by Ariel Gans | Mar 4, 2022 | Environment
Last year, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who ran an historic—if unsuccessful—climate-centered campaign for president in 2019, signed two major climate initiatives into law, as part of his state’s Climate Commitment Act. The first initiative established a cap-and-trade...
by Ariel Gans | Feb 16, 2022 | Education, Featured
More than 30 years after Congress passed a law requiring museums to return all things removed from Native American graves to descendants of those buried, the New York State Museum has returned only 29 percent of its collection of Native American ancestors and funerary...
by Ariel Gans | Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Health
Lorraine Pereira’s mental health treatment has been in a state of limbo since August 2021.That’s when the 23-year-old moved from Iowa to California for a research assistant position at the University of California, San Francisco. That’s also when she...
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by Ariel Gans | Jan 21, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday encouraged local leaders to spend federal funds made available to them through COVID-19 relief and infrastructure packages. The money, he said while speaking at the U.S. Conference of Mayors at the Capital Hilton in...
by Ariel Gans | Jan 20, 2022 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Cities can’t always prevent cyberattacks, but they can take steps to mitigate and recover from breaches, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told those attending a the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting...
