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A scroll of candidates from across the state will compete on Aug. 4 to get a spot on voters’ ballots in the Nov. 3 election. Many are running for elected office for the first time. -
Nelson's office oversees elections. Abbott appointed her to the role in 2023 after she became the longest-serving Republican woman in Texas Senate history. -
Federal mortality data shows reveals a 16% decrease in so-called "deaths of despair" caused by alcohol, drugs and suicide, but cuts to public health infrastructure may make it challenging for the trend to continue. -
A federal appeals court allowed Texas to require app stores to verify users’ ages and seek parental consent before a minor can download apps. -
A lawsuit seeks to strike down the provision of the law that invalidated those licenses
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DrunkDriver, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHi, I’m Juan J. Morales, an assistant professor of English at Colorado College and a poet in Pueblo, Colorado, here for Poets on the Plains. Today I’m excited to share with you a poem by Alysse Kathleen McCanna, titled, “In-Between Country.” -
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.
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