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The first match in Kansas City is Tuesday, June 16. The tourism industry expects people to come in droves and spike the local economy. Yet economists will wait for after-the-fact numbers to gauge the World Cup's impact. -
A new report shows Texas leading the country in its rate of uninsured children under 6. -
Seven GOP candidates file to compete in August gubernatorial primary. -
From a West Texas measles outbreak to rising vaccine exemptions statewide, families of immunocompromised children depend on herd immunity, which is slowly eroding. -
Skoog is serving his second term as mayor of Overland Park, having won reelection in November. He previously had served on the Overland Park City Council since 2005.
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For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we're talking about the book The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts. This book was written back in 1951, but it might as well have been written today because the things he talks about, well, it's exactly what we're dealing with here. -
Despite significant omissions from our nation’s history books, early women settlers across the High Plains and the mountain states, recorded their experiences as participants in the transformation of the U.S. We find their words in diaries, in letters sent east, and in memoirs which we pick up today like heirlooms from an attic trunk. -
Hello! I’m Jane Holwerda in Dodge City KS for Radio Readers Summer 2026 Read, a series wherein we seize the opportunity to go on a bit about which ever books we’d like to recommend. I’ve just finished a collection of essays, titled Out Here in the Out There, authored by Phillip Heldrich. -
Tune in this week to revisit some beloved moments from the other CMA's most recent season!
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