Max McCoy
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Author, journalist, storyteller. Wrote some books. Won some awards. Columnist for @kansasreflector.com Views are my own.
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A decade after Obama’s historic Hiroshima trip, the world edges toward oblivion. Can we step away? • Kansas Reflector
Thursday is the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and we’re still struggling with the ability to annihilate ourselves.
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The distance between the police and public is literally widening. So is the accountability gap. • Kansas Reflector
Not long ago every newsroom had a police scanner. I’m not talking about the days when ashtrays overflowed with cigarette butts and a bottle of scotch was kept in a desk drawer to toast special occasio...
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This column was part of my work for @kansasreflector.com recognized yesterday with a first place award by the National Socity of Newspaper Columnists. Another personal favorite and a nod to Mark Twain.
A theocrat's prayer to end democracy • Kansas Reflector
It was a time of great and fervent excitement. By act of Congress, citizens were asked to turn to their Creator in supplication.
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Get out! I won first place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists contest for work I did last year for @kansasreflector.com. I'm happy to say this may be my favorite Reflector column of all.
When night comes, we might all be listening for Radio Free Kansas • Kansas Reflector
Lately you've discovered that it's more difficult to find information you used to take for granted as a dystopia descends.
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Late posting this. Just got back from trout fishing in the Ozarks. My @kansasreflector.com column today.
The ‘developer’ of a Kansas data center swore under oath he wasn’t involved. My town is bamboozled. • Kansas Reflector
The debate over the data center proposal has been fierce in Emporia, mirroring arguments in Kansas and across the rest of the country.
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An unexpected coalition has emerged to fight data centers in rural America. Politicians, take heed. • Kansas Reflector
Emporia has mounted a full court press in favor of the project, including sponsoring a bus trip to visit a model data center in Oklahoma.
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The Red Legs sought border war-inspired bloodshed, officials say. Let’s not repeat that history. • Kansas Reflector
The Red Legs are a “violent extremist group,” according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas.
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My rural Kansas town has a bad case of data center fever. Boom or bust, we will never be the same. • Kansas Reflector
A development group has been quietly working for eight months on a deal to develop a 1,000-acre “hyperscale” data center in Emporia.
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National Cemetery No. 1 at Fort Scott. The sandstone boulder is the grave of Kansas poet "Ironquill," who died in 1911. For the story of the first Black troops to gight in the Civil War, who are memorialized here, seem my @kansasreflector.com column today.
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A Kansas memorial lists 15 Black soldiers killed during the Civil War. Their lives are a mystery. • Kansas Reflector
There are 15 names on a stone monument in a shoulder of the cemetery that stand as a testament to the struggle for a living equality.
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Regrets, but I’m sitting this one out until everyone’s welcome at America’s birthday party • Kansas Reflector
Trump's message seeks to fabricate an American founding that never was in order to justify an imperial presidency that was never intended.
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My @kansasreflector.com column today: The erosion of trust in human institutions is now compounded by the harlequin of artificial intelligence, resulting in the kind of society that previously was only described in science fiction.
Does Claude dream of electric gavels? A federal case with Kansas connections sets an AI precedent. • Kansas Reflector
That Heppner turned to Claude to prepare his legal advice, and that I have a legal connection to the AI agent, is bizarre.
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My @kansasreflector.com column. Monday is the anniversary of the Greensburg tornado.
May is peak tornado season. Here’s to the chasers who bring us the ‘ground truth’ of deadly storms. • Kansas Reflector
Each spring, those of us on the Great Plains keep an eye on the weather, especially when a day yields to a evening and tornadoes threaten.
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A dream of the ‘Three Graces’ taught me about the power of art — and the golden apples of democracy • Kansas Reflector
Among the things we’ve collectively lost in this period of political chaos is not just the time but the attention required to cultivate that bit of our souls that responds to art.
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Return to Earth: At this Kansas space museum, I came in search of what we had nearly lost. • Kansas Reflector
Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module, and ponder the fragility and strength of humanity.
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Public monuments are the story we tell about ourselves. They shouldn’t aggrandize a living leader. • Kansas Reflector
Trump’s efforts to reshape America in his white, privileged image has not been confined to an assault on truth. He started tearing stuff down.
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Shouting from the gallery in the Kansas Senate got Moti Rieber banned. He says it was worth it. • Kansas Reflector
Rabbi Moti Rieber shouted in frustration from the gallery of the Kansas Senate after it overturned the governor’s veto of an anti-trans law.
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ICE just added Leavenworth to its chain of detention islands. Blame a failure of moral leadership. • Kansas Reflector
The last hurdle for owner CoreCivic to re-open its site was a special use permit from the city and, after a year of turmoil, the city gave in
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If Kansas punishes schools for student walkouts, it will discourage free speech. Just as intended. • Kansas Reflector
If you’ve been following the news lately it’s easy to recognize some aspects of those 1960s student protests to anti-ICE protests of today.
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In 1931, a deadly air crash in Kansas inspired safer flights. Why have some forgotten that lesson? • Kansas Reflector
The Pentagon’s opposition to the ROTOR Act, at the last possible moment, is a slap in the face to the families of the Flight 5342 victims. Mann, the Kansas representative whose vote literally doomed t...
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When judges have to cite Orwell in their rulings, our descent into dystopia is self-evident • Kansas Reflector
MAGA-inspired legislation kicking around in the U.S. House and Senate would, if passed, impose onerous new rules that require proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate.
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