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Unsealed: Syngenta spent decades attempting to quiet health concerns about its profitable herbicide.
A former Florida rancher battling Parkinson’s disease reflects on years of using paraquat, as thousands of lawsuits claim the herbicide contributed to their illness and new documents shed light on the ongoing legal fight.
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Platte County voters to decide fate of sales tax to fund children’s mental health services
Nonprofits in Platte County collected signatures to get a quarter-cent sales tax on the Nov. 5 ballot after resistance from the county commission.
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Medicaid covers 1.2 million in Wisconsin. The election will determine its future
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris rarely mention Medicaid on the presidential campaign trail, but their records paint dramatically different possibilities for the program after November.
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Early voters are lining up around Wyoming, outpacing primary turnout
County election offices in the most populous counties say the lines are longer and voting numbers stronger than the comparatively modest showing during the primaries.
RNN Highlights
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Angelica Edwards for Enlace Latino NC
Bridging Access
Rural communities of color may be facing barriers to health care, but they’re also laying the groundwork for a more equitable future. Whether it’s hospitals reopening, These stories led by Capital B and The Associated Press, offer a roadmap.
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Jerry L Mennenga for the Flatwater Free Press
Nebraska Evolving
The perception is that Nebraska’s smaller communities are dying. The reality is that many rural Nebraska counties are now growing for one reason. Immigration.
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Dave Pellar for Oviedo Community News
Preserve or Develop? The Race Against Time to Protect Florida’s Wildlife Corridor
Just off a trail in Central Florida lies evidence, piled in bear boneyards, of Florida’s battle between development and an imperiled corridor.
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Did Martinsville become the final resting place for a century-old vampire hunting kit?
October 25, 2024
One vampire hunting kit, never used: A European vampire hunting kit in America? Or a 20th-century version of a 19th-century object that never existed?
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Amid fires and red-flag warnings, the future of San Benito County’s rural fire protection is precarious
October 24, 2024
The county has until March 2025 to find a new contractor to provide fire services in the county’s unincorporated areas.
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A student died on campus, and the University of Wyoming stayed silent for 3 weeks
October 24, 2024
Administrators said they decided to notify the campus weeks later after learning about changes to national suicide response guidelines.
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Wolcott poised to build its first sewer system, aiming for development and flood resiliency
October 24, 2024
Like other village centers across Vermont, the lack of public wastewater in Wolcott poses big hurdles to housing and other kinds of redevelopment.
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Lawmakers direct Western NC counties to add early voting sites
October 24, 2024
General Assembly nearly united in mandating more early voting sites. Measure will really only affect Henderson and McDowell, GOP strongholds.
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President Biden to issue boarding school apology – at last
October 24, 2024
The president will be at Gila River Indian Community to acknowledge the trauma wreaked by U.S. forced assimilation policies.
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Tim Walz heads to Navajo Nation
October 23, 2024
A planned visit to Window Rock, Arizona, this weekend by the Democratic vice presidential nominee continues the Harris-Walz campaign’s outreach to Native voters in the battleground state.
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Ingles reels from storm damage. Food options in NC mountains limited.
October 22, 2024
Storm damage to distribution center and stores has ripple effects on Western NC areas that rely on Asheville-based Ingles for food and jobs.
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The future of coal country: Money, power, politics, and tradition
October 22, 2024
As Montana’s coal loses economic vitality, billions of tax dollars can fund renewable energy initiatives — if anyone wants them.