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It’s likely dogs do more for their human counterparts than even the most ardent canine lover knows. Researchers from The Ohio State University say a safer neighborhood may be added to the list of benefits our furry friends provide. In high-trust Columbus neighborhoods — those in which residents believe they can trust their neighbors to [...]
While some workers return to the office this year, many others continue to work remotely indefinitely. This seismic shift has changed where people live and work and, increasingly, how they travel. In the first quarter of 2022, nearly 25 percent of job postings at the 50,000 largest companies in the United States and Canada were [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government hopes a new website can help people and local governments beat the increasingly deadly heat of a warming world. Days after nearly half the country — an estimated 154.6 million people — sweated through a blistering heat wave, the Biden administration July 26 unveiled heat.gov, which includes maps, forecasts [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration this week said the government will plant more than 1 billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the West, as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation’s forests from wildfires, insects and weather. Destructive fires in recent years that burned too [...]
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business has received a $279,000 Title VI Center for International Business Education and Research grant from the U.S. Department of Education. CIBER grants provide universities with resources to increase and promote the nation’s capacity for international business understanding and competitiveness, according to the Department of Education. Funding for [...]
For as long as anyone can remember, rent increases rarely happened at Ridgeview Homes, a family-owned mobile home park in upstate New York. That changed in 2018 when corporate owners took over the 65-year-old park located amid farmland and down the road from a fast-food joint and grocery store about 30 miles northeast of Buffalo. [...]
A non-profit group and a cleaning business are collaborating to host a two-day event next week that will feature artwork from individuals who have criminal records. The event, called Fair Chance and The Arts, has a theme of “Changing Perceptions,” and will showcase “justice-impacted” individuals’ artwork at Wild Goose Creative’s community arts space in Franklinton. [...]
Growing up in Virginia Beach, Va., Andrew Waldholtz wanted to live in a bigger city, so he moved to the District of Columbia for college. After four years in the comparatively expensive city, he realized he wanted a place to live that was more affordable. Waldholtz, 35, eventually found a happy compromise in St. Louis, [...]
LAS VEGAS — Limiting the size of new swimming pools in and around Las Vegas might save a drop in the proverbial bucket amid historic drought and climate change in the West. Officials are taking the plunge anyway, capping the size of new swimming pools at single-family residential homes to about the size of a [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The meeting place? A secret. Agenda? Not public. Name tags? Take them off in public. Even one of the main social events — trivia night — would be at an undisclosed location. This was no meeting of spies or undercover law enforcement agents. Instead, these were the security protocols for a [...]