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That was at a business in the 4,500 block of South Madison. That's between the Kansas Turnpike and the Arkansas River at about 4.30 in the morning yesterday. Cruise found heavy smoke coming from the business's parking lot. Wichita Fire Department Battalion Chief, Chad Dunham, said conditions were favorable in the effort to keep the fire from spreading further than it did. Luckily, they had a set up pretty good to where the wind was blown. It was kind of in our favor this time, so it kind of just held it with those 40 cars. The challenge to this one was just getting water supply back there, getting water to it. We had to lay about 1,400 feet of water supply. Fire crews did get that fire under control just before 6 in the morning yesterday. Wichita Public School administrators say it has formally recommended another November bond proposal to the Board of Education. The district said it has developed a list of potential school improvement projects based on community and staff input and is seeking additional community feedback. Come and go sessions have been scheduled to allow community members to learn about potential projects, provide feedback on the projects, and to use the build a bond tool to craft their own project proposal. The sessions are scheduled all through the month of April with the final one scheduled for Tuesday, April 7th from 5 to 7 p.m. at Horace Mann Dual Language Magnet. Additional information will be presented to the Board of Education at the April 6th meeting with an anticipated formal recommendation of a board referendum at the June 1st meeting. Millions of children have now been signed up for President Trump's new federal savings account program. The IRS says more than 4 million children have been enrolled so far in the newly created Trump accounts, a government-sponsored saving initiative aimed at helping families get a jumpstart on investing. The Treasury Department will deposit an initial $1,000 into the fund for each child enrolled. Plus, the child's parents, family, and friends can contribute up to $5,000 a year till the child reaches the age of 18. The program funded by the Big Beautiful Bill and donations by philanthropists. The Treasury estimates that it fully funded... Each child's account could reach as much as $1.9 million in value by the age of 28. Sue Guzman, Fox News. Andover Central High School is honoring a beloved teacher and coach by naming its softball field after her. The teaching career of coach Rita Freaks spanned over 40 years in both the Clearwater and Andover school districts. Frakes died in 2024 after multiple battles with cancer. We'll take a look at some bad chocolate. And four more teams make it into the Big World Cup coming up this summer. And, of course, we'll get the live weather forecast. We'll want to be here for this because we have a lot of things going on. Storm Team 12 chief meteorologist Ross Jansen will be joining us shortly. It's 707 at KNSS. 710 here on KNSS.

Federal officials say chocolates spiked with Viagra recalled nationwide. The Food and Drug Administration revealing Gear Isle, a California-based adult company recalled two of its chocolate products found to contain undeclared and potentially life-threatening amounts of prescription drug ingredients for erectile dysfunction. The agency says the chocolates are sold as dietary supplements, which it does not approve, meaning they fall under less strict federal regulation. To date, Gear Isle has not received any reports of adverse events, but the FDA says ingredients may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs and may cause a significant drop in blood pressure, urging folks who have used the products to contact a doctor if they experience any problems that could be related. Kristen Goodwin, Fox News. Four more teams have punched their tickets to this summer's FIFA World Cup. The European qualifiers for the 26 FIFA World Cup wrapping up on Tuesday with four teams joining the 48 team field. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sweden. Turkey and Czechia all winning their games to qualify for the World Cup. Bosnia defeated four-time champion Italy in penalties, marking the third straight time that Italy will miss the World Cup. Turkey knocked off Kosovo 1-0 in their game to advance to the World Cup for the first time in 24 years. Turkey now joins Group D with the United States, a group that also includes Australia and Paraguay. Tony Genualdo, Fox News. 712 here on KNSS. Traffic in the Wichita area right now, well, looking fairly good, all things considered. We do have some heavy traffic areas starting to form, but they don't seem to be slowing down too badly. Just continue to watch out. We've got that construction that's affecting traffic east and westbound on Kellogg, east and west of 143rd Street East in that area. Traffic update from 987 and 1330KNSSS. The Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center, I'm Jed Chambers. And as we head into this Wednesday with a lot of weather we need to be aware of, it's good that we have the live forecast right here with Storm Team 12 chief meteorologist Ross Jansen. Hello, Ross. Yeah, good morning to you, Ted. We're gearing up for what should be a chance of severe weather coming later this afternoon. The timing has been kind of back and forth between about 5 and 6 o'clock. And after 8 o'clock, and now new models coming in this morning are kind of shifting the timing a little bit later into the evening, which is obviously good news for evening rush hour. I don't think we're going to have a lot of rough weather in the city of Wichita or the metro area until after 7 or 8 o'clock tonight. So it's looking like maybe a little bit later in the evening before stuff gets going. Up until then, we're going to get a pretty nice day today, kind of a nice break from the Kansas wind after so many days of that. So 74 on the high.

