ies St. Louis City and County Agencies to Receive $600,000 in Grants for Brownfields Assessment and Cleanup Planning By www.epa.gov Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Full Article
ies EPA Announces $2 Million in Brownfield Grants for Communities Across New Jersey By www.epa.gov Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 NEW YORK – Today, the U.S. Full Article
ies EPA Selects Nine Projects in California to Receive Nearly $4 Million for Revitalization of Contaminated Properties By www.epa.gov Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 SAN FRANCISCO - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced nine projects across California will receive a total of nearly $4 million to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency’s Brownfields Program. Full Article
ies Seven Nebraska School Districts Receive $200,000 to Help Purchase Buses to Lower Diesel Emissions By www.epa.gov Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Full Article
ies 23 Missouri School Districts, One Transportation Company Receive $1.03 Million to Help Purchase Buses to Lower Diesel Emissions By www.epa.gov Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Full Article
ies 18 Kansas School Districts Receive $460,000 to Help Purchase Buses to Lower Diesel Emissions By www.epa.gov Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Full Article
ies 10 Iowa School Districts Receive $300,000 to Help Purchase Buses to Lower Diesel Emissions By www.epa.gov Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Full Article
ies Travel trade photographer dies after contracting Covid-19 By www.travelmole.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 13:50:01 -0400 Tributes paid to Alastair McDavid Full Article
ies Derbyshire 101 Chesterfield 7000 steps by 9.30 from frost to blue skiesSkype. Risk assessments and telekits will life ever be the same again By www.travelblog.org Published On :: Surfacing this morning was difficult . It is a work day today . Last night we had a frost . Not a heavy one . Not the sort of frost you get in the Winter . Not the sort of frost that you have to scrape off the car windscreen. But a frost nevertheless . The Full Article
ies random stuff like rain visas and movies By www.travelblog.org Published On :: Sometimes I cannot believe that I actually live in this Central American country. It has been raining and raining and raining since we came home from Managua on Friday. Like the pants 7 pairs 3 mine that I washed in the rain on Saturday morning Full Article
ies Two Cities ~ Two Countries By aboomerstravels.wordpress.com Published On :: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 22:22:57 +0000 My wife and I recently visited Niagara Falls this past August in our quest to escape some of the summer heat. I had been there two earlier times as a child and a parent. The town of Niagara has seen… Continue reading → Full Article North America Canada Fort Niagara New York Niagara Falla Niagara on the Lake NY
ies Health vs. Wealth? Public Health Policies and the Economy During Covid-19 -- by Zhixian Lin, Christopher M. Meissner By www.nber.org Published On :: We study the impact of non-pharmaceutical policy interventions (NPIs) like “stay-at-home” orders on the spread of infectious disease. NPIs are associated with slower growth of Covid-19 cases. NPIs “spillover” into other jurisdictions. NPIs are not associated with significantly worse economic outcomes measured by job losses. Job losses have been no higher in US states that implemented “stay-at-home” during the Covid-19 pandemic than in states that did not have “stay-at-home”. All of these results demonstrate that the Covid-19 pandemic is a common economic and public health shock. The tradeoff between the economy and public health today depends strongly on what is happening elsewhere. This underscores the importance of coordinated economic and public health responses. Full Article
ies Dutch Exceptionalism: Will Holland's Looser Corona Policies Pay Off? By www.spiegel.de Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:14:10 +0100 One EU country after the other is moving to restrict public life. The Dutch government has opted for less drastic measures, hoping for herd immunity and relying on the common sense of its people. But the country has still had to make adjustments to its policies. Full Article
ies Long-held inequities a problem during remote instruction By www.smartbrief.com Published On :: 08 May 2020 09:18:57 CDT The recent, rapid shift to remote learning has helped to reveal the stark -- and long-held -- inequities that exist among stu -More- Full Article Technology in the Classroom
ies Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap -- by Benoit Dostie, Jiang Li, David Card, Daniel Parent By www.nber.org Published On :: We use longitudinal data from the income tax system to study the impacts of firms’ employment and wage-setting policies on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early 2000s, distinguishing between those with and without a college degree from two broad groups of countries – the U.S., the U.K. and Northern Europe, and the rest of the world. Consistent with a growing literature based on the two-way fixed effects model of Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (1999), we find that firm-specific wage premiums explain a significant share of earnings inequality in Canada and contribute to the average earnings gap between immigrants and natives. In the decade after receiving permanent status, earnings of immigrants rise relative to those of natives. Compositional effects due to selective outmigration and changing participation play no role in this gain. About one-sixth is attributable to movements up the job ladder to employers that offer higher pay premiums for all groups, with particularly large gains for immigrants from the “rest of the world” countries. Full Article
ies Hong Kong: China Pressures Foreign Companies on Protests By www.spiegel.de Published On :: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:17:00 +0200 To help end the protests in Hong Kong, the Chinese government is pressuring foreign companies doing business in the country to toe the official position. Any firm that doesn't can expect punishment -- and even ostensibly progressive German conglomerates are playing along. By DER SPIEGEL Staff Full Article
ies Corona: Germany Plans 40 Billion Euro in Aid for Freelancers and Small Companies By www.spiegel.de Published On :: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:21:45 +0100 Freelancers and small companies are getting hit especially hard by the corona crisis. DER SPIEGEL has learned that the federal government is planning a massive financial aid package. It would mark the end of Germany’s balanced budget policy. Full Article
