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Most of the money is targeted at Amendment 87, which would impose a graduated income tax rate on businesses and individuals, increasing the tax burden on those earning more than about $500,000 in order to generate an estimated $2 billion in its first year -
Republicans trail behind Democrats in voter enthusiasm, a University of Texas/Texas Politics Project University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll shows. -
Democrat Adam Hamilton is vying to unseat Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall — and end nearly a century of Republican control of the state’s U.S. Senate offices. -
Pew Research Center released new data showing a majority of Americans feel that life has become unaffordable, and are becoming pessimistic about their ability to save and plan for the future. -
While James Talarico was recovering from the flu, Ken Paxton supporters said the Democrat was being treated for mental illness in Ohio. The debunked story was shared by White House officials, Elon Musk and social media influencers.
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ponafotkas from Kiev, Ukraine, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsHi, I’m Tarfia Faizullah, here again for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’m excited to share a poem with you by Emmy Perez, a poet I fiercely admire and look up to. Emmy Pérez’s Paper america: New and Selected Poems was published in March 2026 (TCU Press, Texas Poet Laureate Series). -
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHello, Radio Readers! This is Marit Ehmke from western Lane County with a Radio Readers BookByte for High Plains Public Radio’s Fall Read on Wind and Weather. When I think about The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, I think first about Kansas weather. -
Temple Houston was the first child born in the Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas. His father was the legendary Sam Houston. From him, Temple inherited flamboyance — and a life full of opportunity. But he also inherited a strong will, and a determination to make his own name, out from under his father's shadow. -
Kansas Memory; DaRT.ID:210303I'm Glenda Shepard from Yucca Corners Farm in rural Stanton County KS. This is my third Radio Readers BookByte for And Hell Followed With It Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado by Bonar Menninger. In this BookByte I'm going to look at Chapters Two, Four and 19.
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Congress and a federal agency are threatening to weaken the country's historic preservation law, fueling a backlash that critics say is as fiery as the one that led to the law's creation 60 years ago.
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