today. Now, the cold front that came through yesterday is about 50 miles south of Wichita this morning. That front's going to come back to the north later this afternoon. So although it is kind of cool this morning, we do see a nice warm up this afternoon. And then we'll watch for thunderstorms after 7 or 8 o'clock later on tonight. Threats of large hail and high winds. And also torrential rainfall. I think we're going to see some pretty heavy downpours. Very possible that we'll wind up with at least a half of an inch. But We could easily wind up with close to an inch, too, before all is said and done. This stuff should be lifting to the northeast, and the expectation is that shortly after midnight, the active weather will be moving off to the east. of the city. So I think once we get into the heart of the overnight hours, a lot of our active weather is winding down. So good news to try to catch some sleep there. 62 overnight, headed for sunshine, a beautiful day tomorrow, the high 75. And then on Friday, there's another cold front coming in. Chances for thunderstorms will be much earlier in the day. So we're looking at a window of opportunity on Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. for some storms. And then that will leave us with dry weather throughout the rest of the Easter weekend. Looks like we're going to have some cooler temperatures and some overall very nice weather going through the Easter weekend. Right now in Wichita, we have a partly cloudy start to the day. It's 51 degrees. That's your Storm Team 12 forecast. I'm chief of meteorologist Ross Jansen. Yeah, I just guess we got to pay attention this evening. Yeah, we need to keep on on things because it looks very likely that we're going to have storms. But again, the timing now looking like after 7 o'clock. All right. Thanks for the big update. We appreciate it. And we'll find out what's going on tomorrow when we chat with you. Good stuff. That is Storm Team 12, Chief Meteorologist, our live discussion with Ross Jansen every morning here with Woodward and Witt on KNS. 715 here on this Wednesday, April 1st. Of course, you know, the constant battle between teachers and students. Yeah. Of course, it used to be just worried about plagiarism. Right. Oh, yeah. Or, you know, cheating, copying. Now it's like AI. Oh, yes. How can you tell if your students are using AI or not on everything and thinking for themselves or just taking someone that's something else? Well, the scene is right out of the, you know, the 1950s. So here's the new thing that some teachers are doing. There's a teacher in the Kay Ivey League. That is making her students use typewriters. They can't just print out something on a printer. They have to actually sit there and type. Wow. I guess it's part of the ongoing fight against AI written work. Bringing in the old-fashioned Underwood typewriters. Exactly. Which I'm sure her students love. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. This is a German language instructor at Cornell. introduces her students to a new feeling of typing without online assistance, no screens, no online dictionaries, no spell check, no delete keys. No delete keys. Yeah, wow. Hey, that's a typewriter, man. You can't type it correctly or else it's wrong on the paper. That's true. She started doing this few years ago. She was frustrated with the reality that students were just using generative AI and turning that in as their work. So this is what she's figured out.

