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From exploring different types of transportation to cleaning Menomonee Valley, here’s what to know and do this weekend in Milwaukee. The post 5 things to know and do the weekend of March 20  appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

Researchers will study the needs of 16- to 22-year-old student drivers with autism, ADHD or other such conditions.

Après avoir été reçu en grande pompe par le roi Charles III au château de Windsor, Bola Tinubu a poursuivi sa visite d'État au Royaume-Uni, jeudi 19 mars. Au cours de la dernière journée de ce voyage historique à Londres, celui-ci a notamment été reçu par le Premier ministre britannique, Keir Starmer.

O governo federal deu prazo de 48 horas para que as empresas Ipiranga, Raízen e Vibra — as três maiores distribuidoras combustíveis do Brasil — expliquem o reajuste que fizeram nos preços nos últimos dias. Juntas, as três empresas concentram cerca de 70% do mercado nacional. Cada companhia tem até sábado (21) para apresentar o […] Fonte

Leaders in heavily Democratic Salt Lake City were not the only ones blindsided by a deal paving the way for a massive immigration detention center. Utah’s Republican governor and all-GOP congressional delegation also did not know about the sale of the warehouse to the federal government until after it happened, Gov. Spencer Cox said Thursday. […]

El Partido Socialista salió al paso ante la situación de Carlos Furche, ratificado como director del Instituto...

A child born in San Diego in 2024 is expected to live into his or her 80s, but community and ethnicity have an impact too.

(The Center Square) – Students educational achievements are rising. So, too, is teacher attrition in North Carolina. First-term Democratic Superintendent Mo Green says the stories are worth telling, that they represent “real progress for real students.” Among the positive statistics are the highest four graduation year rate, 87.7%, the best in state history; record levels of students taking Advanced Placement tests and scoring high enough to earn college credits; and new records for students taking career and technical education classes. “Behind these numbers are stories worth telling: the first-generation college student who passed an AP exam, the student who earned industry credentials before graduation, the senior who walked across the stage as part of the highest-achieving graduating class in state history,” Green said in a release. The best is yet to come, the superintendent added. “Stay tuned for more good news as we work to make North Carolina’s public schools the best in the nation by 2030,” he said. One statistic that Green did not mention was an uptick in the North Carolina teacher attrition rate – the percentage who quit teaching, which increased in 2024-25 to 10.11% up from 9.88%, according to a report by the state Department of Public Instruction presented to the state school board. “While not quite reaching the record high, the current attrition rate is still much higher than before the pandemic where it ranged from 7.5% to 8.2%,” the nonprofit group Public Schools First NC said in a statement. The record teacher attrition rate was set in 2022-23 at 11.5%. The highest rate, 14.9%, was among teachers with fewer than three years of teaching experience. Experienced teachers had a rate of 9.34%. The disparity raises the question of what school districts can do to retain teachers who are just starting their careers, Public Schools First said. The Education Law Center ranked North Carolina 50th in public education cost-adjusted funding level, Public Schools First said. “These rankings, along with near-record high teacher attrition rate, may encourage lawmakers to invest more in North Carolina’s public education system,” it said. Green agreed. “The report reinforces the importance of addressing the core issues that lead to teacher attrition,” the superintendent said in a statement to The Center Square. “Our public schools cannot be best in the nation if our teachers are not adequately compensated, trained and revered. It will take action from the North Carolina General Assembly, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and our schools to strengthen the education profession.”

