but actually with the kansas city monarchs it started in 1930. wilkinson being the basebabseba innovator and genius he was he wanted to make night baseball popular. he saw carnivals and circuses had lights and he created some towers he could take on trucks from city to city and popularized this night baseball. now the major leagues were skeptical of the night baseball, so it's been recorded that ben johnson president of the american league said it was a passing fad, it would never last. and wilkinson said that lights will be to baseball what talkies are to movies. another bit of interesting bit of history is that the first all night world series where all the games were played in the night was 1985 when the kansas city royals played the st. louis cardinals. so it took that long. as a matter of fact, the first weekends game at night wasn't until 1971 and back in the 1930s the monarchs were popularizing that. as a matter of fact, their pitcher, one of them pitched the first no-hitter back in 1930 under the lights. so this is up with of his greatest

kansas. [cheers] >> the people of kansas elected me to go to the u.s. senate. the u.s. senate is in washington. my home as dodge city, and i am dam proud of it. -- damn proud of it. >> i suspect i have been to dodge city this year more than you have. [cheers] >> how many times? >> i have been there four times. >> i've been about seven, so you are wrong about that. >> a look for the camera roll on that. i probably lived more of my adult years in kansas than you have. but what i will say, to be perfectly candid, is that i don't forget matters. matters where someone lives come i to get matters how they vote. when it comes to voting for kansas, and standing up for kansas values, senator roberts has taken a sharp turn to the right. he voted against the farm bill, he voted against veterans benefits, he voted against funding for an back, and alternately, maybe the most egregious thing was when the v.a. reform bill came up, he didn't even bother to vote on it. i think that's an affront to all kansas veterans. [applause] senator roberts, 30 seconds rebuttal. >> i have worked ver

need in the kansas city area. and so i think we need to take a to take a very distinct approach in order to create jobs and growth in the state. [applause] >> senator roberts? 32nd rebuttal. 30-second rebuttal. >> getting business done. really. getting business done in the united states senate. really. 300 bills have come from the house and our gathering dust in the senate. this is where good legislation goes to die. it is because of harry reid, who will not allow any amendment, republican or democrat. he does not want to put his democrats online. i am the only one on this stage that can make a republican majority, put harry reid out to pasture, and get things done. [applause] >> the next question comes from nick, managing editor of the hays daily news. it will be addressed to mr. orman first. >> the winner of this election will likely play a significant role in the development of the next farm bill. tot do you see as necessary feed a growing and hungry world? >> first and foremost, the farmers i have talked to aro

so says kris kobach, and the secretary kansas secretary of state. he told the court that's the deadline and explained in his court filings by law kansas's ballots have to be sent out to members of the armed forces serving overseas by saturday which is the day after tomorrow in order to get them sent out on time by law. that means the ballot has to be finalized by september 18th, 2014. that's today. has to have the final list by today because they've got to print tomorrow and send them out on saturday. that's the law. so says secretary of state kris kobach. that's what he told the court. when the supreme court ruled today, they were right up against that deadline and what they ruled is that kris kobach does have to take that democratic guy's name off the ballot. he properly with drew from the race no matter how much of kansas republicans want there to be a democrat on the ballot, that guy withdrew properly. kris kobach is not within kansas law. so ordered by the supreme court of that state. now, of course, kansas republicans desperately want there to

will focus on the kansas governor's race. re i introduce the candidates i want to introduce the people who are going to be asking questions here today. our media panel and they are down front. our media panel includes nick sheen, managing editor of the hayes daily news. mike swanky, reporter, anchor, wichita, and alex dingmano with wibw news staff in topeka. etch. time keeper, todd pit engager, from salinas. keeping with statewide election we have statewide reporters here today. you are two candidates will each have 90 seconds for an opening statements and 90 seconds for a closing statement. they will each have one minute to respond to questions. the candidate who answers first will also have 30 seconds of rebuttal time. a note to our audience. this is important. please be courteous and in responding to each of the can diets and please refrain from responding until they have completed their statements. the moderator, that's me, does have the authority to add time to a candidate if i feel that his response has been interrupt ed

