Nearly half of Missouri s public schools are in rural areas, and they serve more than one in five of the Show-Me State s students. But Missouri spends less than $6,000 dollars per rural pupil, which is only 81% of the rural U.S. average. .
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California s children are doing well - the vast majority have health insurance and access to transitional kindergarten - but the state is far behind in many other metrics. The nonprofit Children Now analyzed the data, and gave the Golden State a C-minus or below in 15 out of 33 categories. Kelly Hardy is senior managing director at Children Now. .
The New Year brings a chorus of familiar concerns about the risks of building a 21-foot diameter tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac for oil and gas pipelines. It has been just over a month since the Michigan Public Service Commission ruled Enbridge Energy could install a new 30-inch diameter pipeline segment in its Great Lakes Tunnel project. But local residents said the decision puts communities and the environment at risk of spills. .