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North Dakota’s Health and Human Services Department is turning to outside “anchor partners” to manage a federal grant program for millions of dollars meant to boost rural health care initiatives. Lawmakers wondered what an “anchor partner” actually is, how they are chosen and how the change will affect the timing to get more than $160 […]

O peso histórico sobre os ombros de Lula transcende as fronteiras do Brasil; encarna o pulso de todo um continente. O post No Brasil, joga-se a vida contra a morte, um embate decisivo para Abya Yala apareceu primeiro em Mídia NINJA.

“Usina Cambahyba”, de Marcelo Fonseca, investiga relatos sobre a incineração de corpos de opositores do regime militar e enfrenta medida judicial antes de circular O post Documentário sobre desaparecidos políticos na ditadura sofre tentativa de censura apareceu primeiro em Mídia NINJA.

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El espectacular registro fue captado frente a Mejillones y muestra a una ballena jorobada emergiendo completamente del agua en uno de esos encuentros que quedan para siempre en la memoria. Este artículo Impresionante registro del salto de una ballena jorobada frente a Mejillones fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

Hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin’s unprecedented donation will go largely to a new Miami campus for Carnegie Mellon University, but Pittsburgh will see investment in computer science and unspecified priorities. The post CMU got a record $3 billion donation toward a new higher education model. What does that mean for Pittsburgh? appeared first on Pittsburgh's Public Source. PublicSource is a nonprofit news organization serving the Pittsburgh region. Visit www.publicsource.org to read more.

Catholic leaders in Tarrant County celebrate public servants and their families, regardless of faith, at the Blue and Red Masses.

The bill creates "job retention credits" to incentivize newsrooms — including ours — to hire and retain local journalists.

The union representing staff of Democratic state senators in Washington has overwhelmingly rejected a new two-year contract, citing its lack of adequate protections for workers facing termination. Legislative assistants, policy analysts and communications specialists for the Senate Democratic Caucus on Monday voted down the final offer from negotiators for the Senate Administration. The employees are […]

As more groups take on projects under SB 270, it means the bounds of the legislation will be tested as potential conflicts arise with downstream water users. The post A new legal path for stream restoration in Colorado runs into old water conflicts appeared first on Aspen Journalism.

I’m a big believer in having a dream, goal, aspiration, target – whatever word suits you – list. My current ultimate BIG dream is taking a wildebeest migration tour in Africa. The post Feral Elder: DREAMS and DREAMS appeared first on InDepthNH.org.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law prohibiting marriage for people under 18. Liberal civil rights organizations fought previous efforts to ban the practice.

(The Center Square) – As the Nov. 3 election approaches, two tax measures California voters will decide on – Propositions 40 and 42 – are generating some talk among economists because the latter could cancel out Prop. 40, known as the billionaire tax. That’s because Prop. 42 would prohibit new state taxes on personal property, including financial assets like retirement and investment accounts, which is exactly what Prop. 40 aims to do. Proposition 40 is intended to bolster lost federal dollars for public education, food assistance and health care, according to the backers of the billionaire tax. “Voters consistently support Prop, 40 because this modest, one-time tax on about 250 billionaires will keep local hospitals and ERs open and healthcare affordable for millions of Californians,” Debru Carthan, vice president of Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West, said in an email sent to The Center Square on Wednesday. “The funds will go to life-saving medical care for seniors, veterans, and families. It will allow millions of Californians to keep their health insurance and not see their premiums skyrocket.” The tax is meant to generate $100 billion worth of revenue to pay for those programs over the next five years, numbers from the Yes on 40 campaign show. The measure was first introduced by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, according to previous reporting by The Center Square. Wayne Winegarden, an economist with the Pasadena, Calif.-based Pacific Research Institute, told The Center Square on Wednesday that the wealth tax might target the very rich, but the burden of the tax will ultimately impact average Californians. “I think the largest misnomer we have about Prop. 40 is that it’s a wealth tax only on billionaires,” Winegarden said. “One of the things in economics is you distinguish who physically pays the tax and where the actual burden of the tax is, and the burden is on everyone because you’re messing with the soul of California’s economy.” In California, the state’s biotechnology, information technology and artificial intelligence industries attracted 90% of all venture capital investment in the country, Winegarden said. “On average, we get 60% of all venture capital investment. That’s $158 billion,” Winegarden said. “That’s kind of the economic multiplier effect. That’s what kind of helps propel our economy, and the wealth tax attacks that core of what California’s economy is.” If Prop. 40 passes, Winegarden fears the state could lose 45% of its venture capital investment. “That’s a huge amount of investment that’s leaving the state,” Winegarden said. “You’re going to see incomes about $1,700 lower than otherwise, and about a quarter million fewer jobs are going to be created. That’s very illustrative of how these taxes will impact the average Californian.” According to the Voter Information Guide published by the California Secretary of State’s Office, Prop. 40 would levy a one-time 5% tax on California residents whose net worth is or exceeds $1 billion. That tax would apply to investment assets such as businesses, real estate, art, collectibles and stocks. Prop. 42 would prohibit the establishment of new taxes by the state on those assets, according to the voters' guide. That means that if Prop. 42 and Prop. 40 pass, depending on the margin at which Prop. 42 passes, Prop. 40 could essentially be canceled out. That would happen if Prop. 42 got more votes than Prop. 40. “Not only would it nullify Prop. 40, but it would prohibit attacks on assets in the future,” said Susan Shelley, vice president of communications for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. “We are very strongly in favor of Prop. 42," Shelley told The Center Square on Wednesday. "I don’t think there should be a wealth tax in California, ever.” Prop. 42, which is backed by nonprofit group Building a Better California, is supported by multiple public safety, blue-collar and veterans’ groups, according to the Yes on 42 campaign. “Our members have earned their retirement through a lifetime of hard work, and they should not have to worry that new taxes will threaten the financial stability they have built,” Chris Hannan, president of the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, said in an email to The Center Square. “This measure protects their retirement savings, as well as the savings of all Californians who have planned responsibly for the future.”

