In "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me", when Miss Hoover begins to pass back her students' astronomy papers, on the chalkboard reads, "Five States Whose Capitals Start with the Same Letter as the State: Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Oklahoma, This State". Since Capital City is the capital of Springfield...
With this post (No. 413), we mark the tenth anniversary ofThe New Yorker.Since I beganA New Yorker State of Mindin March 2015, I’ve attempted to give you at least a sense of what the magazine was like in those first years, as well as the historical events that often informed its ...
An Illinois newspapercalled Alexander County"a local and even national symbol of rural decline" which has hurt its tax base and ability to invest in educating residents. The county has struggled with years of job losses and budget deficits, creating a difficult cycle of declining tax revenue and...
Women are more than half of our population but research on women’s health has always been underfunded. That’s why we’re launching the first-ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, led by Jill who is doing an incredible job as First Lady. ...
WHERE THE COOL PEOPLE HANG OUT…Clockwise, from top left: The tomb of Per-neb at the Metropolitan Museum registered a cozy 80 degrees, while in the same museum it was a balmy 84 by Emanuel Leutze’s famed painting Washington Crossing the Delaware; the New York Aquarium in Battery Park was...
James Tallon, a Binghamton native who served for several years as majority leader of the New York State Assembly, has died. He was 82 years old. Tallon was born in 1941. He took an interest in government and public speaking at an early age. As a ninth grade student at East Junior High...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Look for new faces and fresh political dynamics as President Joe Biden delivers this year's State of the Union address, coupled with attention to some old problems brought back into ...
Let’s take a look at what employees think of State Farm through employee rating agencies Glassdoor and Payscale. This will give us insight into the company’s values and employee satisfaction levels.Here are Glassdoor’s ratings:The average employee review for State Farm is 3 out of 5. ...
• CO-Gov: Credit Dan Maes for entrepreneurial spirit: when he needed a job, he created one for himself… running for Governor. In the last year, Maes’ campaign has reimbursed his family $72K. That’s actually his campaign’s second-biggest expense, and nearly one-third of the paltry...
CNN’s Betsy Klein notes that Biden leaned on the personal stories of two of the guests in the first lady’s box: Latorya Beasley, an Alabama mother who had to pause in vitro fertilization treatment, andKate Cox, the Texas mother of two who had to leave her state for access to a lif...