@nprmidwest

nprmidwest has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in September 2023. The social media accounts linked to from nprmidwest are: • Instagram • YouTube • LinkedIn • X Besides social media accounts, nprmidwest has populated their site with: • Missouri couple on a mission to bring more dementia care to 'medical deserts' | STLPR • Missourians are living with a double whammy of student loans and credit card debt | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • No longer affordable: Nebraskans say rent costs are a major stressor | Nebraska Public Media • The Midwest Newsroom and collaboration partners win regional Murrow and PMJA awards | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • This Iowa bridge may stay closed after lawmakers cut earmarks from spending bill • A Kansas City immigrant’s last hope to stay hinges on asylum. But the odds are against her | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • www.stlpr.org • How a centuries-old legal tool helped immigrants leave ICE detention | Iowa Public Radio • Many people in north St. Louis may have lacked homeowners insurance when storms hit • Missouri summer camp CEO, embroiled in child sexual abuse scandal, is retiring | STLPR • Apply: The Midwest Newsroom Fellowship • Mother sent handcuffed son to Agape boarding school, gets prison time | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • Jobs at Iowa Public Radio • Tell us: How are you making ends meet? • Joplin police sniper who killed a 2-year-old girl just became a Missouri state trooper | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • Immigration arrests nearly triple in Missouri under Trump | STLPR • Water, ice from for-profit kiosks may come with lead, research finds | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • Fear, visa delays and costs are keeping international artists from the Midwest | Iowa Public Radio • Trump immigration policies slowing Iowa growth | Iowa Public Radio • From chocolate to farm equipment, Trump’s tariffs are 'pain points' for Nebraska manufacturers | Nebraska Public Media • St. Louis grocery prices are still high 1 year into the Trump administration • Trump cut thousands of federal jobs in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • Recent college graduates face a world with fewer jobs — and loan payments are due soon | Nebraska Public Media • More Nebraskans need rural transportation, but there’s less money to fund it | Nebraska Public Media • $500 monthly payments helped St. Louis families, research shows | STLPR • For seniors on Medicare Advantage, lower costs can mean gambling with health care | Nebraska Public Media • Class of 2025: How’s the job search going? The Midwest Newsroom wants to know • Iowa's prison health care system: jobs lost to privatization | Iowa Public Radio • A new law was supposed to reveal who's detasseling Nebraska's corn. It didn't really | Nebraska Public Media • This grain elevator owner and others are expanding storage during an unusual harvest | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • How a Kansas runner almost died on a hot practice day | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • Lee Enterprises’ troubles hurt local news consumers | Iowa Public Radio • It's unclear how many Iowa schools have tested for radon | Iowa Public Radio • ICE offers incentives to Midwest police, raising civil rights worries | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • St. Louis homes fall to post-tornado demolition | STLPR • Iowans rally to support immigrants at ICE check-ins, despite federal perimeter | Iowa Public Radio • Midwest school districts learn from 4-day school week | Iowa Public Radio • Missouri changes policy after isolating trans detainee for years | STLPR • Trump deportation policies hit Kansas City area businesses | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • Políticas migratorias afectaron escuelas del medio oeste previo a las redadas de restaurantes | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • From water to policing, Midwest cities take on AI with few guardrails • Community colleges worry a new wave of loan defaults could sink their finances • Privatize or downsize the USPS? Rural customers worry either option will hurt them • 'History has its eyes on us': Thousands rally in Lincoln at peaceful No Kings protest • Blue Springs transgender student loses discrimination case at Missouri Supreme Court • ICE releases Carol Mayorga, a Missouri mom whose detention sparked rural uproar The Midwest Newsroom | By Kavahn Mansouri Published June 4, 2025 at 6:05 p.m. CDT Updated June 5, 2025 at 8:55 a.m. CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Carol Mayorga embraces • 'Bring Carol home:' ICE snatches rural Missouri mom at immigration check-in • In storm-ravaged St. Louis and nationwide, more people lack homeowners insurance • A Nebraska boy was bullied and called a ‘cotton picker.’ His mother is demanding accountability • A gymnastics coach sexually abused Missouri girls. Then they had to face him in court • A mother and son fled Colombia for a better life. He died in Missouri on ICE's watch • How Medicaid work requirements would affect people in Midwest states • Got your Real ID? Millions of Midwesterners still don’t have the new, more secure cards • Police warn Missouri Republicans against reviving a controversial gun rights law • Midwest Newsroom | Investigative Journalism | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR • Midwest schools face civil rights investigations. Trump’s Education Department cuts may end them • Lincoln police officers endured sexual misconduct for years. They say the culture isn’t fixed • A Midwest farmer was promised money for a new delivery truck. Then Trump froze the funds • Is the 4-day school week working? We want to hear from teachers, parents and community members • Homeless residents in Midwest cities are increasingly hard to track — and to help • What do Midwest law enforcement agencies say about helping ICE with deportations? • ¿Qué dicen las