(The Center Square) – Lawmakers tasked with determining Colorado’s state budget are looking at a $1.5 billion deficit following a pair of economic forecasts presented on Thursday. Both the Legislative Council Staff and the Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting presented their respective quarterly forecasts to the General Assembly’s Joint Budget Committee. They cited economic growth but elevated risks from tariffs and the ongoing conflict in Iran, among other issues. The LCS projects general fund revenue at $16.5 billion in fiscal year 2025-26, but that’s downgraded by $354 million from the staff's last forecast in December. LCS also projects revenue to fall short of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights’ Referendum C cap by over $914 million. Revenue above the cap must be refunded to taxpayers under the law. Meanwhile, OSPB projects $17 billion in general fund revenue for the fiscal year, which is an increase of almost $50 million from the December forecast. That revision is “largely due to higher actual income revenue collections,” the governor's agency said. The office forecasts revenue will be $229 million under TABOR’s cap for the fiscal year. “Relative to the December forecast, we downgraded our current year revenue forecast by $350 million,” LCS Chief Economist Greg Sobetski told the Joint Budget Committee. “That’s in the big scheme of things a relatively minor adjustment to the revenue forecast. But because we’re below the TABOR limit, that $350 million revision to the revenue forecast is a dollar-for-dollar $350 million hit to our expectations for the budget.” Sobetski said the downgrade is attributed to corporate income taxes, with payments from the previous quarter coming in under what was anticipated. OSPB Director Mark Ferrandino acknowledged that “from a budget perspective, there’s some significant differences, but in the grand scheme between [OSPB] and [Legislative Council], you’re talking a few percentage points in revenue in the current year and very similar actually next year and the year after.” The forecast means lawmakers on the budget committee must make cuts to spending as the state's shortfall stands at $1.5 billion. Joint Budget Committee Vice Chair Sen. Jeff Bridges, D-Greenwood Village, called the budget forecasts “nothing short of devastating” and warned of cuts in a written statement. “Between rising prices, federal cuts to essential programs, and global uncertainty, the state budget is getting squeezed from all sides,” he said. “We’re working on solutions to modernize our budget and give the state more flexibility to weather economic ups and downs while better funding core priorities like education. But the reality right now is that our budget constraints mean painful cuts. A dollar for one area is a dollar less for another, and under the TABOR cap there simply isn’t enough room to do it all.” In a written statement, Gov. Jared Polis praised the state economy’s resiliency while expressing concerns about a potential recession. “Today’s forecast shows that despite increased costs on families from Trump’s illegal tariffs, international instability, and supply chain impacts from the war in Iran, Colorado remains resilient,” the Democratic governor said. “Our economy has not recovered from the cost of disastrous tariff taxes, and the chance of a recession remains concerning. However, our balanced budget proposal ensures our reserves remain healthy to protect the state from the growing chance of a future economic downturn.”

The Trump administration handed down a rule that would cut the minimum wage for immigrants with H-2A visas, including farm workers. The United Farm Workers sued, arguing the change would depress pay to all agricultural employees.

El metanero “fantasma” Arctic Metagaz fue alcanzado por un ataque con drones que le hizo perder el rumbo. El buque quedó abandonado con toneladas de combustible y gas natural licuado, con el riesgo de desatar un desastre.

A host of groundwater agencies in southern Tulare County were disappointed Thursday after Water Resources Control Board staff recommended none of them receive a so-called “good guy” exemption from onerous […]

Supporters could begin soliciting volunteers to serve on the long-awaited, and long-delayed Maryland Reparations Commission as soon as next week, ending a year of starts and stops on the measure.

