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US postal workers help out with the Nation's largest one-day food drive. A union coalition in California is advocating for worker rights amidst climate challenges. Livestock waste is polluting Michigan's waters, contradicting its 'Pure Michigan' image. And Virginia farm workers receive updated heat protection guidelines.

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Republicans seek to prevent nearly non-existent illegal noncitizens voting, Speaker Johnson survives a motion to remove him, and a Georgia appeals court is to reconsider if Fulton County DA Willis is to be bumped from a Trump case.

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Some small towns in North Dakota worry they'll go to pot if marijuana is legalized, school vouchers are becoming a litmus test for Republicans, and Bennington, Vermont implements an innovative substance abuse recovery program.

Dallas Heltzell

Dallas Heltzell has been an editor at Public News Service since 2010. His nearly five decades of writing, editing and producing at daily-news outlets has included work at college radio stations; KOMU-TV in Columbia, Mo.; the Columbia Missourian, St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Longmont (Colo.) Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette and Denver Post. Besides his work at PNS, he's also a reporter for BizWest, which covers business news for Northern Colorado, and Prairie Mountain Newspapers.


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