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Officials at Columbus State Community College have announced the school will construct a child-care center, serving the dual purposes of educating and training the next generation of child-care professionals and providing day care in the downtown area. Construction of the facility adjacent to the college’s Center for Workforce Development near Grove Street and Cleveland Avenue [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. — Inside a warehouse at the industrial Port of Portland lies what some believe could be the answer to Oregon's housing crisis — a prototype of an affordable housing unit made from mass timber. Once mass-produced at the factory being planned at the port, the units ranging from 426 square feet to 1,136 [...]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nichole Mason first became concerned when she learned administrators at her children's public school were allowing transgender students to use girls' bathrooms. Her frustrations mounted when she felt her children's next school went too far with how they enforced COVID regulations during the pandemic. Now, the mother of five is [...]
NEW YORK — For decades, work on a massive rail project has been grinding 15 stories below the shuffling footsteps of millions of New Yorkers and beneath the East Hudson River and Manhattan skyscrapers. After years of delays and massive cost overruns, the enormously expensive railway project shuttled its first passengers last week from Long [...]
NEW YORK — Administrators of a trust fund established to preserve historic black churches in the United States recently revealed a list of houses of worship receiving $4 million in financial grants. The list of 35 grantees includes 16th Street Baptist Church Inc. in Birmingham, Ala., where crucial civil rights organizing meetings were held during [...]
PORTLAND, Maine — The government has denied a request from a group of environmental organizations to immediately apply proposed ship-speed restrictions in an effort to save a vanishing species of whale. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is considering new rules designed to stop large ships from colliding with North Atlantic right whales. The whales [...]
BOSTON (AP) — The speed with which five Memphis police officers were fired following the traffic stop of a man who later died in a hospital is unusual, but could become more common, according to those studying police and criminal justice issues. The five Memphis Police Department officers were fired late last week, less than [...]
At first glance, Nina Edwards Anker’s sconces and chandeliers look like ancient scrolls of parchment, or sheets of buttery toffee, wrapped around LED bulbs. Come closer — or just ask the New York-based designer/architect — and you’ll find they’re actually made of algae. She came up with the idea while working on a doctoral research [...]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Environmental and fishing groups said this week there is "no evidence" that site preparation work for offshore wind farms in New Jersey and New York is responsible for a spate of whale deaths in the two states. Many of New Jersey's leading environmental groups held a press conference on the Atlantic [...]
Celebrities wept in court. Coaches lost their jobs. Elite universities saw their reputations stained and nearly four years later, the mastermind of the Varsity Blues scheme was sentenced this month to more than three years in prison. There's little belief, however, that the college bribery scandal has stirred significant change in the admissions landscape. Some [...]