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HPPR is seeking individuals for two full-time positions with key roles in creating the High Plains Civic Media Network, a new initiative by HPPR to provide much expanded civic news and information across the High Plains region.
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The unparalleled public subsidies that accompany the deal have drawn criticism from economists, politicians and football fans from the jump. -
Medicaid took the brunt of the final reductions, include a reimbursement rate cut for providers and a cap on Cover All Coloradans, which provides health care to immigrants who are children or pregnant -
If farmers responded to fertilizer cost spikes by reducing application, the result could be lower yields of corn or soybeans. -
A group of Texas churches and the IRS agreed to nix the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits nonprofits from endorsing candidates. A Trump-appointed judge said no. -
Kansas lawmakers are on their annual break and will return next week to vote on potentially overriding the governor's vetoes.
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Jordan MacDonald from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, U.S.A., CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecomHi, I’m Benjamin Myers, a former Oklahoma Poet Laureate here for Poetry on the Plains. Today I’d like to share with you a poem by the excellent Oklahoma poet, Paul Bowers. Bowers is recently retired from teaching writing and literature at Northern Oklahoma College and lives with his wife on a ten-acre farm in Ringwood, Oklahoma. -
Hi, I'm Sally Shattuck from Ashland, Kansas, and I've been reading Never Met a Man I Didn't Like, The Life and Writings of Will Rogers by Joseph H. Carter. As I've read the book, I keep coming back to comparisons between Will Rogers and today's political humorists, such as Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, and John Stewart. And I've tried to understand the differences between Rogers and today's comedians. -
What began as a grouping of canvas tents along the Canadian River in Hemphill County, Texas became the hub of rail traffic in the northern panhandle for more than fifty years. -
This week, Luke talks about a fun outdoor event he’ll be holding in Greenville, Texas, this weekend, Saturday March 28. It's his 7th annual Outdoor Ron-De-Voux, with lots of fun for the entire family, with Chuck Wagons, campfires, Dutch Kettle cooking, live music and much more. Bring a lawn chair and hang out with Luke and his friends around the campfire! For directions, Google "Top Rail Cowboy Church Greenville, Texas”!
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