Osawatomie
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Oct 7, 2026
Wild 1st Plan for Truman Sports Complex, Gas Tax Drop Possible,CIA Official Stole $194m, 103 yr Old Bartender, Mizzou Player Fights for Life, Chiefs Off Field Drama Grows, Tyreek in Court
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15:25Kevin KietzmanHOST
The only thing I know that will work right now is technology, 'cause these companies can't find places where there's concentrations of good people, um, prospective employees, and places where people would move for these jobs and wanna work.
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15:39Kevin KietzmanHOST
All due respect, you know, we've got, like, the project going on in Osawatomie and places like that.
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15:44Kevin KietzmanHOST
Nice little town, but if you're a tech dude and you're, you know, gonna be having some five hundred thousand dollar a year job at a tech center, some line manager on a chip plant or something, like these guys are brainiacs, make big money.
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15:56Kevin KietzmanHOST
Would you rather live in Osawatomie or somewhere in the Kansas City area and work there? I think we know the answer to that for most of the tech people.
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16:03Kevin KietzmanHOST
I'm not saying they're making the right choice, and I'm not saying that's a better way to live than Osawatomie.
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16:08Kevin KietzmanHOST
I'm simply talking about the kind of people that work there and where they'd wanna go.
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16:11Kevin KietzmanHOST
This would be a very attractive place for tech workers to come work.
Wild 1st Plan for Truman Sports Complex, Gas Tax Drop Possible, CIA Official Stole $194m From Us, 103 yr Old Bartender, Mizzou Player Fights for Life, Chiefs Off Field Drama Grows, Tyreek in Court
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15:02Kevin KietzmanHOST
The only thing I know that would work right now is technology, 'cause these companies can't find places where there's concentrations of good people, um, prospective employees, and places where people would move for these jobs and wanna work.
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15:16Kevin KietzmanHOST
All due respect, you know, we've got, like, the project going on in Osawatomie and places like that.
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15:20Kevin KietzmanHOST
Nice little town, but if you're a tech dude and you're, you know, gonna be having some $500,000 a year job at a tech center, you're some line manager on a chip plant or something, like these guys are brainiacs, make big money.
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15:33Kevin KietzmanHOST
Would you rather live in Osawatomie or somewhere in the Kansas City area and work there? I think we know the answer to that for most of the tech people.
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15:40Kevin KietzmanHOST
I'm not saying they're making the right choice, and I'm not saying that's a better way to live than Osawatomie.
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15:44Kevin KietzmanHOST
I'm simply talking about the kind of people that work there and where they'd wanna go.
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15:48Kevin KietzmanHOST
This would be a very attractive place for tech workers to come work.
What To Do With the Truman Sports Complex, Plus KC Radio Legend and Jackson County Legislator Candidate Dale Carter Joins the Show | 10-7-26
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14:38TimAUDIENCE
So that's-
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14:38Kevin KietzmanHOST
Well, we had a guy on a few weeks ago on the show who they're, they're talking about building this data center in Osawatomie, Kansas, and he said-
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14:45TimAUDIENCE
Yeah
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14:45Kevin KietzmanHOST
... "You don't need, you don't need water." They use 130th the amount of water now as a golf course.
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17:24Kevin KietzmanHOST
They want them in places where people want to work.
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17:27Kevin KietzmanHOST
They'd...
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17:28Kevin KietzmanHOST
O- hon- no, no fault of Osawatomie, but they'd rather have that data center out there than Osawatomie, just based on the people they want to come work there.
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17:35Kevin KietzmanHOST
People would want to work in Kansas City at one of these things.
The Race for Kansas 1st Congressional District and State House Districts 3 and 6
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34:41Frank HendersonGUEST
Well, I'm Frank Henderson.
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34:43Frank HendersonGUEST
I'm running for Kansas House District 6. which covers Lewisburg, Paola, half of Osawatomie, Bucyrus, and Weah.
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34:55Frank HendersonGUEST
I just got into this politics.
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34:59Frank HendersonGUEST
I don't see myself as a politician, but...
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38:24Elias GarciaHOST
Like, you know, what is what is on the minds of your potential future constituency on, you know, on the ground?
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38:31Frank HendersonGUEST
My district right now is fighting a data
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38:34Elias GarciaHOST
center right now in Osawatomie,
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38:36Frank HendersonGUEST
which the data center has promised to bring in a lot of money to help the city and the county and the school.
The Race for the Kansas 1st Congressional District and for State Legislative Districts 6 and 3
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34:41Frank HendersonGUEST
Well, I'm Frank Henderson.
