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Peças publicitárias instaladas pelo governo de Minas Gerais, sob comando de Romeu Zema (Novo) e Matheus Simões (PSD), em diferentes cidades do estado têm gerado questionamentos sobre a veracidade das informações divulgadas. Outdoors que atribuem ao governo estadual a entrega de postos de saúde vêm sendo contestados por autoridades locais, que afirmam que parte dessas […] Fonte

When Hurricane Helene swept through western North Carolina, forestry officials conservatively estimated the storm damaged 822,000 acres of timber.  Now satellite imagery showing changes in forest cover suggests the extent of damage was much greater. Nearly 18 months after Helene, forestry officials and the state fire marshal warned legislators Thursday that North Carolina needs to […]

One of New York’s largest nonprofit homeless shelter service providers is charged with violating federal labor law by threatening to permanently replace IT workers on strike since November, according to new charges filed Wednesday.  United Auto Workers Local 2325 accuses CAMBA Inc. of failing to bargain in good faith, retaliating against workers and threatening to […] The post Homeless Shelter Provider Accused of Violating Rights of Striking IT Workers appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.

En las inmediaciones del Parque Almagro y Paseo Bulnes se ve una gran cantidad de ciudadanos de nacionalidad venezolana por el encuentro que organizó la líder opositora María Corina Machado. En distintos videos salen los residentes con las banderas de Venezuela y de la dirigenta. Las personas se encuentran reunidas en el pleno centro de … Continua leyendo "VIDEO | Masiva concurrencia de venezolanos para encuentro con María Corina Machado en Santiago" The post VIDEO | Masiva concurrencia de venezolanos para encuentro con María Corina Machado en Santiago appeared first on BioBioChile.

U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) on Thursday joined other members of New Mexico’s federal delegation in calling for a thorough investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s former property in Santa Fe County.

Utah Cold War Veterans Foundation pinning ceremonies always entail a certain degree of excitement. That emotional experience is thanks in part to passionate foundation members and what the Utah Cold War Victory Medal represents.  I decided to share this brief account for those in the Beehive State who know little or nothing about the Utah […]

Michigan’s slate of Republican “alternate electors” for Donald Trump in 2020, who were accused of fraud and attempting to assist the Trump campaign in overturning the year’s election results, announced their intent to sue Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and the Department of Attorney General for the felony charges that were sought against the electors.  […]

Researchers found students in nine Latin American countries get most of their news on social media and only dive deeper selectively — a pattern they say poses challenges for training the journalists of the future. The post For Latin America’s journalism students, news starts on Instagram appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center.

Federal funds will help pay for the second and third phases of the Hughes House affordable housing apartment complex.

