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Apr 17 2024
News
April BOT meeting: AI’s impact on campus, CAS progress and new medical sciences M.S.
Oakland University’s Board of Trustees (BOT) held the last meeting for the Winter 2024 semester on April 13. The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on campus, the College of Arts and Sciences achievements and a new medical science master’s degree were among the topics discussed. OU President Ora Hirsch Pescovitz began the meeting by congratulating the men’s basketball team for their
Oakland PostApr 10 2024
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Fed rate cuts in doubt as rising housing costs stall progress on inflation
But the progress has stalled in recent months . The prime culprit: rising house prices and rents, or what the government calls shelter costs. The central bank reined in the worst inflation in more than four decades by aggressively boosting borrowing costs. The Consumer Price Index spiked 9.1 percent in June 2022 from a year earlier. By last November, price gains had slowed to 3.1 percent.
The Boston GlobeMar 14 2024
News
State budget makes progress in Albany
ALBANY, NY (Erie News Now)--GOVernor KATHY HOCHUL UNVEILED HER $233 BILLION BUDGET PLAN BACK IN JANUARY. THIS WEEK LAWMAKERS IN ALBANY PRESENT THEIR BUDGET PRIORITIES, INCLUDING EDUCATION—AN AREA IN THE BUDGET BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS PUSH BACK ON. “I’m open to all ideas but I know where I stand on these issues,” said Hochul. HOCHUL’S CHANGES TO THE FORMULA INTEND TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR
Erie News Now WICU/WSEEApr 10 2024
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Somerset County emergency radio tower upgrades progressing; 911 staffing up
Apr. 10—SOMERSET — A Somerset County radio communications tower is now online in Larimer Township, and work is underway to add equipment to another tower in Allegheny Township, county officials said Tuesday. The work is part of a nearly $4 million project to reduce emergency radio "dead zones" for first responders. Salisbury fire Chief Dave Short Jr. said Tuesday he was glad to hear the
Yahoo NewsMar 20 2024
Opinion
Progressives Are Leading Joe Biden Astray, Again
An impromptu focus group of Democratic voters recently convened and conducted by Mark Halperin found that the president’s State of the Union Address had the effect his speechwriters so clearly intended: It made Democrats feel better about Biden’s capacity to run one last campaign.
Those voters said they were enthused by Biden’s renewed vigor. They appreciated the record of legislative
Noah RothmanApr 15 2024
News
Pittsburgh congressional race could be early test for progressives who criticize Israel's handling of war
An election this month in Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs is emerging as an early test of whether Israel’s war with Hamas poses political threats to progressive Democrats in Congress who have criticized how the conflict has been handled. U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, a first-term lawmaker who has aligned herself with "the squad," is facing a primary challenge from Bhavini Patel and the war has
Fox News (Online News)Mar 19 2024
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3 Questions: Progress on updating MIT’s undergraduate curriculum
In late February, Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate and Graduate Education Ian A. Waitz and Faculty Chair Mary Fuller announced the formation and launch of the Task Force on the MIT Undergraduate Academic Program (TFUAP). The effort fulfills a critical recommendation of the Task Force 2021 and Beyond RIC1 (Undergraduate Program) and draws upon several, prior foundational working groups — some
MIT NewsMar 25 2024
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Census shows local exodus, but silver lining in progress
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The latest numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau continue to show that fewer people are choosing to live around Youngstown. From 2022 to 2023, the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which includes Mahoning, Trumbull, and Mercer Counties, lost another 1,300 people, or about four a day. That sounds concerning, but it’s better than it has been
WKBN 27Apr 14 2024
News
Rep. Summer Lee's primary could test progressive Democrats critical of Israel’s strikes in Gaza
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An election this month in Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs is emerging as an early test of whether Israel’s war with Hamas poses political threats to progressive Democrats in Congress who have criticized how the conflict has been handled. U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, a first-term lawmaker who has aligned herself with the “squad,” is facing a primary challenge from Bhavini
The GrioMar 24 2024
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Grad student creates progressive dining experiences for community
“We just go to one place and that's it and then we go home. this way we can try different places, "said Rodriguez. "What it is is a traveling meal where we will start with a drink in a place then we will keep going with an appetizer at a second location, then the main dish and dessert somewhere else," added Rodriguez. Her project resulted in a boost in business for the local restaurant Bocatta
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