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Kelly spoke at a United Food and Commercial Workers member meeting Monday in Dodge City, highlighting the importance of immigrants in Kansas. -
From groceries to childcare, Texans are spending more to live here. Here’s how much costs have risen, why it’s happening and what candidates are proposing to fix it. -
Incumbent U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican, and Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton are vying to represent Kansas in the U.S. Senate on the Nov. 3 ballot. -
In a 5-4 decision, the Oklahoma Supreme Court declared an initiative petition that would have phased out certain property taxes is unconstitutional. -
Lawyers for Jamaal Howard are asking Gov. Greg Abbott for a 30-day reprieve after two lethal injections failed to kill Christa Pike, leaving her hospitalized.
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Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia CommonsHello, my name is Cheryl Berzanskis and I live in Amarillo. I'm a southern girl transplanted to the plains where I learned to love the big sky, the mighty wind, and dramatic weather in all its forms. -
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.
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