
From Other Nonprofit Media
From Other Nonprofit Media showcases select work from other nonprofit news sites around the nation.
From Other Nonprofit Media showcases select work from other nonprofit news sites around the nation.

After rough start, electric buses are back on the road in Minneapolis-St. Paul
Metro Transit idled its first batch of electric buses due to mechanical and charging problems. They’re now back in service, along with a plan to convert almost 12% of its fleet to electric models over the next five years.

The CDC’s new guidelines on COVID-19 risk and masking send confounding signals
While some experts praised the move as an appropriate shift from a pandemic to an endemic public health posture, others worried that the government was letting down its guard too early.

Wisconsin bill would grant utilities a monopoly on building transmission projects
The legislation makes Wisconsin the latest state to push back against a 2011 federal order promoting competition.

How is snowfall measured? A meteorologist explains
There are over 8,700 cooperative observers across the U.S. who send in their weather data to the National Weather Service each day. Some of them have been doing it for more than 75 years.

What patients can learn with confidence from one negative rapid test (Hint: very little)
While home antigen testing remains a useful — and underutilized — tool to curb the pandemic, experts say, it is often misused and may provide false confidence.

When dangerous strains of salmonella hit, the turkey industry responded forcefully. The chicken industry? Not so much.
Consolidation in the poultry industry may be fueling widespread salmonella outbreaks. Turkey companies worked with researchers to eradicate one. So why can’t the chicken industry do the same?

A virus expert explains what researchers know — and don’t know — about the omicron coronavirus variant
While the unusually high number of mutations in the omicron variant is surprising, the emergence of yet another SARS-CoV-2 variant is not unexpected.

Court records show emails and phone data searched in probe of South Dakota billionaire Denny Sanford
ProPublica won access to search warrants showing a child pornography investigation of South Dakota’s richest man, confirming our reporting from last year.

How ‘living memorials’ help some service members remember fallen comrades
The memorials can be especially meaningful for those processing their experiences and remembering those they lost, and physically represent the emotional weight they carry every day.

Wisconsin bill would clarify third-party solar’s legal status, once and for all
In third-party solar, a company installs panels for a customer and then either leases the panels or sells the power or net-metering credits to the property owner.

Oath Keepers in the statehouse: How a militia movement took root in the Republican mainstream
A membership roster for the Oath Keepers, a violent extremist group whose followers have been charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection, includes state lawmakers, congressional candidates, and local government and GOP officials.

Four reasons Americans are still seeing empty shelves and long waits for many products
There are several primary – and interrelated – reasons for the continuing crunch. And unfortunately for many, they won’t be resolved by the holidays.

Living along one of Wisconsin’s most polluted waterways
The latest contaminants of concern in the creek draining Madison’s East Side: PFAS, hazardous chemicals being flagged across Wisconsin.

More than half of America’s 100 richest people exploit special trusts to avoid estate taxes
Secret IRS records show billionaires use trusts that let them pass fortunes to their heirs without paying estate tax. Will Congress end a tax shelter that has cost the Treasury untold billions?

Long waits to connect to Xcel’s grid are stalling Minnesota solar projects
Xcel told one customer they would need to wait 15 years to connect their solar system to its electric grid.

Long-secret FBI report reveals new connections between 9/11 hijackers and Saudi religious officials in U.S.
“This validates what we have been saying,” says an attorney for families of 9/11 victims who are suing the Saudi government over alleged support of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Many long-term care staff in Wisconsin reject vaccine, despite risks
Suspicion, right to control health care, create clash between some long-term care workers and vaccine mandates to protect the vulnerable residents they serve.

Will the end of pandemic-related unemployment benefits ease Wisconsin’s worker shortage?
This $300 a week in enhanced benefits has been a lifeline for many left jobless by COVID-19, but it has become the source of a hot partisan debate.

Concert venues are banking on proof of vaccines or negative tests to woo back fans
It’s the latest pivot by the concert industry, this time amid an increase in delta variant infections and lingering concerns about the recent Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago.
