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With most of the failing referendums in rural and smaller communities, some worry that the gap between wealthier and less prosperous school districts may widen.

Three weeks until Election Day and many schools will be asking voters to approve referendums. More than 40 school districts want to exceed their revenue limits set by the state.

McDONOUGH — United States Chess Federation National Master Chris Chambers won the Henry County Parks and Recreation Chess Summer Open last month. Tyson Willis followed with a close second place

Pioneering Isle of Wight company Innovative Physics is celebrating success at the prestigious 2022 British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEAs).

Members of Communities Against Alcohol Harm protesting outside a liquor store in Ōtara. Photo: LDR / Justin Latif Clevedon Road Liquor store owner Satnam Singh Jador has been fined $20,000 and ordered to repay $97,361.66 to four employees for a range of breaches, including not paying the minimum wage for all the hours staff were working. The Labour Inspectorate noted this case had all the hallmarks of exploitation, due to the workers needing the job to retain their visa status. The Employmen...

Steve Bryan launched Bluewire to help fleets mount proactive defense strategy against plaintiff attorneys. Read CCJ to see how the technology measures a fleets reputation.

May 13, 2021 Hollywood action movies follow a predictable script for disarming bombs. Seconds before the ticker reaches zero, a protagonist cuts the blue wire and saves the day.  Solving legal problems is not so simple, especially for motor carriers who over the last decade have seen the litigation environment turn “nuclear.” In a June 2020 report, the American Transportation Research Institute charted a 967% increase in the average size of verdicts from $2,305,736 to $22,288,000 betw...

Sandia National Laboratories Partners with Quintillion to Conduct First of Its Kind Arctic Research News provided by Share this article Share this article ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Warming at roughly double the rate as the rest of the world, the Arctic is disproportionately affected by climate change, yet the region remains one of the least understood. Sandia National Laboratories scientists are working to gain understanding of the area by capturing and analyzing data p...

In light of a recent downward trend of positive COVID-19 cases in Jefferson County, students in the School District of Fort Atkinson who elect to return to in-person instruction will be allowed to do so as of Jan. 5, with several operational considerations. Students who choose to continue receiving their instruction via a remote, virtual learning platform still will be able to do so in the new concurrent, or “mirrored,” learning format. Board of education members voted unanimously to ...