How is it that in the richest country on Earth, life expectancy has been falling? This is the question that many policymakers and consumers of news have been asking themselves of late. Between COVID-19, drugs and the consequences of obesity (including high blood pressure and cardiovascular problems), we are digging ourselves an early grave. Still, […]
Jun. 9—TRAVERSE CITY — Leaders and staff with the area’s largest mental health organization are making progress fixing systemic lapses in employee management, a consultant said in a newly-released 60-page report. “The team, while relatively new, is off to a good start,” Kereen Conley of professional advisory firm Rehmann said, while detailing additional findings at […]
Stocks are facing a familiar problem. Even as earnings for the first quarter come in better than expected, the market has struggled to climb higher consistently as rising Treasury yields weigh on sentiment for equities, reminding investors of the period in 2023 when higher yields sent stocks crashing. “Higher rates are now a systemic problem […]
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors and the county have issued an official apology to the city’s Black residents for centuries of “systemic and structural discrimination, targeted acts of violence and atrocities,” according to a seven-page resolution from the board. The city’s supervisors formally apologized on Feb. 27 in a resolution signed by all 11 board […]
The Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia’s largest district, has a systemwide problem protecting students’ privacy, the state education agency said Friday, calling for additional training of staff it said were either “not aware of the precautions that should be taken” or weren’t “sensitized” to the issues. The finding stems from a complaint brought by a […]
Feb. 8—MORGANTOWN — The House of Delegates got mired Thursday in a nearly hour-long debate over an amendment to remove three words from a 14-page bill concerning the hiring of school security officers. The Democrats, being a super-minority, lost the debate but exacted retribution by exercising the constitutional right to have every subsequent bill, but […]
Ukraine must inflict “maximum systemic losses” on Russia in 2024, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his traditional evening address on Feb. 6. Bolstering Ukraine’s sky shield remains a key strategy and one of the country’s main tasks, he added. Read also: Zelenskyy to visit Germany for Munich Security Conference on Feb. 16-18 […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Four years after South Carolina removed the Confederate battle flag from its Statehouse grounds, Nikki Haley offered two separate explanations of the flag’s meaning in less than a week. Haley, the state’s governor when the flag was pulled in 2015 from its place of honor in Columbia, said in a 2019 […]
A new report from Human Rights Watch found that Meta’s policies have been “silencing voices” in support of Palestinians on Instagram and Facebook in a “wave of heightened censorship” amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The human rights-focused advocacy group documented more than 1,050 takedowns and suppression of content posted by Palestinians and supporters on Meta […]