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2 months ago | 
matsusentinel.com | Amy Bushatz |Diane Mikho
What you need to know:Mat-Su School District Superintendent Randy Trani and top district officials met with parents, teachers and students at Mat-Su Central this week to explain proposed program changes that could dramatically alter the school’s structure and costs to families. The district faces a $22 million deficit and aims to increase local state education funding by changing how per-student payments are calculated for Mat-Su Central.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
theshoestring.org | Diane Mikho
On Dec. 18, the Greenfield City Council took an action meant to, as one city councilor put it, "integrate disability justice" into local governance: passed an ordinance codifying remote access to its municipal meetings. The state opened up the possibility of remote access to public meetings - from city councils and school committees to planning boards - amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Those temporary provisions allowing for remote access to public meetings are set to expire, however, on March 31. Gov.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
montanafreepress.org | Diane Mikho
Story text is available for republication under MTFP’s standard republication policy. To republish story graphics, contact High Country News at [email protected]. On the banks of the Flathead River, along an oxbow southeast of Kalispell, a pair of million-dollar homes sit adjacent to each other on large lots. At a glance, they appear quite similar, each the sort of rural dream house that has become an inescapable part of Montana’s landscape.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
wyofile.com | Diane Mikho
The federal government bought Wyoming’s 640-acre Kelly Parcel school section for $100 million today, a transaction that will see the wildlife-rich property that lawmakers had proposed for commercial development, instead preserved as part of Grand Teton National Park.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
100daysinappalachia.com | Diane Mikho
When Jules Edwards was a teenager, they say being able to access an abortion was life-saving health care. “I was somebody who had an abortion as a teenager and didn’t tell my family and got support through a family friend,” Edwards said recently.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
kosu.org | Diane Mikho
Member support of KOSU makes this reporting possible. Please support this work with a donation before the year ends. Give now here. KOSU wrote dozens of articles about agriculture and rural affairs this year, led by reporter Anna Pope. They were about everything from wind turbine recycling to farmer mental health and more. Here are five of our favorites. When wind turbines reach the end of their lifecycle, they often create waste challenges.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
spotlightpa.org | Diane Mikho
Emergency dispatchers in rural Tioga County typically get 75 to 100 calls a day. But when the remnants of Tropical Storm Debby brought a daylong deluge to parts of Pennsylvania and New York in early August, they fielded more than 500 requests for help and dispatched assistance 311 times in roughly seven hours. The heavy rain started in the morning, quickly overwhelming local waterways. Floods washed out roads, swept away cars, poured into basements, and knocked houses off their foundations.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
mountainstatespotlight.org | Diane Mikho
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened tariffs on imports from foreign countries to pressure them to curb illegal immigration and the flow of illicit drugs. When he takes office in January, he’s said he plans to sign executive orders implementing a 25% tax on all imports from Canada and Mexico and an additional 10% tax on Chinese imports. In his first term, Trump also used the threat of tariffs to negotiate with countries including Mexico.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
barnraisingmedia.com | Diane Mikho
“Now, more than ever,” Sharp says, “the world needs the wisdom, resilience and stewardship that Indigenous leaders uniquely bring. Our survival in this rapidly changing world may well depend on it.” The views of each of those who spoke to Barn Raiser are deeply personal and rooted in their own unique cultures. For the past 16 years, the Zuni Youth Enrichment Project, at Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico, has hosted numerous programs in the arts, gardening, cooking, sports and more.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
spotlightdelaware.org | Diane Mikho
Why Should Delaware Care? About a quarter of Delaware adults live with a disability and, while voting accessibility in Delaware has improved, many still face barriers to exercising their right to vote privately and in person. Emmanuel Jenkins drove past a dimly lit school on Election Day in November. His assigned polling place, the Woodbridge Early Childhood Education Center in Greenwood, had no signs, few cars and even less people — it was probably closed, he thought.