She wants students to understand what writing, thinking, and classrooms were like before everything turned digital. Thinking, there's a novel concept. Uh-huh. So she found a few dozen old manual typewriters at thrift shops and online marketplaces and then created what she calls an analog assignment for all her students to do. Well, I mean, that's one way of making sure that they're actually doing their own work. Good luck finding parts and ribbons. Yeah, that's true. Ribbons. Yeah. So many of these kids probably don't even know what is this. Wait a minute. I have to actually type. I have to do my own work. Novel concept. Could this part, could this be part of a nationwide trend toward old school testing methods? Like using in-class pen and paper exams. Another way they get around is oral tests. Oral. Say, hey. You can't be on your phone, can't be on your laptop. I'm just, I'm going to read the question and you have to answer it with your mouth, with your human. Interaction. Amazing. What a novel concept. Yeah, isn't that interesting? Yeah. But it's obviously the exception rather than the rule. Right. Well, and eventually what they're going to get, and I've heard that they're already doing this in some schools, is using AI to fight AI, where teachers can run a paper through an AI algorithm, and that AI can tell whether or not someone's paper has been written using AI. using chat GPT or some of these other algorithms, which has got to be interesting to say the least, using AI to figure out if your paper was written by AI. Once in high school, in English, I got an F, and the teacher said this is too good. You obviously copied it from somewhere. Well, thanks. Now, here's another interesting one. When I was in college, when I was at KU, I was in a fraternity. And we had a library in the fraternity house. And the library, just so you know, give you a little insight into the fraternity here. Our library was filing cabinets of all the classes. And what you could do is you could go up into the library. And in the classes, there would be, you know, history 101, history 104, history, whatever the class was. And in there were people's old tests and old archive. And you could use that to write your papers off. I mean, colleges have been doing that. Yeah. So that was our library from our fraternity. You know, I mean, that was our fraternity's version of the library. So, I mean, yeah. This is nothing new here, folks. Right, exactly. Fraternities and students have been doing this for years. The methods are different. The path is the same. Exactly. Good luck on that, lady. Exactly. It is 719 here with Woodward and Witt. Let's see what's going on here in sports. Sports is brought to you by Serta Pro Painters.

Schedule your free estimate online at surta pro.com. We'll start out with college baseball yesterday here in Wichita. We did have the annual school kids day at X Stadium. 2,000 boisterous youngsters were on hand. You see the shockers play Washburn, the Shockers and the Iqabods. And in this game, got a little bit of everything, and you got to see something you don't see very much. Mike Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had the call of the game on 975 and 1240, KFH. Two men in scoring position with two out. Here comes the runner. Home throw is high, stolen base. Yoloa steals home, and it was not even on the pitch. The pitcher was just standing there holding it. Yoloa with a great read. Steels home. Shockers now lead seven to four. You don't see a guy steal home very often. No, that's rare. But these days when the pitchers are just staring down at that watch on their wrist to get the call, might as well run on it. The guy's just going to sit there and not pay attention to you. Hey, yay. I like it. Good on him. Steal of home there for the shocks. One of the 14 runs, Wichita State would score on the day. Final score, Wichita State 14, Washburn 11. As the shockers get in the win column again, 16 and 6 now in home games at X Stadium. Shocks have won four out of five. Now 20 and 10 on the season. The game that took more than three and a half hours to play. But shockers get the win. And other baseball wins for teams here in our state. Kansas, one on the road at Missouri, 11 to 8. Three wins in a row for the Jayhawks. K-State won on the road at BYU, 16 to 3. KU and K State Baseball, both now with a record of 19 and 10 for road wins yesterday. Major League Baseball, the Kansas City Royals had a day off yesterday to enjoy a two-game winning streak sitting in first place in the division. And the Royals resume their series with the Minnesota Twins today. There is rain in the forecast, just like there is here. So what happened to Kauffman Stadium tonight, first night home game for the Royals. Live coverage of Royals baseball at 6 o'clock this evening, and that's over on 97.5 and 1240, KFH. College softball, Wichita State on the road, visiting third-ranked Oklahoma last night. It was close. The shocks were only down four to three in the fifth inning. Then Oklahoma tacked on eight runs in the final two innings to beat the shocks 12 to 3. Break open a close game. Shocker softball team now 19 and 14 on the season. Women's basketball, the third annual WBIT will wrap up tonight with the championship game right here in Wichita. Coke Arena, nationally televised on ESPN 2. 6 o'clock tonight, Brigham Young taking on Columbia.

