Tompkins County Legislature approves homeless shelter property purchase The Tompkins County Legislature voted Tuesday to buy property for a new homeless shelter. Last month, the county’s only year-round shelter, operated by St. John’s Community Services, closed. 12/4/2024 - 8:16 pm | View Link
Proposed Homeless Bill of Rights makes moves in State House The bill seeks to provide protected rights to the unhoused, such as freedom of movement, non-discrimination, and access to medical care. 11/20/2024 - 3:04 pm | View Link
More than $80 million was spent on Colorado’s eight congressional races this election cycle, final campaign filings and independent spending reports show — but that money wasn’t spread evenly across the districts.
The closely fought 8th Congressional District, where Republican state lawmaker Gabe Evans unseated incumbent Democratic U. S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo by less than 2,500 votes, accounted for nearly half of the total spending — $40 million total.
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At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a rare metal, vanadium, to extract a common one, copper, from ores that are too difficult or costly for the mining industry to process today.