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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Some Kansans Wanted To Turn Their Part Of The State Into West Kansas
Description: Today in 1861, Kansas became the 34th state in the Union. In the 1990s, a dispute over school funding led to a plan to turn part of the state into a new state of West Kansas. Plus: New York City has said goodbye to MetroCards as a payment system for bus and subway rides, but you can relive the glory days of those plastic fare cards in a new exhibit at the New York Transit Museum. Parts of Kansas once tried to secede and form 'West Kansas.' It helps explain our politics today (KAKE)NYC’s T...