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Kari Greer for Mountain Journal
The Fight for Wild Lands: Part 2
Executive orders coming from the White House could transform a range of core issues affecting Greater Yellowstone.
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A new question surrounds Delaware’s opioid fund. Is new oversight legal?
The Prescription Opioid Settlement Distribution Commission recommends how the state spends a $250 million settlement it won from opioid manufacturers and distributors. Following reports of fraud last summer, the flow of new grants has all but stopped.
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Laid Off Federal Workers: Hawaiʻi Governor Wants You For State Vacancies
State government has struggled to fill vacancies and nearly a third of its workers will be eligible for retirement in the next five years.
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Gavilan doubles its Hollister student body for spring semester
Gavilan College’s Hollister campus in the Central Coast region of California has expanded the services in the community with a new, larger building that accommodates a wider range of course offerings than the old site.
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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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Former Vermont resident faces federal firearm charge related to killing of border patrol agent
February 18, 2025
Federal prosecutors charge that Michelle Zajko provided false information to a federally licensed firearms dealer in Mount Tabor when she purchased firearms that were later traced back to two people involved in a fatal shootout in Coventry (Pop. 111) last month.
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‘Finally Free’: Leonard Peltier heads home to North Dakota
February 18, 2025
The AIM activist was released from federal prison after gaining clemency from President Joe Biden. He spent 49 years behind bars in what he has long maintained was a wrongful conviction in the deaths of two federal agents.
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North Carolina churches join lawsuit against policy allowing ICE into places of worship
February 18, 2025
Several denominations, including the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, united against the policy that allows ICE in “sensitive locations.”
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Mississippi Researchers Investigate Growing Tick-Borne Allergy to Red Meat
February 18, 2025
The allergy affects hundreds of thousands of Americans and is particularly prevalent in the southeastern United States, where ticks thrive due to the warm, humid climate.
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The Fight for Wild Lands: Part 1
February 17, 2025
As organizers prepare for the Rally for Public Lands, the conservation world faces down a changing climate, a new administration, and its own internal contradictions.
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Rural North Carolina counties would suffer most from Medicaid cuts
February 17, 2025
Funding reductions proposed by Congress threaten hospitals, children’s health and local economies.
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Federal cuts could affect all of Virginia — a new committee hopes to determine how
February 17, 2025
Speaker Don Scott formed an emergency bipartisan committee tasked with studying the possible fallout of significant federal funding and staff cuts after the first three whirlwind weeks of the second Trump Administration.
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Trump’s halt on federal spending could cost West Virginia millions to clean up hazardous orphaned gas wells
February 15, 2025
Natural gas wells abandoned by their owners pose a health and environmental risk. West Virginia had earmarked $212 million federal dollars to plug orphaned wells, but Trump’s latest moves puts nearly $90 million of those funds in jeopardy.
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Large earthquake strikes West Texas, among strongest ever in state
February 15, 2025
The 5.0 magnitude earthquake is tied for the sixth strongest in state history. Scientists have warned for years that increased fracking in West Texas is causing higher earthquake activity.