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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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A federal judge blocked the Texas Dream Act in June after it was challenged by the Trump administration and state officials declined to defend it. -
Case challenging Colorado’s largest utility’s condemnation powers could resolve conflict over 550 feet of right of way on an Eastern Plains farm -
Plan lifts tariff on foreign beef to mollify consumers ahead of November elections. -
The Texas Water Development Board presented the state's water plan at a Texas House natural resources committee hearing yesterday, which does not currently include projections for water usage from data centers. -
Jeff Michael Jones, of Ransom, was arrested at 1 p.m. Friday and released just before 7 p.m., according to a booking sheet from Ness County Sheriff Brandon Mitchell.
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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. -
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.
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