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What the public lands fight means for Maine
June 13, 2025
Public lands, waters and wildlife are part of our birthright as American citizens, a public domain that we all collectively own, regardless of our proximity.
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Morrisey targeted DEI at colleges. West Virginia’s historically black universities said they won’t change.
June 13, 2025
Founded when officials kept education segregated, West Virginia’s Black universities told the governor that they remain committed to diversity and inclusion.
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Federal cuts to NC public health funding trickling down to local programs
June 12, 2025
Federal cuts have hit NC DHHS funding for local programs, including for HIV, tobacco cessation and well-water testing that face layoffs.
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What concealed carry on campus means for South Dakota schools
June 12, 2025
The boards that oversee South Dakota’s 10 public colleges are drafting policies in accordance with a new state law that will allow students to carry concealed weapons on campus.
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Senate Republicans want to sell 3 million acres of public land
June 11, 2025
The sales could have a significant impact on tribal nations, who could lose access and rights to cultural sites and ancestral lands.
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Federal budget bill could strip 300K Pennsylvanians of Medicaid coverage, push rural hospitals to the brink
June 10, 2025
President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill could have a disastrous effect on the health of rural Pennsylvanians and the operations of the hospitals and other medical centers that care for them.
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Town hall focuses on local impacts of federal spending cuts — so far
June 09, 2025
As federal cuts ripple through higher ed, Ithaca leaders warn that attacks on elite institutions like Dartmouth threaten not just academia—but entire communities built around them.
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Federal cuts to AmeriCorps limit Montana programs
June 09, 2025
Nonprofit leaders concerned that further budget cuts could limit services available to communities statewide.
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In distracting times, rumble strips are saving lives — and money — on rural Maine roads
June 07, 2025
“It’s still, by far, our biggest lifesaver with regards to two-lane, rural, head-on collisions.”
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Trump administration proposal would cut nearly 90% of federal funding to West Virginia water and sewer programs
June 06, 2025
The Clean and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds are two key programs that help West Virginia regulators fund water and sewer projects. The White House proposed slashing the majority of their funding.
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Watchdogs: Michigan nursing homes may be hiding profits as residents suffer
June 05, 2025
The four Michigan chains in the report own 98 homes in Michigan, or more than 1 in 5 of the state’s skilled nursing facilities.
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First trial of immigrant accused of trespassing on Texas border military zone ends in acquittal
June 05, 2025
The trial of the Peruvian woman was the first test of the Trump administration’s new policy aimed at prosecuting immigrants who crossed the border illegally with military-related charges.
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Proposed SNAP cuts trouble NC food assistance programs
June 05, 2025
Private philanthropy won’t be able to make up the difference at food banks if proposed SNAP and Medicaid cuts are enacted, program operators say. Those benefits go a long way in rural North Carolina and the state’s small towns, where one in six residents have benefited from SNAP, compared with the one in nine residents in metro areas.
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‘It’s absolutely horrible’: Federal shutdown of Northlands Job Corps leaves students and city reeling
June 04, 2025
The shutdowns have alarmed officials and students in Vergennes, who fear the program’s end could uproot the lives of its more than a hundred students and hurt the local economy.
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Federal funding dispute threatens rural library book-share service
June 03, 2025
Libraries in Hood River, Wasco and 13 other rural Oregon counties are trying to figure out how to pay for a service that lets them share books, movies and music that patrons request.
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