what is going on with the kansas elections this year? ose individual problems or should we connect them? >> no, we should connect them. we will see how it plays out when voters goes to the polls. what you are seeing, rachel s. whether or not the rubber band is snapping back from the most right ward tilt of the party. you get the sense talking with republicans that they are concerned that whatever reason the pendulum has swung so far to the right that it needs to come back a little bit. brownback, you have talked about it on your show repeatedly, has problems on tax policy. roberts went far to the right because he feared a tea party challenge and now it's difficult for him to get back to the middle, particularly because greg orman is not a democrat. pat roberts expected a race against a democrat and there is a formula for that and democrats don't do well in senate races in kansas, and they are saying i am not a republican or democrat, and that is really have theme finding out a way to push it to the left and make it easier. >> it's just fa

i've traveled the state of kansas. know that the industry in kansas is going to require a diverse approach. what we need is not the same thing as manhattan and in the kansas city area. i think we need to take a very distinct approach that distinguishes between the needs of our region in order to create jobs and create growth in the state. >> senator robert? >> getting business done. really. getting business done and the united states senate. really. 350,000 company house and their gathering best of the senate. this is where good legislation goes to die. it is because of harry reid who will not allow any amendment, republican or democrat, he does not want to put his immigrants online. i'm the only one on this data that can make a republican majority whip harry reid to pasture and get things done. >> the next question comes from the managing editor of hays daily news. it will be addressed to mr. orman. the winner of the winner of this election will play a significant role in the development of the next farm bill. what do

the kansas republicans who had endorsed the democratic challenger. greg orman got that endorsement today from all those kansas republican leaders even though he's not told anyone whether he would align himself with republicans or democrats if he won this senate race. our own steve core kornacki got a chance to ask him last month. >> if you were elected you could have the deciding vote after this fall's election, which side would you vote for? >> i think that's a great point, steve, and ultimately if i get elected, there's a reasonable chance that neither party will have a majority in washington, and if that's the case, what i've said is i'm going to caucus with whichever party is willing to go to washington and start trying to solve problems as opposed to just pleasing the extremists and their own base. >> of course it was steve kornacki who got that interview. last month he did that interview with the man on whom the prospects for control of the united states senate now turn. greg orman sounding like a legit moderate in that interest view, he really

the kansas city public lie diret the missouri valley special collections of the kansas city public library as well as the speakers series. thank you for attending. any of us across the nation and the world are currently observing and commemorating the events of the century ago. here in kansas city, the library in the national world war i museum have joined forces to organize a community read of to world war i classics. all quiet on the western front and the guns of august. i would suggest adding another title to your reading list. one that is a little closer to home relevant to our times, and his author is alive and with us today. apperson is petra dewitt. she is the author of degrees of allegiance. she earned her doctorate in history from the university of missouri and teaches that missouri university of science and technology. hers is a timely topic. states enteredd that world conflict, what did it take to prove you were a true american? how do you protect your native language, culture, ministry when it comes under government sanctioned attack. how could members of missouri's largest eth

the good news is it's working well. we're growing. we've got record employment in kansas. >> reporter: then, after a brief discussion with an aide... >> reporter: the things we're doing are not anything new. going to... getting your incomes taxes down, we got nine states without an income tax. that's not new. so nothing we're doing is new. now it's new that we're doing it but nothing that we're doing is different than what's done before. >> reporter: the race for senator and the race for governor obviously have different dynamics, but here's what they have in common: the political survival of senator roberts and governor brownback depends on their ability to define their opponents with exactly the same label. >> just another vote for barack obama. >> davis, don't delegate kansas to an obama liberal. >> like obama, greg orman will say anything to >> he is a liberal democrat and that's why you have jeb bush, and you have john mccain, you have rand paul... you got about everybody in the party coming-- conservative, i don't say moderate-- regular republicans knowing how impor

have the first one in northwest kansas. hey bound themselves together over a five-year period to reduce the amount of water used by six inches. that will amount to a period of time that will expand the aquifer. this is what i have been working on since i was in law school. while i was agriculture secretary. we have a 50-year water fishing being developed. i have credibility of moving this topic forward. we have to address our reservoirs. we will have water supplies in eastern kansas as well. this is the most critical long-term issue that our state has. this is most critical long-term issue that our state has. it is a complex issue. there are a lot of people who have very different opinions on this, but i will tell you that everybody who is a stakeholder in this debate will agree on one thing, it is going to take some resources to address this issue and we have to address this issue because it is vital to our state's economy. the governor attacked me for not having credibility. credibility means you would fund the current wat

