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Crumb rubber: How NASCAR recycles the thousands of tires it used over the Chicago race weekend
Chicago Tribune - Illinois
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July 10, 2025
During a weekend of hot, high-speed friction against the asphalt of the NASCAR Chicago Street Race course, thousands of tires burn out and wear down. After a few dozen laps, they lose their grip and become obsolete. But their life cycle doesn’t...
New power plants will mean higher electric rates
The Topeka Capital-Journal - Kansas
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Evergy may increase Kansas customer rates to fund two new natural gas power plants and a solar farm. The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) will allow the rate increases, citing reliability concerns due to aging infrastructure and extreme...
MAC Members Appointed to Steering Committees for the 2025-2026 Term
Palmyra Spectator - Missouri
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July 2, 2025
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Association of Counties (MAC) today announced the presidential appointments for the association’s six Policy Steering Committees. MAC President Gary Jungermann, who serves as presiding commissioner for Callaway...
Danforth Plant Science Center Adds Two New Faculty Members
Newswise
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July 2, 2025
Newswise — ST. LOUIS, MO, July 1, 2025– The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center today announced two new faculty members. Justin Conover, PhD, joined as assistant member and Erin Sparks, PhD, joined as associate member at the Danforth Center and...
Janesville hopes to attract data center proposals for abandoned GM site
Wisconsin Public Radio
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July 10, 2025
Once, thousands of workers built tractors and trucks on the General Motors site in Janesville. Now, saplings grow among its concrete rubble. In the future, at least part of the site could host a very different user — a data center. Janesville...
Sightings of venomous snakes may increase after heavy rains
USA Today - Virginia
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Corrections and clarifications: This story has been updated to refer to 'venomous' snakes, which inject via a bite or sting. If you live in the central or eastern United States, you might see more snakes after multiple rounds of severe storms and...
Indians and Cowboys
Utne Reader
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Cowboys and Indians are at it again. Americans who don’t live in the West may think that the historic clash of Native Americans and pioneering settlers is long past because the Indians were, after all, defeated and now drive cars, watch...
Hoosiers' medical bills under state review
Public News Service
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By Marilyn Odendahl for The Indiana Citizen. Broadcast version by Joe Ulery for Indiana News Service reporting for the Indiana Citizen-Free Press Indiana-Public News Service Collaboration. In a move applauded by advocates and lawmakers alike, the...
MU Health Care and Anthem ‘have never been close’ to agreement, they tell Senate committee
My Ozarks Online - Missouri
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June 30, 2025
A contract dispute that has tens of thousands of central Missouri residents looking for new health care providers remains at an impasse, and agreement has “never been close,” a state Senate committee was told Monday. University of Missouri Health...
Big, beautiful and bungled
West Newsmagazine - Missouri
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Well, they did it. Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This massive piece of legislation extends the middle-class and small business tax cuts from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) – tax relief that working families and...
MU Extension and partners develop appraisal guide for wild turkey habitat
University of Missouri Extension
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Landowners in Missouri interested in improving habitats for wild turkeys on their property have a new tool to help them. University of Missouri Extension, in collaboration with the Missouri Department of Conservation and the...
FanDuel names Murray and Nabavi to public and federal affairs roles
Yogonet International
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July 9, 2025
US online betting and gaming giant FanDuel Group has appointed Shailagh Murray and Jonathan Nabavi to lead public and federal affairs. The move aligns with FanDuel’s ongoing need to address regulatory developments in North America. Murray has been...
Searching the Globe for Answers to America’s Thorniest Problems
Current Affairs
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July 7, 2025
In what would be the final year of the first Donald Trump administration, the COVID-19 pandemic put many age-old cracks in American society into high relief. Our ailing, grossly unequal healthcare system was woefully ill-prepared for a public...
PCBs and Precedent: What the Monsanto Settlement Means for Future Toxic Torts
JD Supra - California
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July 9, 2025
Monsanto has recently settled with families who claimed they were exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at a school near Seattle, ending what had become one of the most closely watched toxic tort cases in recent memory. The settlement came...
Show Me the Wine
State College Magazine - Pennsylvania
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July 1, 2025
Photo: VanessaSuzannPhotography, Getty Images If you were asked to name the U.S. state with the richest wine history, you likely would be hard-pressed to come up with the name of Missouri. Yet, the Show Me State is home to the first American...
SEC college football stadiums rankings: Florida's Swamp is the toughest
Yahoo Sports
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They say college football means more in the SEC. They’re underselling it. It means everything. Marino Casem, a born and raised Southerner who coached at a few schools in the region, once said, “In the South, football is a religion, and Saturday is...
Local athlete and activist is the subject of children's book
Daily News-Record - Virginia
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July 8, 2025
Some people might say that Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Whetstone was born to run. Others might say she was born to lead. Whetstone, a Lakota woman born in South Dakota who moved to Maine as a child, was the daughter of a sprinter and...
Sleepless in the Senate: Here’s everything that went down inside the 24-hour ‘vote-a-rama’
The Independent
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July 2, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Kansas regulators let Evergy hike rates to fund new natural gas and solar plants
KCUR - Missouri
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July 9, 2025
The Kansas Corporation Commission gave Evergy the go-ahead to build two natural gas plants and a new solar plant, over the objections of multiple parties. Evergy Kansas Central customers will see bills increase about 8.6% to build the new plants,...
Northwest’s Regents approve FY26 budget, name facility honoring longtime tennis coach, maintenance supervisor
Nodaway News Leader - Missouri
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July 1, 2025
Northwest Missouri State University’s Board of Regents, during its last regular meeting of the fiscal year June 18, unanimously approved the university’s 2025-26 budget, which consists of its Education and General (E&G) and Auxiliary Services...