KANSAS  LINKS

Government Officials

• Governor Kathleen Sebelius
• The Kansas Legislature - Find out what's happening in the Kansas House and Senate.
• Kansas Political District Data - from the University of Kansas' Policy Research Institute.

Government Departments & Agencies

• MyKansas - State of Kansas' web site
• Kansas Department on Aging
• Kansas Department of Agriculture

  Kansas Agritourism

• Kansas Arts Commission
• Kansas Attorney General
• Kansas Board of Regents
• Kansas Division of the Budget
• Kansas Department of Commerce (KDOC)
• Kansas Department of Education
  
• Kansas Forest Service
• Kansas Department of Health and Environment
• Kansas Department of Human Resources (Department of Labor)
• Kansas Insurance Department
• Kansas Bureau of Investigation
• KPERS - Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
• Kansas Department of Revenue
      - Web-Tags (The Kansas Motor Vehicle Online Renewal System)
• The Kansas State Library
  • Blue Skyways
  • Kansas Center for the Book
• Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT)
  • Mileage Between Kansas Cities
• Kansas Travel & Tourism (from KDOC)
  • Kansas Agritourism
• Kansas Turnpike Authority
• Kansas Commission on Veterans' Affairs
• Kansas Vital Statistics
• Kansas Wheat Commission
• Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks

Kansas Magazines

• Kansas Getaway Guide - Free travel magazine published annually by Kansas Travel and Tourism--a wonderful resource for traveling in Kansas
• Kansas Heritage - Quarterly publication of general-audience articles from the Kansas State Historical Society
• Kansas History - Journal of the Central Plains; quarterly publication of scholarly articles from the Kansas State Historical Society
• Kansas Kaleidoscope - "A fun magazine for kids"
• KANSAS! magazine - Lovely quarterly publication from the Kansas Department of Commerce and Housing
• Kansas Wildlife - Beautiful bi-monthly publication from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks

Other Kansas Guides

• Countryman's Kansas   Events & Attractions
• GovEngine's Kansas.  Well organized portal to federal, state, & local government.
• Kansas Community Networks
• Kansas Heritage Group
• Kansas Sampler Foundation - preserving and sustaining rural Kansas culture, and
  Kansas Explorers Club - find ways to "see Kansas with new eyes"
• Kansas Sites by Nancy Sween - a lot of great information about Kansas.
• Prairie Postscripts: Car-Tripping Kansas by Doug Tombaugh - beautiful photos.
• Sunflower Journeys Washburn Public TV series about Kansas
• Wings Over Kansas - Kansas' aeronautics and astronautics, then and now.

Other Kansas Sites of Special Interest

• Country Boys Carriage & Prairie Adventures - Pioneer weekends, day trips: ride in a covered wagon; see the Kansas Flinthills.
• Creek Water Wool Works - In Dexter: classes about, and unique items for, weaving, spinning, and quilting.
• Kansas Flint Hills - "The Flint Hills are an incredible, wonderful, almost magical place. There's no other place like it".
• Kansas West - Travel the Black Dog Trail in Cowley County, in a wagon or on horseback, to a campfire cookout.
• Vonada Stone Company - close to Sylvan Grove: has been making products out of Post Rock limestone since 1986

Photos and Travel Diaries

• Backroads Touring Kansas - "We ride dual sport motorcycles and explore the wonderful backroads of this state."
• Flyover People - The Writings of Cheryl Unruh - photographs and features from around Kansas
• Kansas Geological Survey Photo Library - numerous beautiful photos of Kansas; select by county, physiographic region, highway, or subject area.
• Heartland Photos--photo essays by Carol Yoho.
• Historical images - from the special collections at WSU's Ablah Library.
• Kansas Photo Tours - photos by the Flatlander, Harland J Schuster.
• Larry Hornbaker's Kansas - Kansas Exploring and Dare to do Dirt galleries.
• Sunflower Pixels - photos by Don Palmer
• Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses--rich and beautiful resource for plant-lovers, from Mike Haddock, Agriculture Librarian and Science Libraries Web Coordinator at KSU.

Lists & Tables of Information

• The US Census Bureau's facts about Kansas
• Kansas Newspapers On-line - from American Journalism Review
• Web Based Resources and Kansas Web Sites -- from Lewis Armstrong, William Allen White Library, Emporia State University
• Wineries of Kansas

June 19, 2008 / John & Susan Howell / Wichita, Kansas / howell@kotn.org