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Rural communities have been turning to nonprofits and other strategies to keep grocery stores open. But one of those new stores is closing in Kansas, which shows how challenging it can be to provide food in small towns.
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Colorado lawmakers are pursuing state’s first guardrails on online betting since sports wagers beganThe push has opened a fight over addiction, financial harm and whether the state has grown too dependent on gambling revenue -
Pacifico Energy and other energy companies are rushing to build private power plants across the Lone Star State. -
Rep. Dan Osman, an Overland Park Democrat, opposed the bill’s passage, pointing to projected costs to the state general fund in excess of $1.5 million each year. -
The move of authority to the Texas Railroad Commission from the federal government now makes it easier for energy companies to apply for permits to store carbon underground. -
Senate Bill 360 was the original bill introduced to regulate pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs.
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National Gallery of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons/My name is Jewell Rodgers and I am the State Poet of Nebraska. This week I bring to you M. Timothy Nolting who is also, much like one of my other favorite poets Natalie G’Schwind –– a cowboy poet. I met him in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, during my State Poet travels. -
New York, Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsFor High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today, I am discussing the book I Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like, the Life and Writings of Will Rogers. Now before reading this book, I didn’t know anything about Will Rogers except for that quote, “I never a man I didn’t like,” so I was very curious to read this book and to see how he came up with that conclusion. -
Many early day settlers came to Western Kansas via the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and in the 1870’s and early 1880’s they were often deposited in Kinsley. This being the farthest rail point west, their journey continued by team and wagon as they followed dreams of homesteading in a new land, often with newfound freedom. Hodgeman County offered open country and new beginnings for several groups of settlers. -
19th century photo, University of Washington Special Collections. Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHi, this is 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. This spring we are celebrating Route 66, the Will Rogers Highway, by learning about Will Rogers' life and work.
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Hundreds of immigrants have been arrested at immigration courthouses. It is unclear whether the federal government's admission could lead to some of those arrests being overturned.
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