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Estate Sale Underway at Wichita's Wey Mansion

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Published June 8, 2010 at 4:25 p.m.

An estate sale is underway at a Wichita landmark.  Wey Mansion is best known for its massive Christmas decorations ...

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Intrust Bank Arena gets dirty for the weekend

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Published May 7, 2010 at 9:10 a.m.

Workers dumped dirt inside Wichita's shiny new Intrust Bank Arena for the first time Thursday ... But it was quality dirt ... The Professional Bull Riders Built Ford Tough Series, at the arena tonight at 8 and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., doesn't use just any dirt ... It has to be just the right mix of clay and sand — ideally 70 percent clay, 30 percent sand ...

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Free Financial Fair This Weekend

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Published April 29, 2010 at 7:12 p.m.

Organizers with Wichita's Consumer Credit Counseling Services say they helped a record number of people in 2009 ...

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Could Wichita be the Detroit of aircraft?

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Published Feb. 14, 2010 at 11:55 a.m.

Wichita's business jetmakers sometimes think about Detroit ... Not that many years ago, U.S. automakers weren't too concerned about emerging foreign competitors ... Productivity was poor, costs were out of control, and they became complacent, said Cessna Aircraft CEO Jack Pelton. Eventually, they lost their dominance ... Wichita, as the Air Capital of the World, can't be in denial that what happened in Detroit could never happen here, Pelton said ...

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Urban planner criticizes parts of Wichita's downtown revitalization

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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 7:08 a.m.

A visiting urban-planning economist from a Washington think tank criticized on Thursday the way Wichita is trying to revitalize its downtown ... The city's focus on publicly subsidized high-density housing and "walkability" has failed almost everywhere it's been tried and is not all that likely to work here, said Randal O'Toole, a senior fellow from the Cato Institute ... He was particularly critical of tax increment financing, a process cities use to encourage development by setting aside

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Arena's road to opening a bumpy one

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Published Jan. 3, 2010 at 8:38 a.m.

It was never going to happen ... The idea that a large sports and entertainment arena should be built in downtown Wichita was kicked around for decades and usually ended up bloodied and beaten, more dead than alive ... But after two failed attempts, a heated sales tax campaign, countless surveys and public meetings, a lot of hustle by planners and a lot of complaints by opponents, a 15,000-seat arena has thrust its curvilinear glass profile into Wichita's skyline ...

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Federal program helps ex-cons stay out of jail

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Published Jan. 2, 2010 at 1:05 a.m.

Tears welled up in the woman's eyes as she talked about life outside prison ... "I got out in 2008, and I thought, there's nothing to do, just send me back," she said ... But she and others found help in Wichita's federal courthouse ...

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Bald Eagles Nest In Wichita

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Published Dec. 21, 2009 at 2:50 p.m.

Wildlife experts say it's a rare sight to see a pair of bald eagles nesting within Wichita's city limits ...

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Good deeds are in good supply among Kansans

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Published Dec. 20, 2009 at 1:54 p.m.

So perhaps you think giving hearts are in short supply this Christmas season, that the economy has put a Grinch lock on all of us ... National reports do show that individual giving to nonprofit organizations is down about 9 percent this year ... And, yes, more than 1,000 toys were stolen last weekend from Wichita's Toys for Tots warehouse ... But let's take a closer look. There are still plenty of warm hearts out there, folks who are doing good deeds — giving of their time and resources or

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Luxury Condos Dot Waterwalk Landscape

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Published Dec. 6, 2009 at 2:08 p.m.

One year after the first dirt was turned, Wichita's Waterwalk development is well underway, but are people taking advantage of it? ...

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