2022-08-23 Abortion Is Shaking Up Attorneys General Races and Exposing Limits to Their Powers Lauren Weber and Sam Whitehead As the country grapples with states’ newfound power to regulate abortion in the aftermath of this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decision, state attorney general candidates are staking claims on what they’ll do to fight […]
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In Tennessee, an Experiment to Manage Behavior with an App
2022-08-23 In Tennessee, an Experiment to Manage Behavior with an App by Katherine Lewis On a chilly morning in January 2020, Principal Stephen Byrd leaned towards the 9th grader sitting across the table in his office. Byrd asked the student, an African American teenager with a sparkly stud in one ear, what had happened. He’d […]
Rural Hospitals
2022-08-22 Some Rural Hospitals Are in Such Bad Shape, Local Governments Are Practically Giving Them Away Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio ERIN, Tenn. — Kyle Kopec gets a kick out of leading tours through the run-down hospitals his boss is snapping up, pointing out what he calls relics of poor management left by […]
Medically Vulnerable families and Inflation
2022-08-16 For Medically Vulnerable Families, Inflation’s Squeeze Is Inescapable Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News ROSAMOND, Calif. — Deborah Lewis rose from bed before dawn and signed in to her phone so she could begin delivering fast food, coffee, and groceries to residents in this western patch of the Mojave Desert where test […]
Crusading Couple Celebrate Passage of Burn Pit Bill
2022-08-10 After ‘a Lot of Doors Shut in Our Face,’ Crusading Couple Celebrate Passage of Burn Pit Bill Michael McAuliff The battle was just beginning for Le Roy Torres and his wife, Rosie, when the Army captain returned to Texas in 2008, already starting to suffer from the toxic substances he’d inhaled from […]
Tribe Embraces Recreational Marijuana Sales on Reservation Where Alcohol Is Banned
2022-08-09 Tribe Embraces Recreational Marijuana Sales on Reservation Where Alcohol Is Banned Arielle Zionts PINE RIDGE, S.D. — In a growing number of U.S. states, people can both drink alcohol and legally smoke recreational marijuana. In others, they can use alcohol but not pot. But on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South […]
Illuminating the brain one neuron and synapse at a time – 5 essential reads about how researchers are using new tools to map its structure and function
Illuminating the brain one neuron and synapse at a time – 5 essential reads about how researchers are using new tools to map its structure and function The U.S. BRAIN Initiative seeks to elucidate the connection between brain structure and function. Science Photo Library – PASIEKA/Brand X Pictures via Getty Images Vivian Lam, The Conversation Scientists […]
The US Mental Health Hotline Network Is Expanding, but Rural Areas Still Face Care Shortages
2022-07-31 The US Mental Health Hotline Network Is Expanding, but Rural Areas Still Face Care Shortages Christina Saint Louis The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s 988 phone number, which launched July 16, was designed as a universal mental health support tool for callers at any time anywhere. But the U.S. is a patchwork of […]
The Leader of New York’s “City of the Dead” Cashes In. Again.
2022-07-30 The Leader of New York’s “City of the Dead” Cashes In. Again. by Carson Kessler ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The stretch where Pinelawn Road turns into Wellwood Avenue on New York’s Long Island is known […]
The power of short breaks, movement and other practices on improving mental health – 4 essential reads
2022-07-29 The power of short breaks, movement and other practices on improving mental health – 4 essential reads Exercising with loved ones is one way to support mental well-being. Commercial Eye/The Image Bank via Getty Images Jacqueline Kim, The Conversation and Michelle McAdams, The Conversation As of July 16, 2022, people have only to press three […]