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For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 3 days agoDevastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on...
For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes
AOL· 4 days agoDevastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America's most storied river. Flooding has pushed ...
La. Congressman Graves bows out of newly drawn district
KALB Alexandria· 9 hours agoThis comes in the same year a Congressional map was passed by the La. Legislature, which resulted in...
Juneteenth’s Meaning Takes New Shape 3 Years After Federal Recognition
AARP· 15 hours ago“And a lot of people who practice Juneteenth caught it early on as it migrated out, mostly in the...
North Dakota Governor Primary Election Results
New York Times· 3 days agoGet live results and maps from the 2024 North Dakota primary election.
Which 14 states have abortion bans?
USA Today· 1 day agoThe U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Texas-led challenge to the abortion medication mifepristone on Thursday. In Alabama, abortion is banned in almost all...
For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes
Associated Press· 4 days agoDevastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America’s most storied river. Flooding has pushed ...
Why aren’t young people reading anymore?
Casper Star-Tribune· 20 hours agoRummaging among the coloring books, puzzles, maps and baby toys my mother had packed for the trip, I came across a boxed set of C. S. Lewis’s “The...
Takeaways from AP examination of flooding's effect along Mississippi River
U-T San Diego· 4 days agoCommerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over the past century at the expense of many once-thriving river towns. The data came from First Street, a risk analysis firm ...
Takeaways from AP examination of flooding's effect along Mississippi River
Associated Press· 4 days agoCommerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over the past century at the expense of many once-thriving river towns. It had almost 4,000 people in 1970, but major floods in 1973, 1993 and 2019 have left it with fewer than 400.