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Rural hospitals and farmers face critical shortages and financial strain as Congressional deadlock halts funding, impacting essential services in small-town America, experts report.
- This past week, Rural America began feeling the effects of a federal funding halt as Congress lacks sufficient votes to pass the continuing resolution, triggering widespread local strain.
- Policy shifts favoring big agricultural interests preceded the funding disruption in rural areas, as lawmakers implemented a pilot program benefiting large corporate agricultural operations while cutting programs that serve rural communities.
- Rural hospitals are wondering how long they can stay open as Medicaid and REAP are put on hold, leaving small businesses and farmers stranded.
- Farmers, families and small towns are bearing the immediate human cost as Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene urges prioritizing Americans' health care over foreign interests and wasteful spending.
- Observers warn that ICE roundups without due process raise legal and rights concerns, emphasizing that undocumented immigrants face civil violations, not criminal offenses.
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Letters to the editor: Oct. 22
Chesterfield lost a good man Paul Lafata, a one-term elected member of the Chesterfield Township Board then defeated, was it outside sources because Paul explained facts and figures of the spending of the township board. Paul didn’t need the job and not for personal gain he cared about the people of the Chesterfield community. If you’re sitting on our Chesterfield Township Board and answer to others outside of Chesterfield for personal gain resi…
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