• Search is on for the country’s best social workers

    The Social Worker of the Year Awards 2024 is free to enter and members of the public are being encouraged to nominate social workers from the East Midlands who they feel deserve to be recognised for their hard work and support. The prestigious awards has 18 categories which social workers can be nominated for including, ‘Children’s Social Worker of the Year’, ‘Adult Social Worker of the Year’ and ‘Social Work Student of the Year’. There are two new award categories this year....

  • Universities for AUKUS: The Social License Confidence Trick

    “Can we still see universities as places to learn and produce knowledge that, at the risk of sounding naïve, is for the greater good of humanity, independently transient of geopolitical skirmishes?” Wanning Sun from the University of Technology, Sydney, asks in hope. “The history of universities during the Cold War era tells us that it is precisely at More

  • The State of Main Street Heading Into Small Business Week

    Despite the moniker attached to their segment, small businesses loom large in the American economy. And with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) celebrating National Small Business Week starting Sunday (April 28), the staying power of entrepreneurship in the U.S. is top of mind for both small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well as the solution […]

  • Montana becomes the latest abortion battleground state for 2024

    A new abortion rights advocacy organization, Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights, officially launched its ballot initiative, which aims to enshrine abortion rights in Montana’s state constitution. If the petition drive succeeds, it will make abortion central to the 2024 campaign and likely give vulnerable Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, a staunch abortion rights supporter, a boost. “Abortion is a topic that’s become politicized and stigmatized, but in reality, we all love someone or are someone...

  • EU sets out terms of approved Czech nuclear state aid

    The European Commission has approved the Czech Republic's proposed public support package for new nuclear - after a series of modifications were made to address their concerns during an inquiry which began in June 2022.

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    Construction of gas power plant in Doddridge County approved by state

    The construction of an electric generating facility that was first proposed in 2022 has been approved by the Public Service Commission of West Virginia.

  • Two Valley baseball teams ranked in latest state poll

    A pair of Valley teams remain in the top 20 in their respective divisions.

  • Airchat is the latest app trying to make 'social audio' cool again

    There’s a new invite-only app going semi-viral among VCs, tech execs and other Silicon Valley personalities. It’s called Airchat and it’s trying to revive the concept of an audio-first social media app. The premise is similar to Clubhouse, the audio app that had a viral moment at the height of the pandemic in 2021 and inspired copycat features in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Reddit before gradually fading into obscurity. But unlike the original version of Clubhouse, Airchat isn’t built around...

  • Arkansas House approves FY 2025 funding, state employee raises

    (The Center Square) - State spending will only rise by 1.76% from $6.2 billion to $6.3 billion in fiscal year 2025, according to the Revenue Stabilization Act passed by the Arkansas House of Representatives Wednesday. The RSA is the second lowest in the past five years. It went up 2.95% last year, 2.99% in fiscal year 2023, 1.55% in 2022 and 2.87% in 2021, according to Rep. Lane Jean, R-Magnolia, who co-chairs the state budget committee. "A couple of things that...

  • State Secrets Law tightens grip on China social media giants

    Changes to China's State Secrets Law requires internet firms to monitor information shared by users.

  • Rodeo workers help Washington police round up runaway zebras on interstate

    Three of the striped African mammals recaptured but one remains at large

  • Maine approves ban on groups that charge veterans to access VA benefits

    The new law, which exempts accredited organizations and Maine Veterans’ Home staff, will take effect in July.