A toolkit with a graph behind it The jobs market is polarising into coronavirus winners and losers. While sectors such as healthcare and logistics are thriving, travel and the arts have been severely damaged.  Widespread redundancies are expected too, with the Institute for Employment Studies, a think tank, predicting the […]

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images and Drew Angerer/Getty Images. And here we go! After a day much of the Internet spent anxiously attempting to interpret Florida turnout figures , states around the country are closing their polls, which means we can start talking about […]

BOSTON (SHNS) – Three months after Gov. Charlie Baker signed a more than $1.1 billion COVID relief spending bill, the administration has made the final $213 million available for dozens of non-profits, municipal departments, and hospitals to claim with just two months left until much of the federal money used […]

Potential voters in Northern California were searching online for answers to questions about the 2020 general election Tuesday, and KCRA 3 has some answers.Here are some of the questions people in the Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto areas have been Googling below:Can I drop off my ballot on Election Day?On Election […]

Barack Obama on “SNL” in 2007. NBC Dating back to the ’80s, politicians from the past and the present have made cameos in TV dramas and sitcoms. NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” welcomed a fair number of politicians on the show, including presidential hopeful and former vice president Joe Biden. Hillary […]

From STAFF REPORTS READING – In order to ensure the proposal reflects Reading’s parkland and playground priorities, local officials will update the community’s seven-year-old Open Space and Recreation Plan (OSRP). In a recent notice to citizens, Conservation Administrator Charles Tirone asked for residents to take a new survey that asks […]

Lengthy early voting lines in Michigan and two stops by President Donald Trump on Monday marked the eve of a pivotal election that will cement the path of the nation for the next four years. Trump won the state by 10,704 votes in 2016, his closest margin of victory nationally. But […]

Newswise — At the California State University, every campus offers students the chance to make a difference in their communities—​from local service opportunities to voting support. But the ultimate goal is to prepare them to continue working on behalf of their neighborhoods, their state and their world after they graduate. Discover a few ways the CSU is […]

The National Park Service issued a notice Monday that hog-hunting season is underway and the Tennessee side of Big South Fork is a prime hunting ground. It’s not every day you’ll hear a conservationist say, Kill as many as you like. But when it comes to hog-hunting season at Big […]

Going into Election Day, Iowa has already broken previous election records. Secretary of State Paul Pate reported Monday morning that 2,095,580 had registered to vote in the state leading up to the 2020 election. By comparison, the last high watermark for registration was 2016 when 1,996,153 were registered to vote. […]

If you’re planning to vote in person on Election Day today, be sure to check that your polling place hasn’t changed. You can look up the polling location for your address on the Secretary of State’s website. Here’s the list of polling locations for each Coastal county. If you have […]

City, Republic alter bulk pickup times Republic Services and the Mayor’s Office have decided upon a better agreement on the Bulk Pickup schedule to make it easier for residents to know their pickup day every month, said Deputy Mayor Jacob Pomasl. This is for the two free bulk items. The […]

SILVER SPRING, MD — Montgomery County is offering free walk-in and drive-thru coronavirus testing at a number of sites this week. No doctor’s order is required and no appointments are needed. County officials ask that symptomatic residents call the Testing Helpline at 240-777-1755 for assistance. Find more information on eligibility […]

LANSING, Mich. — Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced today that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is making Economic Injury Disaster Loans of up to $2 million available to eligible small businesses, agricultural cooperatives, and nonprofits impacted by excessive rain that occurred Oct. 1, 2019 through June 3, 2020.  SBA extended the loans following the Secretarial Disaster Declaration obtained by Governor Whitmer from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue last year.   “This is welcome news for Michigan […]