Wisconsin will replace FoodShare aid when outages spoil food, but filing requests isn’t easy. Addie Costello reports.

Bureaucratic hurdles & little awareness mean few FoodShare/SNAP recipients are reimbursed following power outages & other misfortunes. wisconsinwatch.org/2024/04/wiscon…

My first story for WPR and Wisconsin Watch.

Wisconsin saves money when Medicaid-eligible seniors choose assisted living instead of a nursing home. But that choice comes with vulnerability.

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Here's Addie Costello with her first report for @wisconsinwatch! Check out the WPR version as well.

Wisconsin seniors face housing upheaval as assisted living homes reject Medicaid wisconsinwatch.org/2024/02/wiscon…

New at FFP: A column from Exec Director Matt Wynn about comments Gov. Jim Pillen recently made about FFP investigative reporter Yanqi Xu.
Listen to Pillen’s comments, during which he raises Xu’s Chinese nationality and says “what more do you need to know?”
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'Despite recent, record-high home prices and rising mortgage rates, Gen Zers are ahead of older generations.'

via Addie Costello

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This was the first typo-filled email of my journalism career. Even though John Heaston did take me up on my offer to clean, he also showed me how to report. My very first edits and everything The Reader team taught me will always stick with me.

Could Texans be allowed to import prescriptions from Canada? Here's what lawmakers propose statesman.com/story/news/sta…

Texas House approves CROWN Act, sets protections against race-based hair discrimination statesman.com/story/news/202…

Bills targeting transgender college athletes have a majority support in the Texas Senate & House.

Austin Statesman asked every four-year Texas public university: Have you ever had a trans athlete compete in NCAA sports? None said yes.

Latest w/Addie Costello:
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New The Flatwater Free Press: The Hummel Day Camp is a beloved summer day camp for many Omaha families.
Nature hikes. Archery. S’mores.
But few North Omaha kids participate in the city-run day camp even though it’s held in North Omaha, data shows.
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Small-town Nebraska has a poverty problem, reports Addie Costello The Flatwater Free Press & Nebraska Public Media. Three Nebraska towns have three solutions. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-a…

New at The Flatwater Free Press: Small-town Nebraska has an often-hidden poverty problem. Three Nebraska towns are fighting back in different ways.
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It’s time to talk about Winter Storm Uri.

Listen to my climate anxiety villain origin story here ⬇️

New from The Flatwater Free Press: Nebraska teachers dip into their own pockets, and ask friends and strangers for donations, in order to fill their classrooms with supplies.
A new Omaha company and several nonprofits and crowdfunding sites are trying to help.
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I don't know if I'm just getting crankier or if the summers are getting more unbearable, but it's clearly worse here on the east side. This story from Reader alum Addie Costello shows how heatwaves suffocate Omaha's poorer areas more than the rest.
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Maternal care in some parts of Nebraska is so hard to come by that on lil guy has this here sign listed as his official place of birth.

Heckuva story from Addie Costello: flatwaterfreepress.org/roadside-babie…

While Raiden's delivery was far from typical, his mom's barriers to pregnancy care are the norm for many parents in rural Nebraska.

Read my latest for The Flatwater Free Press to find out why those barriers are increasing (and see some really cute babies).

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New at The Flatwater Free Press: Her contractions quickened outside of Franklin, 50 miles from Kearney, the nearest hospital offering birthing services.
The wild story of Raiden’s birth. The scary tale of shrinking hospitals making small town pregnancy riskier.

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New at The Flatwater Free Press: Rising temperatures may hit especially hard in North and South Omaha. The historically redlined neighborhoods have less park space -- half as much as their West Omaha counterparts per square mile, Addie Costello found.

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In The Flatwater Free Press, Addie Costello reports on a trend of fraud in small Nebraska towns. But can taxpayers actually do anything to help prevent these practices? Addie Costello & Deputy Auditor Craig Kubicek join me on the latest episode of Nebraskanomics. platteinstitute.org/tracking-waste…