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- Tax Collections Up 10.6 Percent Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:35AMTax collections for the Massachusetts fiscal year that ended June 30 exceeded projections by $723 million, leaving the state with what appeared to be a significant surplus despite continued economic and financial uncertainty.
- Michele Bachmann: Who are the anti-Bachmann bloggers? Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:28AMNewsweek/DailyBeast
- Readercon: Science fiction as it was born Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:10AMAt Readercon science fiction fans come to celebrate the genre in its original form
- Vail Christian students bound for China Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 9:11PMThese nine Vail Christian High School students are the only students from the United States selected to attend the Beijing International Youth Camp. They are, from top left, Branden Currey, Thomas Cheesman, Patrick Beaudine (history teacher and chaperone), Jordan Mesch, Kevin Boselli, Cole Caynoski, Amie Hixon, Kyra Webb, Samantha Hancock and Kristen Currey.
- Lender Accion gets $1.5 million grant Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:19PMshare: digg facebook twitter Accion President and CEO Janie Barrera said 80 percent of the funds will be used for loans and loan loss reserves. “Community economic development is a term used quite often in Washington, but it is a term understood best by the dedicated community partners like Accion who commit to more opportunity for small business development,” Doggett said in a prepared ...
- Glasgow and Edinburgh: the architectural rivalry Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:09PMTwo new museums in Scotland, a vast zinc-coated amoeba on the edge of Glasgow, and a transformed temple of High Victorian knowledge in Edinburgh, have renewed the eternal cultural rivalry of these two great cities, just 47 miles apart. Glasgow claims immediate bragging rights because the Riverside Museum of Transport and Travel was designed by Zaha Hadid and cost more: £74m. And yet Gareth ...
- Rural exposure: Modern view of country medicine Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 10:10PMWhen Dr. Therese Zink started collecting real-life stories for a book about country doctors, she had one rule:
- Jasper concerned on drugs, gangs Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 9:06PMJasper Police Chief Tim Graham says drugs and gangs are a problem in any town, and anyone who says they aren’t isn’t telling the truth.
- Economic gardening paying off for Midland Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:35AMThere’s a lot of discussion in Michigan about the concept of “economic gardening,” and how communities can use it to improve their business climate and the health of their economy. Recently, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder unveiled “Pure Michigan Business Connect,” a $3 billion public-private initiative to help connect growing companies with talent and access to capital. Snyder’s stated goal is to ...
- Nebraska Legislature adjourns for the year Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:24AMLINCOLN (AP) - Nebraska lawmakers finished their session ahead of schedule Thursday with a new two-year state budget, redrawn legislative and congressional districts and the biggest overhaul of public-sector collective bargaining rules in more than four decades.
- Homelessness panel likes day center, donation boxes Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:10AMDonation boxes and a day use center are two of the top five proposals for helping the homeless that a steering committee will forward to the Ashland City Council for consideration.
- Higher ed funding process siphons money from UNLV Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:09AMGerry Bomotti, UNLV senior vice president for finance and business, recalls a budget meeting during the legislative session in which an elected official asked, “If fees are raised, does the university get to keep that money?” The answer given and accepted: Yes. The real answer? Not exactly. Welcome to the world of higher education funding, Nevada-style. It’s a politically charged, convoluted ...
- Major execs invested in Hall Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:01AMMajor execs invested in Hall
- Best entertainment bets for July 17-21 Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 10:14PMThe 72nd annual Aquatennial is under way.
- Push to legalize food trucks and carts meeting with controversy Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:18PMBrittney Blackshear tempered her expectations ahead of testing her crepe-selling concept at April’s Earth Day festival in Forsyth Park. “I didn’t do it thinking it would turn into a business. I did it to gauge the response,” Blackshear said. “And the response was beyond any expectations I could have imagined.” Blackshear estimates she had five minutes of downtime in the four-hour midday rush ...
- Realignment of state House and Senate districts will give Fox Valley more input in General Assembly Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 1:20PMThe southeast corner of Douglas Road and Barbara Lane in Montgomery is a forgotten grassy lot. The lot is so overlooked that even the For Sale sign has fallen down; the number listed on it leads to a lifeless dial tone. It’s not much too look at, but legislatively, the land has a fantastic view. According to the state legislature redistricting maps signed by Gov. Pat Quinn, the lot that usually ...
- Ghanaian-Canadian Professor to Give Scholarships Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 1:14PMStudents at the Nsaba Diaspora Senior High School near Nsawam in the Eastern Region and 10 of their counterparts from several rural communities in Ghana will be beneficiaries of scholarships from students from Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.
- The Ecology Desk Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:20AMBy Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo Conclusion IF only he would stop talking about his wife. Gem would rather go than listen to him. In fact, she would rather help him shop for a gift for Jamaica. Mark was like all men. God knows he’s got no taste. Meanwhile, she had been writing down gift ideas [...]
- Rock County Humane Society may end its animal control services in Beloit, Janesville Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 9:25PMCome Jan. 1, 2012 the Rock County Humane Society may no longer be in charge of animal control in the cities of Beloit and Janesville.
- New facts emerge on ground-breaking flights of Charles Hamilton Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 6:28PMOne of the best things about studying history is the literally never-ending opportunity to expand the depth and breadth of knowledge surrounding a particular subject or event. New facts are being unearthed every day about events as diverse as the creation of the Magna Carta and the battles of the American Civil War.
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