This is the first of two straight years. WBIT Championship is being played in Wichita. And we take a look at hockey in the National Hockey League last night. In Pittsburgh, the Penguins beat the Detroit Red Wings 5 to 1, winning goalie for the Penguins. Former Wichita Thunder goalie, Stuart Skinner, with 22 saves. Picking up his 120th win of his career in the NHL. Back-to-back wins for the Penguins, who are in the number six spot in the conference right now in the NHL. That is sports with Woodward and Whit. Sports is brought to you by Wichita Brewing Company Delano, featuring live music this Sunday. With details on Wichita Brew.com, send off your Sunday with live tunes, tasty treats, good times at WBC Delano. It's your spot for spring Sundays. Visit Wichita Brew.com, if you'd like more info, Wichita Brewing Company, where groups gather. It is 723 with Woodward and Witt. Celine Dion, returning to the spotlight after battling a diagnosis. Coming up next on the House Call for Health on KNSSS. Wichita's number one talk. This is Woodward and Witt on 987 and 1330 KNSS. Good morning. It is 731. Ted Woodward and John Whitmire with you here on this Wednesday, April 1st. Currently in Wichita, it is partly sunny and 51 degrees here on this Wednesday morning. A federal appeals court denies a request from dozens of families who lost relatives in the two fatal Boeing 737 max crashes to reopen a criminal case against the aircraft manufacturer. Tuesday's decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals was unanimous. The three-judge panel disagreed with the family's claims that federal prosecutors violated their rights under the Crime Victims Rights Act. Paul Castle, a lawyer for the families, called the ruling badly flawed, saying it means Boeing escapes criminal justice accountability for killing 346 people. Lawyers for the families argued that the Department of Justice failed to properly consult them before reaching a deal last year with Boeing. The deal allowed Boeing. to avoid prosecution in exchange for paying or investing an additional $1.1 billion in fines, compensation to victims' families, and internal safety. Deborah Valentine, Fox News. A Texas lawmaker sounding the alarm about the conditions inside an immigration detention facility in their state. Tuesday, North Texas Representative Mark Visi toured the Prairie Land facility in Johnson County. About 1,000 people are being held at the Prairie Land Detention Center, according to V.C. The length of stay for some of the people here, without them being able to get answers about their attorneys, been able to get any answers about what the next steps are. What are the next steps for deportations? The Fort Worth Democrat says that he's concerned about things like new mothers not having contact with their children. The president's comments that he made a few weeks ago where he said, we're only going up.

