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One is already on the table, increasing taxes for data center developments.

For Wyoming Public Radio and Report for America, I'm Teal Davis.

An excerpt from a new documentary called Crossing the Threshold is touring across the state.

It highlights six Wyoming veterans from diverse backgrounds as they reflect on their service in the military and what it's been like to come home.

It's great to have you.

And joining Jasmine, rural LGBTQ plus beat reporter and Report for America core member all at the Buckeye Flame.

Hey, I work there too.

Ben Jodway.

And your job at that time was explicitly to fill the gap that existed there in news coverage.

Your position was that your position there initially funded through Report for America.

You were part of the second cohort of that program.

Tell me a little bit about when you first started there at the Herald-Leader in 2019 with the explicit job purpose in mind of, we have hired you here to cover this gap in news coverage that exists in eastern Kentucky.

Report for America in 2017 saw this what it calls collapse of local journalism and with its nonprofit status decided to help supplement legacy newsrooms like mine who couldn't cover the scope of things that they once covered.

So the Herald-Leader as listeners may know, is one of two used to be at least statewide papers in Kentucky.

The other is the Courier-Journal.

The Herald-Leader needing to cover eastern Kentucky, because it's a wide swath of our geography with financial implications, the collapse of the coal industry, the public health crisis that exists there, they saw it as a need to be covered.

He writes that he will continue his duties as an elected official.

I'm Chandra Colvin, Report for America.

This summer's drought held many Minnesota farmers in a stranglehold as crops suffered from a lack of rain, but improved seed genetics helped many avoid devastating losses.

However, University of Minnesota agronomist Seth Nave says those improvements come at a cost from seed companies.

Brown says if successful, it may further efforts by the Trump administration to localize energy production.

For Wyoming Public Radio and Report for America, I'm Teal Davis.

A recent book explores the factionalism within the state's Republican Party.

As Wyoming Public Radio's Melody Edwards reports, the authors found a standoff occurring in the state between an old guard and a new, more conservative branch.

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Yeah, yeah.

Um, so I was, I was, uh, hired as part of, uh, this initiative, RFA, Report for America.

Um, and they kind of placed, they place a bunch of reporters all over the country, and this is actually the first year they've done sports.

Mm.