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For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes
AOL· 4 days agoFlooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at a roughly 30% higher rate than the U.S. as a whole, according to data provided exclusively to The Associated Press ...
For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes
Associated Press· 4 days agoConsider West Alton, Missouri, on a bend of the Mississippi near its meeting with the Missouri River. It had 3,900 people in 1970, Mayor Willie Richter...
Insider Today: Asia's superpower clash
Business Insider· 6 days agoThis story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. This post originally appeared in the...
Tenants say foreclosure is just the latest problem at the Luckman in Cleveland
News Channel 5 Cleveland· 1 day agoIcarus DeShazer moved to Cleveland filled with hope. The 22-year-old packed his car in November and drove from Arizona to Downtown, where his first apartment was waiting at the Luckman on East ...
Editorial Roundup: New York
US News & World Report· 3 days agoThe State Education Department just announced that it plans to make the value of a New York high school diploma worthless. High achievers who pass enough Regents tests won’t get distinctive ...
Could NBC's golf coverage suffer after $27 billion NBA deal? Leadership speaks up
Golf Magazine· 4 days agoWelcome back to another extended edition of the Hot Mic Newsletter, GOLF’s weekly send covering all...
SWFL Heavy Rains Live Blog: See the flooding, plus important closure information
FOX 4 News· 2 days agoWith bands of heavy rain not expected to wind down until the end of the weekend, some areas were really starting to struggle with all the water.
Interview with historian Dan Okrent on the centenary of the Immigration Act of 1924
World Socialist Web Site· 5 days agoThe World Socialist Web Site recently interviewed author, historian, journalist and editor Dan Okrent, on his book The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law that Kept Two Generations of ...
Your pictures of Scotland: Photographs from around the country
BBC News· 24 hours agoA selection of photographs submitted to BBC Scotland News from around the country this week.
Where the wildflowers grow ... in a Ukrainian war zone
The Christian Science Monitor· 5 days agoWhen the Kakhovka Dam on Ukraine’s Dnieper River was destroyed a year ago, apparently by Russian...
