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Western Kansas is running out of the water needed to fuel irrigated agriculture. Why is it so hard for farmers to switch to alternative crops?
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A memo from President Trump earlier this year revealed plans to remove transgender service members from the military — a plan the Supreme Court has allowed to be enforced while the legal battle plays out. Thousands of transgender service members now face the possible end of their careers. -
House Bill 1137, authored by Choctaw citizen Rep. Ronald Stewart, D-Tulsa, was an amendment to Ida's Law, which provided tribal liaisons to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations for MMIP cases. It would've removed the federal funding requirement, allowing the state to fund the office instead. -
Gilbert Handal witnessed the devastating toll of measles on children in a Chilean hospital before the vaccine. Now, he warns of the dangers of forgetting that past. -
An amended resolution that passed the Oklahoma Senate on Tuesday would reject a proposal to have public schools collect students' immigration status, but it would require schools to report donations and gifts from non-government sources. -
Members of the House Education Committee on Tuesday heard testimony on a bill that would ban Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in Texas' K-12 schools.
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This week Classical Music Amarillo celebrates finals week at West Texas A&M University with a program of performances by student ensembles from the WT School of Music! -
Photo by Scott Bauer/United States Department of AgricultureGrowing something you can eat in your garden is one of the easiest decisions of all time...why not get something back for your time and effort? One option that many folks always want to plant each year is blueberries...but the soil on the High Plains isn't always a great fit without amending it to become more acidic. This week, we'll talk about ways you can maximize your odds of success when growing these delicious and nutritious fruit in your own garden! -
While almost no white person set foot in the panhandle for three centuries, politicians, generals, and diplomats debated who the territory belonged to. -
Jocelyn Kinghorn, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons/Hi, I’m Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas, here for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’m delighted to explore a poem by a favorite Kansas poet of mine Melissa Fite Johnson.
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