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It was the latest ruling in a court battle between Secretary of State Scott Schwab and Kansas Appleseed, along with Kansans who believe a 2025 statute eliminating a three-day grace period for mail-in votes violates their constitutional rights. -
The last U.S. Senate race in Texas to go without a debate was in 2000. Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, debated his Democratic opponents in each of his last three campaigns. -
Biden-era changes to the Clean Air Act would have tightened regulations for industrial sites, but the Trump administration has given exemptions to hundreds of facilities. People living near the sites are concerned about air quality and their well-being. -
Amid punitively expensive rescue plans for a dwindling Colorado aquifer, the culture and economy of potato farming hopes to survive -
A federal appeals court will consider whether restrictions on protests at Texas’ public universities and colleges violate constitutional rights.
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Paul Klee, 1919. Public Domain via WikiArtHi, I’m Quraysh Ali Lansana, a poet, author and professor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, here for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’m delighted to explore a poem by one of my close friends and favorite Oklahoma poets, Claire Maracle. -
MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsFor High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas, and today we are talking about the book The Wizard of Oz. In most cases, the movie never overshadows a book, but in this case, the movie definitely overshadowed the book. -
In 1803 the United States acquired most of the Great Plains with the Louisiana Purchase. For more than 60 years the region, with its windswept seas of grass and wildflowers, represented America’s last frontier. However, the Homestead Act of 1862 brought, during the next 30 years, nearly six million settlers who tried to replace grass with agricultural crops. -
I'm Glenda Shepard from Yucca Corners farm in rural Stanton County KS. I belong to a book club. We meet the last Wednesday of the month at whatever location works best for our members. Part of our discussion always includes "What was your favorite part of the book?"
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