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The best coding toys for kids Jesse Emspak If your youngster is already interested in computers (and other mobile gadgetry), now is the perfect time to seek out the best coding toys for kids. There are myriad apps, toys and games available to teach coding skills to children of all ages and jumpstart those future techie careers. These days, though, the sheer variety of such educational tools can be downright dizzying.  In recent years, most educators would agree that open-ended ...

Are 80% of credit unions in trouble? 1SHARES This was going to be an article about holiday cheer and Christmas music. The first paragraph would be asking you when you first heard that holiday song this year. And then there would be a section on how holidays seem to be starting up earlier in 2020. Which is totally fine, because if there was ever a year we needed some extra cheer…well, yeah. Instead, a coworker (ok, my dad) shared a recent Credit Union Times article about the performance of the...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Saratoga Performing Arts Center leaders reflected on its reimagined 2020 season at their final meeting of the year, while looking ahead to 2021. The SPAC board of directors gathered virtually on Thursday for its winter board meeting to discuss the current state of the center and recap the 2020 SPAC Reimagined season. Like so many cultural institutions around the world, SPAC’s 2020 was remarkably different than what president and CEO Elizabeth Sobol imagined wh...