Come Election Day, a Quaker leader will travel from the nation's capital to her home state of Ohio. A Christian minister and a Jewish rabbi will stand vigil outside a polling place in Arizona. A Buddhist nun will offer support to voters in Wisconsin. In battleground states across the ...
Minnesota hospitals had a record high of over 2 million emergency department visits in 2024. That year, more than a quarter of hospitals lost money on operations. The Minnesota Hospital Association painted a bleak picture of Minnesota health care Tuesday in a new report titled “A Statewide Crisis of Care.” The hospitals are gearing up for what could be a bruising budget year at the Legislature in 2027, as efforts to counteract federal Medicaid cuts will run into the state’s own long-term fiscal challenges. At a Capitol press conference, executives of rural hospitals spoke of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voter turnout is soaring compared with the last midterm election in many of the states that are expected to decide control of the U.S. Senate, according to an Associated Press analysis of early voting two weeks before Election Day. In Texas, early voting is up 74% compared with 2022. In Kansas it's more than doubled. Maine, North Carolina and Ohio also have seen increases of more than 30% in early in-person and mail voting compared with the same point in 2022. Democrats are trying to flip Republican-held Senate seats in each of those states. In most of them, ...
MARSHALL — This week, Lyon County Commissioners approved a permit request to build a new 700-head cattle feedlot on land near the intersection of Lyon County Road 5 and County Road 20. Commissioners heard a request Tuesday from Dylan Anderson for a conditional use permit for a new feedlot located in Lyons Township. Anderson was requesting a permit for a feedlot with 700 animal units, the permit request said. “This is located on County Road 5 and County Road 20, in the corner here,” said Lyon County Planning and Zoning Administrator John Biren. “With the size of the feedlot, it ...
MARSHALL — Marshall High School took a new approach to personal electronic devices like cell phones this year. “In a nutshell, that basically says that our students cannot access their cell phones or their AirPods during the school day,” MHS Principal Brian Jones told Marshall School ...
MARSHALL – Marshall public schools brought forward plans this week for helping students improve in subjects like reading, math and science this school year. Members of the Marshall School Board voted to approve Site Continuous Improvement plans for each of MPS’s school sites, from Park Side Elementary up to Marshall High School and the Alternative Learning Center and Career and Technical Institute. The SCIP plans brought to the school board focus on setting goals for improving student performance in broad areas including literacy, math, science and social emotional learning. ...
