Max McCoy
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Author, journalist, storyteller. Wrote some books. Won some awards. Columnist for @kansasreflector.com Views are my own.
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A citizen reporter strayed onto a police gun range. Cops sought a warrant for his online newspaper. • Kansas Reflector
Jarom Smith is being investigated for criminal trespass and authorities have obtained a search warrant for his outlet's Facebook account
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November 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Bonus photos! Read my @kansasreflector.com column today about this citizen journalist and the search warrant for his digital newspaper.
My @kansasreflector.com column today.
In 1943 Norman Rockwell painted democracy’s portrait. An editor from Kansas helped make it possible. • Kansas Reflector
When the Saturday Evening Post published an offensive antisemitic article in 1942, the furor threatened to sink the magazine. The Post's editor and much of the staff were sacked and a young former Kan...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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He wanted to build mom a grocery store. Now he’s indicted, and all we’re left is political satire. • Kansas Reflector
The grocery store would be a work of art, a place — no, a destination! — that would draw people from all over just to say they shopped there.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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At home in Kansas, an afternoon in the sun during the strangeness of days • Kansas Reflector
It’s an afternoon in early November and 65 degrees. There is no wind and the atmosphere is so clear it seems distilled by late fall.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Hoping Kansas will get ‘advanced’ nuclear energy? Careful what you wish for in the Age of Damocles. • Kansas Reflector
Those vying to bring TerraPower jobs to their communities might want to consider the safety and security risks.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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A Kansas man ‘married’ a ghost in 1927. They did not live happily ever after. • Kansas Reflector
A Kansas farmer was in love with “Sarah,” the ghost of a girl he had known in his youth back in Ohio, and he even married her.
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October 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The TSA video blaming Democrats for the shutdown? This authoritarian baggage needs checked. • Kansas Reflector
Air travel was already bad enough. But now comes Kristi Noem with a 30-second video blaming the current government shutdown on the Democrats, adding an Orwellian overtone to our collective trial by ai...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The work of Kansas artist Blackbear Bosin straddled rivers — and worlds • Kansas Reflector
“The Keeper of the Plains” is Blackbear Bosin’s 44-foot steel sculpture of a Native American, hands lifted to the heavens. It is installed on a rocky plinth above the confluence of the Arkansas and Li...
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October 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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A Carnegie library opened in 1914 is still a lifeline for this rural Kansas town. With no popups. • Kansas Reflector
I’ve come to Peabody to visit the birthplace of the first free library in Kansas. What better place than a civic temple to fact?
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October 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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"McCoy will also have a new book, tentatively titled “God’s Misfits.”
With Plainspoken approach, University Press of Kansas pursues regional audience — and writers • Kansas Reflector
Plainspoken Books is is really interested in telling authentic Midwest stories and getting them in front of national a national readership.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"McCoy will also have a new book, tentatively titled “God’s Misfits.”
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We’re all afraid of political violence and retribution. But don’t be drawn into remaining silent. • Kansas Reflector
We have arrived in a new country with unexpected urgency, accompanied by political violence and pressure on free speech.
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September 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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‘Good luck to the finder:’ Seeking clues to who we are at the oldest working courthouse in Kansas • Kansas Reflector
The Republican committee had called a convention there to nominate an interim replacement for Dow Wilson, who resigned early this month.
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September 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Another Kansas summer is nearly spent. The season has been perfect for the ‘rascals’ of democracy. • Kansas Reflector
Thank God for dissent. It is the seed from which democracy grows.
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September 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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It's official. "God's Misfits," my forthcoming book about the murders of Kansans Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley in the Oklahoma panhandle, will be released by a new imprint from the University Press of Kansas.
Introducing Plainspoken Books - University Press of Kansas
The University Press of Kansas has launched Plainspoken Books, a new nonfiction trade imprint focused on bringing Midwest stories into national
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September 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It's official. "God's Misfits," my forthcoming book about the murders of Kansans Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley in the Oklahoma panhandle, will be released by a new imprint from the University Press of Kansas.
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What's the value in doing good for others? A Kansas nonprofit tests the market with executive pay. • Kansas Reflector
It's not the additional employees or added services that has sparked a regional political backlash, it's Fawson's pay and benefits,
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August 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The American home is the seat of our democracy. Today's gilded, shame-filled halls of power are not. • Kansas Reflector
Paint rollers and used brushes and wooden stir sticks crusted with a cheerful shade called “morning blossom” are in a pile on the wooden porch, waiting for the job to resume come daylight. Every so of...
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August 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Was just on CNN this morning talking about my
@kansasreflector.com columns on Hiroshima and my memories of my 1986 interview with Yoshito Matsushige, who took the only known photographs on the ground the day the bomb fell. Thanks to host MJ Lee and the @cnn.com crew.
@kansasreflector.com columns on Hiroshima and my memories of my 1986 interview with Yoshito Matsushige, who took the only known photographs on the ground the day the bomb fell. Thanks to host MJ Lee and the @cnn.com crew.
August 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Was just on CNN this morning talking about my
@kansasreflector.com columns on Hiroshima and my memories of my 1986 interview with Yoshito Matsushige, who took the only known photographs on the ground the day the bomb fell. Thanks to host MJ Lee and the @cnn.com crew.
@kansasreflector.com columns on Hiroshima and my memories of my 1986 interview with Yoshito Matsushige, who took the only known photographs on the ground the day the bomb fell. Thanks to host MJ Lee and the @cnn.com crew.
Looking skyward at 6:15 pm from our home on Constitution Street. It was at this moment, 80 years ago, that the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima (it's already tomorrow in Japan, owing to the time difference, so it was 8:15 am Aug 6 there).
August 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Looking skyward at 6:15 pm from our home on Constitution Street. It was at this moment, 80 years ago, that the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima (it's already tomorrow in Japan, owing to the time difference, so it was 8:15 am Aug 6 there).
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It's been 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Time to raise some L. • Kansas Reflector
It was such a peaceful morning that Yoshito Matsushige could scarcely believe it was wartime. Matsushige, a 32-year-old newspaper photographer who had been up most of the night before covering air rai...
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August 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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