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by Ariel Gans | May 31, 2022 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — “I have a learning disability, and at a very young age, I was told that I wouldn’t be able to walk and talk. Now, look what I can do,” said O’Donnell, who recently began work as a barista at Bitty and Beau’s Coffee, a coffee shop that primarily...
by Ariel Gans | May 24, 2022 | Education, Featured, Urban Indian Healthcare
MINNEAPOLIS — Bison pastrami is not typical school lunch fare, but it’s a crowd favorite at a preschool in Minneapolis. Fawn Youngbear-Tibbetts — the seemingly always on-the-go coordinator of Indigenous foods at the Wicoie Nandagikendan Early Childhood Urban Immersion...
by Ariel Gans | May 24, 2022 | Featured, Politics
LAS VEGAS — Seven candidates are vying for the Republican nomination for secretary of state in Nevada, ranging from the most vociferous 2020 election denier – James Marchant – through a number of others who question Joe Biden’s legitimacy as president to varying...
by Ariel Gans | Mar 21, 2022 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Erinn Baldeschwiler has been battling stage four metastatic breast cancer for two years. Two months after her diagnosis, the 50-year-old writer and patient advocate began immunotherapy. But in October, her cancer became treatment-resistant and she...
by Ariel Gans | Mar 4, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — A Democratic congressman is pushing for curtailing Russia’s access to the internet, saying that in recent days he has discussed that action against Vladimir Putin’s country with senior members of the Biden administration. The internet...
