Editorial: Falls Water Board Must Get A Handle On Its Procedures And Discharges
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... Board blames for the global embarrassment that happened when foul-smelling black sludge was emptied into the Niagara ...
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More Floods Are Coming And We're Making Them Worse
Release Date:
09/07/2017
More Floods Are Coming And We're Making Them Worse When the Aztecs founded Tenochtitlán in 1325, they built it on a large island on Lake Texcoco. Its eventual ... in 1521, they drained the lake and built...
What It's Like Aboard an NGO Ship Rescuing Hundreds of Migrants in the Mediterranean
Release Date:
09/08/2017
What It 's Like Aboard an NGO Ship Rescuing Hundreds of Migrants in the Mediterranean There are no sirens when the call comes in. No alarms or shouting. Just a calm ... of the cabin: “All stations, all...
City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... in buses represent a nearly 77% increase over last year, when the city bused 2,920. The spike comes in the midst of a ... student homelessness. Education Department officials said it will cost the city $17...
Hurricane Irma Linked to Climate Change? For Some, a Very ‘Insensitive’ Question.
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, says it is insensitive to discuss climate change in the midst of ... raced to evacuate before Hurricane Irma, says if not now, when ? “This is the time to...
Albany Lawmakers Extend Benefits To Vets Discharged For LGBT Identity
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... Extend Benefits To Vets Discharged For LGBT Identity When it comes to discharged LGBT veterans in Albany County, they ...
Top CEOs Place High Value On Corporate Ethics And Social Responsibility To Drive Business
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... Little did we know then how closely life could imitate art when the likes of Enron, Bernie Madoff and a worldwide ... lambasted the world’s economy a few years ago. But it also vaulted companies like the...
New York City Education Department to Improve Response to Public Record Requests
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... requests, New York City’s education department says it will provide more realistic timelines for responding to ... released Wednesday, the education department said it will stop regularly pushing back its own...
A New Door Into the Kitchen for Aspiring Chefs
Release Date:
09/19/2017
A New Door Into the Kitchen for Aspiring Chefs When Joanairys Merced was living in group foster care, she ... other girls. “On ‘Barefoot Contessa,’ they make it look so perfect,” said Ms. Merced, who is now 19 and...
New Data Shows Retirees Are on the Move, But Young Folks Are a Different Story
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... has been keeping track. But this all-time low is only true when you include people under age 29, many of whom fall in ...
De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... Emily Lloyd resigned last summer after a medical leave. “ When I sign things, I guess it ’s one less word I have to write,” Sapienza, who ...
Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... risk that schools will try to manipulate that data. But it ’s unclear how effectively states have prepared for that ... in place to accurately monitor absenteeism data at all. “ It ’s human nature, when...
New York City Students Are Getting Younger
Release Date:
10/05/2017
... blitz as its massive scale-up of classes for 4-year-olds, when the city added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k seats to the ...
Opinion: What’s Holding Philanthropists Back?
Release Date:
10/06/2017
Opinion: What’s Holding Philanthropists Back? When I think about social and racial equity and how it shows up — and how it doesn’t — in philanthropy and the nonprofit ...
Where You Live, How You Give: What a Fidelity Study Says About U.S. Donors
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... donors had charitable accounts at Fidelity in 2016. When this philanthropy juggernaut takes a moment to offer insights about giving trends in America, it 's worth paying attention. ... Where You Live, How...
Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... out a promise issued by President Trump five months ago, when he declared in the Rose Garden that “we will not allow ...
After White House Issues Demands, Hopes for an Immigration Deal Dim
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... they were willing to strike any deal. More important, it exposed a largely unspoken truth in the capital: Nearly a ... to push the government toward a shutdown in mid-December, when a stopgap spending bill...
Bloomberg Philanthropies and others Redefine Arts Funding
Release Date:
05/18/2018
... social change is easy enough. The hard part comes when organizations—particularly established museums or ...
BNY Mellon Supports Australia’s First Commercial Thermal Waste-To-Energy Plant
Release Date:
11/14/2018
... Australia. The transaction closed on October 18, 2018. When complete, the facility will process up to 400,000 tonnes ...
How Should Philanthropies Respond to Emergencies?
Release Date:
05/13/2014
... the funding commit them to a long-term engagement or is it a one-time rescue mission? Ford Foundation discussed in The Atlantic. Earlier this year, ... plan, the foundations’ pledge seems closer to reality...