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Glenn Russell for VTDigger
Vermont keeps a list of where large crowds gather. The feds get a copy.
For nearly a decade, the state has quietly compiled the list of large public gatherings. Town clerks are just now finding out about it.
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Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan
The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected.
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On the Blackfeet Reservation, families learn to search for their own missing relatives
As Indigenous people go missing and are murdered at disproportionately high rates, families learn forensic skills to find their own loved ones.
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Coal’s share of electricity-production in Wyoming at all time low despite peak demand
Coal accounts for 47% of the state’s power production this year, down from 94% in 2008.
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Rachel Livinal for The Merced FOCUS
Young Brains, Huge Stakes: How transitional kindergarten is shaping San Joaquin Valley’s youth
As California expands transitional kindergarten statewide, this four-part series examines whether San Joaquin Valley schools can meet the needs of young learners.
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Courtesy of U.S. Senate
Cardinal News 250: Virginia’s stories. A nation’s birth.
The project spotlights Virginia’s overlooked contributions to America’s march to independence ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary, or semiquincentennial.
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Gordon Hodges for Door County Knock
Locked Out: Door County’s affordable housing shortage
An in-depth series on Door County’s affordable housing shortage, examining its causes, shrinking availability and the roadblocks to building more.
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County supervisor’s school district contract raises conflict of interest questions
August 03, 2026
Kollin Kosmicki has been providing communication services to Hollister School District.
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They’ve been hit by two major floods in two years. But Kerr County residents are staying.
August 03, 2026
Some say selling their property makes no financial sense even if they wanted to leave.
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‘I’ve never been so low in my life’: As thousands lose food stamps, West Virginia food pantries struggle to keep up
August 03, 2026
After Congress imposed stricter requirements for food stamp recipients, thousands of West Virginian households lost benefits. Now, food banks say they’re serving more families, but state funding and federal food supplies have declined.
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How SD hospitals fared in the latest quality ratings
August 03, 2026
Eighteen systems were included in the 2026 list from the federal government. The annual ratings allow patients to gauge medical care quality and can provide motivation for hospitals to improve.
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Oklahoma launches portal program to bring internet to rural communities
August 03, 2026
Oklahoma broadband officials opened the first portals – special little rooms in public libraries – in a program to help rural residents access the high-speed internet.
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Chickasaw Nation to open one of the largest First American hospitals in the country
August 03, 2026
Chickasaw Nation broke ground Friday on what will become a facility spanning a 2.5 million-square-foot campus with more than 23 medical specialties and 140 inpatient beds.
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As $43 million for Southwest flood relief remains unspent, residents who can’t afford to fix their homes wait for help
August 03, 2026
A year ago, the General Assembly appropriated $50 million for recovery following widespread floods that devastated Southwest Virginia in 2024 and 2025. Disbursement has been slow.
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Smoke outside, safer air inside? What N.C. residents need to know
August 03, 2026
Experts offer practical steps for cleaner indoor air when wildfire smoke lingers.
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Pace of college closings picks up, with more projected
August 03, 2026
Among the most endangered: small, rural and religiously affiliated institutions.