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Fri, Jan 29th 2021 2:30pm — Josh Landau As the Iancu era at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office comes to a close, one of the USPTOs initiatives has focused on promoting diversity in patenting. The newly established National Council on Expanding American Innovation, and the associated USPTO request for comments on a national strategy for expanding innovation, focus on having under-represented groups more involved in creating patentable inventions. Thats a laudable goal.  But we shouldnt be a...

Detour around Whitewater State Park begins Monday Minnesota Highway 74 will be closed for bridge construction at the south end of the park through October. 7:39 pm, Jan. 27, 2021 × WHITEWATER STATE PARK — That quick getaway to one of Southeast Minnesota’s favorite nature spots will take a little extra planning for 2021. Starting Monday and going through October, Minnesota Highway 74 will be a construction zone at the south end of the park while Minnesota Department ...

Swann to offer curated sale focused on the artists of the WPA Reginald Marsh, The Waterfront, New York, oil on canvas, 1943. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000. NEW YORK, NY .- On Thursday, February 4 Swann Galleries will offer the auction: The Artists of the WPA. The multi-departmental sale will feature paintings, prints, photographs, posters, books and related ephemera by artists whose careers were sustained by the Works Progress Administration. In the aftermath of the Great Depression, president Fr...

Upcoming Portland boutique hotel includes 2 new restaurants from Ava Gene’s group Updated Jan 26, 2021; Posted Jan 26, 2021 The century-old former Shleifer Furniture building, which operated as a hotel into the 1970s, will return to its roots with the new Hotel Grand Stark.Michael Russell | The Oregonian Facebook Share An upcoming Portland boutique hotel backed by a Los Angeles-based hotel brand will feature two new restaurants from Submarine Hospitality, the group behind popular local rest...

The New Deal. The Interstate Highway System. The Great Society. When our nation’s leaders aim high the names of their accomplishments are enduring, etched in...

"Two systems are before the world; the one looks to increasing the proportion of persons and of capital engaged in trade and transportation, and therefore to diminishing the proportion engaged in producing commodities with which to trade, with necessarily diminished return to the labor of all; while the other looks to increasing the proportion engaged in the work of production, and diminishing that engaged in trade and transportation, with increased return to all, giving to the laborer good w...

Colorado Springs has a reputation as a place that favors small government and limited public spending, but 75 years ago the city was a hub for projects funded by the governments New Deal.Without those projects, Rampart Range Road wouldnt snake into the mountains, Garden of the Gods wouldnt be studded with juniper trees, Monument Creek might still flood its banks and some of the citys most visible public art wouldnt exist.This year marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, a series of programs...

“Ok, Republicans. If you want to talk about an election being rigged, let’s talk about it. You gerrymandered all of the red states, you suppressed the vote, you closed polling places, you removed drop boxes, you vilified mail-in voting, you disrupted the USPS, and you know what? You still lost.” – Mindy Fischer When the economy in a democratic but capitalist country fails, there are two alternatives. You can modify the economic system. Or, you can modify the political system. When you m...

23 Dec 2020 News As more architects, and their clients, prioritize sustainability goals and the connection to site and history, biobased materials are being more frequently used to create buildings around the globe. These materials, viewed through the lens of contemporary architecture, are creating distinctive structures that lean on the past but are decidedly of the moment. From timber frame...

Why we need more DIY government. Study for The House of Representatives, by Samuel F.B. Morse, c. 1821. Smithsonian American Art Museum, museum purchase through a grant from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, 1978. It takes a lot of gall to represent anyone else, even in so humble a thing as a school board, much less in the U.S. House, and less still in our U.S. Senate, with all its gaseous grandees. In the now plutocratic United States, once in theory so free of caste, it’s still ...