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Curricula at Kansas universities have been exempt from state and federal efforts to stifle DEI principles, but some Republican legislators are eager to change that. -
Years of budget reductions have left the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality struggling to investigate complaints, with over 1,000 cases stuck in backlog. -
GOP committee chairs say quest is to identify cost savings, root out waste -
By the time it reaches Holly, nearly to Kansas, the river is left with salts and pollutants picked up along the way -
Leaders of a Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation-owned business were fired after they accepted a $30 million federal contract to assist with designing large-scale immigration detention centers. Now, Tribal Council chair Joseph Rupnick says the tribe is no longer involved in the project.
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This week, Luke takes himself an early Christmas present of a whitetail buck, using an air rifle with a digital scope. -
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Langenscheidt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHi, This is Janice Northerns, coming to you from Wichita, Kansas, for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’ll be sharing a poem by a writer whose work I’ve long admired, Steve Brisendine. Steve lives in Mission, Kansas, but he grew up in Liberal, where I spent a quarter of a century. We both worked for the local newspaper there, though not at the same time.. -
Photographer: Carol M. HighsmithIn 1928 the commissioners of Kit Carson County, on Colorado’s Central Plains, made a forward-thinking decision that at the time was met with disapproval and dismay by many of their constituents. They purchased a carousel that had operated for many years at Elitch Gardens Amusement Park in Denver.
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Dueling Safdie brother movie projects, Love Island USA chaos, a feces-filled And Just Like That … finale: looking back on an eclectic year for pop culture.
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