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The day after Ryan Walters officially resigned as Oklahoma's Superintendent of Public Instruction, another state official is calling for a post-mortem on his spending at the State Department of Education. -
Marijuana remains completely illegal in Kansas. On Wednesday, KBI and local law enforcement raided smoke and vape shops in Concordia, McPherson, Pratt, Salina, Topeka and Wichita accused of illegal retail drug sales. -
The saga of the Texas mid-decade redistricting of congressional districts is one of the biggest political stories of the year. Here's a timeline of the major milestones. -
The medical condition can cause symptoms that confuse first-responders and others, leading to arrests and possible violence during specific types of seizures. -
Small sellers say the new tax on fees cuts into already thin margins while the comptroller argues state law requires online marketplaces be taxed like any other data processor.
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D Sharon Pruitt, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons/Hi, I’m Wayne Miller. I’m a poet who lives in Denver, Colorado, and I’m here for Poets on the Plains. Today I’m going to read a poem by the poet Emily Pérez. Pérez grew up in Weslaco, Texas, just a few miles north of the US-Mexico border. She studied at Stanford and the University of Houston before settling in Denver, where she works as a high school teacher and grade-level dean and lives with her husband and their two boys. -
Hello, High Plains. My name is Andrea Elise, coming to you from Amarillo, Texas, to say a few words about the 2023 memoir by Diane Foley (along with collaborator Colum McCann) called American Mother. -
Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHi from Goodwell, Oklahoma! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for our 2025 Fall Read. As I read American Mother by Colum McCann and Diane Foley, I initially did not give any particular thought to Foley’s being a nurse by profession. -
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