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With the help of nearly $2 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funding, state funding allocations for higher education during the 2021 fiscal year remained roughly the same as last fiscal year, according to the latest Grapevine higher education funding report.
Total state support for higher education edged up by 0.3 percent to $96.7 billion in the 2021 fiscal year, which began July 1, 2020, and will end on June 30, 2021. Without federal dollars, direct state funding levels would have declined by 1.3 percent this fiscal year.
“The results suggest that budgets have not been wrecked to the extent we feared they might be by the pandemic,” said Jim Applegate, visiting professor at Illinois State University s Center for the Study of Education Policy and editor of the Grapevine report. “Part of the reason for that is the federal government did step up.”
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New research shows that many middle-aged women may be living with undiagnosed hypertension because symptoms of the condition including chest pain, exhaustion, headaches, heart palpitations, and sleep disturbances are mistakenly attributed to menopause.
Missed hypertension cases are part of a broader problem of overlooked cardiovascular disease among middle-aged women, according to a paper by a group of cardiologists, gynecologists, and endocrinologists published in January 2021 in the
European Heart Journal. Too often, these women have undiagnosed hypertension and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease because their doctors focus on signs common in men that aren’t as typical for women, the paper argues.
Durham City Council Names a New City Manager
New Durham City Manager Wanda Page
Durham City Council by unanimous vote Monday named interim City Manager Wanda Page to the position permanently.
Pageâs selection during Mondayâs special council meetingâheld âto consider the qualifications, competence, performance, character, fitness, and other attributes of one or more candidates for the position of City Managerââcomes just one month after city leaders had contacted a firm to begin a national search.
âThis is an opportunity of a lifetimeâto lead an organization that I truly love that serves the needs of a community that I truly love,â Page said in a press release. âWhile recovery from the economic and personal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been my strong focus over the past six months, other issues the city faces, like many other cities across the country, are just as complex. Creating a safer community continues to be high on
Last week, residents of San Diego reported another mysterious boom noise, accompanied by the unsettling rattling of windows. The boom is the second to take place in the city in the past three weeks, which have been unaccompanied by earthquakes, according to the United States Geological Survey.
The booms are far from the first. For hundreds of years there have been reports of unidentified boom noises across the US. Sometimes accompanied by earthquakes, sometimes not, they have been heard during the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812 right up until January of 2020. They re often described as a rushing or rolling sound, and ocassionally are associated with cold temperatures rather than earthquakes.