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...
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by Katherine Huggins | Jan 27, 2022 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON — Reps. Abigail Spanberger and Tom Rice are trying to make it easier for rural residents to charge electric vehicles and farm equipment. Spanberger, a Virginia Democrat, recently introduced legislation co-sponsored by South Carolina Republican Rice...
by Allison Novelo and Hannah Schoenbaum | Jan 27, 2022 | Education, Featured
As the nation recognizes International Holocaust Remembrance Day Thursday, Maryland remains among 31 states that do not have laws requiring Holocaust education. But some state lawmakers are revisiting legislation that would impose a curriculum mandate in Maryland...
by Courtney Degen and Cristobella Durrette | Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Johnson on Monday convened a group of doctors and scientists who have been criticized for spreading COVID-19 misinformation to “get a second opinion” on the health issues facing Americans because of the pandemic. “Until COVID, a...
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by Isabel Miller | Jan 26, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Instead of sleeping in on Saturday morning, over a hundred volunteers turned to a day of action in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Volunteers donned red gloves and headed into Pope Branch Park to collect trash––from plastic bottles to...
by Julia Shapero | Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Oath Keeper founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes and nine other members of the far-right militia group pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of seditious conspiracy and other charges for their actions related to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Eight...