More than 1,000 students chose the Diamondbacks mascot as the 3,200-student campus prepares to open in August 2027.

Humility, listening and serving others are important pieces of democracy, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday during a lecture at Bentonville’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.  “The American spirit means to me that we don’t wait on our government to deliver for us, that we deliver for one another,” Rice said. […]

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name.Parents at several schools across New York City last spring were outraged when they lost beloved after-school providers in a contract overhaul overseen by the Department of Youth and Community Development. Many families asked: Why mess with programs their communities liked? Parents rallied, wrote letters, and submitted petitions to keep the after-school programs they had come to rely on. Those efforts went nowhere.Now, some parents say their warnings have come to bear, as some of the new after-school programs have struggled to hire staff and get off the ground several weeks into the school year, leaving parents exasperated and children with few options when the school day ends. The situation was so bad at two Upper West Side middle schools that their new provider, the YMCA of Greater New York, is already out less than a month into the school year, and their longtime partner, Manhattan Youth, is returning on Oct. 19 to relaunch their sports, musical theater, and arts programs, Chalkbeat has learned. District 3 Superintendent Reginald Higgins wrote this week to families at the Computer School and West End Secondary School, both on the Upper West Side, letting them know that the YMCA was withdrawing its program. City officials said that YMCA-run programs elsewhere were operating at full capacity this week with support from school staffers to plug gaps overseeing teams and other activities. “Our priority is making sure young people are served, families have clear information, and these school communities have strong, stable after-school programs. It is what families deserve and what we will deliver,” said Mark Zustovich, spokesperson for the Department of Youth and Community Development.A first after-school overhaul in years It was the first time in years the city re-bid contracts for community-based organizations providing after-school programs for more than 100,000 elementary and middle school students. The new contracts, which run through 2032, in some cases pushed out providers who had been working with schools for more than a decade. By re-bidding the contracts, city officials said it allowed them to add 10,000 seats and update providers’ pay rates, which now come out to around $4,000 to $7,000 per student depending on age, city officials and providers have said.Principals were asked to rank their top three choices, but several schools said they were not awarded their top choices. In some cases, the changes seemed like a game of musical chairs. Last school year, the YMCA operated 33 city-funded after-school sites, representatives from the organization said. In the contract overhaul, it lost 13 of those sites but gained 15 new ones — two of which the organization is dropping. So in total, it will now operate 32 sites. “We were asked to provide comprehensive, multi-faceted programs that included leadership development, academic supports, arts, sports and more – not a singular competitive sports program or a musical theater program, but a comprehensive program,” Matt Ferraguto, a spokesperson for the YMCA of Greater New York, said in an email. “That is what we will continue to provide at all of our afterschool sites across all 5 boroughs.”Staffing shortages and disrupted communitiesMichael Kimmel, a parent of a seventh grader at Yorkville East Middle School on the Upper East Side, remains frustrated by his school’s switch to the YMCA from Manhattan Youth, whose sports league offerings have been a particular draw for many families at its various schools. But more than acting as coaches, Manhattan Youth staffers also served as school aides during the school day and were “woven into the community,” Kimmel said. “I watched these people help to parent my kid in a very thoughtful and caring manner,” Kimmel said. As of this week, YMCA had still failed to fully staff Yorkville East’s program, Kimmel said, noting that about 70% of his school’s roughly 250 students used the after-school program last year. Meanwhile, he added, the school’s principal stepped in to coach the school’s soccer team, and she’s paying for additional staff with a grant that runs out mid-October. (The principal declined to respond to questions, referring them to the Education Department’s press office, which directed questions to DYCD.)Kimmel claimed that the YMCA tried to hire the site director who had worked at the school under Manhattan Youth, but they offered her less money, so she did not take the job. The YMCA did not comment on that. Things worked out differently at Wagner Middle School, another Upper East Side school that lost Manhattan Youth. Its new provider, New York Junior Tennis & Learning, was able to retain the woman who had been the director under Manhattan Youth and worked with the school for nearly 10 years. “She has worked tirelessly this summer to make this transition as seamless as possible for our students and families,” Sharon Abramzon D’Agostino, the school’s parent association president said. But she echoed that it wasn’t easy to staff up the programs for the start of school, “leaving many families to deal with no coverage for their teens, work scheduling conflicts and lots of uncertainty.”Manhattan Youth now is in 14 middle schools, according to its website — before the two additional programs it was awarded this week. That’s about half of the middle school programs it ran last year, its Executive Director Bob Townley said. “Parents want their kids to have good programs, and I don’t blame them,” Townley said.Amy Zimmer is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat New York. Contact Amy at azimmer@chalkbeat.org.

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بر اساس گزارش‌ها پاسخ رسمی واشنگتن به پیشنهاد اخیر جمهوری اسلامی منتقل شده است؛ با این حال جزئیات پاسخ آمریکا علنی نیست.