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Intro/Outro: “Ya Got Trouble,” by Robert Preston (Original Cast Recording of “The Music Man”)

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Discussed:

“All-American City: Bluster, Boom and Bust in Wichita,” by Chase M. Billingham

“The Midwest Revival: A Well-Kept Secret,” Alan Arenhold, in Governing, April 21, 2026

Unfrozen 118, “Migrant Midwest”

Unfrozen 108, “NORTH”

The Chisholm Trail

Cessna

Beechcraft

Stearman Aircraft

The Coleman Company

White Castle

Pizza Hut

Spirit AeroSystems

Wichita’s non-annexation agreement with the Aerospace Industrial District, renewed 2021

Overview | Aerospace | Industry... | Greater Wichita Partnership

Rise of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida

The Cheesecake Factory arrives in Wichita – stop the presses

Jack De Boer 

Gilbert and Mosley chemical bloom,1986

“The Minnesota Guys” – David G. Lundberg and Michael Elzufon
- Arrest for fraud

“Harvard-educated” James Chung: 2015 Focus Forward

Marshall Murdock and the Wichita Eagle

“The City as a Growth Machine: Towards a Political Economy of Place,” (1976) by Harvey Molotch

“Urban Fortunes,” (1987), Harvey Molotch and John Logan 

Markus Moos, University of Waterloo: “Youthification”

Tulsa Remote Program

Choose Topeka Program

Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari and Eric Kleinenberg

Century II (1970), by John M. Hickman

Wichita Public Library (1967), by Schaefer, Schirmer & Eflin

Naftzger Park (2019 edition, Garver)

Naftzger Park (1979 edition)