HeyJaredOn Wichita, the Mittelpolitan, and More
Thoughts on my home city of Wichita, my home state of Kansas, mid-sized cities in general, and really anything else that occurs to me which I think is worth sharing. Enjoy!
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Insight Kansas Column for September: Rebuilding Civic Trust in Kansas (opens the original)
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Thoughts on Wendell Berry (Autobiographical and Otherwise) (opens the original)
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An Argument about Teaching, Technology, and Being a Tool-Using (and Tool-Consuming) Species (opens the original)
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Insight Kansas Column for August: Twenty Years of Political Transformation in Kansas (opens the original)
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13, 15, 20, and 33 (opens the original)
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On August 13th, Melissa and I had been married for 33 years. And as of today, August 15th, I’ve officially been employed at Friends University for 20 years (as the below notification, given me this week, declares). Despite my occasional obsession with actuarial tables, I’m not a numerologist, and I have no idea how I might discover some myst
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