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Daniel Caudill is a general assignment reporter for KMUW 89.1 FM, a public radio station in Wichita, Kansas.
Caudill has over six years of newsroom experience, first working as a reporter and editor for The Sunflower, Wichita State's student-run newspaper. He also worked as an intern, a reporter, and later the digital content manager for The Derby Informer, a weekly newspaper in Derby, Kansas.
In spring 2020, Caudill worked in Topeka as the statehouse intern for the Kansas News Service, a collaborative news wire between four public radio stations in Kansas, including KMUW.
Caudill's work has been picked up by The Associated Press and has appeared in the U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Times, The Wichita Eagle, The Emporia Gazette, The Shawnee Mission Post and more newspapers across Kansas.
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As a pediatric nurse at St. Francis hospital, Katie Best says she just wants to provide the best care she can to her patients. But with the increased daily pressures that come with the job, Best said she sometimes feels she's not able to meet that goal.
Long before Bill Gardner and Gardner Design helped create logos for Fortune 500 companies, his family was already well-versed in branding. At the family ranch in Liberal, Gardner's grandpa would use a literal brand to mark the cattle. "It's a diamond shape with a bar on the bottom of it.
Wichita native Jeremy Raymond has been passionate about creating for just about as long as he can remember. "When I was a kid, what kind of got me into building levels in video games, is because I loved Legos," he said. "I loved building stuff."
With union drives at Starbucks and other major corporations commanding headlines, recent polling shows Americans are more supportive of unions than they have been in decades - despite the fact that only 6% of private-sector workers are in a union. And a recent report by Bloomberg Law indicates unions have won more elections in 2022 than in nearly 20 years.
Maia Cuellar Serafini is one of the baristas leading a union drive at the Starbucks on 21st and Amidon. This is her first time trying to unionize a workplace, but the 24-year-old is no stranger to the concept, as her father was a longtime member of the Kansas teachers union.
It's game night at Wichita State University, and members of the varsity esports team are practicing just before their match. Inside the esports lab, there's a lot of what you might expect from athletes in a traditional locker room: jokes, banter, discussions about the match ahead.
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Polling places in Kansas are required by law to be open, but this year's primary and general elections might see fewer in-person votes and more by mail. The latter is a safe and convenient option in the time of coronavirus, but comes with its own costs and challenges.
TOPEKA, Kansas - Kansas has one of the highest rates of suspended drivers in the country, and the majority of those more than 215,000 licenses are suspended for unpaid fines or court fees - sometimes unrelated to driving. Both the Kansas House and Senate approved separate bills last month aimed at getting drivers back on the road.
TOPEKA, Kansas - Wendy Couser, a former juvenile intake officer at the Newton Police Department, has always believed in the importance of consequences. But Couser feels that she's yet to see consequences for the law enforcement officials who beat, shot and killed her son, William "Matthew" Holmes, during an arrest in August 2017.