ies Half a Million German Companies Have Sent Employees into Short-Time Work By www.spiegel.de Published On :: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 15:47:24 +0200 The corona crisis has hit the German economy at full force. Already, 470,000 applications have been filed for a German government subsidy that prevents employees from getting laid off, 20 times more than the previous record during the 2009 financial crisis. Full Article
ies Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 7: Utah minorities especially affected by COVID-19, panelists say By www.sltrib.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 02:57:46 +0000 Full Article
ies Gordon Monson: Two twin Utes tricked ex-Utah basketball coach Jim Boylen by switching identities. This is their story. By www.sltrib.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 22:21:47 +0000 Full Article
ies Jana Riess: What history tells us about Donald Trump’s reelection prospects By www.sltrib.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:53:59 +0000 Full Article
ies Kyle Roerink and Steve Erickson: The tale of two pipelines for desert cities By www.sltrib.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 18:00:25 +0000 Full Article
ies Harmons Grocery helps Girl Scouts of Utah sell cookies during COVID-19 By www.sltrib.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:03:04 +0000 Full Article
ies Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy dies from coronavirus at 75 By www.sltrib.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 15:52:16 +0000 Full Article
ies Drive-in entertainment series coming this summer thanks to Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Enterprises By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 16:25:14 +0000 This new entertainment series should get the motor running for movie and music fans. Full Article
ies Jimmy Glenn, boxing cornerman and owner of ‘Jimmy’s Corner’ bar in Times Square, dies at 89 of coronavirus By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 18:09:58 +0000 Glenn, a former boxer and owner of popular Times Square bar Jimmy's Corner, died of coronavirus early Thursday morning at 89. Full Article
ies Florida teen allegedly stabs younger brother to death, authorities say By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:48:41 +0000 An extensive search was launched Thursday for a teenager who allegedly stabbed his younger brother to death in the Florida Keys community of Islamorada, authorities said. Full Article
ies No burglaries were reported in neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was killed, contradicting suspects’ claim: report By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 20:06:44 +0000 An already-unlikely motive in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case became even more suspicious on Friday. The two Georgia men who were caught on video shooting the unarmed jogger to death in February claim they were chasing a suspect behind a series of burglaries in the area. But a local police official said the last break-in the neighborhood was reported nearly two months before the shooting. Full Article
ies CCPC simplifies merger notification system By www.rte.ie Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:21:36 +0000 The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has simplified the system for certain mergers to be notified to it. Full Article Business
ies Taking government money? Disclose your political spending: Companies should opt for transparency now more than ever By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:00:00 +0000 With increasing reports of large public companies and politically connected ones receiving COVID-19 rescue aid and the Trump administration blocking proper oversight, business leaders can act on their own to protect the integrity of the government aid effort and of companies themselves. They can do that by disclosing their companies’ political spending to show that political influence is not a factor in who gets help. Full Article
ies Former ABA commissioner Mike Storen, dad of ESPN’s Hannah Storm, dies at 84 By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:36:20 +0000 Known for his hearty laugh and creative mind, Storen rose to executive spots in basketball, football, baseball and tennis during a four-decade career in sports. Full Article
ies Storm-damaged Bahamas properties hot as investors chase bargains By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 23:01:42 +0000 After Hurricane Dorian savaged the northern islands of the Bahamas, damaged properties loom as a target for real estate speculators. Full Article
ies Scientologists buy dozens of properties in Florida city, newspaper reports By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:15:36 +0000 In a report published Sunday, the Tampa Bay Times said that it discovered the extent of Scientology property purchases by reviewing more than 1,000 deeds and business records and then interviewed more than 90 people to reconstruct the circumstances surrounding the transactions. Full Article
ies California holds 73% of the nation’s priciest ZIP codes for home buyers By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:49:17 +0000 According to a new report from real estate database PropertyShark, California has accounted for roughly 73% of the country’s priciest ZIP codes for home buyers this year. Full Article
ies As Chicago’s building boom continues, new nonprofit aims to train women and minorities for construction trades By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:53:55 +0000 Major players in commercial real estate, construction and organized labor are teaming up with the United Way to try to place thousands of and minorities into trade careers in Chicago, where there is both a shortage of skilled labor and a dearth of jobs in swaths of the city. Full Article
