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Anxiety has spread through southwest Kansas after policy promises of mass deportations from the Trump administration. That mental exhaustion is now part of the daily lives of Kansans in an area where immigrants are a large part of the population.
High Plains regional news
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Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall ended a rural town hall meeting early after people angry about budget cuts, funding freezes and other actions by President Trump shouted the senator down. -
Declining vaccination rates, decreasing trust in government and a political unwillingness to endorse vaccines is shaping Texas’ measles response. -
U.S. Transportation Secretary announces plans to 'supercharge' air traffic controller training in OKIf you’re a civilian who wants to become an air traffic controller, you can only get trained in one place: the Mike Moroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City. Amid a nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is trying to “supercharge” the number and quality of trainees coming through the facility. -
Last week, OSDH sent out a health alert advising clinicians in Oklahoma to consider measles among patients with compatible symptoms amid a measles outbreak in Texas. -
Among the proposals is a bill that would force more inspections of power lines, which a committee concluded ignited a blaze that burned more than 1 million acres last year.
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Regional Features
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Tune in this week for a program of music by composers whose music will be featured at the upcoming Chamber Music Amarillo Concert on Saturday, March 8th! -
As we start to thaw out and get ready for warmer temperatures, all number of insects and other pests are preparing to do their worst to your new garden this spring. What to do? Get started early! We'll talk more about the steps you can take in this week's episode. -
Orlovma, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons/This is Leslie VonHolten from the High Plains of Kansas with another Radio Reader’s Book Byte. Isn’t creativity an interesting element of being human? Such a mystery—where does it come from, and how does it manifest? I’ve found myself grateful for the various ways creative thinking appears in our lives. -
Jan Matejko, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons/Greetings from Goodwell in the Oklahoma Panhandle! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. Don’t you think most people have been taught that rhetorical questions are great attention-grabbers? After all, such questions immediately invite the reader into the conversation.
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