Linn County holds informational meeting on solar projects
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PALO, Iowa (KWWL) A utility-scale solar plant generates a large amount of electricity.
On Tuesday, Linn County held the first of two informational meetings to inform residents about the permitting and public input processes for a solar project. The meetings are not specific to any solar project as Linn County has not received an application for one.
Sara Ritchie lives in rural Center Point. Just conversations that there have been salesmen coming around trying to lease land for solar, Ritchie said, It just felt odd, like, why here? Because it s very residential
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As an “extremely underweight” child, Sarah claims she was held up to other children as the golden example of how their scales should read.
“We were weighed twice a day,” Sarah told
The Feed.
“And what I found horrific was watching my friends run to the toilet to try and evacuate anything they could to have a lower weight.”
“It wasn t uncommon in our era for gymnasts to strip naked to step onto those scales because they wanted to not even have the weight of the leotard impacting on their weight.”
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REYNOSA, Mexico Juan Felipe Rodriguez slouched with his back against the wall of the Mexican government building at the international bridge across the Rio Grande. His 7-year-old son still slumbered under a Mylar blanket on the cement next to him.
After traveling north from Guatemala, they crossed into the United States only to soon find themselves rapidly expelled back into Mexico. They arrived at this point of misery at 1 a.m., he said, in a border city he didn’t know, save for its reputation for danger.