after the bad guys. We're only going after violent offenders. That's not true. We've got a lot of people in here that had no record at all. V.C. said the stories they hear today are similar stories that his colleagues are hearing at immigration detention facilities and other parts of the country. That was Fox 4 Dallas's Stephen Dial. Within the next few months, Sedgwick County will be looking at potential solar farms in the area, says County Commission Chairman Jeff Blubaw. What I just said with solar, we have regulation. This is an actual applicant that is going to MAPC and then whatever decision is made there, it'll come to the County Commission probably four to six weeks later. The County Commission will be voting on solar here probably four to six weeks after that meeting. Chairman Blubaw made his live a weekly Tuesday morning appearance with a county update on KNSS with Woodward and Witt. The Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has hired a search firm to lead a national search for the chamber's next president and CEO. A board-led committee is guiding the process, which will narrow down three finalists with input from board members, staff, and key community partners. The search is expected to take approximately three and a half months. The Supreme Court ruling against Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors. SCOTA citing First Amendment concerns is a reason to strike down the ban. In an 8-to-1 decision, the court ruling in Childs v. Salazar, that it violates the rights of licensed counselors by censoring speech. The opinion saying in part it censor speech based on viewpoint. Colorado may regard its policy as essential to public health and safety, but the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort. to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country. Ketanji Brown Jackson Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole dissenting voice, she says, quote, the majority finds at bottom that Colorado likely cannot legislate to protect the children of its state. If by doing so, it happens to keep state licensed health care providers from saying what they would like to say to minors. And that's Fox's Marianne Rafferty with that report. Let's take a look at our weather forecast from Storm Team 12, meteorologist Jake Dunn. Mostly cloudy and warm today, a high of 72 east-southeast winds 10 to 15. Small chance of a storm after 4 o'clock and then storms are likely this evening. They could be severe, producing large hail and damaging wind gusts. Late tonight will turn mostly cloudy and breezy overnight low 61. Sunny decreasing wind and a beautiful Thursday, high 73. Thunderstorms are back on the forecast on Friday. That's your forecast from Storm Team 12. I'm meteorologist Jake Dunn. And currently in Wichita, we have a breeze out of the north-northeast. It is partly sunny and 51 degrees here on this Wednesday morning at Wichita's severe weather station. 987 and 1330, KNSS. On the last day of the regular session, the Kansas legislature passed House Bill 2745, a mill rate limit that allows voters to sign a protest position. or petition rather, in order to stop local governmental entities from increasing property taxes beyond the rate of inflation. With us now to explain the bill is Dave Traubert from the Kansas Policy Institute. Dave, thank you for joining us. A pleasure to have you on the show this morning.

Good to be here, John. Thanks for having me. So, Dave, in a recent survey, 82% of voters said they want a mill rate limit. I think that's not a partisan issue. That's Democrats, Independence, Republicans. But the bill barely passed. They made it through both chambers with all Democrats, except two senators voting against it. And many Republicans, even mine, voted against it in both chambers, by the way, voting no. If 81% of voters want a limit on property taxes, why did all but two Democrats and so many Republicans vote no? Well, it's pretty simple, John. Everybody comes into the session saying they support property tax relief, but a lot of them really are there to protect local government. And that's what that was the reasons given for not doing this. Protecting local government is the top priority for a lot of Republicans and most Democrats. I mean, some of them came right out and said. Well, this isn't fair to local government. There, you know, and another one was, well, the public doesn't really understand what needs to be done. We have to trust our local staff. Now, it's not to say that the local staff doesn't have good thoughts, but. their decisions are taxing people out of their homes, forcing small businesses to close. And so that's why the public, 82% of the public says we want to have a say. Unfortunately, a lot of their elected representatives in both parties don't agree with that. I mean, I just don't get this. First off, I'm sorry, but. Not fair to cities, counties, and school districts. I really would rather they focus on being what's fair to the taxpayer and to heck with what's fair to government. But that seems cattywampus to me. And I think taxpayers need a way to stop excessive and unaffordable tax increases. And if you look at some of the numbers, since 1997, property taxes for education have increased by 224%. which is more than double the combined rates of inflation and population growth. Property taxes for other local governmental entities jumped by 272%. How is that? And they're talking about what's fair to government? Right. It is... And this is what happens when, and it's not just Sedgwick County, it's all over the state and most of the country, where you have staff preparing the budget without any direction from the elected body. A good direction would be like, bring us a budget that doesn't raise taxes, but doesn't cut services unless you say we should do it.

