UConn faculty question contractor’s role in budget cuts

by Juliann Ventura | Mar 12, 2024 | Education, Featured

Several UConn faculty members are questioning the role of an outside consulting firm in the university’s cost-cutting decisions, and the possible elimination of academic programs and jobs. Huron Consulting, a global professional services firm, has had contracts with...

Food deserts persist as Congress seeks to help

by Juliann Ventura | Mar 7, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Topics

WASHINGTON — By the time Tracie Killar was 17, she said much of the food she ate contained too much sugar and there were health consequences from it. Killar, who has lived in upstate New York for more than 50 years, grew up in Albany’s South End area, a food desert...

Biden’s policy toward Gaza and Israel raises concerns in swing states

by Juliann Ventura | Feb 15, 2024 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Layna Martinez, an alum of Biden’s 2020 election campaign, said that she’s having an identity crisis. The 36-year-old considered herself a lifelong Democrat having worked on political campaigns for the party since before she could vote, but now, she...

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators interrupt Biden campaign speech

by Juliann Ventura | Feb 14, 2024 | Politics

MANASSAS, Va. – At their first joint campaign event in the 2024 presidential race, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris rallied voters around abortion access and reproductive rights at a northern Virginia university campus, but several Pro-Palestinian...

Federal employees plan second action over Biden’s handling of Israel-Hamas war

by Juliann Ventura | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — A group of government employees from several federal agencies who want the Biden administration to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war has planned a “Day of Fasting” for Gaza on Thursday. The forthcoming action by Feds United...