by Samone Blair | Aug 19, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
Sen. Maria Cantwell and Sen. Patty Murray, both Democrats, signed a bipartisan letter last week calling for an extension in the enumeration deadline for the 2020 census. Originally, the deadline for the enumeration process, which involves Census Bureau employees...
by Samone Blair | Aug 19, 2020 | Featured, Politics
The Biden for President campaign held a roundtable Friday, advocating for the need to invest in broadband for rural and tribal communities as part of the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s Build Back Better economic plan. “Just imagine the future...
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by Megan Sauer | Aug 19, 2020 | Coronavirus, Education, Featured
The City School District of Albany relies on grants, partnerships and parents’ personal health care to maintain their school-based health centers in three of their middle schools — but Superintendent Kaweeda Adams anticipates an increase in demand while their K-12...
by Silvia Martelli | Aug 17, 2020 | Coronavirus, Education, Featured
Italian schools are set to reopen on Sept. 14, but only if 2.6 million single-seat desks are built within the next month to allow the social distancing that the traditional two-person desks in classrooms make impossible. Reopening schools is seen as a crucial step...
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by Nicole Girten and Henry Ren | Aug 17, 2020 | Featured, Politics
Political content creators have not shied away from the social media app TikTok despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that could potentially ban the app. In fact, banning the app, some creators say, could have the unintended consequence of motivating young...
by Henry Ren | Aug 17, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured
China bought less than one-fourth of its promised $36.6 billion yearly U.S. agriculture import target in the first half of 2020, China customs data showed. There is still time to meet the commitment, however, and strong demand could push China to make record-level...
