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TL/DR - The Public Employees Insurance Agency of West Virginia is proposing a health insurance premium increase of 35% over two years for state employees, despite already rising healthcare costs. This comes after the state legislature passed a bill earlier this year to increase health insurance premiums by 25% due to the agency's $376 million…

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TL/DR - Advocates for Missouri's small family farms have addressed lawmakers about the next Farm Bill, focusing on better protection for food resources and family farmers. Nearly 200 groups have written to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to reconsider conservation practices that favor factory farms and contribute to local pollution. Tim…

TL/DR - Daniel Mulhall, who spent over 40 years in Ireland's diplomatic corps, has served as an Ambassador to the US, UK, Germany, and Malaysia, and is currently a Resident Fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics. He has also authored a publication titled 'Pilgrim Soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time'. Mulhall will discuss…