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![The Crozer-Chester Nurses Association and local lawmakers picket outside Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pa., last May, to protest actions by the hospital’s owner, the for-profit chain Prospect Medical Holdings. Private equity firms have been buying up hospitals in recent years; cutbacks and closures sometimes follow. Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Professionals](https://statesnewsroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/private-equity-picket-2048x1536-1-1024x768.jpg)
Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Professionals
![A controversial wildfire funding proposal has changed in recent days. It's sponsors will no longer ask all Oregon property owners to pay $10 a year to help offset fire protection costs on forest and ranch landowners. (Northwest Interagency Coordination Center)](https://statesnewsroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wildfire-photo-of-plane-dousing-flames-NW-Interagency-Coordination-Center-1024x461.jpg)
Northwest Interagency Coordination Center
![Fearing that Democrats hold a crucial edge in ballots cast before Election Day, national Republicans are working to convince their voters to take advantage of mail and early voting this year. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)](https://statesnewsroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/minnesota-voting.jpg)
Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
![On Oct. 2, Kanawha County Sheriff deputies responded to a 911 call about children locked in a shed on a Sissonville, W.Va. property. (Rafael Barker | West Virginia Watch)](https://statesnewsroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DSC04245-1024x819.jpg)
Rafael Barker | West Virginia Watch
![Gun wall rack with rifles](https://statesnewsroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/assault-rifle-guns-getty-2048x1153-1-1024x577.jpeg)
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