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Kansas has a fast-growing dairy industry, but milking cows isn’t easy and it’s hard to find workers. Industry groups say immigrants are critical and those workers say they’re needed to feed Kansas families.
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As residents revolt over surge in development, experts say transparency is critical for building trust with a community. -
Oklahoma State Auditor Cyndi Byrd's report for fiscal year 2024, released Monday afternoon, questioned costs totaling nearly $25 million in federal funds. -
Former Alamo Trust CEO Kate Rogers said her First Amendment rights were violated after state officials pressured her to resign over views expressed in her doctoral dissertation. -
Senate Bill 244 codified the Kansas legislative majority's anti-trans rhetoric, sparking protests and incurring multiple lawsuits. -
The agency that regulates the state's oil and gas industry voted to adopt the new policy before sharing it with the public. It added more "listening sessions" when the public can speak to agency staff.
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Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsHello listeners, I’m Alysse Kathleen McCanna, here for Poets on the Plains. Today I’m grateful to share a poem with you by incredible human, Andrea Gibson. Gibson was a poet, performer, activist, and Colorado’s ninth poet laureate. They were the author of seven poetry collections, and seven albums of spoken word and performance poetry. -
cédric sorel, public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHi! Marjory Hall here from Goodwell, Oklahoma, back with another BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Fall, 2026 season. One of my favorite elements of participating in a book club is the enjoyment of reading a great book that I would never have chosen on my own. -
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.
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