ies Which Workers Bear the Burden of Social Distancing Policies? -- by Simon Mongey, Laura Pilossoph, Alex Weinberg By www.nber.org Published On :: What are the characteristics of workers in jobs likely to be initially affected by broad social distancing and later by narrower policy tailored to jobs with low risk of disease transmission? We use O NET to construct a measure of the likelihood that jobs can be conducted from home (a variant of Dingel and Neiman, 2020) and a measure of low physical proximity to others at work. We validate the measures by showing how they relate to similar measures constructed using time use data from ATUS. Our main finding is that workers in low-work-from-home or high-physical- proximity jobs are more economically vulnerable across various measures constructed from the CPS and PSID: they are less educated, of lower income, have fewer liquid assets relative to income, and are more likely renters. We further substantiate the measures with behavior during the epidemic. First, we show that MSAs with less pre-virus employment in work-from-home jobs experienced smaller declines in the incidence of `staying-at-home', as measured using SafeGraph cell phone data. Second, we show that both occupations and types of workers predicted to be employed in low work-from-home jobs experienced greater declines in employment according to the March 2020 CPS. For example, non-college educated workers experienced a 4ppt larger decline in employment relative to those with a college degree. Full Article
ies Man dies trying to douse fire in bedroom of his Brooklyn apartment By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 23:28:29 +0000 Sometime after 911 was called, the 63-year-old victim — whose name has not been released — went into his bedroom to put out the fire. He soon passed out amid the smoke and flames, officials said. Responding firefighters and EMTs pulled him out of the apartment. "He was badly burned," said a neighbor. Full Article
ies Church desecration suspect in custody after Brooklyn priest, altar are splashed with juice during Sunday morning service By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:05:13 +0000 A 14-second video captured the unsettling scene inside St. Anthony of Padua Church in Greenpoint as the Rev. Jossy Vattothu presided over the 9:30 a.m. Mass, with the man strolling casually inside the house of worship with a container of juice in his right hand. Full Article
ies 11-year-old Brooklyn girl dies in fire amid probe into whether her parents abused her, say sources By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:22:22 +0000 Shirr Teved was inside her home near Foster Ave. in Flatbush when a fire broke out about 10:30 p.m. Monday. Full Article
ies Pistol-whipping Russian mobster explodes at prosecutor at Brooklyn sentencing: ‘I can’t listen to these lies!’ By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 23:24:49 +0000 Aleksey Tsvetkov, 40, blew up while an Assistant U.S. Attorney recited his criminal history during his sentencing hearing in Brooklyn Federal Court on racketeering charges.. Full Article
ies Coronavirus threat leads Diocese of Brooklyn to close all 186 parishes, after two priests and more congregants infected By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:38:44 +0000 The diocese made the dramatic announcement after confirming positive coronavirus tests for two priests: One at a church in Queens, the other at a church in Brooklyn. Full Article
ies Beloved Brooklyn pastor dies from coronavirus at age 49 — first Catholic priest killed by disease in the U.S., officials say By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:14:19 +0000 The beloved 49-year-old priest, born in Mexico City, passed away Friday evening at the Wyckoff Medical Center in Brooklyn, the diocese said. Father Jorge, as he was known to worshippers, served as the diocesan coordinator of the ministry for Mexican-Americans among his other duties. Full Article
ies ‘This is for real’: Videos show bodies loaded into trucks outside coronavirus-struck NYC hospitals By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:17:00 +0000 Disturbing videos posted online paint a grim picture on how hospitals seem to be struggling to deal with bodies as they battle against the wave of coronavirus patients. Full Article
ies Gone too fast, too young: Brooklyn dad of 2-year-old boy dies at home from likely coronavirus despite family’s desperate efforts to save him By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 03:45:00 +0000 The last thing Jorge Cruz ever did was ask for a cup of hot tea. By the time it was cool enough for a sip, he was dead -- apparently from coronavirus. Full Article
ies She paid $15,000 for mom’s final arrangements — and now worries Brooklyn funeral home stored remains on unrefrigerated U-Haul truck By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 23:13:31 +0000 NYC Mayor de Blasio denounced storing bodies in unrefrigerated and unmanned U-Haul trucks outside of Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home on Utica Ave. and Ave. M in Flatlands Full Article
ies NYC Education Dept. due for shortage of more than 1,000 seats for preschoolers with disabilities: analysis By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:00:20 +0000 Advocates have long protested the lack of special education pre-K classes for 3- and 4-year-olds, which is federally mandated, even as the city invests millions in universal pre-K. Full Article
ies Ballooning state aid for private schools subsidized teacher salaries at some of NYC’s most expensive private schools By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 04:00:55 +0000 A fast-growing New York state program that funds math and science teacher salaries at private schools paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to some of the city’s priciest private schools that can charge over $50,000 a year for tuition, the Daily News has learned. Full Article
ies Holocaust studies center at Yeshiva University gets new leader By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 09:00:17 +0000 Shay Pilnik, the new president of the Yeshiva center and himself the grandson of Holocaust survivors, said the recent spate of anti-semitic attacks in New York shows the urgency of coordinated, deep study of the Holocaust. Full Article
ies Agencies urge Gov. Cuomo to boost funding for special education preschool amid shortage By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:21:14 +0000 Advocates predict up to 2,000 city youngsters with disabilities may be unable to find an appropriate preschool this spring because of financial constraints that make it harder to hire and maintain teachers for special needs programs. Full Article
ies Catholic elementary schools in NYC and the surrounding counties to close for a week amid coronavirus concerns By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:54:26 +0000 The closure applies to Catholic elementary schools in Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx, the area covered by the New York Archdiocese. It will last from March 16 through March 20, “with the possibility of a lengthier closure,” according to diocese officials. Full Article