by Emily Anderson Stern | Feb 21, 2022 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A bill intended to hold social media platforms accountable for posts that exploit children, but has been criticized for its potential to harm online privacy, has passed its first hurdle to getting a future vote in the Senate. The EARN IT Act, first...
by Emily Anderson Stern | Feb 3, 2022 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — In the two-and-a-half decades since he earned his master’s degree in counseling from the University at Albany, Matthew Flowers Jr. has been chipping away at his student loan debt. The Troy resident had to delay buying a house until last year...
by Emily Anderson Stern | Jan 28, 2022 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — More than three years after Hurricane Michael hit Florida, the rural Calhoun County School District in the Panhandle, whose students mostly come from low-income households, still hasn’t recovered. Children who had attended Blountstown...
