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A lack of reliable daycare is keeping many women from returning to work, but other factors are also at play.

Prosperity in Columbus masks an uncomfortable truth about this place we all call home: Some of our neighbors are being left behind.

Nepal was inoculating its people with great success – until India stopped sending it vaccines The crisis unfolding in South Asia presents an imperative to the global community to deliver vaccine help. Nepal has a consistently higher number of Covid-19 cases per million than India. | Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters Nepal, the landlocked Himalayan country, currently has one of the highest Covid-19 viral reproduction rates in the world. The situation is dire: reports indicate Nepal has a consistently higher number of Covid-19 cases per million than India. By mid-July, new case nu...

A second disputed project in weeks had a Planning and Zoning board member wondering if, when neighbors don’t like a developer’s plans, “Is it just tough luck?” Indeed, for the second time in weeks, neighbors are upset about building plans, claiming developers reneged on agreements. Yet the disputed plans were approved. First, neighbors of a 30-acre office development near Riverview in northeast Mesa begged the Planning and Zoning Board and Mesa City Council for months to reject plans for a four-story garage.  The neighbors said this went against an agreement they had...

Subscriber Exclusive Divided economy 'We’re doing everything we can do to scrape by': COVID-19 put some families on the edge while the wealthy thrive COVID-19 widened the economic dividing line between families doing well, and those who are struggling. Mark Williams, The Columbus Dispatch Published 10:59 am UTC May. 26, 2021 COVID-19 widened the economic dividing line between families doing well, and those who are struggling. Mark Williams, The Columbus Dispatch Published 10:59 am UTC May. 26, 2021 Show caption Hide caption sara caption The economic chasm between families who are strugglin...