Put, give them guidelines, give them a lot of latitude, but have them come back with a budget that meets both the certain necessary services and the taxpayer's ability to pay. Local elected officials don't do that. They just let staff bring them whatever they want, and they're not bad people. They just, this is what we would like to do. And it's, you know, other people's money is the easiest money to spend. So it's. This is what we want to do. And largely speaking, local officials just rubber-stant those budgets. I mean, we ran the story this morning here in Wichita. The Wichita School administrators are already proposing another multi-million dollar property tax bond initiative. USDA 259 schools are down 3,000 students. They're closing schools, and yet they're already geared up for another November tax increase. Dave, I guess there's a simple solution here, I would assume, passing an assessment limit that legislators want. Is there a way to do that? Is there some way to do this that we can do this? Is there a simple solution here? Well, this solution is very simple. You know, you can raise taxes by the rate of inflation, and if you want to go by that, you run the risk of voters shooting it down. Now, you can make your case, and that's the point if they go out and make their case and say, here's why we need 4% instead of 2.5 for inflation. Make your case, be honest, and it'll probably pass. But this is just, it's trying to bring people back together. It's a common sense solution, just like the assessment limit that we can't get through. In that case, 75% of Kansans want an assessment limit. They want it with a low fixed rate, like your appraised value can't go up more than 3% a year. And again, we run into that's not fair to government. It's, you know, same old excuses. It's unfortunate that we have so many people elected by the public. They weren't elected by cities and counties. They were elected by voters, but a lot of them don't go there and represent voters. Well, Dave, we appreciate you joining us this morning. And if folks are interested, you've got a couple of articles on this on your website, which is sentinelkosmo.org. Folks can go there and they can read these articles. Again, thank you for joining us this morning. That's Dave Traubert with the Kansas Policy Institute. It's fascinating discussion. Hopefully, we'll see what the governor does. She's got the bill on her desk, and I can only imagine what she'll do with it. It is 742 here with Woodward and Witt on this Wednesday morning. April 1st, we have a local business update coming from the Wichita Business Journal. We'll hear about a local developer.

and some seizures going on in taxes. All right. That'll be a big story coming up from editor Perk Seminoff from the Wichitaub Business Journal. Next on KNSS. It's 746 with Ted Woodward and John Whitmire on 987 and 1330KNS. Coming up our Wichita Business Journal update with Kirk Seminoff. Now it's time for three big things. Three. Nancy Grace slams Sheriff's handling of the Guthrie case. Two. Iran and Houthi's launch. Fresh attacks, as Trump says, war could be over in a matter of weeks. Park City Police searching for possible at-risk teen missing for 10 days. That's three big things with Woodward and Whiff on KNS. Let's take a look at traffic with Chad Chambers. Traffic right now in Wichita looking okay. We do have a crash now, though. So you're going to want to watch out for this. This could be slowing things down. It's in an area where it's definitely slowing things down. Northbound I-135, and it's right around hydraulic up by the North Junction in that area. So watch out for that. We've got traffic. slowing down already in the area due to that road construction. But yeah, that's northbound I-135, right up there. by K-96 in the North Junction. Traffic Update from 987 and 1330 KNSSS in the Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center. I'm Chad Chambers. Mostly cloudy today with a chance of afternoon storms at a high of 72 degrees this evening. Some storms, some severe, with a low of 61 degrees. Tomorrow, sunny, the high of 73 degrees. Right now, in Wichita, it's clear at 52 degrees. At Wichita's Severe Weather Station, 98 and 1330, KNSS. It is 748 here with Woodward and Steve Witkoff on ANSS. And this one came across. A little medical news for you. Scientists have used pig semen to develop eye drops that can stop tumor growth in the retina. Yeah, that's what I want to serve someone's vision. That's what I want to drop in my eyes. This is according to a study that has worked in mice. This is being published in science advances. The retina is kind of hard to deal with with drugs because it is a protective barrier. So it doesn't want to let stuff in.

