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It was a monumental effort, the city said in a recent news release.

File photo / Post Independent As funding drops, Colorado River Fire Rescue plans to ask voters for the second time in two years to bolster funding through property taxes. Though annual funding has dropped by more than $2.5 million since 2017, call volume for the Colorado River Fire Rescue district continues to increase, said a fire official. In May 2020, a measure to add 6.099 mills to the current levy, which would have generated $4.72 million to help balance the fire district’s budget, was defeated by the voters. The outcome meant the district was forced to close Station 43 in south Rifle....

Austin school district administrators are planning to distribute staffing next school year with a focus on student elective choices in middle and high schools and giving more resources to schools with students from low-income families. Some middle and high school teachers in the visual and performing arts, however, are concerned that their programs and jobs could be affected and are asking district leaders to wait a year before revamping how positions are apportioned. Until now, district staffing has been determined by a combination of positions allotted to each campus according to a formu...

In new episode of the 'American Democracy Lab' podcast, WashU experts discuss anger's power Students and staff from Washington University and other members of the St. Louis community protest in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in summer 2020. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University) April 1, 2021 SHARE Division, partisanship, polarization — these are all terms we consistently hear in current news headlines about the state of our citizenry and political landscape. Much of the conversation and argument about contemporary politics and social activity is about individual and coll...

Writing nearly 2,000 years ago, the Roman philosopher Seneca described anger as “fundamentally wicked” and fit only for suppression. The doctrinal texts of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam tend to take a similarly dim view of anger, which they often list among man’s principal shortcomings. “Traditionally, anger has been looked at as negative,” says Philip Gable, PhD, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Delaware. Gable has studied the way anger influences the brain and behavior. He says that, by and large, people report that the experience ...