Max McCoy

Max McCoy

@maxmccoy.com

Author, journalist, storyteller. Wrote some books. Won some awards. Columnist for @kansasreflector.com Views are my own.

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Max McCoy
@maxmccoy.com

This is the choice. You can either support the authoritarian psychopath in the White House, who in a campaign speech in Nebraska offered to sacrifice two major U.S. cities to Iran, or you can use your vote and your voice to help elect those who will stand up to him.

theguardian.comTrump suggests he would let Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San DiegoGavin Newsom calls comments ‘deranged and dangerous’ after president tells Nebraska rally: ‘They can take out a city’
Max McCoy
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Great crowd in Lawrence last night for my talk on covering the data center fight. Thanks to Watch Dog DGCO for the invite and The Raven for handling book sales. Appreciate all who attended. I'm glad there's such strong interest in this era-defining topic. Photo: Kim Horner McCoy

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Take a look at this terrific reel of my recent book event at Red Rocks State Historic Site. Thanks, Cheryl Unruh, for the video!

Max McCoy
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I'll be signing copies of "Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River" and giving a short talk from 4 to 6 p.m. today (Tuesday) at the William Allen White historic site, 927 Exchange St., Emporia. Drop by and join the celebration!

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Come help me celebrate the paperback release of my award-winning book "Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River" from 4 to 6 pm Tuesday at the William Allen White historic site at Emporia. Buy a book and I'll buy you a drink (or rather, give you a drink ticket). See you there!

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Morning near Rainbow Bend on the Arkansas River, as described in my book "Elevations." A new paperback edition will be released next week by the @univpressofkansas.bsky.social. Drop by the William Allen White House site in Emporia between 4 and 6 pm Tuesday, Sept. 8, and get a signed copy.

Max McCoy
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"Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River" will be released in paperback by the @univpressofkansas.bsky.social next week. Drop by the William Allen White state historic site in Emporia and help me celebrate, 4-6 pm Tuesday, Sept. 8. Buy a book and I'll buy you a drink!

Max McCoy
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Today I received my author copies of "Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River," in the new trade paper edition from the University Press of Kansas. They look terrific!

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Well, this is unexpected. I've won second place for commentary in the Kansas Association of Broadcasters annual contest for a two-part segment I recorded for High Plains Public Radio. The piece, "Growing Up on Route 66," was inspired by one of my @kansasreflector.com columns. Thanks all around!

hppr.org2026 Spring Read: Growing Up on Route 66On warm nights when my bedroom window was open, I could hear the endless stream of vehicles on Route 66. We lived in a small house at the east edge of Baxter Springs and across the street from my wind...
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National Cemetery No. 1 at Fort Scott. The sandstone boulder is the grave of Kansas poet "Ironquill," who died in 1911. For the story of the first Black troops to gight in the Civil War, who are memorialized here, seem my @kansasreflector.com column today.

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My @kansasreflector.com column today: The erosion of trust in human institutions is now compounded by the harlequin of artificial intelligence, resulting in the kind of society that previously was only described in science fiction.

kansasreflector.comDoes Claude dream of electric gavels? A federal case with Kansas connections sets an AI precedent. • Kansas ReflectorThat Heppner turned to Claude to prepare his legal advice, and that I have a legal connection to the AI agent, is bizarre.