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The owner of an Iowa nitrogen fertilizer plant with more than $800 million of munis outstanding is trying to sell the plant to one of its largest competitors.

Douglas Burns: FTC chair Lina Khan spoke to a crowd of about 100 people, including farmers, rural leaders, and some state legislators.

By Jennifer Bamberg for Investigate Midwest.Broadcast version by Terri Dee for Illinois News Connection reporting for the Investigate Midwest-Public News Service Collaboration During the 2023 harvest season, one of Jake Lieb’s tractors quit working. A week later, his combine stopped working, too. Both were new — and he was locked out from making any repairs himself because of software restrictions embedded in the machines.  Instead, a technician from John Deere was dispatched to diagnose and repair the problems. ...

By Naoki Nitta for Civil Eats.Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for California News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration It's no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As a seeming compromise between nutrition and institutional efficiency, food has long been dished up as an afterthought to patient care. “That was never the focus of hospitals,” he adds. ...

Federal Trade Commission Chair (FTC) Lina Khan participated in a 90-minute listening session about concerns relating to the Koch Industries’ acquisition of the Iowa Fertilizer Company in Nevada, Iowa, on Saturday. “It feels like no matter how hard you work, no matter how much consumers and customers actually like your products, your success in the...