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Texas' application for the Rural Health Transformation program requests $200 million every year of the five-year program. The state is proposing the "Rural Texas Strong" project, which includes a range of proposals to improve health care access and quality in rural areas — such as workforce development and utilizing AI. -
Ahead of the start of Starbucks's holiday season, union baristas have voted to authorize a strike against the company. Workers in Oklahoma recently announced they are ready to join the strike. -
Chef Adán Medrano stresses the recipes are native to the region, but not ones he'd label "Tex-Mex." -
The Affordable Care Act marketplace for health insurance opened Saturday. With an enhanced tax credit set to expire at the end of the year, Kansans face dramatically increased premiums. -
The Trump administration has aggressively investigated the president's adversaries for mortgage fraud. But it's unclear whether the federal housing agency will probe allegations against the Texas attorney general.
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This week Classical Music Amarillo is playing music by Sergei Prokofiev and Claude Debussy in anticipation of Chamber Music Amarillo’s upcoming “Painting with Notes” concert! -
This week, "Mr. Whitetail" himself, Larry Weishuhn, joins Luke for a discussion of hunting blinds. -
At the end of the season, it's never a bad idea to spend some time reviewing what worked for you and what didn't, and actually making some notes on which varieties overproduced or disappointed you. You won't necessarily remember in future years, and over time, this practice will give you a fair bit of data points on which to help base your future research. We'll talk more about how to keep track of this information in this week's episode! -
Drenaline, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHi, I’m Janice Northerns, coming to you from Wichita, Kansas, for Poets on the Plains. I am honored to share one of my own poems with you today: Pilgrimage with Grandchildren, which was published in 2023 in KANSAS!, (that’s Kansas with an exclamation mark), our state’s gorgeous travel magazine.
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A federal judge ordered the government to fully fund food aid by Friday. The Trump administration's appeal was denied, so it's asking appealed, saying it's up to Congress to fund SNAP.
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