The Great Smoky Mountains National Park said it is taking on a major repair project starting in March to repave a popular 17-mile stretch of the Foothills Parkway.
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Whether it was in a third grade classroom, on a community college campus, or in the most advanced university research lab, it is fair to say the 2020 fall semester looked different than any we have seen before.
As the country rushed to adapt to the pandemic in mid-March, the nation’s education enterprise scrambled to alter instructional fundamentals that had been in place, in many cases, for more than a century. Virtual learning, long viewed as a supplemental approach, became a primary instructional tool. Teachers donned PPE and reconfigured their classrooms, seeking to find ways to connect with students in between frequent outbreak-driven closures. Perhaps most challenging, even as these structural and pedagogical shifts have occurred, severe disruptions to the financial models of both K-12 and higher education have occurred.
More than seven months after the House first passed the HEROES Act, last week both chambers of Congress finally got around to actually legislating a new COVID-19 relief bill. For a New York minute, it looked as if the millions of Americans whose unemployment benefits stand to run out this weekend would see at least a temporary reprieve.
In the abstract, the idea of an increased stimulus payment isn’t a bad idea – and immediately after Trump’s intervention, Democrats in the House did push for the increase. The problem, which Trump’s White House team know all too well, is that the bulk of the Congressional GOP won’t play ball with such a large stimulus. Trump’s intervention, at the back end of months of painstaking congressional negotiations, can only either delay or torpedo a relief package that, for all its flaws, is essential to protect the economy over the coming months. Absent it, Biden will inherit not only a cascading public health emergency but also a growing econo
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