Third grade reading improved 12 points and writing scores rose as the state takeover of the school district approaches.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to get the latest news about the city’s public school system delivered to your inbox.New Jersey, the home of the world’s first film studio, is reasserting its status as the country’s first Hollywood.And Newark educators, students, and industry professionals are getting ready to meet the moment.In November, Newark Public Schools officials announced plans to open New Media High School, which will be geared toward film and TV careers and digital creator roles. Students with stars in their eyes no longer have to move to Los Angeles to make their dreams come true. “They don’t even have to travel into New York across the Hudson River,” said Desireè Hadley, director of the Newark Office of Film and TV. The New Media High School website promises a September 2026 opening and a school that will prepare a new generation of “content creators, filmmakers, and digital entrepreneurs to shape the evolving landscape of entertainment and new media.” A mission statement defines part of that preparation as “industry experiences” that will be key to building student portfolios. Superintendent Roger León declined to comment through a spokesman.But in public statements, León has said the school is already recruiting new teachers and eighth grade students interested in attending New Media High School and becoming part of the school’s first ninth grade class can apply through Newark Enrolls.A career pipeline is ready and waiting: Investment in film and TV production is surging in New Jersey, having hit a record high of $833 million in 2024, and a major movie studio is moving into Newark, bringing the promise of hundreds of jobs.These days, Hadley marvels at the massive “now enrolling” New Media High School billboard in downtown Newark.“I’m Newark born and raised, and I wish that these opportunities were around when I was in high school,” she told Chalkbeat. “It would have been amazing to be able to attend a New Media High School or to even have exposure to what a production set is like.”Film production grows in Newark and New JerseyThe growth of New Jersey production, fostered by the 2018 restoration of state film tax credits, stands in contrast to flagging production in Los Angeles. In the next two years, Lionsgate, Paramount Skydance and streaming giant Netflix will open Garden State studios. This bustling vision channels the 1910s, when studios like Fox, Universal, and Goldwyn Pictures called Fort Lee home before the industry moved to Hollywood.Lionsgate Studios Newark is scheduled for a spring 2027 debut at Great Point Studios in the city’s South Ward. Mayor Ras Baraka, then-Gov. Phil Murphy, and city officials marked the groundbreaking in December. The $125 million, 270,000-square-foot studio will occupy the 12-acre site of the former Seth Boyden housing complex. New Media High School, set to move into the former Dayton Street School, will be its neighbor.The Dayton Street school, which closed in 2012, has another industry connection: It was a filming location for Adam Sandler’s “Happy Gilmore 2,” Netflix’s biggest U.S. movie opening, which spent a record $152.5 million in New Jersey. Young people in Newark are already getting their start in the industry.Aspiring cinematographer Nia Foote, 18, interned as a Newark locations production assistant on the set of Kevin Kline and Laura Linney’s new MGM+ series “American Classic” and was a PA on “72 Hours,” Kevin Hart’s upcoming Netflix movie. “I was considering going out west to California,” Foote said. But Hollywood’s production decline and New Jersey’s surge persuaded her to study film and TV production at New York University instead.Zoe Williams, 20, is eyeing a career in set design. “I thought I would have to be going to New York for the jobs, but they’ve all been in New Jersey — in specifically Newark, a lot of them,” she said. Williams has been an intern or PA on a number of productions, including Timothée Chalamet’s “A Complete Unknown” and the upcoming “Paper Tiger” with Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, and Miles Teller. Zoe Williams worked as a production assistant on a movie set in May 2025.Newark is taking measures to add even more locals to film sets. Last year, the state Economic Development Authority awarded a $750,000 NJ Film Works grant to Invest Newark, the city’s economic development corporation, to fund workforce training for people 18 and older.“Some of the students will be matriculating on to an apprenticeship program, which is great because that means they’re putting in the hours to get their union cards, and that translates as a career,” said Jon Crowley, executive director of the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission. As part of that program, Rutgers Newark’s Community Media Center will host grip training at Express Newark, where Newark Film School will also run PA training, Hadley said.“We will have all these huge movie stars come into our community, but the city of Newark is making sure it covers the ground of just helping our residents, educating our residents on the industry,” she said. Newark and Essex County have played important roles in the history of film. Newark’s Rev. Hannibal Goodwin patented transparent flexible nitrocellulose roll film in 1898 and Thomas Edison opened the very first film studio, Black Maria, in West Orange in 1893. “We’re just taking back our birthright,” said Diane Raver, executive director of the New Jersey Film Academy, which runs certificate programs at 13 colleges, including Essex County College. And future New Media students could find work at other Jersey studios.Netflix is accepting applications to work at its soon-to-be $1 billion studio at the former Fort Monmouth, and Paramount Skydance signed on for a minimum of 10 years at Bayonne’s 1888 Studios. Recently announced: the $250 million Filmology Labs, headed to Paterson.“Now we see a direct pipeline to the studios who are moving in,” said Keith Strudler, dean of the College of Communication and Media at Montclair State University. “We’ve looked at the kinds of roles that they’re going to be hiring for, and really, we teach all of those skill sets.” New Media High School could be ‘a filmmaker’s dream come true’Director Nicole L. Thompson, a Malcolm X Shabazz High School alum and founder of the Newark Film School, said New Media High School will be “a filmmaker’s dream come true.” Thompson, 33, began studying filmmaking at 13, in a pre-college summer program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She continued with video production at Shabazz and went on to study at The College of New Jersey, the University of Southern California, and Harvard. “A lot of people wake up one day and want to become a filmmaker but they don’t know how,” said Thompson, whose 2022 Lifetime TV directorial debut, New Jersey true crime movie “Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story,” recently spent two weeks in Netflix’s top 10.Newark Film School founder Nicole L. Thompson, at right, with student Destiny Diamond at a documentary class at St. Stephan's Church.At New Media High School, curriculum plans include classes in narrative filmmaking, short documentaries and short-form videos for social media and commercials, along with editing, cinematography, postproduction, podcasting and streaming. Capstone projects will cover feature-length films, animation, 3D effects, pitching and marketing. “It almost replicates the model of Arts High School,” said Hadley, director of the Newark Office of Film and TV. “The school is going to train young people who are interested right out of middle school.” The New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Great Point Studios will also partner with local schools to develop a film and TV production curriculum, said John Schreiber, CEO of NJPAC. He’s a stakeholder in a community benefits agreement between Lionsgate Newark, Great Point, and the arts center. (NJPAC is a redeveloper of the Seth Boyden housing site.)“We started very early talking about what a new studio like this could mean to the community at large, and then more specifically to young people,” Schreiber told Chalkbeat. He noted that the studio agreed to hire 70% of its onsite employees from the local area, likening the “transformational” potential of the film hub to how Steiner Studios changed Brooklyn Navy Yard. “We will work with Newark Public Schools and with Great Point Lionsgate to create an apprenticeship and an internship program for high school students, the goal of which is eventually that they learn enough so that they can get a union card and go to work on a set,” Schreiber said. “One needn’t go to college in order to get that card … Those jobs can pay over $80,000 a year and more for a young person.” Schreiber aspired to be an actor when he was younger. After realizing he’d be “broke for 10 years,” he became a PA.“There are 50 different jobs that somebody can have in our business that support the work of a performing artist,” he said. “It’s not just about acting and directing,” said Nick Day, president of the Screen Alliance of New Jersey, an industry group, and co-CEO of Newark’s Edge Auto Rental, which supplies trucks and cars for productions. “There’s electricians, carpenters, rental truck companies … lumber companies, stages, postproduction … Whatever your passion might be, the film industry could be a way to take advantage of your passion.”That doesn’t just mean people starting their first careers. East Orange’s Jessica Sledge, 38, works in education and is a student in one of the first New Jersey Film Academy classes at Essex County College. She was studying industrial design in New York when a field trip to a professor’s set design workshop made an impression. “I’ve always been a fan of watching all the behind-the-scenes stuff,” she said. With the intro film class at ECC, it “clicked,” she said. “I was like ‘OK, so this could be my way into doing something like that.’” Jon Crowley, director of the state film commission, got his start as a PA for the Academy Awards. After an editor fell ill, Crowley, a film school graduate with an editing reel, subbed in and was promoted to editor. It all started with his high school TV production class. “To actually be working with your friends on projects that we were scripting, we were directing, we were acting in and then we were editing was really exciting because it felt like you had some skin in the game,” he said. Crowley said the commission would be excited to work with future New Media High School students.“It’s phenomenal that kids at the high school age are going to be able to experience all these different areas of expertise and skill sets and find out what really gets them fired up, for sure,” he said.

