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How to navigate choosing a new Medicare plan if yours suddenly is not available anymore. -
Most of the money is targeted at Amendment 87, which would impose a graduated income tax rate on businesses and individuals, increasing the tax burden on those earning more than about $500,000 in order to generate an estimated $2 billion in its first year -
Republicans trail behind Democrats in voter enthusiasm, a University of Texas/Texas Politics Project University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll shows. -
Democrat Adam Hamilton is vying to unseat Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall — and end nearly a century of Republican control of the state’s U.S. Senate offices. -
Pew Research Center released new data showing a majority of Americans feel that life has become unaffordable, and are becoming pessimistic about their ability to save and plan for the future.
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ponafotkas from Kiev, Ukraine, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsHi, I’m Tarfia Faizullah, here again for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’m excited to share a poem with you by Emmy Perez, a poet I fiercely admire and look up to. Emmy Pérez’s Paper america: New and Selected Poems was published in March 2026 (TCU Press, Texas Poet Laureate Series). -
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHello, Radio Readers! This is Marit Ehmke from western Lane County with a Radio Readers BookByte for High Plains Public Radio’s Fall Read on Wind and Weather. When I think about The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, I think first about Kansas weather. -
Temple Houston was the first child born in the Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas. His father was the legendary Sam Houston. From him, Temple inherited flamboyance — and a life full of opportunity. But he also inherited a strong will, and a determination to make his own name, out from under his father's shadow. -
Kansas Memory; DaRT.ID:210303I'm Glenda Shepard from Yucca Corners Farm in rural Stanton County KS. This is my third Radio Readers BookByte for And Hell Followed With It Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado by Bonar Menninger. In this BookByte I'm going to look at Chapters Two, Four and 19.
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Congress and a federal agency are threatening to weaken the country's historic preservation law, fueling a backlash that critics say is as fiery as the one that led to the law's creation 60 years ago.
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