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I thought Duluth’s lead threat was in the water. The data told a different story.

A data journalist set out to map Duluth's lead water lines, until experts pointed instead to the lead paint in the city's ...
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The Health Divide: This breakthrough obesity drug is creating a big new health disparity

What happens when an expensive drug that works well for a condition affecting millions of people remains out of reach to many ...
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How filmmaker Rob Reiner put early childhood in the limelight

The story was produced as a project for USC Annenberg's 2018 National Fellowship. It also ran in LocalNewsMatters.org. This article is part of a series about First 5 — a tobacco tax initiative in ...
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More Iowa youth need mental health care. Has funding kept up with the demand?

When Heather Preston adopted her two sons, finding them care became her full-time job. After the siblings, whom Preston adopted from foster care, moved from a small southern Iowa town into her Des ...