Mike Kennedy, Forever Voice Of The Shockers

by Kevin Burton     Tomorrow Mike Kennedy will call his final regular-season game after 46 years as the voice of Wichita State basketball.    This is one of those blog ideas that showed up on the spreadsheet long ago. But it keeps moving down the page. I’m having trouble delivering it.    I don’t want …

More Words (And A Suffix) From Yiddish

by Kevin Burton     Along with more words English has gotten from Yiddish, today we include one suffix.    A suffix is a letter of group of letters added to the end of a word. It can change the word’s grammatical function or meaning.    The best example of a suffix from my formative years …

Our Democracy Could Use Another Truman

by Kevin Burton    Not sure what I expected in advance from the Harry S. Truman Museum in Independence, Missouri, but I ended up in tears.    Truman was the Vice President thrust into the presidency just 82 days into his term, following the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945.  By then the tide …

Raised On Radio: National Disc Jockey Day

by Kevin Burton    The other day I was researching music and stumbled upon the Raised On Radio podcast. I thought, yeah, wish I had thought of that.    That’s me. I was raised on radio.    When I got back online to find it again, I found something entirely different called Raised On The …