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Forbes: Wichita's No. 2 for job prospects

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:55 CST

Unfortunately, Forbes has little to say about Wichita, but you can see a nice picture of us in the slideshow and marvel at the city's scores for income growth and cost of living in the accompanying table. — Nick Jungman

Fast Company: Cover profile of Wichita mechanic Johnathan Goodwin

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:22 CDT

In a cover story with the headline "This Mechanic Can Get You 100 MPG," Fast Company profiles Wichitan Johnathan Goodwin, who modifies heavy cars -- like Hummers and Lincolns -- to get unbelievable gas mileage. Detroit "could do all this stuff if they wanted to," Goodwin tells the FC writer. "The technology has been there forever. They make 90% of the components I use." Fascinating. -- Nick Jungman

New York Times Magazine: GOP losing evangelicals?

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:15 CDT

Wichita figures prominently in this New York Times Magazine piece from Oct. 28. The writer, NYT's David Kirkpatrick, uses Wichita's conservative megachurches as case studies throughout the story for evangelicals' growing dissatisfaction with the Republican Party. -- Nick Jungman