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The state is investing in a declining ecosystem to benefit landowners and wildlife. -
Some government officials said they understand the community's anger, but warn that many of these contracts fall outside their jurisdiction. -
The Republican senator from Kansas was known for her bipartisan work in both foreign relations and domestic policy. -
New federal data shows 92.4% of U.S. kindergarteners received the required measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine during the last school year. That's below the 95% vaccination level generally considered necessary to help prevent outbreaks. -
Two major salt companies are based in Kansas — Morton Salt and Compass Minerals — and have mines in Canada.
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Rex Buchanan/Kansas Public RadioLuther Taylor was a talented baseball player who made it to the Major Leagues and the World Series in the early 1900s. This Kansas native was also deaf. Commentator Rex Buchanan has his story. -
Original stone at the Dighton High School StadiumIn 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration, throwing a lifeline of meaningful work and wages to a nation in the grip of the Great Depression. The federal program had far-reaching effects for the nation's poor and downtrodden, at one point employing more than three million people across the country. -
Matthew T Rader, https://matthewtrader.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHello Radio Readers! This is Marit Ehmke coming to you from west-central Kansas in Lane County. As I was on the tractor the other day, racing the coming rain to knock down very healthy weeds, it occurred to me that we’re such at the mercy of what the wind brings our way. -
This week we revisit recent performances by the many talented students of the West Texas A&M University School of Music!
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The artist was a star performer in country music, and went on to become one of the genre's most recognizable and universally adored ambassadors to broader popular culture.
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