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Hannes Zacharias is a Professor of Practice at KU's School of Public Affairs and Administration. His 35-year career in local government concluded as Johnson County Manager, Hannes has spent 45 years paddling rivers, including the Colorado through the Grand Canyon, 1,000 miles on the Missouri, and down the Arkansas River...

Rivers. Perhaps it is the fact that the river of my childhood is but a memory today -- the dry riverbed a place for noisy 3-wheelers -- that brings such fascination. Or it could be harsh lessons taught by our river’s dry, sandy bed juxtaposed with the memory of sand being stuffed into bags...

Through my years as an outdoors writer, I have known several fishing guides that centered their careers around putting their clients on white bass. Guide Omar Cotter “Luke O The Irish Guide Service” chose white bass as his primary species to target a couple decades ago and his business has grown to the point that he now needs several guides to help him keep up with the demand to take folks fishing for this popular species.

We’ve been talking about garage sale season, and I realized after last week’s show that I had more to discuss regarding these summer staples of the high plains...

Hey, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, and it’s Summer Reads! Some readers may go for light, beachy reads in the summer. Me? I like to go for guilt, dysfunction, with a soupcon of forgiveness.

Hello everyone in the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. My name is Andrea Elise and I live in Amarillo, Texas.I would like to recommend two non-fiction books for summer reading. The books are by the same author, Mark Abley, and they explore different aspects of the same topic: language.

Hi, I am Phillip Periman from Amarillo recommending a book for the HPPR Radio Readers’ Book Club’s summer reading list. The book is entitled “Why Poetry” and was written by Matthew Zapruder, published by Harper’s Collins in 2017 and in paperback (2018) by ECCO.

Hello, my name is Andrea Elise and I live in Amarillo, Texas. About 15 years ago, a fellow English major and friend told me about a book that changed his life.

Shooting and hunting with a bow is Luke's topic this week...

Luke Discussing shallow water catfishing with Lake Guide Seth Vanover.