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The cattle feedlots on the western side of Kansas produce a significant amount of the beef in your grocery store. But a small town in the region is now opposing a feedlot because of health and environmental concerns.
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More than 60 anti-Trump protests are planned in major cities across the state this weekend, including Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. -
Hundreds of protesters are expected at rallies in the Kansas City region, including several in Johnson County, as part of a nationwide day of action against the Trump administration's policies. -
Oklahoma tribal leaders celebrated a report revealing the tribes directly contributed $12.7 billion to the state's economy in 2023. -
“Everything’s bigger in Texas, absolutely. We really wanna overstate the obvious.” -
Legal challenges were filed Wednesday aimed at a recent law that puts more restrictions on the process voters use to get issues on the ballot.
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You can look forward to hearing music performed by the musicians of Chamber Music Amarillo on this week’s episode – the third in our June chamber music series! -
The big draw in any settlement in No Man's Land was alcohol and moonshine. Virtually any place with more than two houses had a saloon or a general store where ranchers could spend their paychecks on booze. It's not hard to see why spirits became so popular; aside from working the fields or pasture lands, there was very little to do but drink, and get into fights. -
Jim Thomas, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Dipper_polaris_cass.pngHi, I’m Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas, here for Poets on the Plains. Today I’m delighted to share with you a poem by a Kansas poet I love, Janice Northerns.
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The London-bound plane struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of the northwestern city of Ahmedabad minutes after takeoff Thursday, killing 241 on board and at least 29 on the ground.
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