High Plains regional news
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Tuition for full-time, resident students has gone up by an average of 26.6% at Kansas state universities in the past 10 years. -
Texas GOP delegates took a formal stance against convicted felons in party leadership at their convention last week in Houston. -
On June 5, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to classify an abortion pill as a contaminant. -
If it passed, State Question 832 would have brought Oklahoma's minimum wage to $15 by 2029. The last time the national number increased was in 2009. -
Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.
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The topic is catfish this week…and the fishing for blue catfish was pretty great! Check out this week’s episode for more details on where we’re having luck lately! -
Hello, HPPR listeners, my name is Andrea Elise and I live in Amarillo, TX. Today, we will discuss a non-fiction volume called The Tree Collectors by Amy Stewart. Before we begin, let’s look at some of Joyce Kilmer’s famous poem, “Trees.” -
Niranjan Sitapure, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsHi. I’m Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, a poet born in Northwest Texas Hospital, here for Poets on the Plains. I’ve got some Panhandle Teaweed on the table today and I’m offering a poem titled “spectators” written by Panhandle poet, Mónica Teresa Ortiz. -
For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we're talking about the book Heaven's Gate by Benjamin E. Zeller. This book is about the religious cult that committed mass suicide as they were trying to get a ride on the Hale-Bopp Comet back in 1997.
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