kansas. they are one of the states to pass the e.r.a. there could be some kansas people that pat roberts might know that could help him as opposed to an operative from washington, d.c. i think his campaign manager said the day after the primary that he was going home to d.c. to rest a few days. probably not really sensitive to the fact that what the people of kansas want. there are some progressive tendencies in kansas. they are one of the states to pass the e.r.a. they elected a woman to the senate when women were not getting elected to the senate. she was a terrific senator, independent, fair minded, and that's the kind of republican that the people of kansas are comfortable with. but sam brownback and pat roberts have gone so far to the right a lot of the moderate republicans have no longer happy with the brand. >> kansas is next door to missouri. i will give you that. >> and i'm not a fan of the kansas jayhawks. >> i feel that from here. but did i miss some sort of sherman-esque statement from you about never running for president? i

i think that is vital to the inelopment of the economy kansas and the farmers in kansas. the other issue we face is water. thetor roberts referred to 50-year water plan. we also have to look at the farm bill and make sure we are not inadvertently encouraging or discouraging the planting of low-water-intensity crops. in kansaso farmers who said they would like to plant more, but the cost of insuring it is significantly more expensive than planting corn. milo consumes half as much water. we have to make sure that our federal farm program encourages water preservation so that we that resource for western kansas. [applause] >> senator roberts. >> i think my opponent for bringing up crop insurance. bob gary, a democrat from nebraska, pat roberts of kansas, forged the crop insurance program some time ago. i a father of the crop insurance program. in this farm bill, it was tough because there were enemies of crop insurance. i protected it and saved it and we improved it. he says i voted against the farm bill. number one, it goes in the wrong direction. many of these farmers are n

latest three polls for the governor's race in deep, red kansas this year. epubly cab governor of kansas in that red state looks like he very well might lose his effort to get re-elected in cast cast. he is an unpopular one. his democratic opponent says that he's basically turned kansas into a far ideological laboratory. even a lot of kansas republicans agree with some of that critique. some have publicly crossed over to say they're supporting their party's own governor. the other really national high republican is a guy named chris kobak >>> for years, chris kobak has written antiimgant publication. he's also been the republican party's chief national marketer of all kinds of laws to make it harder to vote, starting with voter id laws and going downhill from there. chris kobak is a very smart guy. he we believe the to harvard, yale law school and oxford. >> the last poll of deep red kansas shows chris kobak trailing his democratic opponent. not trailing by a lot but still trailing. in kansas. in kansas. a kansas -- a state that picked mitt romney over barack

senate this year, all eyes tonight on the kansas supreme court. we do not know when that ruling will come but it could come at any time. there's a lot going on, there's a lot worth watching. we start tonight with isis. the sunni militant group in iraq and in syria that the u.s. government says we're now at war with. isis has now released a new video that is not another beheading video, thank god, but it is plainly aimed at an american audience. it's 52 seconds long. it appears to be a trailer for a longer video of some kind, but we don't know that for sure. what they have released is this 52 seconds worth of propaganda video. it is propaganda, but in terms of its news worthiness, it is worth seeing because it shows what they're capable of in terms of their skill in producing a message about themselves but also gives some information about what strategically they are trying to get americans to feel. it's less than a minute. it's not gory. it is disturbing because it's a propaganda video. but if you look at what they're trying to accomplish with this

, partly at the urging of democratic senator claire mccaskill, who is not from kansasshe's from missouri. did you talk to him about dropping out of the race? >> i visited with chad taylor. he was wrestling with the decision, and, you know, we had a great far-ranging conversation. i don't think it's probably a good idea for me to go into the details of our conversation, but he was wrestling with a tough decision, and i felt for him. i think he made up his mind, and frankly, he did it in consultation with the secretary of state's office. he asked them what do i need to do to do this correctly? he showed them the letter. these are the people that work for the secretary of state. is this enough? they said yes, this is what you have to do and it was, in fact, the secretary of state's employees who guided him as to the language that was necessary in his resignation. so the fact that this secretary of state is on pat roberts' steering committee, it does appear that somebody is trying to put their finger on the scales, which is unfortunate, because this is a man who had a very

