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What was the original Monarch Highway plan and why was it created?
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This is Kansas City Today. I'm Nomi Nauji Adin. Today is Friday, September 11th. Coming up, a decade ago, a federal task force announced a plan to help monarch butterflies along their great migration.
by creating uh strips of milkweed and native plant habitat along the banks of the interstate highways.
Particularly Interstate 35, including in Missouri and Kansas. So, whatever happened to the Monarch Highway? But first, some headlines. The US Supreme Court has put Missouri's twenty twenty two congressional map back in place. Jason Rosenbaum has more.
The High Court stayed a district judge's temporary restraining order to use a map aimed at ousting Democratic Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver in the November election. That means a map passed in 2022 with a safe seat for Cleaver is in place as the case moves through the federal court system. Cleaver says he's grateful for redistricting opponents who gathered signatures to place the 2025 map on the ballot, which meant it couldn't go into effect unless voted by the government. Voters approve it in November.
How did the federal task force propose restoring milkweed along I‑35?
I have never, ever, ever been in involved in anything. That has generated the response I've been getting from people all over the state of Missouri.
Missouri Republicans sought to ouse Cleaver at the behest of President Trump to prevent the GOP from losing the house.
Even though the US Supreme Court stayed the restraining order, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals will have a hearing in that case next Thursday. The Missouri Supreme Court found Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt of court yesterday for initially directing local elections officials to use the 2025 congressional map in November. Hoskins said he reversed course following the US Supreme Court's ruling and decided to follow a previous Missouri Supreme Court ruling, putting the 2022 map back in place.
That's what I issued my statement to the local election authorities that yes, you should use the twenty twenty-two maps because that is the only authoritative um action that we have right now.
The Missouri Supreme Court said that Hoskins corrected the situation by telling officials to use the old map and was no longer in contempt. A federal judge ordered Kansas colleges and universities to stop allowing certain immigrants to pay in-state tuition on Wednesday. KCUR's Frank Morris reports the ruling upends a twenty-two-year-old Kansas law.
U.S. District Judge Holly Teeter permanently enjoined the 2004 law, which allowed universities to offer an in-state tuition discount to students who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, but finished high school in Kansas and promised to apply for citizenship. Lawmakers from both parties supported the law when it passed. According to the Kansas Reflector, Kansas Attorney General Chris Kobach and the U.S. Department Department of Justice teamed up to challenge the law.
Why did the Monarch Highway project lose momentum and stall?
Judge Teeter, a Trump nominee, reasoned that schools cannot legally offer a non-citizen in-state tuition while denying the discount to U.S. citizens from out of state.
A member of Congress says there's construction underway at the Federal Immigration Detention Center in Leavenworth, Zach Boblet reports.
Wisconsin U.S. Representative Gwen Moore toured the facility for two and a half hours while meeting with two detained immigrants from her district. The Department of Homeland Security purchased the building from Corps Civic last month, although it's still managed by the company. Moore expects more detainees in the facility soon. They are building so that they can fill this thing up with twice as many detainees. Moore says the building sits at almost half capacity with four hundred and fifty people living in detention. A DHS spokesperson says the government purchased the Leavenworth facility for detention space, and that ICE will be ensuring they have resources to carry out President Trump's mission.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What was the original Monarch Highway plan and why was it created?
0:00–1:20
2
How did the federal task force propose restoring milkweed along I‑35?
1:20–3:08
3
Why did the Monarch Highway project lose momentum and stall?
3:08–4:42
4
Which states are successfully adding native wildflowers and pollinator habitats along highways?
4:42–6:17
5
How does Iowa’s roadside planting program benefit monarchs and other wildlife?
6:17–7:46
6
What lessons can other regions learn from Illinois’ Route 66 Monarch Flyway?
7:46–9:23
7
What are the next steps and future hopes for the Monarch Highway restoration?
9:23–11:04
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