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Seg. 1: ACLU Kansas Priorities | Seg. 2: Offensive Chiefs Tradition

Segment 1: The group is pushing against any new abortion amendment and for probation reform

As a new year kicks off and state lawmakers head back to Topeka for the 2020 session, the country's most visible civil rights organization has laid out a plan to counter conservative lawmakers' push to amend the state constitution over abortion. They're also armed with new research that suggests the current probation process only serves to put more people in jail.


Segment 2, beginning at 23:02: What's wrong with the tomahawk chop?

The team may no longer play the music to go along with the chant, but thousands of fans still see no problem with taking part in the so-called tomahawk chop, a tradition that many Native Americans find  racist.

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Steve Kraske is an associate teaching professor of journalism at UMKC, a political columnist for The Kansas City Star and has hosted "Up to Date" since 2002. He worked as the full-time political correspondent for The Star from 1994-2013 covering national, state and local campaigns. He also has covered the statehouses in Topeka and Jefferson City.
Danette (Danie) Alexander first came to KCUR in 2007 as an intern for Up to Date after completing her B.A. in Communications at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. After her KCUR internship was completed, Danie continued to spend her mornings assisting senior producer Stephen Steigman as a volunteer with the show. Her radio experience also includes stints with public radio's New Letters on the Air as a broadcast engineer and on local public radio as host of a weekly overnight call-in show.
Luke X. Martin is an assistant producer for KCUR's Up To Date.