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6 days ago | 
thegazette.com | Jared Strong |Jess Savage |Illan Martin Ireland
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DELAWARE, Iowa — In northeast Iowa, a wispy stand of trees looks out of place. It is surrounded by crop fields on the north side of a four-lane highway, an oasis of nature that is uncommon in rural Iowa, where farming every inch of land is paramount. Its owner hopes to cut and till it for cropland. But he can’t do it without risking his business. For now.
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1 week ago | 
northernpublicradio.org | Jess Savage |Illan Martin Ireland |Jared Strong
Read in EnglishDELAWARE, Iowa -- En el noreste de Iowa, un grupo de árboles ralos parece fuera de lugar. Está rodeado de campos de cultivo en el lado norte de una carretera de cuatro carriles, un oasis de naturaleza poco común en la zona rural de Iowa, donde cultivar cada pulgada de tierra es primordial. Su propietario espera cortarlo y cultivarlo para convertirlo en tierra de cultivo. Pero no puede hacerlo sin arriesgar su negocio. Por ahora.
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1 week ago | 
investigatemidwest.org | Jared Strong |Jess Savage |Illan Martin Ireland
DELAWARE, Iowa — In northeast Iowa, a wispy stand of trees looks out of place. It is surrounded by crop fields on the north side of a four-lane highway, an oasis of nature that is uncommon in rural Iowa, where farming every inch of land is paramount. Its owner hopes to cut and till it for cropland. But he can’t do it without risking his business. For now.
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1 week ago | 
agdaily.com | Jared Strong |Jess Savage |Illan Martin Ireland
The push for one Iowa landowner to farm a designated wetland is likely to affect neighbors downstream. And a legal weight hangs over the situation. Load more
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1 week ago | 
thelensnola.org | Jared Strong |Jess Savage |Illan Martin Ireland
DELAWARE, Iowa — In northeast Iowa, a wispy stand of trees looks out of place. It is surrounded by crop fields on the north side of a four-lane highway, an oasis of nature that is uncommon in rural Iowa, where farming every inch of land is paramount. Its owner hopes to cut and till it for cropland. But he can’t do it without risking his business. For now.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
mississippifreepress.org | Illan Martin Ireland
In the days after the Nov. 5 presidential election, Michael Oropeza answered a flurry of phone calls at her office in Forest, Miss. Oropeza is executive director of El Pueblo, a group offering humanitarian and legal aid to vulnerable immigrants across the state, and the outcome of the election had sent shock waves through the communities she serves. “It’s a very anxious time,” Oropeza said. “We started receiving calls … with people having questions: Should they quit their job? Should they move?
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
mississippifreepress.org | Illan Martin Ireland
After decades of debate and multiple failed attempts, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is moving forward with a controversial project to address backwater flooding in Mississippi’s South Delta region. The latest plan, detailed in a federal report released Nov. 29, would install high-volume pumps in the Yazoo Backwater Area, an agricultural region north of Vicksburg flanked by the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
mississippifreepress.org | Illan Martin Ireland
In the fall of 2020, Elaine Talbott entered the post office in Madison, Miss., holding an absentee elector’s ballot. Talbott had heard nightmarish stories about the challenges of voting by mail in her home state, and she was eager to put those anecdotes to the test. “I wanted to see through the lens of somebody whose only option was to vote by mail,” said Talbott, a Madison County resident and member of the League of Women Voters, a national organization advocating for voting rights.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
messenger-inquirer.com | Dustin Cardon |Illan Martin Ireland
Jackson, MS (Mississippi Free Press)JACKSON, Miss. -- Dark clouds gave way to scattered sunshine Tuesday morning as residents of Jackson, Miss., and surrounding municipalities headed to the polls to vote in the 2024 U.S. election. Though rain had replaced the sun by early afternoon, voters continued to stream into the churches, community centers and other facilities that doubled as polling locations on Election Day. kAm%96 2E>@DA96C6 2E >2?J y24<D@? 2C62 A@==:?8 DE2E:@?D H2D C6=2I65[ 6G6?
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
lailluminator.com | Illan Martin Ireland
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. – On a mid-November morning, a stately white fishing boat named the Royster peeled away from the harbor and motored toward a reef less than two miles offshore. The 42-foot vessel was equipped with a triangular oyster dredge made of rope and metal—a common tool for scraping the shellfish off the surface of the reefs on which they grow. Over the next four hours, Capt.