Investigadores hallaron que estudiantes en nueve países latinoamericanos consumen noticias principalmente en redes sociales y sólo profundizan de manera selectiva. Es un patrón que, dicen, plantea desafíos para formar a los periodistas del futuro. The post Para los estudiantes de periodismo de América Latina, las noticias empiezan en Instagram appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review.

O prefeito João Campos (PSB) assinou nesta quinta-feira (12) o início da construção da ponte que vai ligar os bairros do Cordeiro e de Casa Forte. Foi um ato em ritmo de campanha, cercado por vereadores, deputados, o vice-prefeito, Victor Marques, e secretários de várias pastas. Antes de começar o evento, moradores dos dois bairros […] O post Sob protestos, João Campos assina início da obra da ponte Cordeiro-Casa Forte apareceu primeiro em Marco Zero Conteúdo.

Más que un reproche entre aliados, la frase refleja una corriente crítica dentro de la propia sociedad estadounidense, donde parte de la opinión pública cuestiona el sentido, el coste y los objetivos de determinadas decisiones de política exterior.

TOPEKA — The Kansas House approved legislation Wednesday altering the Kansas unemployment insurance system by ending the practice of annually writing off employers’ unpaid obligations to the state trust fund. Rep. Sean Tarwater, a Stilwell Republican and chairman of the House commerce committee, said the state enacted a law in 2024 that led to annual […]

Some 120 water wells have already been affected and the city’s municipal water supply has been threatened. Now, the federal government will put new resources toward cleanup.

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Finding and keeping enough child care workers is a challenge. A new state-funded effort aims to raise wages, train workers and keep them in Michigan classrooms.

“It’s our responsibility to move forward with care and purpose, and advance projects that serve the community and begin to repair that history,” said URA Executive Director Susheela Nemani-Stanger. The post Pittsburgh agency outlines post-Penguins plans for Lower Hill development appeared first on Pittsburgh's Public Source. PublicSource is a nonprofit news organization serving the Pittsburgh region. Visit www.publicsource.org to read more.

A Comissão de Direitos Humanos do Senado (CDH) aprovou ontem (11), a emenda de redação ao Projeto de Lei 896/2023, que criminaliza a misoginia no Brasil. De autoria da senadora Ana Paula Lobato (PSB-MA), a proposta altera a Lei do Racismo para incluir a misoginia entre os crimes de preconceito ou discriminação. O projeto, que […] Fonte