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The Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation has awarded its inaugural Growing Tomorrow Grants to help “inspire, encourage and nurture young agricultural professionals and entrepreneurs to find creative and transformative ways to address challenges facing the agricultural sector today.” Two grants were awarded to young professionals and entrepreneurs “who are looking to generate wider and deeper public [...]
From foster grandparents who volunteer at an early child-care center to citizen scientists who collect water quality data in remote locations, non-profit volunteers have increased after a decline blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic. A new survey released this week from the U.S. Census Bureau and AmeriCorps shows 28.3 percent, or 75.8 million people, volunteered with [...]
Questions about sexual orientation, gender identity and changes to queries about race and ethnicity are on track to be asked in the most comprehensive survey of American life by 2027, U.S. Census Bureau officials said. The new or revised questions on the American Community Survey will show up on questionnaires and be asked by survey [...]
Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, a new study finds. Private jet emissions jumped 46 percent from 2019 to 2023, according to the European research team that calculated those figures by examining more than 18.6 million flights of about 26,000 airplanes over five years. Still, carbon pollution from aviation [...]
MIAMI (AP) — The last Kmart on the U.S. mainland sits at the west end of a busy suburban Miami shopping center, quiet and largely ignored. At this small outpost of a company once famed for its “Blue Light Specials,” only an occasional shopper pops in, mostly out of curiosity or nostalgia, then leaves after [...]
MIAMI (AP) — The percent of United States residents who were foreign-born grew to its highest level in more than a century last year, according to figures released last week from a survey of American life. The share of people born outside the U.S. increased in 2023 to 14.3 percent from 13.9 percent in 2022, [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two years after the U.S. Forest Service sparked what would become the largest and most destructive wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history, independent investigators say there are gaps that need to be addressed if the agency is to be successful at using prescribed fire as a tool to reduce risk. The [...]
PIXLEY, Calif. (AP) — The stench of cow feces, urine and ammonia forces residents to keep windows and doors closed in parts of California’s farming country. Some people constantly run air purifiers at home to counter the smell and, they say, fight off air-related ailments. “We have a lot of health problems going around in [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — In one part of downtown Atlanta, shipping containers have been transformed into homes for dozens of previously unsheltered people who are settled in the former parking lot. The gated micro community known as “The Melody” doesn’t look like a parking lot anymore. Artificial turf is spread across the asphalt. Potted plants and [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Gas prices are on the decline across the country, bringing some relief to drivers now paying a little less to fill up their tanks. The national average for gas prices on Monday stood around $3.44, according to AAA. In Ohio, the average price was $3.24, according to AAA. That's down about [...]