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At Grinnell Mutual Bartelt Conference and Education Center, with social distancing guidelines in place, Grinnell Mutual's 112th annual business meeting convened on June 24 in Grinnell, Iowa. Mary Jo Robison, secretary-treasurer/manager at LaPrairie Mutual Insurance Company, was elected to serve the remaining term of the seat left vacant by the departure…

Jun. 29– A new app designed to rank the flood risk for every property in the U.S. has some distressing findings for Florida. The cities with the most properties at risk are all over the state– from Tampa, the city most at risk to storm surge, to Cape Coral, which Politico memorably dubbed “the boomtown that shouldn't exist,” to sunny-day flooded Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

—Democrats pushed a strengthening of“ Obamacare” patient protections toward House passage Monday, an effort they hoped would help them sharpen the coronavirus pandemic and President Donald Trump's efforts to scuttle the increasingly popular law into a lethal campaign-season weapon. For Democrats, the bill was a chance to showcase their support for…

Jun. 29– Thomas Rekstein no longer minds looking at the electric bill for his Great River Insurance business on North Riverfront Drive. Mike Allen, CEO and co-founder of All Energy Solar, said their work in Minnesota and surrounding states has grown rapidly in recent years. Joel Hanif, community development planner for the Region Nine Development Commission,…

Nearly half a million properties in Ohio are at risk of flooding– more than double the number recorded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to a new modeling tool released Monday. The current FEMA map places just 3,611 Summit properties in that risk level. In Akron alone, 3,482 additional properties are at risk currently, the study found, while…

The American Public Health Association issued the following news release:. The American Public Health Association strongly opposes a Trump Administration legal filing with the U.S. Supreme Court aimed to strike down the Affordable Care Act, an action that threatens the health and well-being of millions of Americans. “The Trump Administration has zeroed in…

The Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum issued the following news release:. In its legal brief, the Administration argues that the ACA is unconstitutional because Congress ended the individual financial penalty for not having health insurance coverage in 2017. Juliet K. Choi, executive vice president of the Asian& Pacific Islander American…

First Street said the discrepancy exists because it uses current climate data, maps precipitation as a stand-alone risk, and includes areas where FEMA has not mapped. There are 3,056 properties listed as “at risk” in 2020 by FEMA and 10,874 properties “at risk” listed by First State. Broken down into percentages, 3 percent of the properties in the county are “at risk”…

There’ s a pandemic going on, and a related economic cataclysm has rendered millions jobless and without employer-provided health insurance. As Joe Biden noted Thursday, coronavirus has all sorts of long-term symptoms just being identified– including possible strokes, heart attacks and other potentially perpetual ailments. For a decade now, Republicans…

The familiar yet startling attacks on a pillar of democracy come amid a resurgence of the coronavirus under Trump's watch that forced Vice President Mike Pence to cancel upcoming campaign stops in Florida and Arizona and pushed several Trump-allied Republican governors to scale back reopening efforts. The Republican president is hoping that a…

Matt Cartwright, D- Pennsylvania, issued the following news release:. U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Justice and several Republican attorneys general filed briefs in California v. Texas before the Supreme Court, asking that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act be struck down in its…

In Michigan, First Street finds almost 400,000 more properties with flood risk than FEMA identifies– a big potential liability for property owners and renters, as most outside of FEMA flood zones are probably not covered by flood insurance, meaning their regular insurance wouldn't cover their losses if a flood occurred, and forcing residents to pay out of…

It wasn’ t long ago that Minnesota had some of the safest roads in the nation based on its low death rate per every million vehicle miles traveled. Even before COVID, Minnesota had a speeding problem. With nearly 26% of traffic fatalities involving speeding over the five-year period, Minnesota came in at No. 35 in the ranking of states with the most speeding-related…

Jun. 29– The U.S. is facing a growing terrorism problem, and the threat will likely escalate as anger and polarization intensify over the upcoming presidential election, police brutality and the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, experts on extremism say. “Both the anti-quarantine protests that the far-right orchestrated in April and May and the recent civil unrest have…