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34:43Frank HendersonGUEST
I'm running for Kansas House District 6. which covers Lewisburg, Paola, half of Osawatomie, Bucyrus, and Weah.
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34:55Frank HendersonGUEST
I just got into this politics.
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34:59Frank HendersonGUEST
I don't see myself as a politician, but...
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38:24Elias GarciaHOST
Like, you know, what is what is on the minds of your potential future constituency on, you know, on the ground?
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38:31Frank HendersonGUEST
My district right now is fighting a data
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38:34Elias GarciaHOST
center right now in Osawatomie,
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38:36Frank HendersonGUEST
which the data center has promised to bring in a lot of money to help the city and the county and the school.
For one rural Kansas town, pros of data center investment might outweigh cons
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5:59Nomin UjiyediinHOST
But KCUR's Frank Morris reports data center development can look a lot more attractive in a struggling rural town.
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6:08Frank MorrisCORRESPONDENT
A weedy soybean field on a brick road two miles from the half-empty downtown tiny Osawatomie, Kansas, has long been a headache for city manager Brett Glendening.
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6:18Frank MorrisCORRESPONDENT
It's an unused business park, one of many scattered across rural America.
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6:22Brett GlendeningSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The two parcels that the city owns have been zoned industrial for well over 20 years.
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6:28Brett GlendeningSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's always been planned and hoped that this would eventually happen, not necessarily a data center per se, but any sort of commercial development.
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6:36Frank MorrisCORRESPONDENT
It's not easy drawing any sort of commercial development to a place like Osawatomie, a working class town of about 4,000, just a little too far from Kansas City.
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6:45Frank MorrisCORRESPONDENT
But now developers have targeted this field for a mid-sized data center.
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6:49Frank MorrisCORRESPONDENT
One they say could bring as much as $10 billion worth of new buildings and equipment.
Randal Maurice Jelks, "My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
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13:06Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
And it had bullet holes in it.
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13:07Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
And so from being wrapped in this shawl that that, uh, to, uh, to, uh, uh, hearing the stories of John Brown, um, and point of fact, um, they were invited to, uh, hear Teddy Roosevelt speak at Osawatomie, Kansas, where John Brown made his name, uh, uh, in, in, in, uh, killing, uh, uh, people in a sort of, um, where that name Jayhawkers came from, Roosevelt gives a speech of new nationalism.
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13:52Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
Langston must have been about four years old with his grandmother because as one of the kind of surviving people of that brown race.
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14:01Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
So this stuff is all in his life.
Randal Maurice Jelks, "My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
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13:06Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
And it had bullet holes in it.
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13:07Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
And so from being wrapped in this shawl that that, uh, to, uh, to, uh, uh, hearing the stories of John Brown, um, and point of fact, um, they were invited to, uh, hear Teddy Roosevelt speak at Osawatomie, Kansas, where John Brown made his name, uh, uh, in, in, in, uh, killing, uh, uh, people in a sort of, um, where that name Jayhawkers came from, Roosevelt gives a speech of new nationalism.
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13:52Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
Langston must have been about four years old with his grandmother because as one of the kind of surviving people of that brown race.
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14:01Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
So this stuff is all in his life.
Randal Maurice Jelks, "My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
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13:06Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
And it had bullet holes in it.
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13:07Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
And so from being wrapped in this shawl that that, uh, to, uh, to, uh, uh, hearing the stories of John Brown, um, and point of fact, um, they were invited to, uh, hear Teddy Roosevelt speak at Osawatomie, Kansas, where John Brown made his name, uh, uh, in, in, in, uh, killing, uh, uh, people in a sort of, um, where that name Jayhawkers came from, Roosevelt gives a speech of new nationalism.
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13:52Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
Langston must have been about four years old with his grandmother because as one of the kind of surviving people of that brown race.
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14:01Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
So this stuff is all in his life.
Randal Maurice Jelks, "My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
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13:06Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
And it had bullet holes in it.
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13:07Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
And so from being wrapped in this shawl that that, uh, to, uh, to, uh, uh, hearing the stories of John Brown, um, and point of fact, um, they were invited to, uh, hear Teddy Roosevelt speak at Osawatomie, Kansas, where John Brown made his name, uh, uh, in, in, in, uh, killing, uh, uh, people in a sort of, um, where that name Jayhawkers came from, Roosevelt gives a speech of new nationalism.
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13:52Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
Langston must have been about four years old with his grandmother because as one of the kind of surviving people of that brown race.
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14:01Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
So this stuff is all in his life.
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