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Federal immigration enforcement moved through western Kansas and detained several people. It comes after President Donald Trump promised deportations of people in the country without legal status. Southwest Kansas has a high percentage of immigrants.
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Since the 89th Legislature kicked off in January, the Texas Senate has passed nearly 200 bills. But as of Wednesday morning, their counterparts in the House have only passed 16. Why is that? -
According to Executive Director of Healthy Minds Policy Initiative Zack Stoycoff, Oklahoma has a lot to lose. The nonprofit put together a report on the state's mental health grants to better illustrate what's at stake. -
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt's fight with the state Forestry Services continues, as he purged agency leadership and set up a "working group." -
A new group hopes to educate Oklahomans on the continued impacts of the state's near-total abortion ban. -
Two measles cases have been reported at Fort Bliss and in the city of El Paso; Juárez reports four cases.
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Nazrul Islam Ripon, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons/Hi, I’m Wayne Miller. I’m a poet who lives in Denver, Colorado, and I’m here for Poets on the Plains.Today I’m going to read one of my own poems—from my book The End of Childhood, which will be published in March by Milkweed Editions. -
Gold Fish (Francis M. Drexel), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race" by Henry Louis Stephens, 1851. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain/Hi there. I’m Jenny Inzerillo, HPPR’s Music Director and host for High Plains Morning. Today, for HPPR Radio Readers Book Club, I’m going to review the fourth book in the Spring Read. The full title is Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, by beloved underground blogger Allie Brosh. -
Unuplusunu, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons/Like many of the books in our series on humor, Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half is so specifically temporally located that a less generous person, or even my younger college-aged students, might call it "dated." There is something about the freneticism, vulnerability, and seeming universality of "adulting," to crib a similarly dated phrase, that calls to mind BuzzFeed quizzes, Onion horoscopes, and the early days of YouTube virality. -
Luke and his long time friend Larry Weishuhn (www.larryweishuhn.net) share some helpful information that will help keep you tick and chigger free this spring!
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