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The Best-Paying Cities for Millennials
Numbering over 72 million, millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers to be the largest living adult generation. Millennials, defined by the Pew Research Center as people born between 1981-1996, are now ...
Nov 16, 2020
Cities with the newest homes
As mortgage rates reach historic lows, prospective home buyers are in a strong position to purchase their first house. One of the most important questions prospective home buyers need to answer is whe...
Nov 23, 2020
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
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
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
'She just wants a friend': Families push for full school days for children with disabilities
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Advocates say schools across the U.S. are removing students with disabilities from the classroom, often in response to challenging behavior, by sending them home or cutting ba...
Jody Heemstra Jun 21, 2023 j.sanna / CC