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The cost of the community outings program for people with disabilities jumped 1,178% since 2018, partly because people aren’t using it correctly, Medicaid officials said -
Republicans and Democrats alike are vying to fill Ken Paxton's shoes as Attorney General. -
The Argentina national team announced it will use the Kansas City area as a base camp for this summer's World Cup, in addition to playing a match here. That's thrilling to Claudia Luna West, owner of Buenos Aires Restaurant in downtown Shawnee. -
Western Kansas has the potential to capitalize on our region’s growing energy demands even as rural populations shrink. There’s plenty of land, wind and sun to be a center for renewable energy production. But skepticism is bringing these projects to a halt. -
The board reprimanded Dr. Mary Bowden last year after she prescribed ivermectin to a patient at a Fort Worth hospital during the height of the pandemic.
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In the decades after the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S.’s economic frontier expanded westward. In 1833 the military built a fort on the north bank of the Arkansas River, then the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico. First called Fort William and later renamed to Bent’s Fort, after William and Charles Bent, two brothers from St. Louis who led a trade caravan to Santa Fe in 1829. -
Highsmith, C. M., photographer. (2018) Part of the mountain lion enclosure at an old "tourist trap" zoo, a roadside-attraction remnant at what is now the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona. United States Arizona Two Guns, 2018. -12-02. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018702645/.Hi, I’m Lauren Pronger from Amarillo, TX and I’m talking about The American Dream?, a graphic novel memoir by Shing Yin Khor for the HPPR Radio Readers. As an avid graphic novel reader, one of the things that struck me about this book is that the illustrations tend to float on the page removed from their contexts. -
Luke ClaytonLuke enjoyed one of the best fishing days of his career this week! Be sure to check out this week’s episode to hear more! -
This week we are listening to performances by the musicians of the Texas Panhandle’s premiere string chamber group!
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