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by Megan Sauer and Xurui Tan | Jul 21, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured
Kizzy Williams, the owner of Allie B’s Cozy Kitchen, still remembers preparing to open her restaurant six years ago: She scrubbed the stove, stored food and relied on a network of customers and employees to keep her business afloat. Because of the pandemic, she...
by Samone Blair | Jul 21, 2020 | Featured, National Security
The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded nearly $3.5 million in new funding Thursday for the expansion of the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake. The funding is part of the VA Veterans Cemetery Grants Program and will finance the construction of...
by Hannah Farrow | Jul 21, 2020 | Education, Featured
Imagine a high school classroom where the history teacher asks the students how societal structures continue to support the enslavement of Black people. Then the conversation continues to dissect the role of slaves in the development of America, abandoning the...
by Alyk Russell Kenlan | Jul 17, 2020 | Featured, National Security
China’s newly announced sanctions against a principal American defense contractor may have been done more for political effect than economic punishment. On Tuesday, China said it would sanction Lockheed Martin Corp., which produces America’s top fighter planes, after...
by Alyk Russell Kenlan | Jul 17, 2020 | Featured, Politics
Over a quarter of female Department of Veterans Affairs employees experienced sexual harassment in recent years, according to a Government Accountability Office report published Wednesday. The GAO report highlighted outdated VA sexual harassment policies, delays in...
by Amy Sokolow | Jul 16, 2020 | Business, Featured
The states and federal government have fallen behind in updating decades-old technology and need to upgrade quickly to better serve the public, experts say, a point underscored by reports that millions of jobless Americans still haven’t received unemployment checks....
