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21-415: It hosted sporting events, concerts, shows, and consisted of four pavilions, an RV park, and the 9,686-seat Britt Brown Arena , named for Harry Britton (Britt) Brown Jr., of Wichita, the former owner of The Wichita Eagle newspaper. Arena capacity could be configured for up to 12,200 people. Kansas Coliseum was opened in 1977. Two brass plaques (one located on the lower level, by the box office windows and

42-482: A coal field strike in 1920, Allen pushed through the legislature a plan to prohibit strikes and send labor disputes to an industrial court. The court plan attracted nationwide interest; Allen debated American Federation of Labor president Samuel Gompers on the issue at Carnegie Hall in New York City on May 28, 1920. When publisher William Allen White objected to the court, Allen had him arrested. White won

63-402: A pretense that their reporting represents unadulterated neutrality, which is impossible. Instead, the civic journalism movement seeks to treat readers and community members as participants. With a small, but growing following, civic journalism has become as much of an ideology as it is a practice. The Wichita Eagle was at the forefront of this movement. For example, for elections held in 1990,

84-574: Is a daily newspaper published in Wichita, Kansas , United States. Originating in the early 1870s, shortly after the city's founding, it is owned by The McClatchy Company and is the largest newspaper in Wichita and the surrounding area. In the 1970s, merged with its longtime chief rival, the Wichita Beacon, it became The Wichita Eagle and Beacon or The Wichita Eagle-Beacon , until

105-631: Is the only residence designed by Wright in Kansas. Allen was in France with William Allen White inspecting the facilities provided to Kansas soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I when his party nominated him for the office of governor. During the campaign in 1918, Allen never spent any of his own money and learned about his nomination from a Parisian newspaper. He served from 1919 to 1923. Faced with

126-617: The 1923 Pulitzer Prize for his editorial "To an Anxious Friend," published July 27, 1922, opposing the law. After leaving the governorship, Allen was U.S. Special Commissioner for Near East Relief in Armenia , Turkey , Greece , and Southern Russia . In 1928, he was Director of Publicity for the Republican National Committee. In April 1929, he was appointed to the United States Senate to fill

147-751: The Eagle became part of The McClatchy Company when McClatchy bought Knight Ridder. On November 18, 1996, the Eagle launched its first website, Wichita Online , at wichitaeagle.com. On January 22, 2000, it shifted its primary content to the domain kansas.com. In spring 2016, McClatchy Company announced that it would transfer printing of the Eagle from Wichita to its Kansas City Star printing line in Kansas City, Missouri , which already prints other newspapers such as Lawrence Journal-World and Topeka Capital-Journal . The move eliminated 27 full-time and 47 part-time jobs. The building will be sold and

168-513: The Eagle in the morning, the Beacon in the evening, the Eagle and Beacon on Sunday. In 1973, the Murdock family sold the paper to Ridder Publications. Ridder and Knight Newspapers merged in 1974 to form Knight Ridder , which combined the two newspapers into The Wichita Eagle-Beacon in 1980. In 1989, the Beacon name was dropped, and the newspaper became The Wichita Eagle . In 2006,

189-540: The Beacon moniker was dropped in 1989. In 1870, The Vidette was the first newspaper established in Wichita by Fred A. Sowers and W. B. Hutchinson. It operated briefly. On April 12, 1872, The Wichita Eagle was founded and edited by Marshall M. Murdock, and it became a daily paper in May 1884. His son, Victor Murdock , was a reporter for the paper during his teens, the managing editor from 1894 to 1903, an editor from

210-633: The Kansas Coliseum Corporation." It hosted NCAA Men's Basketball tournament first and second-round games in 1981 and 1994. The Wichita State University basketball teams played the 2002–03 season there while the Shockers' on-campus home, Charles Koch Arena , was undergoing major renovations. It was the home of the now-defunct Wichita Wings indoor soccer team, who played in the MISL and NPSL between 1979 and 2001. The Kansas Coliseum

231-725: The Kansas Coliseum was on January 9, 2010, in front of a home crowd of 5,556. The Thunder lost the game 3–1 to the Odessa Jackalopes. Brent Ottmann would be the last Thunder player to score a goal in the building at 2:05 of the 1st period, and Kenny Bernard of Odessa scoring the last goal ever at 19:53 of the 3rd period. The final event to take place inside the Arena was the RV and Boat show on February 20, 2010. On February 22, 2010, The Britt Brown Arena closed its doors following

