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State Fair Community College broke ground on Monday afternoon for a $6.9 million Olen Howard Workforce Innovation Center in Sedalia. The SFCC Board of Trustees approved a $6.9 million contract with Prost Builders, Inc., for construction of the Innovation Center during a special meeting Dec. 8. The construction will take place on the site where the original “Plywood U” buildings from the late 60s and early 70s were located. On stage were Darlene Bradbury & her sister Shirley Rowden (Olen Ho...

As Walters State celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, it’s an appropriate time to reflect on the vital role that our community partners play in the development of the college’s programs, services, and facilities. Without ongoing support from any single member of our long partnerships, our shared initiatives to improve our community could be negatively impacted. Walters State’s mission is local: transforming our communities through education. Imperative to the successful ful...

ykemp@tribunemedia.net Bahamian spa operators yesterday said that while abrupt COVID-19 lockdowns and curfews have imposed a major financial strain on their industry they have remained open since August. Christal Woodside, general manager of Roy-all Wellness & Day Spa, told Tribune Business she has been open since the Government allowed hair salons and barbers to operate after obtaining COVID-19 certification from the Ministry of Health. She explained: “The emergency orders included spas as w...

Listen to this post RBC | Helping Americans get back to work fast while growing their skills and at the same time filling critical labor shortages for rural employers is the aim of a new apprenticeship initiative being developed at the college. “Apprenticeships have been a tried and true option for growing trade skills. They’re proving to be a powerful help to fill other highly skilled roles such as in healthcare and technology,” said Ron Granger, President of Colorado Northwestern Commun...

Both. it is worth pointing out that edwards is certainly to the right of his party overall, especially on issues like abortion and gun control. i think he did do a really good job with resonating with louisiana voters in terms of kitchen table issues like access to early childhood education, expansions of medicaid, workforce training and increase in the minimum wage. in a lot of ways he just did a better job than the republican in terms of appealing to louisiana governors. it raises the question...

Plummeted after the grease recession. thankfully president trump is fighting for the american worker. not just by boosting the economy. but with ivanka trump massively under appreciated workforce initiative boosting workforce training so americans can get jobs and training. if anyone tries to give you that elitist nonsense about jobs americans wont do, tell them about that jab fair in mississippi, the week -- that job fair in mississippi. its a flat out lie and cruel and damaging one, it guarant...

Recession. thankfully president trump is fighting for the american worker. not just by boosting the economy. but with ivanka trump massively under appreciated workforce initiative boosting workforce training so americans can get jobs and training. if anyone tries to give you that elitist nonsense about jobs americans wont do, tell them about that jab fair in mississippi, the week -- that job fair in mississippi. its a flat out lie and cruel and damaging one, it guarantees millions of americans w...

These culture wars saying he has the lowest unemployment rate in history for african-americans. but i think the question becomes, and this is something i ask voters all the time. great, you feel like the economy is doing well, but what about your personal wages? how many jobs are you working, what about your health care costs? and theyre like, yeah, im working two or three jobs but im still living paycheck to paycheck. >> you are working right now in mississippi. how are you messaging the econom...

John dilanielaney was exactly r when he answered that, infrastructure, prescription drugs, i didnt hear workforce training. >> van jones, didnt anyone not well known on that stage break out? >> i thought totally differently. >> good. >> first of all, i was super proud to be a democrat. take any one of those people, shake them in a basket, take any two out, run them against donald trump, im for them. i thought they did better than trump and super well. but, listen, elizabeth warren looked like a ...

Objectify people and they diminish them. i was asked if i wanted to be a captalist or if i was a capitalist, and my response was in the end its as if you asked if i was a nerd in high school in which case i would have said, well, its not my first label i would choose but itd be hard to argue with. if youre going to give me a label, i am a capitalist. i started 20 businesses, i created 1,000 jobs. i helped reinvent a large part of downtown. and i think what were doing with work force training and...