agencias del orden público del Medio Oeste sobre ayudar a ICE con deportaciones? • Hoping to buy a home in the Midwest? Renting might be a better option for now • 5 things The Midwest Newsroom learned about funding earmarked for homeless students • In small towns, everyone knows everyone — and schools use that to help homeless kids • Even in ‘successful’ cases, federal funding for rural homeless students falls short • Judge allows more public access to records in case of Kansas toddler killed by Joplin sniper • Education officials encourage the inclusion method for special education. But are schools equipped to make it work? • Food delivery, flowers, Amazon: How Keisha Scarlett spent $141K of St. Louis Public Schools money • Number of Iowa school districts with 4-day weeks tripled in one year • Golubski On Trial: Roger is dead • Golubski On Trial: What we know • Missed deadline to spend federal funds means homeless students will lose out on services • Midwest ballot measures on abortion and sports betting draw donors from far outside the region • Midwest voters elect Republican leaders but don’t agree with the laws they pass. Why? • A 'hidden population' of homeless students in the Midwest isn't getting school services • It’s a team effort to ensure rural students who are homeless get an equal education • Here’s what Midwest voters say about abortion, climate change, and other key issues • Poll shows Nov. 5 vote on dueling Nebraska abortion measures could be close • Missouri and Kansas police paid for aggressive, discredited officer training tactics • Midwest states far from U.S.-Mexico border have spent millions to send troops there • U.S. Postal Service slowdowns are so bad, baby birds are dying in transit • Millions remain unspent in federal funds for homeless students — and time is running out • Teachers still spend their own money on school supplies, despite efforts to help stock classrooms • We Live Here: 10 Years After The Ferguson Uprising • Latina mothers in Nebraska join local police to make life safer for children with disabilities • Madres latinas y policía en Nebraska ayudan a niños con discapacidades • Voters in Missouri's 6th District say they never see Rep. Sam Graves. Does it even matter? • Missouri and Iowa's lack of beds at group foster homes leaves at-risk girls without specialized care • Ope — didn't count you! New study asks who exactly lives in the 'Midwest' • Immigrant farmers often can't get federal grants to start businesses. These nonprofits are helping • Agricultores inmigrantes reciben ayuda de organizaciones sin fines de lucro para empezar granjas • Iowa's new abortion law could have ripple effects across the Midwest • Nebraska's abortion law is pushing women to Kansas for pregnancy complication treatment • Climate change is making it harder to predict high temperatures in the Midwest • Manufactured homes are affordable and safer than ever. Could they help solve the housing crisis? • Salaries are not keeping pace with housing costs in the Midwest, especially in Lincoln • Growing local food businesses in the Midwest is at the heart of a new grant program • Energy costs, warming climate spark stricter energy codes for HUD housing • Joplin protesters demand police release name of sniper who killed 2-year-old girl • Iowa City group hopes to replace regional sexual violence services from scratch by fall • Iowans express frustration and shock following closure of sexual assault survivor service • How some rural nursing homes in the Midwest are staying afloat • More tenants in Kansas City and St. Louis are being evicted: ‘I was scared’ • ‘It’s a crisis': Midwest lawmakers back Momnibus Act to curb Black maternal mortality • VineBrook, in debt, is ditching Midwest rental properties and facing angry tenants • A Missouri police sniper killed a 2-year-old girl. Why did he take the shot? • What the killing of a 2-year-old Kansas girl reveals about the world of police snipers • A Missouri SWAT sniper sued to keep his name a secret. We’re suing to learn his identity • Review clears Lincoln University president of 'claims of bullying' after administrator's suicide • Let the sunshine in: What to know about your right to public information in 4 Midwest states • Hispanic maternal mortality rates remain unclear in parts of the Midwest • En Missouri, es difícil calcular cuántas mujeres hispanas mueren por problemas en el embarazo • After parade shooting, Kansas City leaders want to pass gun safety laws. Missouri won't let them • Lincoln University alumni call for president's ouster after suicide of vice president • Midwest rents used to be lower than the rest of the U.S. But that's quickly changing • Across the Midwest, unions are breaking through in a way they haven’t in decades • Lincoln University, a Missouri HBCU, faces reckoning after suicide of senior leader • Introducing Caucus Land ‘24 • St. Louis-area school district aggressively audits student housing, citing ‘educational larceny’ • The future of the Midwest includes hazardous heat, and most of our homes are not ready • Overlooked • Missouri knew of contamination in Springfield’s groundwater decades before anyone told residents • EPA estimates more than 200,000 lead pipes remain in Missouri • Missouri radio station still broadcasts Kremlin programming, even as Russia wages war in Ukraine • Kansas United Methodist Church congregations split with denomination over LGBTQ issues • With Missouri's backlog of 10,000 child abuse and neglect cases, 'children are not safe' • The feds are offering states the option to extend postpartum care. Some are turning it down • Supreme Court decision on student debt forgiveness leaves Midwest students disappointed and worried • VineBrook Homes owns thousands of properties in Kansas City and the Midwest, but tenants cry foul • Rising rents, limited supply — Why renting in Omaha is precarious for many • Davenport inspection records show complaints, structural issues at collapsed apartment building • Gender-affirming care for Nebraska teens is now banned. A PAC is fighting back