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Webinar to teach small businesses how to secure financial aid   Updated 2/8/2021 11:11 AM Small businesses facing financial losses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic are invited to join a webinar sponsored by State Senator Laura Murphy at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, to get help applying for financial aid. "With the vaccine distribution process now underway, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, but many small businesses are still feeling the pressure of the pandemic," Murphy said. "There's still time to apply for funding to help make ends meet."   Murphy has partnered with th...

ALL ABOUT CONNECTION The winning entry in this year’s INA competition — StorySky, an app to connect grandparents and children — reflected the contest's focus on technology to help overcome the isolation imposed by the COVID pandemic. Ed Tech TC’s student EdTech showcase yields tools for overcoming social distance When first-year students David Zikovitz (Instructional Technology & Media), Ying-Chen Lin (Instructional Technology & Media), Mulan Fu (Design & Development of Digital Games) and Marina Lemee (Computing in Education) teamed up to enter Teachers College’s 2020 EdTech Innova...

Waging Peace WAGING PEACE: Guest post by Sandy Nathan By Maud Easter on January 8, 2021 at 10:00 AM In 1966 I was among the first group of Peace Corps volunteers to serve in the Republic of Korea. We were young; we taught English, mainly to public middle and secondary schools students; we wanted to learn; and mostly we wanted to make a positive difference in the world. Although we arrived in Korea 13 years after the 1953 Korean War armistice, we found a very poor country still recovering in every way from that brutal war. We adjusted to challenging and unusual (to us) living ...

WBGZ Radio 12/19/2020 | By Kevin Bessler - Illinois Radio Network A new report paints a bleak picture of the state of small businesses in Illinois and the rest of the country during the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released its fourth-quarter Small Business Index Report, and 74 percent of small business owners say they need further government assistance to weather the storm. Furthermore, only 40% of all small business owners believe their business can continue to operate indefinitely without having to shut down permanently. “Thirty, forty, fifty percent of our smalle...

that priest. len ramirez on how investigators describe the attack. len. >> reporter: well, dana, the suspect in this case william lynch of san francisco is still in custody here at santa clara county's main jail. however, he is expected to bail out sometime tonight on $25,000 bond. however, if he does bail out, he will be facing some very serious charges related to the beating of his former priest and alleged molester. the suspect 43-year-old william lynch of seven-day forecast surrendered to authorities this afternoon. -- self surrendered to authorities this afternoon. he was arrest...