High Plains regional news
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Forces pushing rural decline are much bigger than state incentives and small-town organizing.
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How Curious explores a momentous scientific breakthrough which took place in Oklahoma in the early 1920s and which continues to have worldwide consequences today
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Owning or leasing an older property can reveal a disturbing history. A new law in Oklahoma targets discriminatory language in real estate covenants.
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The bill would close a long-standing loophole in state law that allows officials to withhold law enforcement records if no one was convicted in a case. The measure was the only bill sent to the Senate that did not get signed and sent to the governor.
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“The number of people in jail waiting for treatment to be able to stand trial has more than doubled since 2019.”
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Regional Features
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What happens when an accomplished poet turns memoirist? And when that memoir is about the legacy of suicide? Eloquent yet piercingly insightful describes Juliet Patterson’s latest book, Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide, a lyrical and elegiac work exploring the landscape of grief, loneliness, and redemption.
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Hello, everyone! From Pasadena, California, this is Jill Hunting for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club 2023 Summer Read.
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This week Classical Music Amarillo will present a program of overtures: pieces that either prefaced operas or served as concert-openers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda for High Plains Public Radio. And guess what? The 2nd Annual High Plains Public Radio Radio Readers Summer Read kicks off Monday, June 4, with 75 book bytes from Radio Readers throughout HPPR’s region.
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Some people of faith are organizing a pushback against the wave of anti-LGBTQ rights legislation making its way through state houses this year. They're calling it Faith for Pride.
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