It's hoped that these drops could be developed to treat children with retinoblastoma, a cancer of the retina. Condition is typically treated with injections of drugs into the eye or chemotherapy or laser therapy, all of which can damage the non-cancerous parts of the eye. So what they got going on now might work. It's being done in China. They want to develop a method that can penetrate the barrier around the retina and deliver the drugs without causing any unnecessary damage. So the eyedrops contain tiny particles released by almost every type of cell engineered to carry molecules to kill the cancer cells. Mice treated with the eyedrops did show signs that the tumors stopped growing. Also had comparable eyesight to control animals without tumors. They came up with something that might work. Yeah. It involves pig semen, but if it can stop the cancer and help out some people, all the better. Okay. It is 750 here with Woodward and Witt, and boy, the economy. Let's see what is going on with that yesterday. Stocks on fire on hopes that the Iranian war could soon end. Major averages ending higher by two and even three percent. closing averages. The Dow up 1,125 points. This is amazing. That's 2.49 percent, almost 2.5 percent. The S&P up 184, up 2.9 percent. The NASDAQ killing it, up 3.8 percent. You never hear these numbers, folks. These are big indeed. Gains higher across the board led by big tech, which registered impressive gains. Shares of NVIDIA, Google, META, up 5 and 6 percent. Think about that. The source of the A report that Trump had told AIDS he was willing to end hostilities in the Middle East, even if the Strait of Hormuz remained closed. So that's what's going on there. And... The stock, you should have sold you, you should have bought Marvell Technology stock. You know, you keep pointing out all these things. You've got to stop doing it after the fact. You need to give me a heads up beforehand. Marvell Technology, they do semiconductors, based out in California. Right. Stock was up 8% yesterday. So. You should have bought that Marvel stock. I know. I know. Again, too little too late. Let's find out what's going on locally. We've got some business news coming our way, and we'll check in here with editor Kirk Semenoff from the Wichita Business Journal. Business Journal update brought to you by Mr. Electric, lighting up the path to your success. Good morning, Kirk Semenoff. Good morning, Ted Woodward. Three properties tied to Wichita developer, Brant Dunford, were seized by the state Tuesday, over thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes. Seizure notices were posted at Laalee, Mediterranean restaurant in Derby, and at both locations of the Coop Coffee Shop in Derby and Wichita. Port records show Dumford and several of his companies are facing multiple state tax warrants, along with the ongoing foreclosure lawsuit and other creditor claims.

Dunford has said he's working to resolve the debts and reopen some of the businesses. And Wichita's city government is moving ahead with plans to renovate Century 2's Expo Hall meeting rooms and the promenade that connects to the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The city is seeking design proposals for the project, which is budgeted at 3.5 million and will be paid for with hotel guest tax revenue. City officials say the upgrades are meant to modernize the space. improve how people move through it and align with long-term plans for the complex. The work is expected to coordinate closely with major renovations the Hyatt is planning since the two buildings are connected. Local breaking business news every day on KNSS and at Wichita Business Journal.com. For the Wichita Business Journal, I'm Kirk Semenoff. How do you improve how people move through it, the promenade? Just walk from one to the other. How do you improve on that? Maybe airport walkways are in their future. Maybe people movers. That won't break down anytime soon. All right. We'll see how that all works. Kirk yesterday was the annual school kids baseball game at Shocker Baseball. So we had thousands of school kids and the din that accompanies that is just constant from the time you get there. You've been to those school kids days before. Anytime the ball makes contact with the bat, everybody screams. It could be a pop-up. And then it's a pop-out to the second basement. It could be a bunt. It could be anything. But the kids scream when the ball makes contact with the ball, the bat and the ball. And then in about the sixth inning, the kids all leave. And then by the seventh inning, it's like a church out there. It's as quiet as you can imagine. It's the most bizarre day of the entire baseball season. I did not enjoy covering Wrangler's games with you in the 90s when we'd sit up there and couldn't hear each other even when it sounds like yesterday they missed all the fun too. Yeah, there's stuff that happened after they left. Late innings, it turns out to be. Grand Slam home run. The kids are all back in school already. Kids are gone. They missed all the good parts. They missed all the action. Well, we were talking to yesterday about, I guess, the University of Mississippi was doing their school kids day too.

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