(The Center Square) - Political and civil leaders across California and the wider Latino community in the U.S. are reacting to several allegations of sexual abuse and rape by the 1960s farm worker and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez. The United Farm Workers, which Chavez co-founded, has denounced his alleged behavior and canceled celebrations of Cesar Chavez Day on March 31, a state holiday in California. “As a women-led organization that exists to empower communities, the allegations about abusive behavior by Cesar Chavez go against everything that we stand for,” said the UFW Foundation in a press release. “These disturbing allegations involve inappropriate behavior by Cesar Chavez with young women and minors. They are shocking, indefensible and something we are taking seriously.” The Chavez family said the information about Cesar Chavez, who died in 1993 at 66 years old, came as news to them. “This is deeply painful for our family,” wrote the Chavez family in a statement the Cesar Chavez Foundation sent to The Center Square. “We wish peace and healing to the survivors and commend their courage to come forward.” Victims included two young girls and Chavez’s long-time protest co-leader Dolores Huerta, who cofounded UFW. “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years I have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for,” Huerta wrote in a statement Wednesday. Huerta said she was forced into two sexual encounters by Chavez, with both resulting in pregnancies that she delivered. The story was reported by a multi-year New York Times investigation. It included details of how Chavez allegedly drove her out to a secluded field in 1966 and raped her. Huerta added that she did not know of the two young girls Chavez allegedly raped until the New York Times contacted her. “The knowledge that he hurt young girls sickens me.” Chavez led the farmworker movement in California, which included the famous 1,000-Mile March by the UFW. The movement was a reaction to what the UFW called low living standards and second-class citizen treatment for immigrants and farmworkers in California. Among other political and societal wins, the movement helped pass the landmark Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, giving farmworkers the right to collective bargaining. But at the same time, Chavez was seen by some people in the Latino community as a complicated figure, who did not fight for the same protections for illegal immigrant workers or fully acknowledge the Filipino workers who marched beside him. Pedro Hernandez is the California state program director for GreenLatinos, a Latino-led nonprofit for environmental issues with chapters in California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Illinois. He was raised in the same California farming valleys that Chavez organized for and said he met many people who marched with him and felt gratitude towards his work. “At the surface level though, there is a perspective that he was a figure to be revered,” Hernandez told The Center Square during a phone interview Thursday. He added that he imagined many people would be disappointed by the news of the sexual abuse allegations. Despite his complicated history, Chavez has been upheld as a protest, revolutionary and Latino rights hero across much of the U.S. In the wake of the allegations, widespread calls to rename schools, parks and holidays, originally named after Chavez, quickly spread. Southern California cities with large Latino populations have streets named after him, such as Cesar Chavez Avenue in Los Angeles, Cesar Chavez Drive in Oxnard and Calle Cesar Chavez in Santa Barbara. Nine states – California, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Arizona, Utah, Michigan, Wisconsin and New Mexico – celebrate Cesar Chavez Day as state holidays, according to the website timeanddate. On Thursday morning, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed a proclamation to rename March 31 from Cesar Chavez Day to Farm Workers Day. “Dolores and leaders like her inspired so many of us to activism,” said Bass at a press conference. “Mr. Chavez's crimes do not diminish the courage of farm workers and workers everywhere who fight for their rights, equality for Latinos, and a stronger nation for everyone.” In Arizona, where Chavez was born, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said the city would start renaming facilities that were named after Chavez. She also said they would re-focus the holiday on his birthday to be about the wider workers rights movement. In Northern Nevada, the Central Labor Council said it would rename the Cesar Chavez Celebration to the much longer name: Northern Nevada Member Assistance Program Solidarity Celebration Dinner. “As long as the process is community-informed and continues to uphold that it was a farm worker movement and there was more than an individual contributing to this, then I think we have a really interesting opportunity to change the narrative from a cult of personality to more of a people's history and a people's narrative,” said Hernandez on the renaming efforts. Hernandez also told The Center Square that the effort to rename facilities and holidays that were originally named in honor of Chavez had been much faster than for other controversial historical figures in the U.S. ”I think it’s something that is worth noting here.”

路透社北京消息，中東局勢動蕩之際，中國周三18日表示，如果台灣同意接受北京的統治，中國將為其提供能源穩定。這一表態是中國為說服台灣接受其長期被拒絕的“統一”所開展行動的一部分。

路透社北京消息，中东局势动荡之际，中国周三18日表示，如果台湾同意接受北京的统治，中国将为其提供能源稳定。这一表态是中国为说服台湾接受其长期被拒绝的“统一”所开展行动的一部分。

تصاویر منتسب به حمله به «اسکله بندر لنگه» در شامگاه پنج‌شنبه ۲۸ اسفند

En la última jornada de la Comisión de la Condición Jurídica y Social de la Mujer de la ONU (CSW,...

Paulo Niccoli Ramirez analisa ascensão de João Campos como nome para 2030 e crise de renovação na esquerda Fonte

The Iowa House passed a bill Thursday retroactively bumping the premium tax rate for health maintenance organizations to make up for a Medicaid budget shortfall — a move Democrats and insurers said would raise health care costs for all Iowans but Republicans argued was needed to draw down federal funding. House File 2739, approved on […]