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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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
Alarming map exposes deadly arsenic in drinking water across US states... is your hometown poisoning you?
Daily Mail
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July 2, 2025
A new map has revealed a disturbing truth about drinking water in the US. Scientists found millions of Americans may be regularly exposed to dangerous levels of arsenic, which is a naturally occurring element in soil and rock that seeps into...
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....
Why Hawaii may be a blue ocean for advisor AUM growth
Investment News
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Research shows advisors in the Aloha State could see more than $900 million in client assets on average, while fierce competition places New York near the bottom in state rankings. SEC-registered dvisors based in Hawaii may face less competition...
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...
A popcorn giant in small-town Nebraska: How the Zangger family grew an international seed behemoth
Flatwater Free Press - Nebraska
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July 18, 2025
On a bitter October morning in 1982, Chuck Zangger stood in his field near North Loup, staring at the brittle, ruined stalks of corn. The early frost had stolen the popcorn grower’s harvest — 600 acres of kernels that would never pop. He knelt,...
Grand Canyon blaze was initially allowed to burn. Experts say that's critical land management tool
KJZZ - Arizona
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July 17, 2025
U.S. land managers are racing the clock as hotter, drier weather raises the risk of wildfires in the nation’s overgrown forests with each passing year. One tool is to use the flames from lightning-sparked wildfires when conditions allow or to plan...
25 Columbia Graduates Awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Grants
Columbia News - New York
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATES AND ALUMS AWARDED FULBRIGHT U.S. STUDENT GRANTS FOR 2025 - 2026 TWENTY - FIVE Columbia University graduates and alumni have been recognized by the Fulbright US Student Program this year....
Cold case solved: Remains found in Power County identified as missing Washington woman
IdahoNews
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BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — The Idaho State Police and the Power County Sheriff's Office have identified a set of remains found nearly three years ago in the Fort Hall River. Police have identified Lesiah Olivia Pickett, a missing woman from Spokane,...
Mars? It Was A Miracle We Got To Florida
Science Friday - New York
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JASON WILLIS: Flight director Jason Willis reporting. We are currently six minutes away from hitting the top of the Martian atmosphere. We are expecting that the weather today at the landing site– FLORA LICHTMAN: 20 years ago, a group of...
Local families organizing Disney trivia night to benefit the American Cancer Society
East Idaho News
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July 9, 2025
IDAHO FALLS — Two local families are trying to raise $12,000 for the American Cancer Society by September, and they’re hoping your knowledge of Disney will help them do it. Gray Augustus, Dusty Bee and both of their families are organizing a...