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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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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. -
The HPPR Radio Readers Book Club 2026 Spring Read: 100 Years on the Mother Road came to a close with a panel discussion held on Historic Route 66 in Amarillo at ChapterHouse Books on Saturday, May 2, 2026. -
In this week's episode, the second episode in our summer series, we will be continuing our celebration of music of 19th-century Europe! This week's show features overtures and chamber music by four composers from four different parts of Europe.
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