Catching the purple martin migration in Kansas
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This is Kansas City Today. I'm Nomi Uji Adin. Today is Friday, August 14th. Coming up, thousands of birds are gathering near a Kansas airport each evening as they prepare for their annual migration, and they're starting to attract an audience.
The way that they're able to communicate. to to organize this and how they decide to do it. How they decide where to go. And it's just I mean it's one of the Two amazing wonders of nature, I think.
We'll spend an evening with the Purple Martins. Plus, a small town in South Central Kansas proudly bears the nickname Midway USA, claiming it's exactly halfway between California and New York. We'll hear how Kinsley, Kansas made its name. But first, some headlines. A former University of Kansas professor is suing the school over a false accusation of espionage in 2019, Casey War's Salisa Kalakal reports.
Fang Franklin Tao was a tenured chemical engineering professor at KU when he was arrested under the Trump administration's China Initiative, a Department of Justice campaign to tackle economic espionage and intellectual property theft. The DOJ indicted Tao for failing to disclose a conflict of interest with a Chinese university, and in 2022, Tao was convicted for wire fraud, then fired by the university. In the current federal lawsuit, Tao alleges KU violated discrimination protections and harmed his reputation. He's asking the university to pay him for lost wages. KU did not immediately respond
to a request for comment. Jackson County Public Schools expect to lose nearly $200 million in funding over the next three years. That's because the county plans to issue three-year property tax credits to homeowners who overpaid their 2023 and 2024 taxes. Kansas City Public Schools Superintendent Jennifer Collier says her district expects a $60 million loss over several years.
we started looking at
ways we could redirect some resources and some and some long term planning. Collier plans to cut unnecessary contracts to minimize the impact on students. Kansas nursing homes are discharging residents to hospitals during medical or mental health emergencies and then refusing to let them return. Zach Boblet has more.
The practice known as hospital dumping is happening at adult care facilities licensed only by the state. Federally licensed adult care facilities have stiffer penalties for hospital dumping than those licensed solely by the state. Last year, the Topeka Capital Journal reported that half of the nursing home investigator positions with the state were unfilled. Kansas long-term care ombudsman Haley Ardoyne tells lawmakers she's heard from some state licensed homes that they view penalties as a risk they're willing to take. Homes are willing to take the lower state fine and have called it the cost of doing business. She worries hospital dumping in Kansas may be underreported.
We'll be back after this.
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Kinsley, Kansas, got its start like many other small towns. It was established in 1873 along the Santa Fe Railroad and the Old Santa Fe Trail.
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But Kinsley has a unique claim to fame.
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