Dr. Heather Boushey stopped at Belden’s PPC Broadband plant on Molloy Road to highlight how the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is paying dividends in Central New York.
In early February, dairy farmers in the Texas Panhandle began to notice sick cattle. The buzz soon reached Darren Turley, executive director of the Texas Association of Dairymen: “They said there is something moving from herd to herd.” Nearly 60 days p…
The city Correction Department never took several basic steps to comply with a new law that would have strictly limited the use of solitary confinement, internal jail records show.. The law had been set to go into effect on Sunday before Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday signed an emergency executive order that blocked major parts […]
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here.Covid-19 cases in New York City have trended upward this summer, as vaccine uptake remains low and testing and surveillance systems have been significantly sca…
Chicago voters will — for the first time — elect school board members this Nov. 5. After decades of advocacy and several twists and turns, candidates have filed to run, even as open questions remain around ballot access, voter eligibility, and member c…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system.“Don’t forget to count,” Matthew Hill, a percussion teacher at Newark’s AileyCamp said as he used his bare hands to thump a djembe, a West African drum. Tap,…
Public health, explained. Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here.Arif Ullah walked down Bruckner Boulevard under a scorching July sun. There was little shade on the street, a congested stretch of the South Bronx that leads i…
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here.In early 2020, six months into my first full-time reporting job, Covid-19 tore across the United States. A journalist for the Hartford Courant in Connecticut, …
