Hiding weather data harms more than hurricane forecasts
Mark Gongloff warns that the Trump administration’s move to stop sharing military satellite data with weather forecasters risks degraded hurricane predictions and broader harms to lives and property. He links data gaps to higher insurance costs, ties to private satellite firms, and a growing disaster-bond market, urging fuller data access for timely warnings.
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Satellogic
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Starlink
South Florida
John Morales
NWS
Morales
Nature Scientific
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Gulf of Mexico
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Financial Times
Anthony Lopez
Miami
Florida
U.S
Big Beautiful Bill boosts immigration enforcement
Ida Wiebel of Long Grove voices opposition to Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. She argues for more funding to process asylum and citizenship requests, a more efficient work visa system, and rejects border barriers and detention centers. She says mass deportation is inhumane and calls for budget balance.
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Ida Wiebel
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Don’t privatize prison health care in Iowa
Thomas Hansen argues against privatizing Iowa prison health care, warning it would outsource care for 8,500 inmates and 200 state workers, risk continuity of care, undermine pensions, and raise costs. He calls for a vendor neutral EHR and workforce investment instead of privatization.
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IPERS
Iowa Doc Health
VitalCare Health Strategies
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University of Iowa
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Iowa Department of Corrections
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