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Here on the High Plains and all across the country, we benefit from a uniquely American system of public media. It’s a system based on local stations with missions of serving the civic, educational and cultural needs of their local communities. Collectively, these local stations serve 99% of the country’s population every day with entirely free, easily accessible and high-quality programming.

A series of White House actions have been taken in recent days aimed at eliminating all federal support of public broadcasting and undermining the continued operations and independence of over 1,500 local public radio and TV stations across the country, including HPPR.

A federal judge temporarily halted a new policy from the National Institutes of Health in 22 states that sued the Trump administration Monday. Oklahoma is not one of the plaintiffs in the suit.

Oklahoma has become the poster child for a wider national trend of states experiencing budget problems, as reported on Governing.com. The news site notes…

Under President Trump’s proposed budget, High Plains cities that profit from air and rail services stand to suffer.As The Garden City Telegram reports,…

President Trump unveiled his proposed budget last week, and some parts of America, like military centers, look to be big winners. But other areas,…

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback wants to increase taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, among other things, to fill the state’s $378 million budget shortfall.As The…

The highly criticized supply-side tax cuts in Kansas that have resulted in a $350 million-deficit in the current fiscal year’s budget are front and center…

Gov. Sam Brownback cut Medicaid reimbursements by 4 percent earlier this year, as part of budget cuts aimed at covering the revenue shortfall in Kansas,…