Rolling Plains Journal

04/04/2025

Postcard from home
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04/03/2025

Here we go with more never-seen-before wacky weather or, as I like to call it, kooky climate change.

The formation of the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded is an event that has captured the attention of meteorologists and weather enthusiasts alike. This ... Read more The post The Earliest Category 5 Hurricane Ever Recorded Just Formed appeared first on weather-fox.com.

07/02/2024

Cannabis can transform our materials economy and textiles industry, return carbon to the soil, provide sustainable housing material, nurture health and well-being and set us on a path to restorative justice. That’s why we call it the New Green Revolution. We call it the “New” Green Revolution ...

07/01/2024

No rainmaker, no aqueduct, and no prayer will save western Kansas from the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer.

06/29/2024

06/28/2024

The Kaw rematriated a part of its Kansas heritage over the weekend, a sacred rock they call grandfather that they had to leave behind when the tribe was forcibly relocated to Oklahoma.

06/21/2024

It's so hot in Kansas ...
the barn swallows are sipping on Sonic Mosquito Lattes!!

06/20/2024

Fifty years ago this month, three experimental artists in Amarillo stuck 10 Cadillacs in the ground. They wound up creating one of the country's most iconic roadside attractions: Cadillac Ranch. https://bit.ly/3xfsgZf

06/19/2024

Heard my first cicada of 2024
5:55 pm ~ Juneteenth
Independence, KS

06/17/2024

If not now, when?

Farmers in southwest Kansas are bracing for change in how they use the depleting Ogallala Aquifer to irrigate crops.

06/15/2024

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People today who think Walmart is too big to fall don't remember just how big Sears was.
Here's an example. In the 1920s, Sears sold radios by mail, but there were large parts of America that didn't have any radio stations within range, so, Sears got into the radio station business and, in 1924, started WLS 890am Chicago. A radio station powerful enough to fill the Midwest.
Then, they sold every household in the Midwest and most of the rest of the country a radio. The kicker was that once they bought a radio, they tuned in to Sears radio station witch advertised Sears products.
The equivalent today would be if Walmart sold you the TV and then you only got Walmart commercials and ads on your TV.
Walmart was never that big.
WLS stood for World's Largest Store, and it was.
The only thing to ever come close would be Amazon Web Services providing you the internet so you can buy Amazon products and services.
I find that interesting. Hope you do too.
Credit goes to respective author

06/11/2024

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Residents of the Great Plains from the Kansas City metro area to the tallgrass prairie of the Flint Hills share what they've learned about the local impact o...