A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll of Black voters in Michigan shows that while President Joe Biden enjoys a clear majority of their support, it may not be enough to win the state again as more voters have moved to backing former President Donald Trump and third party candidates than appeared to do so in […]
This article was originally published in The Texas Tribune. Partial scores from the state’s standardized test released Friday show high school students are still struggling with algebra, once again raising concerns about young Texans’ readiness to enter high-paying careers in STEM-related fields. The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness end-of-course tests evaluate high-schoolers in […]
Biden is currently trailing Trump in several critical battleground states ahead of November. But of all the swing states, Wisconsin has largely been the most receptive to Biden’s message. Biden has retained a significant level of support from the state’s bloc of white non-college voters. In 2020, Wisconsin was one of Joe Biden’s most important […]
Lawmakers are considering spending $6 million to test the use of “sprint” paramedics in three northern Minnesota counties and confront the state’s worsening rural emergency response. The hope is that paramedics, roving the Iron Range and northwest lakes region in cars and trucks, could shave minutes off response times, and sort out calls that don’t […]
By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) – It is April and the first quarter of 2024 is behind us, so there is a good chance your well-intentioned resolutions for life and money are failing. Which means it is a great time to try a Personal Strategy Map. The brainchild of Columbia Business School professor Sheena […]
NEW YORK — Life in the city has been especially grim for Latino New Yorkers these days, a recent survey revealed — laying bare the compounding obstacles Mayor Eric Adams faces in serving a key constituency. Hispanics experiencing steeply deteriorating quality of life reported the sharpest drop in satisfaction of any race or ethnicity in […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump‘s fundraising picked up last month, but his political operation is still struggling to catch up to President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party in money coming in. Trump’s campaign and his Save America political action committee, two key committees in his political operation, reported raising a combined […]
Feb. 10—HIGH POINT — State Rep. Cecil Brockman, D-Guilford, said that he’s working with state election officials to resolve campaign finance reports that were cited this week by a longtime political researcher as having chronic shortcomings. Bob Hall, retired executive director of the group Democracy North Carolina, referenced Brockman in citing eight members of the […]
Less than half of U.S. adults say they have gotten the annual flu shot this year and even less received the most recent COVID-19 booster shot, according to a new survey. The Gallup survey, published Wednesday, found that 47 percent of adults said they got the flu shot and 29 percent received the newest COVID-19 […]