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High Plains Public Radio has just concluded its latest fund drive. It did so with a fascinating tribute to the late Teel Bivins.<\/p>\n

It had received a pledge in Bivins’ memory from someone who noted that two of his brothers were instrumental in bringing HPPR to Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle. Why is that so fascinating?<\/p>\n

Well, consider that the Bivins family has long been associated with conservative Republican politics. Consider, too, that HPPR and its parent company — National Public Radio — have become favorite targets of those who accuse the “mainstream media” of tilting too far to the left; Paul Greenberg, the great editorial page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, refers to NPR as “National Propaganda Radio.”<\/p>\n

The late Levi Bivins started the effort to bring NPR to the Panhandle. Levi died in the 1990s and brother Mark took the effort forward. So, it became something of a family affair. Teel, the one-time state senator and ambassador to Sweden, wasn’t so much out front on the NPR campaign.<\/p>\n

But the tribute given in Teel Bivins’ memory speaks to the quality of a family that would seek to enlighten the Panhandle with the news and information that National Public Radio can bring.<\/p>\n

Good job, Bivins Brothers — and thank you.<\/p>\n\n

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High Plains Public Radio has just concluded its latest fund drive. It did so with a fascinating tribute to the late Teel Bivins. It had received a pledge in Bivins’ memory from someone who noted that two of his brothers were instrumental in bringing HPPR to Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle. Why is that so … Continue reading Thanks for public radio<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}