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President Joe Biden can’t expect a lot of cooperation from Texas. That much has been made clear by state Republicans’ behavior in just the past three months. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton led a far-fetched federal lawsuit to overturn Biden’s victory. After that failed, he brought a suit against the new administration’s plan to pause immigration deportations only two days into Biden’s presidency. Just days after that, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order pledging to fight Biden’s climate-change agenda and when a bitter winter storm knocked out the state’s power, Abbott erroneously blamed Democrats and renewable energy for the crisis. For the Republicans who dominate Texas politics, Biden’s honeymoon ended before he had unpacked all his boxes in the White House.
Guilford County groups launch small business recovery initiative study
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Jan 10, 2021
Jan 10, 2021
MONTGOMERY â Children in the Upper Kanawha Valley will soon have the opportunity to explore the burgeoning field of robotics thanks to a recent $10,000 grant from Truist Foundation to BridgeValley Community and Technical College.
The grant is targeted for BridgeValleyâs makerspace called The GRID, an area designed to encourage creativity and collaboration in crafts, coding and more.
Specifically, the grant will fund BVCTCâs VEX Robotics program that encourages and cultivates coding skills in elementary, middle and high school students. Students will learn to design, build and operate robots in camps and after-school programs. The grant will also support BVCTCâs three robotics competition teams (two middle school-aged, and one high school-aged) to participate in local, state and national robotics competitions. The robotics instructor has taken several teams to state competitions in the past.
History was made Dec. 15 when President-elect Joe Biden named former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg as his Secretary of Transportation. In addition to being the first openly gay member of a U.S. President’s Cabinet, Buttigieg is also noteworthy both for his lack of hands-on experience managing any sort of transportation department or agency and for his small-city background. But according to one analysis of the appointment, this may actually be a good thing, for it may mean that federal transportation policies may actually pay attention to those Americans who get the lowest quality of transit service, namely, those living in our smaller cities.
Personal View: Inclusion is good economics
BETHIA BURKE
Bethia Burke
A recent opinion piece in Crain s Cleveland Business by local economist James Trutko took aim at the Cleveland Innovation Project, suggesting the vision that the Fund for Our Economic Future and its partners support is misguided. While I disagree with many criticisms leveled by Trutko, I welcome his public scrutiny. It provides an opportunity to sharpen the project s thinking and hold it to account.
However, Trutko raised one issue I cannot ignore. He asserted, sustained economic growth is … inherently unequal and further asserted the project (and presumably the region at large) should give more attention to creating a bigger economic pie and be less concerned with how the pie is split. He goes on to argue for the mythical trickle-down approach in which regional success will ultimately accrue to women and minorities, diminishing the vast difference in economic outcomes that exist today.
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