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The three are running to replace Secretary of State Scott Schwab, who pursued the GOP nomination for governor rather than seek a third term. -
The typically low-key process has come under scrutiny since Jan. 6 rioters sought to halt certification of the 2020 presidential election. -
Kansans demand property tax reform, but Legislature struggles to make a deal. -
The measure was funded by at least $1.5 million from the conservative Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Alliance -
A Travis County judge says a telecommunications company and a Wyoming LLC must reveal who sent unauthorized texts and mailers advertising material from an LGBTQ advocacy organization.
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Kansas Historical Society, Kansas MemoryI am Martin Fulmer from Goodwell, OK, here for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club’s 2026 Fall Read. Growing up in the Carolinas, I never thought of blizzards as part of my weather vocabulary. Hurricanes, yes. But blizzards belonged somewhere else. Melanie Benjamin’s The Children’s Blizzard reminded me that weather has a way of making such distinctions meaningless. -
H.C. White Company, 1903. No known restrictions. Library of Congress Prints & Photography DivisionWelcome to Poets on the Plains, I’m Brad Aaron Modlin. This poem is by Rayni K. Wekluk. Let’s start with the title: “The Railroad Brought Us Here.” Us as collective—the inhabitants who arrived to The Great Plains in train cars. -
Charles Marion Russell, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsFor High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we're talking about the book The Children's Blizzard, by David Laskin. This is about the 1888 blizzard. It affected three states, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota. -
aterry/HMdb.org PhotoID=912790/https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=289663When the Jeffersonian explorer Zebulon Pike undertook his Southwest Expedition in 1806, he went in search of the headwaters of the Arkansas River and the Red River. His trek brought him from the area of St. Louis through the Kansas plains, and into Southeastern Colorado. He camped on Willow Creek, near present day Lamar, at a place that has since been designated a community park.
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