High Plains regional news
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Texas Monthly reporter Jack Herrera traveled all 1,900 miles of the river to learn more. -
The University of Kansas is rebuilding its football stadium and creating an almost billion-dollar Gateway District. The project is straining revenues for the university. -
Monarch butterflies are flying south toward central Mexico as a part of their fall migration. -
Starting Sept. 1, the Trump administration is withholding about $9.8 billion in extra funding that helps hospitals cover the difference between Medicaid payments and the actual cost of services. -
According to the report, individual income tax receipts were above the estimate by $64.1 million, or 8.7%.
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Regional Features
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Join us for an episode of music from Austria's neighbor (Germany) and France! -
Can you feel it? Fall is almost here, and your plants certainly know it. In fact, it may be time to clean up some of the mess they've created over the summer. In this week's episode, we'll talk about how to make the most of your cleanup, and how best to prepare for next year. -
Don Miller, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsI’m Matt Kliewer, once from Cimarron, Kansas, now from Austin, Texas, coming to you from San Diego, California. So many of the characters in Lauren Groff’s Florida are separated from their landscape. They are walking, running, dreaming of a way away from where they come. -
Ernst Vikne from Skien, Norway, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsHi, I’m Quraysh Ali Lansana, a poet, author and professor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, here for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’m delighted to explore a poem by one of my favorite Oklahoma poets, Paul Juhasz.
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Fifth graders calm school kindergartners in Los Angeles. Kids take the "bike bus" in Oklahoma. High school students take in a new high school building in Oregon.
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