in 5:00 action, the democrats and the independents have formed a rare fusion ticket. in kansas, they're trying to get the democrat out of the race all together so it can just be the independent versus the republican. this is kind of a thing this year in politics. we've got it happening in kansas and we've got it happening in alaska. because the rule of trifecta never fails me, there may be a similar dynamic emerging in maine. paul lapage. he won the gubernatorial election in may last time with just 38% of the vote. and the reason paula page was able to become governor of maine with nowhere near a majority volt was because the vote in that race split. an independent named elliot cuttler was a couple of points behind him. and the democrat just got womped in that race. that created the amazing and often surreal experience of maine having a tea party governor. now he's running for election. and this time around, that same ind pen dent candidate, elliot cuttler, is back in the race. but this time, the democratic candidate has a better chance of winning. at least that's what the poll

so this is the re-election race in kansas for republican senator pat roberts. cause there is a strong independent in the race who looks like he may have a shot at beating pat roberts. the democratic candidate wants to drop out in order to give the independent guy a clean shot. however, kansas' republican secretary of state has said that the democratic guy didn't fill out his paperwork in exactly the right way so he's not allowed to quit. if the court forces this to be a three-way race, if they don't let that guy quit, then the polling says republican pat roberts looks to be on his way to winning re-election, even though he's pretty unpopular and hasn't campaigned all that hard or all that way. if the democrat can drop out, the polling says the independent can beat pat roberts. if so, republican hopes for capturing the united states senate this year will get much, much shakier. and so, yes, i've checked, and i can tell you the kansas supreme court online streaming countdown clock is rolling right now. the court battle kicks off tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. east

once again, jim avila and the kansas city sniper. >> the reward is up and so are the number of casester: as the mystery of the kansas city highway shooter deepens, the city's motorists are looking over their shoulders. >> it's been nerve-racking. >> reporter: the shooter is still on the loose. and why he is terrorizing this quiet city remains a mystery. >> oftentimes offenders will do it for a sense of power. "these people fear me, but they don't know me." until they stop me, i'll continue to do this. >> and they get a thrill over it by driving around and choosing who will live and who will die. >> reporter: while cops are making some progress, they decide to deputize an entire community and ask for the public's help. >> anyone with information is asked to call the tips hotline. >> reporter: the reward money is up to $10,000 and apparently, money talks. the tips start pouring in. witnesses paint a creepy, mysterious description of the shooter. >> the shooter was described as wearing a black hoodie, a gray hoodie, cloth covering his face, and a ski mask at times. >> reporter: a woman

the kansas city public library hosted this event. it's an hour and 15 minutes. >>> good evening and welcome to the kansas city public library. i'm the director of public affairs. i think we have all heard the old saw that the third time is charm. tonight, i have a feeling we're going to see a definitive proof of that assertion when dr. mark scuoson presents his third kansas city public library talk in barely more than 18 months. this time he is offering an original treatise on economist milton friedman, the architect of the free market reform of the post world war ii era. today as it happens, what would have been dr.

the proslavery government that hijacked the state of kansas had submitted a constitution in the city of kansas to congress for its approval. this constitution enshrined the right to slavery contrary to the majority of the residents of kansas. buchanan is determined to force the compton constitution down the throats of congress to read this is one of his finest hours he decides to oppose the president on this. buchanan summonsed douglas to his office in the white house and reminded remind him of the names of all the different parties dissidents have been crushed over the years by the president and said if you don't get me behind this and going to ruin your career. he named some of the people and projects and had driven out of the party and he said with me remind you general jackson is dead and throws on the gauntlet and goes back to congress determined to uphold the compromise why ultimately the constitution, compton constitution is far from a compromise and represents the wish list of the slavery element in kansas and around the country so douglas is successful in stopping the constit

i went to the their public schools in kansas. >> yes. >> and so as someone else did here in the room,l talk about that later. but also, if you were in a small town and your public school closes, that is it. this is the state that the rural areas are suffering from the depopulation in a dramatic way and people leaving and moving and smallto towns dying. >> kansas has been declining in population over 40 years, and we had a bipartisan position to keep raising the taxes in kansas and we have elected a reagan republican in the senate, and it is not all about the governor, because he is supportive of reducing taxes, but the reason that the entire left of the country has jumped on top the of kansas is that they have provided a model, a successful model to phase out the income t tax. and why? because when the revenue comes in beyond 2% growth, it goes to reducing the income taxes, and now it is taken down to 4.8% above $30,000 and the republican running for governor paul davis a week ago thought might win and because politico did an expose on his lap dance with the naked lady in a strip club

