Tag: tackling

Taste of NFL tackling food insecurity in Las Vegas-area community

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — For over 30 years, Taste of the NFL has been providing a culinary experience like no other. This year, Chef Bryan Forgione, the executive chef at Buddy V’s is excited to show his passion for cooking through some unique recipes. “This year we’re going to showcase our fresh mozzarella making and […]

Irish biker Oran O’Kelly on tackling the Everest of motorsport

Of all the attributes it takes to be successful in motorsport, being able to scrub a toilet wouldn’t exactly top the list. However, for Oran O’Kelly, a stint of volunteering for the Audi team last year saw him doing just that, rolling up his sleeves and doing the unglamorous work that needs to be done, […]

After much delay, Colombia is finally tackling its hippo problem

Drug baron Pablo Escobar once brought four African hippos to Colombia for his own private zoo and now they are a multi-tonne problem. Escobar, the head of the powerful Medellín cartel, was shot dead in 1993, but his hippos remain and have since become an outsize pest, disrupting the local ecosystem, destroying fields and endangering […]

How schools are tackling chronic absenteeism in the wake of COVID

While most schools in the U.S. have returned to full-time in-person learning after going remote at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lingering effects of the lockdowns still remain. Chris Lantz is part of an attendance team in Louisville, Kentucky, tasked with making up the 30 calls a week searching for chronically absent students. […]