Topic: Manhattan (Kansas)

Letters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of September 26, 2011

Readers write in with responses to an Opinion piece advocating that Americans should teach the Bible – in school.

Lonely stadium seeks pro sports team for long walks on the bleachers...

Kansas City subsidized a massive sports center in hopes of attracting an NBA or NHL franchise, but conflicting economic forces have kept it empty so far.

Plum Island, a former germ warfare testing site, gets rare look by environmentalists

Plum Island held an open house of sorts for environmental leaders Wednesday as the federal government proceeds with plans to relocate its 50-year-old animal disease research laboratory to Kansas and sell the 840-acre pork chop-shaped island off the eastern tip of New York's Long Island.

Forget Germany. We’re off to see Oztoberfest in Kansas

Wamego, Kan., celebrates its fifth annual 'Oztoberfest' this weekend. But you can find its tributes to 'The Wizard of Oz' around town all year long.

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When college students reinvent the world

Kansas State University professor Michael Wesch’s ‘World Sim’ course – aka Anthropology 204 – helps students create new ‘cultures’ to get beyond the multiple choices to understanding the ‘why’ of global affairs.

For Clinton and Obama, next six weeks are critical

By the next primary, April 22, the way to count Florida and Michigan may be settled.