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- Empowering Parents is open for applications
Families can now apply for their share from the $30 million education microgrant program. They can receive up to $1,000 per student or $3,000 per family.
- Four South Idaho districts ask for multimillion-dollar levies
School leaders say the money would be used for things like salaries, busing, school safety and athletics.
- Palouse college fair focuses on paying for tuition
Palouse Pathways hosted its first “College Within Reach” event this weekend, a paying-for-college fair focused on financial aid, scholarships and other ways to pay for school.
- We thought closing Idaho’s primaries was a good idea. We were wrong.
Proposition 1 will not only give voters more and better choices — it will also make politicians more accountable to the people they serve.
- Boise State, U of I tout enrollment increases
Boise State University reported a fall enrollment record. The University of Idaho reported the largest first-year student class in its history.
Mountain Journal
- Hunters Should Recognize Predators as Allies, not Competitors
" width="224" height="168" align="right" hspace="10" alt="Predators like mountain lions are critical to helping slow spread of diseases like CWD" title="Predators like mountain lions are critical to helping slow spread of diseases like CWD" />If the whole of nature is good, writes Ted Williams in this op-ed, then no part can be bad. Wolves and cougars can help curb wildlife diseases. Read More
- Single-Use Plastics Ban on Bozeman Ballot
" width="224" height="168" align="right" hspace="10" alt="Microplastics exist in more than half of Montana's rivers and streams" title="Microplastics exist in more than half of Montana's rivers and streams" />Following an initial disqualification, a ballot initiative on plastic bags proceeds to the polls in November. Read More
- Feeling Through Fire Part 3: Seeking Truth in an Emotional Blaze
" width="224" height="168" align="right" hspace="10" alt="Wildland firefighting, much like journalism, can be a waiting game. Until it's not." title="Wildland firefighting, much like journalism, can be a waiting game. Until it's not." />Two journalists and their attempt to unearth the truth behind wildfire. Part 3 in our series exploring our emotional relationship to wildfire.Read More
- The Ephemeral Beauty of Autumn
" width="224" height="168" align="right" hspace="10" alt="The Tetons adorned in autumn" title="The Tetons adorned in autumn" />During the shifting of the seasons, columnist Susan Marsh writes that the small things can bring peace of mind. Read More
- Are Bison Numbers in Yellowstone Sustainable?
" width="224" height="168" align="right" hspace="10" alt="Bison graze in Yellowstone National Park near Lamar Valley" title="Bison graze in Yellowstone National Park near Lamar Valley" />About 4,500 bison live in Yellowstone National Park. The National Park Service says it plans to manage for up 1,500 more but a former hydrologist writes in this op-ed that bison are already destroying park streams. Here’s what he says the Park Service should do. Read More
Daily Yonder
- Abortion Is on the Ballot in Missouri. Access for Everyone – Not just Urban Areas – Could Improve.
This article was co-published with The 19th. Nicole was driving when she heard on the radio that Roe v. Wade had fallen, and that soon abortion would be almost completely illegal in her home state of Missouri. She thought first of her children, two teenagers who she feared might someday need reproductive health care, including The post Abortion Is on the Ballot in Missouri. Access for Everyone – Not just Urban Areas – Could Improve. appeared first on The Daily Yonder.
- Medical Academy Serves High School Students and Their Communities
For Montevideo Public School Superintendent Wade McKittrick, creating a medical academy in the Montevideo High School filled a need on two fronts for the rural Minnesota community – the students’ and the community’s. Montevideo Medical Academy provides high-school students with medical training to give them a leg up when it comes to getting jobs. For The post Medical Academy Serves High School Students and Their Communities appeared first on The Daily Yonder.
- Mothering Over Meds: Docs Say Common Treatment for Opioid-Exposed Babies Isn’t Necessary
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. On learning last year she was pregnant with her second child, Cailyn Morreale was overcome with fear and trepidation. “I was so scared,” said Morreale, a resident of the small western North Carolina town of Mars Hill. In that moment, her joy about being pregnant was The post Mothering Over Meds: Docs Say Common Treatment for Opioid-Exposed Babies Isn’t Necessary appeared first on The Daily Yonder.
