Celebrating support, upcoming events and 160 years of Kansas history
As we begin a new year this month, most Southwest Kansans probably want to look more toward the future than the past, with hopes of better times to come after recent and continuing adversity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, not to mention current social and political strife.
However, January also brings a chance to reflect on history for all of us in Kansas, since 2021 marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of our state. It was on Jan. 29, 1861 that the 34th star first took its place on the blue field of the American flag, converting us from a contested territory to an ambitious young state whose constitution forbade slavery – a controversial national issue at the time that touched off the Civil War.
Al-Husseini's sense of accomplishment came after she witnessed firsthand how people were reacting to the initiatives that the Federation was spearheading.
December 29, 2020 4 min read
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It’s never too early (or too late) to start your business- and if you ever find yourself doubting this notion, just take a look at ten-year-old Lina Rovere, who launched her online fashion label, Fashion Frista, this year. Given her passion for art and fashion, the tween, who is a student at Dwight School Dubai, had been telling her parents that she wanted to start a design business for a while now, and 2020 was the year she got the go-ahead to do just that.
Rovere had originally envisioned an in-store experience for the enterprise she wished to set up; however, the coronavirus pandemic caused her to drop that idea, and that led her to almost bid goodbye to her entrepreneurial dreams- but, thankfully, she didn’t. “When COVID-19 came, I couldn’t carry out the business idea I had in mind, so I thought that was the end of it,
December 28, 2020 4 min read
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Omar Kassim is perhaps best known for being the founder of erstwhile e-commerce marketplace JadoPado (which was acquired by its counterpart in the domain, Noon, in 2017), and he is currently at work on his newest venture, Nomod, whose website proudly proclaims that it is “building better business banking.” Now, this may well be a personal take, but if one were to put together a list of the voices of note in the MENA startup ecosystem, the UAE-based Kassim’s musings on life, business, and everything in between (all of which can often be found on his Twitter, @okassim) certainly warrant him a presence on that compilation. And as such, his outlook on 2020 is worth checking out, if only to look at what are the things that caught his attention this year.
The bird vote, Mr. Peanut’s shock sacrifice, Spike Lee’s Viagra: 10 of the strangest stories of 2020
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But it’s also been a deeply weird year, and weirdness sometimes can be wonderful.
To be clear, this particular roundup of the Year That Was will offer nothing about politics. We all know our politics has become very weird and very divisive. We’re going to concentrate instead on the kind of weird that unites us, the quirky and goofy kind that elicits a collective,
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Below is our Top 10 list of strange news. The list, like 2020, could have gone on and on and on …