Baxter Black can shoe a horse, string a barbed wire fence and bang out a Bob Wills classic on his flat top guitar. A cowboy poet and former large animal veterinarian, Baxter was raised in New Mexico and spent most of his workin' life in the mountain west tormenting cows. Black now lives in Arizona and travels the country tormenting cowboys.
Nearly 100 students from across the state gathered at the Capitol on Wednesday, donning bright pink “Breathe Aloha” T-shirts to protest against tobacco and electronic cigarettes.
The state House passed the state's $20.5 billion budget, which starts in July. HPR's Ashley Mizuo reports that it incorporates impacts from federal funding while trying to preserve essential government services.