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Thanks to the support of many of you, the September leg of HPPR’s Up to Us campaign to raise the funds lost by the federal defunding of public media was an unprecedented success.
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Local leaders see data centers, which help power the world's shift to artificial intelligence, as a way to keep their towns open. Residents worry their way of life — and water — is at stake. -
Oklahoma's new State Superintendent of Public Instruction is ending his predecessor's plan to distribute Bibles to every classroom. -
Private schools looking to educate participating students may also have a chance to apply to the program before the end of the year. -
More than a million low-income mothers and children in the Midwest and Great Plains rely on a national food assistance program. The Trump administration says it will help provide temporary funding to keep the program afloat, but food advocates say it's a short-term fix. -
The conversation highlighted how the changes will impact Oklahoma's health care landscape, including hospital finances and patient access.
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Rah, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons/Hi, I’m Matt Mason, I was the State Poet of Nebraska between 2019 and the end of 2024, and I am here for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’m reading and talking about Nebraska poet Clif Mason’s poem “Texts from the Dead.” -
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Engelde, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia CommonsHi, everyone. This is Mildred Rugger from Canyon, Texas, for the 2025 Fall Read of HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. If you heard my first book byte on Late Migrations: A Natural History of Loss and Love by Margaret Renkl, you may not be surprised to find that the ideas I will examine in this second book byte involve the natural world and the human world. -
This week Classical Music Amarillo is revisiting some of the many highlights from Chamber Music Amarillo’s 2024-2025 season.
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