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252-620: The editing staff will move to a smaller location in downtown Wichita. In fall 2016, Cargill announced that it would move its "Protein Group" headquarters from downtown Wichita into a new $ 60 Million building on the site of the former Eagle building at 825 East Douglas Avenue in Old Town. In January 2017, the paper announced it had signed a deal for office space in the Old Town area of downtown Wichita. It plans to move newsroom and advertising employees to 330 North Mead (from 825 East Douglas) in

273-524: The former practice of simply reporting the facts about a candidate's speech. As a result, voter turnout in the Eagle 's primary circulation area was 43.3 percent, compared with 31 percent for the rest of the state. Henry Justin Allen Henry Justin Allen (September 11, 1868 – January 17, 1950) was an American politician serving as the 21st Governor of Kansas (1919–1923) and U.S. Senator from Kansas (1929–1930). Allen

294-449: The mid-1920s until his death in 1945. In October 1872, The Wichita Daily Beacon was founded by Fred A. Sowers and David Millison. It published daily for two months, then weekly until 1884 when it went back to daily. In 1907, Henry Allen purchased the Beacon and was publisher for many years. The Eagle and Beacon competed for 88 years, then in 1960 the Eagle purchased the Beacon . Both newspapers continued to be published,

315-665: The opening of the Intrust Bank Arena . The arena ceased hosting events, while the neighboring Kansas Pavilions portion of the complex remained open until late 2016. On January 10, 2012, the entire Coliseum complex was sold by Sedgwick County to aviation research developer Johnny Stevens for a sum of $ 1,462,487.12. The Britt Brown Arena was transformed into an aerospace testing facility for the National Institute for Aviation Research of Wichita State University . The Wichita Eagle The Wichita Eagle

336-741: The other up on the main concourse) read: "Dedicated September 1978, for the promotion of agricultural, educational, and cultural benefits, on behalf of the people of the world, by the citizens of Sedgwick County, the board of the county commissioners, the Kansas State Park and Resources Authority , the Economic Development Administration and the Ozark Regional Commission of the United States Department of Commerce and

357-420: The paper polled 500 residents to identify their top concerns for the state. Then, over the course of the elections, reporters for the paper attempted to pin down the candidates on how they felt about these issues, and printed a pull-out section each week with a list of the issues and where the candidates stated they stood. If the candidate refused to take a stand, that was also reported. This is in stark contrast to

378-681: The spring of 2017. The new site is located southeast of the Warren Old Town Theater. Effective October 23, 2023, the paper's daily print edition will be delivered via the U.S. Mail instead of delivery by a local carrier. The paper built its national reputation largely under the editorship of W. Davis "Buzz" Merritt Jr. , one of the earliest and most vocal proponents of civic journalism (also known as public journalism) which believes that journalists and their audiences are not merely spectators in political and social processes, and that journalists should not simply report dry facts as

399-477: The vacancy caused when Charles Curtis resigned to become Vice President . Allen served from April 1, 1929, to November 30, 1930. He ran unsuccessfully for the remainder of Curtis' term, and was narrowly defeated by George McGill . Allen died in 1950 following a cerebral thrombosis in Wichita, Kansas . He is buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Wichita. Allen was posthumously inducted into

420-870: Was born in Warren County, Pennsylvania , to John and Rebecca Elizabeth (Goodwin) Allen. In 1870, his family moved to Kansas, where it settled in Clay County . Before becoming active in politics, Allen acquired ownership of newspapers throughout Kansas, beginning in 1894 with the Manhattan Nationalist in Manhattan, Kansas . He owned the Topeka State Journal with Arthur J. Carruth Jr. and William P. Snyder. Generally forward-looking in his outlook, he hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design his home in Wichita, Kansas . Allen's home

441-813: Was the home venue for the Wichita Stealth , Wichita Aviators , and Wichita Wild indoor/arena football teams between 2001 and 2008. It also was home to the Wichita Thunder ice hockey team that played in the Coliseum from 1992 to 2009. The Wichita Thunder now plays in the INTRUST Bank Arena (which is also owned by Sedgwick County and was Operated by SMG (which merged with AEG Facilities to form ASM Global in 2019, with ASM taking over all SMG arenas including ISA)) in downtown Wichita, Kansas. The last Wichita Thunder hockey game ever played at

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