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  • You can look forward to hearing music from iconic western movies and tv shows as well as a collection of orchestrated cowboy songs on the show this week!
  • Gardening on the High Plains can be a fun and rewarding experience, but let’s face it…we get some pretty rough storms, the kind that can leave some lasting damage. Some plans can recover fairly well from this damage, but in other cases, it can be wiser just to start over with a new plant and focus on its welfare. This week, we’ll talk about how to make those choices, and what other forms this damage can take.
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    My name is Jewel Rogers and I am your state poet of Nebraska. Today we are introducing some poetry from Natalie G’Schwind whom I met in Broken Bow, Nebraska during a Homegrown event. Anyway, Natalie was one of the readers at Homegrown – a series of intimate readings and art shares across the great state of Nebraska held in partnership with the Academy of American Poets.
  • The founding of Amarillo and the city’s subsequent success as a center of trade and commerce in the Texas Panhandle was largely due to the coming of the railroads. In addition to bringing settlers and supplies to the vast grasslands of the Panhandle-Plains, the railroad was also responsible for naming the city.
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Three appellate immigration judges sided with Department of Homeland Security lawyers who appealed a decision from Immigration Judge Michael Pleters terminating removal proceedings for DACA recipient Catalina "Xóchitl" Santiago.