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Kansas has a fast-growing dairy industry, but milking cows isn’t easy and it’s hard to find workers. Industry groups say immigrants are critical and those workers say they’re needed to feed Kansas families.
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The agency that regulates the state's oil and gas industry voted to adopt the new policy before sharing it with the public. It added more "listening sessions" when the public can speak to agency staff. -
Across the state, fights are erupting in communities where residents’ concerns about water and electricity usage, noise and air pollution, and the threat of artificial intelligence are met with promises of construction jobs and lucrative property tax collections. -
A federal judge blocked the Texas Dream Act in June after it was challenged by the Trump administration and state officials declined to defend it. -
Case challenging Colorado’s largest utility’s condemnation powers could resolve conflict over 550 feet of right of way on an Eastern Plains farm -
Plan lifts tariff on foreign beef to mollify consumers ahead of November elections.
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Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsHello listeners, I’m Alysse Kathleen McCanna, here for Poets on the Plains. Today I’m grateful to share a poem with you by incredible human, Andrea Gibson. Gibson was a poet, performer, activist, and Colorado’s ninth poet laureate. They were the author of seven poetry collections, and seven albums of spoken word and performance poetry. -
cédric sorel, public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHi! Marjory Hall here from Goodwell, Oklahoma, back with another BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Fall, 2026 season. One of my favorite elements of participating in a book club is the enjoyment of reading a great book that I would never have chosen on my own. -
Rex Buchanan/Kansas Public RadioLuther Taylor was a talented baseball player who made it to the Major Leagues and the World Series in the early 1900s. This Kansas native was also deaf. Commentator Rex Buchanan has his story. -
Original stone at the Dighton High School StadiumIn 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration, throwing a lifeline of meaningful work and wages to a nation in the grip of the Great Depression. The federal program had far-reaching effects for the nation's poor and downtrodden, at one point employing more than three million people across the country.
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