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Wyoming Ranks 32nd Among States Building the Most Homes
Wyoming News Now
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Across the United States, a persistent shortage of housing has fueled an ongoing affordability crisis, particularly in high-growth metropolitan areas. Over the past several years, high housing costs have stretched budgets for both homebuyers and...
Behind the scenes at Fourth of July fireworks show
Tracy Press - California
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A fireworks show like the one put on by James Wolfe and his crew from Fireworks & Stage FX America Friday night at Legacy Fields is an art and a science, with enough variables that experience and a well-defined method are required to make the...
New lactation pods at ISU give new moms a private place to nurse
East Idaho News
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July 15, 2025
POCATELLO – Young mothers at Idaho State University now have a place to nurse their baby on campus. Two new lactation pods in the lobbies of Garrison Hall and the Physical Science Complex on the Pocatello campus offer mothers a private space to...
Minnesota Ranks 24th Among States Building the Most Homes
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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Across the United States, a persistent shortage of housing has fueled an ongoing affordability crisis, particularly in high-growth metropolitan areas. Over the past several years, high housing costs have stretched budgets for both homebuyers and...
South Dakota Is Building the 11th Most Homes in the U.S.
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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Across the United States, a persistent shortage of housing has fueled an ongoing affordability crisis, particularly in high-growth metropolitan areas. Over the past several years, high housing costs have stretched budgets for both homebuyers and...
Iowa Ranks 22nd Among States Building the Most Homes
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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Across the United States, a persistent shortage of housing has fueled an ongoing affordability crisis, particularly in high-growth metropolitan areas. Over the past several years, high housing costs have stretched budgets for both homebuyers and...
North Dakota Is Building the 12th Fewest Homes in the U.S.
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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Across the United States, a persistent shortage of housing has fueled an ongoing affordability crisis, particularly in high-growth metropolitan areas. Over the past several years, high housing costs have stretched budgets for both homebuyers and...
Bonner County History - July 15, 2025
Bonner County Daily Bee - Idaho
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July 15, 2025
Brought to you by the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum 611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho, 83864 208-263-2344 50 Years Ago Sandpoint News-Bulletin and Sandpoint Bee July 15, 1975 — DR. RALSTON JOINS STAFF Dr. Rhoda Ralston has joined...
Amazon jumps into AI vibe coding with preview of Kiro
CNBC
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July 14, 2025
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 9, 2025. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Amazon's cloud unit said Monday that it has released a preview of Kiro, a program developers can use to...
The unspoken side of domestic violence
Cape Gazette - Delaware
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For countless survivors of domestic violence who muster the courage to leave their abusers, the court system becomes a breeding ground for more subtle manipulation and abuse tactics. “When I hear people talk about leaving abusive relationships and...
DUNE 3 Is Reportedly Titled DUNE: PART THREE
Nerdist
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July 8, 2025
Director Denis Villeneuve is returning to Arrakis. He already split Frank Herbert’s seminal original sci-fi novel into two films. Now he’s adapting the author’s second book, Dune: Messiah, for the screen. Only, it sounds like Villeneuve’s film...
Ramey: Dispatches from Mountain West media days and a Q&A with Jeff Choate
Nevada Sports Net
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DISPATCHES FROM MOUNTAIN WEST MEDIA DAYS WEDNESDAY, 07.16.25 6.07AM RENO AIRPORT It is fitting Mountain West Media Days fall the same week as the Major League Baseball All Star game. Both the All Star Game and conference media days were created...
Grand Canyon blaze shows how managing a wildfire can go suddenly sideways
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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This photo provided by Caren Carney shows the family's view of fires over the Grand Canyon after they had to evacuate Grand Canyon Lodge, a historic lodge on the North Rim, in northern Arizona, Thursday, July 10, 2025. (Caren Carney via AP)...
Gray Media, Scripps Agree to Swap TV Stations
TV Tech
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July 7, 2025
ATLANTA and CINCINNATI—Gray Media and The E.W. Scripps Co. have agreed to swap television stations across five midsized and small markets, resulting in the creation of new duopolies for each group. As part of the agreements, Gray will acquire...
SCOTUS Porn Ruling A Boon For Age Verification Companies; 40% Of Americans Now Live Under Anti-Porn Age-Gating Laws
Techdirt
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July 7, 2025
from the not-a-fair-marketplace dept The conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled 6-3 in favor of upholding an age verification measure targeting adult content platforms on the internet that the state legislature of Texas adopted...
Western States Forge Alliance with Nation's Nuclear Lab on Advanced Energy Development
Newswise
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July 10, 2025
Newswise — The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is the hub of collaboration among Western states to advance nuclear energy. This effort, anchored in legislative frameworks, strategic investments, collaborations and partnerships, is positioning the...
16 Years Without a Federal Minimum Wage Hike Is an Outrage
Common Dreams
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July 18, 2025
When the minimum wage does not go up, it goes down in buying power. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009. For full-time workers that amounts to $15,080 if you are paid for 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year....
How Sam Altman outfoxed Elon Musk to become Trump’s AI buddy
Mint
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July 18, 2025
Sam Altman, the 40-year-old chief executive of OpenAI, had just finished a long one-on-one meeting with Trump, and the two men were about to dine with the president’s top donors. Trump introduced Altman to the club’s applauding members as “a very...
Graham: Sorry Big Bird, dumbest waste of tax dollars is (Finally!) about to die
Boston Herald - Massachusetts
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July 18, 2025
The Senate just passed its version of the $9 billion rescission bill, bringing the country one step closer to ending the most egregious and indefensible federal spending in the modern era. Public broadcasting. The $500 million that taxpayers are...
Innovative companies join forces to build 'microreactor' that could revolutionize how we generate power: 'A transformative approach'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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July 18, 2025
"An exciting step." by Leslie SattlerJuly 18, 2025 NuCube Energy joined the Shell GameChanger program to develop a nuclear microreactor that reaches temperatures over 1,000 degrees Celsius, reported Business Wire. The Idaho company designs small...