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now the debate between candidates in kansas. democrat chad taylor has withdrawn from the race but is included on the ballot. race at aas the virtual tie. the ads look at some of running in kansas. really?s greg orman, orman's run against pat roberts before as the democrat. fact, orman's given $38 grand to liberal democrats. orman gave thousands to hillary clinton, to harry reid and to barack obama. like obama, greg orman will say evening to get elected, pretending he's a conservative like pat roberts. >> i agree with senator roberts. agree with the senator. i don't disagree with the senator. i agree with senator roberts. just so we're clear, i agree with the senator. you're going to take a stand and tell us what party you're going to caucus with. be a republican one day and a democrat the next and democrat one day and a republican. you going to be? >> phony politicians like orman problem. are the principled conservatives like pat roberts are the solution. >> i'm pat roberts. i approve this message. >> if we want to get things don

he wants the election in kansas to, instead, be november 12th. he is amazing to watch when he was trying to force the democrat to stay on the ballot. and then he ordered to choose a new candidate. and then he said they would not and then sent out the date wac again and now he wants to send one ballot now with a disclaimer and then he wants to send a replacement ballot that he says is the only one he will count and not the one he's sending with the disclaimer. and all of this from the man who's been lecturing america on how to run your elections right. bring your ids. jump through flaming hoops with chihuahuas. everyone if that cuts 18,000 registered voters from voting, they're procrastinators and i'm chris kobach. and oh, this year, we'll delay the election a week. just for kansas. this story has been getting more fascinating with every passing day. but, today, it went completely nuts. i'll be right back. j.j. watt? you know there's a game on tonight right, amy? oh, i know, but it's my turn to chaperone. right, but you could do both. how? nfl mobi

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the kansas story is very interesting. e administration talked the legislature to cutting taxes in a spectacular way. in a way that states don't often do. the promise was this would lead to an economic boom in the state. it has cut off revenues coming into the state. that has had all the problems that you would expect from that. public school, state services. i should say public schools are a particularly big deal in kansas because first of all they're very proud of their schools. i went to their public schools in kansas as someone else did here in the room. if you're in a small town and your public school closes, that's it. this is a state where the rural areas are suffering from a depopulation in a dramatic way. >> wait a minute. kansas has been declining in its population over the last 40 years. we have elected a reagan republican majority in the house and senate. it's not all about the governor. the governor is supportive of reducing taxes. but the reason why the entire left has jumped on top of kansas is they have prov

this hour-long event was hosted by the kansas city public libraryand the truman institute. following the program, here gerald ford's 10-minute speech here on american history tv. >> hello, and welcome to the kansas city public library. i am director of public affairs. i want to thank you in joining us for the latest iteration of our hail to the chief lecture series, cochaired by our partners at the truman library institute, the foundation arm of the harry s truman presidential inrary and museum independence. as many of you know, we here at the library just love to do programs commemorating anniversaries, and such is the case tonight. 40 years ago, well, technically, , butars and 363 days ago work with me on this, gerald ford became the first and to date the only unelected president of the united states. at outcome that would have been beyond conception just two years earlier, when richard nixon was cruising to his landslide victory over george mcgovern. to tell us more about that and the administration that ensued, we have brought back for the dr. john robert green, but you

john taylor says he followed those explicit instructions and then says he asked the kansas elections director if his name, indeed, would be removed from the november ballot. according to mr. taylor, they told him yes. he leaves that day having heard a yes from the director of elections. yes, your name has been removed from the november ballot. the following day, chris k, bak, secretary of state, announced that no, john taylor would not be able to remove his name because he hadn't filed his paperwork correctly. so chris kobak's office has now

