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VSAT earnings call for the period ending March 31, 2021.

RICHMOND — Town voters easily approved the second and final step to finance a new town hall, community center and library off State Road (Route 41). The project, costing up to $6.8 million, is on town-owned land adjoining the Richmond Consolidated School. The “yes” vote on a debt-exclusion ballot question at Saturday’s annual town election was a landslide 260 to 22, said Town Accountant/Town Clerk Angela Garrity. The turnout was nearly 23 percent of Richmond’s 1,245 reg...

Travis Co. officials conducting fatality review of NW Austin triple homicide Travis County performing fatality review in NW Austin triple homicide In the coming weeks, Travis County will look at what, if anything, could have stopped Sundays triple homicide in Northwest Austin. AUSTIN, Texas -  Travis County is conducting a fatality review of the April 18 triple homicide in Northwest Austin. Meaning county officials are examining, what, if anything, could have been done to prevent the violence....

Hundreds March In Boston Demanding Justice For Daunte Wright’s Death CBS Boston 2 hrs ago Syndicated Local – CBS Boston BOSTON (CBS) — A determined rally moved through Boston on Saturday, as hundred of people turned out for a march seeking “Justice For Daunte Wright”. The 20-year-old Wright, a black man, was gunned down by police during a traffic stop outside of Minneapolis. From Nubian Square in Roxbury past the Boston Police headquarters barricaded with metal fence...

Mobile Devices When it comes to your most-used devices, like your smart phone, tablet, or laptop, Lopez explains that you should start with disabling the tracking capabilities. To turn this off, he says to go to your settings, "privacy," then the tracking setting to turn off any apps that could be taking data. "You may be surprised to find you have some turned on already!" the tech expert says, also noting that some social media apps track users at times. To directly prevent...

EPA Evaluates Revised Plan By New York State To Meet Bay Pollutant Reduction Targets New York State has submitted an amended Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan that if fully implemented would meet its share of the pollutant reduction targets agreed to by a multi-state partnership, an analysis by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows. In an evaluation of New York’s Amended Draft Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan, EPA identified sector-by-sector strengths in the revised commitments as w...

President and CEO, New York Power Authority While New York won national acclaim last year for passing landmark climate change legislation, Gil Quiniones has spent nearly a decade pursuing ambitious green energy policies at the helm of the New York Power Authority. Besides running NYPA, a major energy producer and utility largely driven by hydropower, Quiniones has shaped the governor’s Reforming the Energy Vision initiative, which aims to harness private markets and technological innovations...