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LUBBOCK — When Congress passed President Donald Trump’s wish to cut funding to public media radio stations, chaos erupted around the nation. Social media pages were flooded with outrage that NPR and PBS stations were in jeopardy.

In Lubbock, the biggest city on the South Plains, reporters at Texas Tech Public Media — the

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