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What teachers, students, parents said about San Francisco Bay Area schools reopening FacebookTwitterEmail A Bay Area child doing distance learning from home.Courtesy SFGATE reader Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many San Francisco Bay Area public schools have been closed for nearly a full year. And while weve heard a lot about whether they should reopen from both politicians and teacher unions, we havent heard nearly as much from actual teachers, or parents, or even students. So, we decided to gi...

If youre able to go above and beyond to help us during this important time, please consider making an additional financial contribution. Click here to contribute. She was the genesis of my interest in Western history. A very small old woman occupied a very large segment of my youth. Her name was Eula Remington Johnson Dyke. My fathers mother had an enigmatic history. Her stories would morph, from time to time, as did her age. For instance, her tombstone is etched with the birth year of 1880. ...

Advocacy organization offering free face masks and shields during pandemic Clear face shields and masks available for deaf and hard of hearing KOAA and last updated 2021-02-16 18:30:54-05 COLORADO SPRINGS — The ongoing pandemic has created an unexpected problem for the deaf and hard of hearing. Most face masks on the market block lip movements and facial expressions which are key traits deaf people use to understand you. The good news---theres a solution. KOAA The Independence Center In pa...

NEW YORK (AP) — As more coronavirus vaccine doses become available in the weeks and...

Saturday, February 13, 2021 As COVID-19 vaccines become available to greater swaths of the population, many employers are considering ways to incentivize employees to get vaccinated. Incentives can take many forms, including extra pay, paid time off, gift cards, or tangible gifts. Employers that offer incentives to employees to get vaccinated may be creating group health plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). In addition, incentivized vaccination prog...

By Stephanie Kanowitz Feb 11, 2021 A public/private partnership in Tucson, Ariz., is closing the digital divide by not only connecting more than 32,000 of the city’s 212,000 households without reliable internet access, but also powering up Tucson’s smart city strategy. The city and Insight Enterprises are within weeks of completing Phase I of a municipal wireless broadband solution using the Citizen Broadband Radio Service network, a band of radio-frequency spectrum from 3.5 GHz to 3.7 GHz ...

The Defense Department is working with the General Services Administration to work out reciprocity between the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

Feb 12, 2021 When the sheriff of Oldsmar, Fla., held a press conference to discuss a Feb. 5 hack into the water treatment facility that could have poisoned the city’s water supply, many cybersecurity experts stood up and took notice. The intruder seemed to have breached the plant’s industrial controls via a remote desktop monitoring application and may have taken advantage other cybersecurity weaknesses, such as lax password security and use of an unsupported operating system.  That access...

Turkish-Ukrainian Corvette Deal to be Signed in April Our Bureau 2427 MILGEM Ada-class corvette The main contract between Turkey and Ukraine on joint production of corvettes will be signed this April. “Work has begun on the construction of the corvettes,” Mykola Gapeev, head of the Marketing Department at Ukraines Okean (Ocean) Shipyard, was quoted as saying by Defense Express on Wednesday. Under the agreements signed in October and on Dec. 14, first of the corvettes would be built in Tur...

By Mike Shrader Feb 12, 2021 The pandemic forced government agencies to adapt rapidly. During the past 12 months, government IT teams have been busy enabling remote work, implementing cloud migration and digital transformation projects and securing an ever-expanding perimeter. Yet while 2020 ushered in significant change from a federal IT perspective, it’s merely the beginning. Mega-trends like elastic cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things were convergi...