in kansas, where he is in charge, he's pushed the whole voter id thing even further. he's ended up in court defending kansas' new law which didn't make it just have to ploouf your identity with an id kard. it made you have to prove your citizen ship. how would you prove your citizen ship? do you know where your birth certificate is right now? could you put your hands on it? as far as you can tell, you're not a citizen and you're not voting in kansas. chris kobak made these new rules so strict in kansas, they have to have a whole set of parallel rules for voting in state elections and federal elections. i mean, 23 you can't meet this new requirement being pushed in kansas, then, in all likelihood, you can still vote for president and for congress, because those are federal elections. but you can't vote in your local races. you can't vote for governor or mayor or secretary of state. chris kobak just doesn't trust you to vote under kansas law. so kansas has created two separate classes of voting. i mean, we haven't seen much of this in this country since they used two-tie

the first edition of his book was published some 19 years ago by the university press of kansas. it is still in print, i am happy to report, in its fourth printing. of course, being a pioneer has its disadvantages. bob reports that in the early days, he was often asked if his interest in the ford presidency was a function of the fact that all of the more interesting president had been taken. [laughter] thoughts of this nature do a disservice to bob's scholarship, let alone the subject of his inquiry. while ford is generally remembered as a man who helped to heal the nation after watergate, bob argues there is a lot more to the 38th president than a likable guy who did a credible job as a caretaker. locally, we should also recall it was here in kansas city in 1976 -- 1976. i have a feeling we will be commemorating that anniversary in about two years -- when gerald ford received the gop nomination in a close primary campaign against ronald reagan, so in the audience tonight with his wife sandy, a young city council member then, and he was at the white house with the ford s to mark t

last year it was the kansas city chiefs, right? >> let me tell you this.t's definitely not the kansas city chiefs because they're not very good. i mean, alex smith, he's -- they call him a game manager. i think he's a decent quarterback. he's nothing great. nothing that i would ever be afraid of going against. they have one playmaker on offense pretty much is jamal charles, and dwayne bowen in the outside position. defense, we saw what happened last year when pass rushers got hurt. they couldn't cover anyone in the secondary. this team is in trouble. >> they may take a step back, but who was bad last year that you might think, they might win 10 or 11 games and shock us. >> those teams that were really bad, they might improve a little bit but nothing where they're going to make the playoffs. one team i really like is the arizona cardinals. they were 10-6 last year. i think it comes down to carson palmer and his play, but if you look at their talent, and i'm not saying talent necessarily guarantees you a playoff spot, but if you look at their talent, talent

the great depression. but this is no ordinary year in kansas. comes with implications for the rest of the cannountry and who is in control. mr. helling, you have been having so much fun covering this election, we can't stop booking you. >> who knew, right? >> let me ask you about the cort case. how did the judges react today when the guy who was supposedly suing over the senate race didn't bother showing up for his own lawsuit? >> three-judge panel and they were not happy. none of the judges thought the plaintiff in this case could probably skip the court case without making his argument. the people who want to keep the democratic line open an the ballot wanted to examine david aurell, the plaintiff in the case. he wasn't there. there's some thought the judges could throw out this lawsuit on that basis, that the plaintiff didn't show up. we expect a ruling tomorrow on wednesday on that part of it. they also said they didn't want the secretary of state to be a part of the lawsuit. so the general feeling is that this story is almost over, that ther

you mentioned thes are cuers from the east coast of kansas. allen cobb is closely connected with coke industries and merp prosperities. we don't know if there will be a lot of third party involvement from the third side of this race. at this point, greg ormann is running an almost-perfect campaign. >> all right. i will meet you at the cross roads of studio 54 and the final frontier coming up next. stay with us. so this board gives me rates on progressive direct and other car insurance companies? yes. but you're progressive and they're them. -yes. -but they're here. -yes. -are you... -there? -yes. -no. -are you them? i'm me. but the lowest rate is from them. -yes. -so them's best rate is... here. so where are them? -aren't them here? -i already asked you that. -when? -feels like a while ago. want to take it from the top? rates for us and them. now that's progressive. ♪ >>> okay, just ahead there is a legitimate news reason for this, i promise, and it involves vladimir putin. it is a bad news story for vladimir putin, it is good news overall, and