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7 Jul 2020
A $1.5 trillion infrastructure proposal by the House of Representatives was approved on July 1, 2020. The partisan H.R.2 Moving America Forward Act will address the growing backlog of maintenance and repairs needed for the country's roads and bridges. It will also invest in public transit systems, railroads and airports; water systems, schools and ...
7 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- As soon as staff at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll, Iowa, first heard in January of a dangerous new coronavirus spreading in China, they watched the situation closely and began to plan.Their goals included to protect the health of current longer-term patients, prepare for future COVID-19 patients, and help their rural healt...
6 Jul 2020
A family from Florida, obviously out of place at an Iowa gas station along the interstate, but cheerfully looking forward to the next game of "I Spy" from the backseat of their Tahoe; travelers from Chicago, stopping to take selfies with a "Lewis & Clark Trail" roadside sign; rental RVs, headed west; kayaks strapped to the roofs of SUVs -- these we...
6 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A recent spike in new COVID-19 cases in rural America is hitting small-town hospitals that were already vulnerable.Cash-strapped and underequipped since even before the pandemic hit, the new coronavirus forced them earlier this year to adjust their plans and resources to get through the past few months and survive in their communitie...
6 Jul 2020
Back in December 2019, I wrote "A Hunch About This Market Cycle" (see https://www.dtnpf.com/…), which found similarities with the year 2000 to the depressed predicament ag prices found themselves in at the end of 2019.One of the lessons was that we had seen a similar time before when ag prices were depressed and financial markets were highly popula...