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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Max McCoy
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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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· 14d
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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· 22d
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· 22d
‘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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· Aug 24
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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Max McCoy
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· Aug 17
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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Max McCoy
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· Aug 3
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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· Jul 27
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· Jul 27
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· Jul 13
Can an 87-year-old superhero from Kansas still be relevant? Yes, if it's Superman — and his dog. • Kansas Reflector
I haven't paid much attention to the Superman franchise in years, but in the last few weeks I've been pondering the nature of heroes and myth and just why things seem so hopeless in America. What woul...
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Max McCoy
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· Jul 6
America has a tradition of breaking promises and displacing people. Migrants are the newest target. • Kansas Reflector
Two hundred years ago next month, a trio of white commissioners met with a group of Osage leaders beneath the tallest oak in a mile-wide grove here and, for $800, purchased safe passage and free use o...
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· Jun 15
Meet the controversial activist who has shaken Colorado’s water world and made 2025 a banner year for its rivers
Gary Wockner doesn’t hesitate to go after fellow activists he believes aren’t doing enough to combat the giant institutions that control Colorado’s water
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Max McCoy
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· Jun 15
Our immigration cops have donned masks. Time to ask what they — and we — are hiding. • Kansas Reflector
More often than not, ICE agents have their faces covered. It's a distinctly un-American look, one that is likely to terrify the migrants being sought for deportation and just about everybody else who ...
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