School just started in Minnesota. One way we know this is the flutter of banners, seemingly stuck to every corner and fence post, announcing that school bus drivers are desperately needed. Join now, the signs proclaim in bold letters, and earn hiring bonuses, on-the-job training and up to $20 per hour. This is not just a local problem. In February, NPR reporter Robbie Feinberg documented the shortage of bus drivers in school districts across the country, leading to a shortage of drivers in the “boom economy.” Drivers have abandoned their yellow school buses for better-paying jobs, Feinberg wrote, leaving one…
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To date, The Nature Conservancy has placed about 20 examples of constructed wetlands on farms in southern Illinois. Ranging in size from a quarter to a full acre, these small wild patches contrast with the regular crops that surround them, with tufts of tall grasses and impressionistic palettes of green and brown. Cattails quickly move on to new projects, while piles of sharp-stemmed rushes settle on the edge. Aquatic plants such as kelp spread on the surface of the water. Sometimes the blue flag iris appears, with their striking purple flowers. Other than occasional maintenance, such as the eradication of…
Tractors, drones and other GPS-guided precision farming technologies are used on more than half of the farms in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. According to USDA survey data from 2021, the most recent data available, these Midwestern states reported the highest rates of precision technology use in the nation. Some states, especially in the northeastern US, did not have enough data to be included in the final data set. “Precision agriculture” includes many technologies and techniques that allow farmers to manage crops at the sub-village level. For example, with…
Jack Walton | Correspondent TribuneFor decades, Jane Burns was active in a wide range of cultural spheres in Elkhart and South Bend, but her most lasting contribution was her work in managing the Midwest Museum of American Art, from its inception until her retirement in 2015. She died on December 7 of ovarian cancer. It was 81. Born Billye Jane French on Nov. 1, 1940, in Yeager, Okla., she married Dr. Dick Burns in 1960. Dick's work with the U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. Air Force required an itinerant lifestyle for his early years marriage, but after living…
Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health and Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System have signed an integration agreement to form a 25-hospital regional health system in four states. Health systems was announced the July 27 integration agreement. In October 2022 the systems said they were in merger talks and had signed a memorandum of cooperation. “Discussions over the past few months have made it clear that this is an incredible opportunity to improve both health systems, secure our future, and take patient care and services to an even higher level,” said Susan Turney, MD, who previously announced plans to step down as CEO…
This story is part of a Harvest Public Media series of carbon sequestration projects. Read about it CO2 pipeline projects which is recommended throughout the Midwest and how federal tax credits help startup The projects. Chandler Johnson / Harvest Public Media When Andy Alexander moved into his grandparents' farmhouse a few years ago, he knew he was moving next to the Dakota Access pipeline. It's about an eighth of a mile from his doorstep under rows of corn ripening from green to gold.Then he learned that another conductor could go right next to him. “They're proposing to put in a…
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Midwest Industrial Funds recently hosted a groundbreaking event with the project team and local government officials to kick off the remodel of the Class A – Libertyville 45 Corporate Center, located at 1850 US 45, Libertyville, Illinois. Located on a high-visibility 19-acre site adjacent to the Libertyville/Canlan Sports Complex, the two-building redevelopment consists of 169,065-square-foot and 165,234-square-foot for-profit buildings suitable for corporate headquarters. distribution, assembly and manufacturing. The site was previously a driving range and miniature golf facility owned and operated by the Village of Libertyville. MIF Construction LLC is the design-build general contractor for the project, with Pinnacle Engineering…
'Sophisticated' artists from 24 nearby countiesQuirks of art, such as a small child's scribble on his dad's large ceramic vase, enrich the 153 pieces that fill the 43rd Elkhart Regional Juried Show at Elkhart's Midwest Museum of American Art.”Autumn Downhill,” by Bryan Graham of South Bend, won best sculpture for a colorful, abstract jumble of wooden creatures and characters on some sort of four-wheeled glass.But equally, the large exhibit, which fills two floors, also gives you interludes of lush landscapes, locomotives, cute birds and popular haunts like Granger resident Larry Johnson's acrylic painting of The Chief Ice Cream.On now until…
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