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Fort Pierre City Council considering utility rate increases
The Fort Pierre City Council has given first reading to an ordinance that will increase utility rates next year. City finance officer Roxanne Heezen says the town will be paying more for water from it...
Jody Heemstra Dec 10, 2020
AP research: Census data spurred GOP's largest partisan edge in decades
UNDATED (AP)- Fresh off sweeping electoral victories a decade ago, Republican politicians used census data to draw voting districts that gave them a greater political advantage in more states than eit...
Jody Heemstra Aug 11, 2021
Rounds Urges Inclusion of New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act in COVID-19 Relief Legislation
U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) this week (July 30) urged the Senate to include his legislation, the New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act, in any future COVID-19 relief legislation. The...
Jody Heemstra Jul 31, 2020
Snow has been a no-show for some traditionally wintry cities
BOSTON (AP) - For much of the Eastern United States, winter has been a bust. Snow totals are far below average from Boston to Philadelphia and warmer temperatures have often resulted in more spring-li...
Jody Heemstra Mar 06, 2023
Food prices fall on world markets but not on kitchen tables
UNDATED (AP)- Around the world, food prices are persistently, painfully high. Puzzlingly, too. On global markets, the price of grains, vegetable oil, dairy and other agricultural commodities has falle...
Jody Heemstra Apr 27, 2023 Marco Verch Professional Photographer / CC
Tiny bats provide 'glimmer of hope' against a fungus that threatened entire species
DORSET, Vt. (AP) - Scientists studying bat species that have been hit hard by the fungus that causes white nose syndrome say there is a glimmer of good news against the disease that has killed million...
Jody Heemstra May 12, 2023 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters / CC
More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) - Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in recent years, mostly in rural and western parts of the U.S. Districts cite cost savings and advant...
Jody Heemstra Sep 25, 2023
NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft
OCTOBER 12, 2023: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA is showing off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft. Scientists and space agency leaders took part in Wednesday's (Oct. 11...
Jody Heemstra Oct 12, 2023
CEOs got smaller raises. It would still take a typical worker two lifetimes to make their annual pay
UNDATED (AP)- After ballooning for years, CEO pay growth is finally slowing. The typical compensation package for chief executives who run S&P 500 companies rose just 0.9% last year, to a median o...
Jody Heemstra Jun 06, 2023
Haze over Great Lakes region reminds US residents that Canadian wildfires persist
JUNE 28, 2023: CHICAGO (AP) - The haze of unhealthy air that settled over the Great Lakes region Tuesday (June 27, 2023) reminded U.S. residents from the Midwest to the Northeast and as far south as K...
Jody Heemstra Jun 28, 2023