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The president used his winding, nearly two-hour keynote address to try to boost Republicans around the country, telling his supporters to "pretend that I'm on the ballot" this fall. -
A Fire and Police Pension Association task force meets this week to begin studying how to pay for cost of living raises -
Honduran man unlawfully in U.S. faces manslaughter charge in southwest Kansas -
As the Republican National Committee gathers in Dallas, Republican donors and political experts explain why Texas raises so much money. -
More than 700 patients were sued by a doctor in western Kansas for medical debt. The doctor is now Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, who for decades was a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist.
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ggallice (Geoff Gallice), CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsHi, I’m Tarfia Faizullah, here for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’m excited to share a poem with you by Chloe Honum, a poet whose poems I’m very fond of. Chloe Honum is the author of two poetry collections, The Lantern Room and The Tulip-Flame, and a chapbook, Then Winter, all beautifully rendered, as her poems are. -
Mwanner at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsThank you for joining us at the High Plains Public Radio Station. My name is Jessica Sadler. I can usually be found in a secondary science classroom, but I am currently a Teacher Professional Development Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. I am here with the other book leaders to discuss Florida by Lauren Groff. -
A 30-mile square of cultivated flatland and rolling prairie, Greeley County holds the chronological distinction of being the last county formed in the state of Kansas. Number one hundred and five, The county takes its name from Horace Greeley, the famous nineteenth-century editor of The New York Tribune and a passionate, relentless booster of westward settlement. -
FleurDeOdile, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsI’m Martin Fulmer from Goodwell, OK, here for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club’s 2026 Fall Read. One of the things that makes Lauren Groff’s Florida so compelling is the way weather refuses to stay in the background. Storms do more than change the sky. They interrupt plans, expose vulnerabilities, and make people see one another differently.
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An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did not.
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