Any unexpected death is sad. But the untimely loss of two good men in recent days is profoundly tragic. Richard Henderson died on a subway car on Sunday night in Brooklyn. Joseph Zadroga died the day before in a parking lot at a rehabilitation center near Atlantic City. Both deaths were needless — and that’s […]
DE PERE — For two decades, Kerri Herrild has wanted Wisconsin students to learn about personal finance. It’s a social justice issue, she said. Starting with the class of 2028, every high schooler will have to take a personal finance course in order to graduate after Gov. Tony Evers signed the requirement into law in […]
Jan. 15—ALTOONA — Robin Miller, associate director of the libraries at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, pointed to text on the projector screen that read: “The origin of the name ‘Altoona’ for the city in Wisconsin has historical roots. The city was named after Altoona, Pennsylvania, a well-known railroad hub.” This introduction in a paragraph […]
Despite his deep unpopularity with most white Americans while he was alive, today almost all Americans praise Martin Luther King Jr. as the hero of a badly needed civil rights movement. Conservatives included. Those on the right especially seem to agree that the conservative resistance to King’s efforts stemmed from a racial animus now happily […]
Cited for overwatering lawns, Clermont residents surprised to learn they were on a water budget Longtime residents of one Clermont neighborhood are frustrated after they were cited for overwatering their lawn. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS Several neighbors in the Verde Ridge subdivision said they received violation notices for going over their property’s assigned […]
A coyote that learned to beg for food along a road in Death Valley failed to learn a lesson the National Park Service was trying to teach it, which was to stay off Badwater Road near Golden Canyon. Apparently, the coyote had learned that by crossing the road when it saw a car coming, the […]
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is an enormous world – quadruple the diameter of Earth, with 15 times the mass and 63 times the volume. Unvisited by spacecraft for more than 35 years, Uranus inhabits one of […]
The so-called “Magnificent Seven” stocks have been the stars of 2023. Collectively, they account for almost two-thirds of the S&P 500‘s total return over the last year. But, the real question is, will the “Magnificent Seven” — Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta Platforms, and Tesla — lead the market again in 2024? Or could […]
We’re only halfway through 2023, and it feels already like the year of alien contact. In February, President Joe Biden gave orders to shoot down three unidentified aerial phenomena – NASA’s title for UFOs. Then, the alleged leaked footage from a Navy pilot of a UFO, and then news of a whistleblower’s report on a […]
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Students from several Stark County schools recently took part in the American Heart Association Northeast Ohio STEM Goes Red for Girls experience at The NEW Center at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown. Local middle school girls explored STEM education, and learned about opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math, coming together with some of […]
“The 360” shows you diverse perspectives on the day’s top stories and debates. What’s happening America’s professional sports leagues, which maintained a certain level of normalcy for much of the past year, are once again being thrown into chaos by a fresh wave of coronavirus outbreaks among players and team staff. The three major U.S. […]