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Colombian Fest brings ‘the whole Colombian experience’ to Humboldt Park this weekend

Billed as the largest Hispanic culture festival in the Midwest, the event returns for its eighth year with music, food, dance and art from Colombia and other Latin American countries.

Chicago Sun-Times

Editorial: Joe Manchin’s dangerous betrayal on climate change will weaken America

Climate change is stoking life-threatening heat and wildfires in Europe while tens of millions of Americans in the South, Southwest and Midwest broil under excessive heat this week. Much of California is under strict outdoor watering restrictions because of severe drought. But President Biden’s best hope for serious climate action…

Los Angeles Times

To reduce harmful algal blooms and dead zones, the US needs a national strategy for regulating farm pollution

Midsummer is the time for forecasts of the size of this year’s “dead zones” and algal blooms in major lakes and bays. Will the Gulf of Mexico dead zone be the size of New Jersey, or only as big as Connecticut? Will Lake Erie’s bloom blossom to a human health…

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Tess Gunty: ‘I was an almost freakishly devout child’

The Indiana-born author on the midwest setting of her acclaimed debut novel, her fascination with rabbits, and the ‘dazzling’ poetry of Tayi Tibble

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: Foreign policy should be built in the Midwest

American cities and states are laboratories of innovation and democracy. In an increasingly globalized world, they also help redefine how we think about U.S. diplomacy.

Chicago Tribune

New Yorkers will put up with a lot – but don’t blaspheme the bodegas

A midwestern transplant is the latest target of the city’s wrath for daring to criticize the beloved corner stores

The Guardian - US

Despite potential, Midwestern farms struggle to market fish

Although fish and seafood consumption is on the rise in the U.S., the number of Midwest aquaculture farms is declining, and many fish producers say they face challenges getting their produce to consumers

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Editorial: Preventable Amtrak crashes are a national problem and also a serious issue for Chicago

Crashes involving Amtrak trains appear rare. But the reality, especially west of Chicago, is that Amtrak trains themselves are infrequent. They run just three or four times a day to most Midwestern destinations. The great long-distance trains that head out west from Chicago — they have names like the Empire…

Chicago Tribune

Criticizing Lack of Grocery Stores in the South Bronx Means the Twitter Mob Will Try To Get You Fired

A recent college grad from the Midwest landed in the Bronx and was confused by bodega culture. This led to a social media mob, a digging up of old videos, and a firing.

Reason

Anti-abortion organizations react to Roe v. Wade’s end

Anti-abortion organizations say they are dedicated to fight for the lives of the unborn throughout the Midwest amid the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘It leaves you speechless’: Australian storm chaser captures America’s monster skies

Each year photographer Krystle Wright heads to the midwest, drawn by the majestic supercell storms and tornados that can turn blue skies into black fury

The Guardian - AU

With Roe overturned, Illinois — a Midwest refuge for abortion care — prepares for influx of patients from other states

CHICAGO — Illinois’ role as a haven of abortion care in the Midwest was magnified Friday, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a watershed decision that reverses nearly a half-century of federally protected reproductive freedoms.

Chicago Tribune

Roe reversal puts spotlight on state laws - Roll Call

The coasts are set to become de facto safe havens for access to abortion, while much of the South and Midwest will become abortion deserts.

Roll Call

Commentary: Being child-free lets me live my most authentic life

When I was a young married 20-something in the Midwest, I thought a woman’s role and joy in life was motherhood. It wasn’t a matter of if, but when I would step into my role of birthing babies and raising them. But life took many turns, including separating from my…

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Axios

Heat wave intensifies from Midwest to the South on first day of summer

By this weekend, highs in Texas are forecast to reach 105°F or above.

Axios

Heat wave to set more records from Midwest to the South this week

Summer is starting out unusually hot for millions across the U.S.

Tribune News Service

Higher heat and Midwest drought are forecast for US summer

Higher-than-normal heat is forecast to blanket most of the U.S. from July to September, drying out large chunks of the Great Plains and the Midwest while threatening to push drought into the Mississippi River Valley.

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Nearly 100 million under warnings as prolonged heat wave roasts Midwest, Southeast

The heat wave is expected bring with it severe thunderstorms and a chance or tornadoes along its periphery.

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USA Today Sports Media Group

Gull Lake View – One golf family’s ‘Field of Dreams’

Gull Lake View, located in southern Michigan, has been part of the Midwest's golf fabric for nearly six decades.

The Independent UK

Heat wave keeps its sticky grip on Midwest and South

The swimming season has kicked into high gear early in a large swath of the U.S., as a heat wave pushed temperatures into the 90s and beyond in a stretch spanning from northern Florida to the Great Lakes and covering about a third of the country’s population

USA Today Sports Media Group

Final 2022 USA TODAY/American Volleyball Coaches Association boys volleyball Super 25

The top boys high school volleyball teams for the 2022 season.

The Independent UK

Dangerous heat wave descends on parts of Midwest and South

Much of the Midwest and a swath of the South are facing a potentially dangerous and deadly heat wave, with temperatures that could reach record highs in some places and combine with humidity to make it feel like it’s 100 degrees or hotter in spots

The Independent UK

3 missing, swept away in drainage ditch after severe storms

Authorities say a child and two adults were missing after they were swept away in a drainage ditch in Milwaukee following severe thunderstorms that brought heavy rains and damaging winds to a wide swath of the Midwest and parts of the South

Benzinga

Capstone Bags Contract To Supply 1.2 MW Power Generation Solution To Illinois Gas Facility

Capstone Green Energy Corp's (NASDAQ:CGRN) distributor for the Midwest, New England, and Eastern Canada, Vergent Power Solutions, secured an order for a 1.2 megawatt (MW) energy system for a northern Illinois gas utility company at their natural gas facility. Financial terms were not disclosed. The new solution, which features two Capstone C600 Signature…

Axios

Records set from California to Texas as "dangerous" heat wave threatens 100M as it pushes east

"Dangerous heat" to pummel Southwest, Southern and Central areas overnight before moving farther north and east, NWS warns.

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