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by Katherine Huggins | Feb 15, 2022 | Featured, Politics
Easing the national shortage of health care workers will require relief for student loans, more money for research and training, and eliminating COVID vaccine mandates, experts recently told a U.S. Senate subcommittee. “There is no doubt that during the pandemic,...
by Quinn Clark | Feb 11, 2022 | Education, Featured
Three months ago, Josiah Kemp, a transgender teenager living in Hunterdon County, N.J., made the decision to leave his home church. Kemp didn’t leave Christianity, he said, but he needed to stop attending services at a church that was openly opposed to LGBTQ...
by Julia Shapero | Feb 11, 2022 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – Amid a worker shortage exacerbated by the pandemic, health care professionals suggested to senators Thursday that Congress boost opportunities for their industry and reduce regulations. “I have heard from so many nurses and doctors and other health...
by Andrew Marquardt and Hannah Schoenbaum | Feb 10, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture Thursday will unveil the members of a new commission to combat decades of discrimination by the department that Black farmers say has contributed to a sharp decrease in their ranks across the country. But some Black...
by Allison Novelo | Feb 10, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
Five years after the launch of Frederick County’s first human trafficking task force, local leaders say the increase of reported human trafficking cases during that period means the task force is “working well.” “Before the task force, nobody from hotel operators to...
by Hannah Schoenbaum and Isabel Miller | Feb 10, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — New York is slated to receive nearly $70 million to plug thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells scattered across the state as the Biden administration begins distributing funds from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law. The infrastructure...
