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Several elected officials and candidates, including prominent Republicans and Trump loyalists, said the Canadian jet-maker is crucial to the state's economy. -
Oklahoma borrowers are navigating a rapidly shifting federal student loan landscape, with 24% of state borrowers falling into default as payment plans change, the SAVE plan is phased out and monthly payments are surging. -
Texas is trying to expand access to preschool by encouraging school districts to partner with private child care centers. But some longtime Dallas providers say the school district that's supposed to be their partner is also becoming their competition. -
As Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s final term wanes, groups against the death penalty are pushing her to commute the death sentences of nine men convicted of capital murder in Kansas, favoring life in prison without the possibility of parole. -
Democrat James Talarico is outraising Republican Ken Paxton, but both candidates have plenty of money to spend.
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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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