 2012 35min Permalink