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Washington awards $1.1M to three Native lenders
Three Native community development financial institutions in Washington have been awarded $1.1 million in state grants to expand business financing and technical assistance for entrepreneurs facing barriers to conventional credit. Chehalis Tribal Loan Fund was awarded $633,686, Pacific Northwest Tribal Lending was awarded $384,738 and Táala Fund was awarded $81,474 through the Washington State Department […]
Native American women made history in tribal, state and federal elections
Native American women earned historic wins in Tuesday’s elections
Native American women made history in tribal, state and federal elections
Native American women earned historic wins in Tuesday's elections.
Native American women made history in tribal, state and federal elections
Native American women earned historic wins in Tuesday's elections.
Sooo ... About Last Night
Last night (Sat., Nov. 7, 2026), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) remained inside the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada for UFC Vegas 124. Unfortunately, the original main event between Sean Brady vs. Gabriel Bonfim was scrapped after the Philadelphia-native withdrew due to injury. As a result of the shakeup, a Heavyweight collision between Waldo Cortes-Acosta […]
EGAP: Evidence in Governance and Politics
EGAP guide: Evidence in Governance and Politics network, OSF registry transition, Metaketa multi-site trials, search workflow, and design alternatives.
George Washington University awarded $1.5M to support Native tourism
George Washington University’s International Institute of Tourism Studies has been selected for a $1.5 million federal cooperative agreement to help tribal nations, tribal organizations and Native Hawaiian organizations develop cultural heritage tourism. The funding will pay for technical assistance, assessments of communities’ needs and coordination with federal agencies. The agreement provides $1.5 million annually and […]
Winnebago solar project gives Native women a path into construction jobs
Four Winnebago women helped install a solar array to cut their tribe’s electricity costs. Now, Marie Kills Warrior wants to turn that experience into jobs. “This project has definitely planted the seed for our trainees to pursue solar as a career,” Kills Warrior, a workforce development trainer with nonprofit Tribal Energy Alternatives, told Tribal Business […]
Feathered Feature: Savannah Sparrow
Faville Grove’s newest prairie planting is beginning to take shape. Seeded just nine months ago, about 14 acres of old farm fields now host dozens of native species like partridge
Grove student earns national recognition for her science project
A Northeast Oklahoma student earned recognition at a national science contest for her work on how Native Americans used plants to treat illnesses.
Oakwood native hopes farm series hits home
Oakwood native Shannon Green of Los Angeles is a producer on the sequel series to the award-winning documentary film "The Biggest Little Farm" coming out this month on YouTube.
Students, local business team up to spread seeds and support pollinators
Students from Topeka Collegiate Schools got hands-on with native plants during a pollinator planting event on Friday.
UConn women’s basketball lands commitment from five-star Sydney Savoury
UConn, Geno Auriemma land first recruit in class of 2027 as Michigan native Sydney Savoury commits to Huskies.
New crop of Senate Democrats calling for ‘generational change’ head for a clash over Chuck Schumer
A number of candidates were swept into office after promising to challenge Schumer’s leadership. But unless an alternative steps forward, he may coast to the post.
Basic City Celebrates One Decade of Business
When the Lanman brothers founded Basic City Brewing Co. in Waynesboro ten years ago, Alana Hollister-Bates was there. A Waynesboro native, Hollister-Bates had already put a decade of service into building Crozet Pizza, then joined Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie as it navigated an expansion of its exceptionally busy North Garden restaurant. “We have come very
Tribal leaders scramble as OMB sets Friday afternoon deadline for grant-rule consultations
Tribal leaders and Native advocacy organizations face a 2 p.m. ET deadline Friday to register for consultations on federal grant changes that Native organizations warn could disrupt funding across Indian Country. The proposed revisions to Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations would change rules governing administrative requirements, cost principles and audits for federal […]
Cook County Awards $92K for Restorative Justice and Community Power Building Initiatives - Cook County Department of Public Health
Cook County Department of Public Health recently awarded $92,270 in Building Healthier Communities grants to three organizations to implement restorative practices in schools and community power building within suburban Cook County communities. Restorative practices, such as talking circles or peer mediation, offer alternatives to exclusionary discipline in schools.
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Tribal chairs tell RFK Jr. they need federal resources to improve their own healthcare
Native American communities experience some of the highest disparities in healthcare in the country. Tribal chairs are hoping to work with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who visited North Dakota Thursday, to remedy that.
RFK Jr. discusses tribal health in Bismarck
One of President Trump’s cabinet members visited North Dakota today to discuss Native American health.
Creating room for Indigenous researchers to grow
Ava Schaaf can picture the future she wants: medical school, a physician’s degree and another Native doctor for her community. Getting there means working through difficult science courses. It also means finding people who help her believe she belongs.
Swiss Re seeks alternative capital for hyperscale data centers
Swiss Re AG is in talks with alternative capital providers to cover peak data center losses as capacity falls short of demand from a growing number of hyperscale projects, according to Gianfranco Lot…
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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Pike County Clerk demands answers, transparency after employee health insurance dropped
Pike County Clerk Natalie Roseberry is demanding a transparent review from the county board as officials scramble to lock down alternative health coverage.
Haaland won election. Now, how will she govern?
By Kevin Hendricks — New Mexico made history Tuesday night with Deb Haaland winning her campaign to be the first Native American woman to win a governor’s seat. Haaland, a Laguna Pueblo member and former U.S. Interior secretary, beat Republican Gregg Hull by 14 points to become New Mexico’s next governor. She takes office Jan. […]
Why a pink potato-like robot is wheeling around Philadelphia
In a city where robots get kicked, graffitied, and decapitated, an artist built a friendlier alternative. Is it enough?
‘We are in the second-chance business’
Pamerson Ifill has prioritized support and rehabilitation to reduce repeat offenses and probation violations since becoming Massachusetts probation commissioner in 2023. He removed the monthly fees of $50 to $65 that people on probation paid to offset the costs of supervision by probation officers. And he plans to implement smaller, watch-based GPS monitoring for women and juveniles as an alternative to heavy ankle bracelets.
Democratic women surge past 100 House seats as Republican women lose ground
Voters also elected the country’s first Black and first Native American female governors as women won a record number of governorships.
Nothing teases screen-less product launching next month, ‘couldn’t have been an app’
Nothing has confirmed it will launch a new “AI-native” product in December, something that “couldn’t have been an app.” In...
New UND non-thesis biomedical graduate program adds to number of programs offering alternative experiences
The Department of Biomedical Sciences at the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences is offering a non-thesis option of its Master of Science graduate program.
PAVS Subsidiary 2Lab3 Launches AniMano+, an AI-Native Digital Entertainment Streaming Platform, on the Apple App Store
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 4, 2026 / Paranovus Entertainment Technology Ltd. NASDAQ:PAVS ("PAVS" or the "Company") today announced that its subsidiary, 2Lab3, launched AniMano+, an AI-native, vertical-first short-form dramas and animation streaming app, on the Apple App Store on Octo…
PAVS Subsidiary 2Lab3 Launches AniMano+, an AI-Native Digital Entertainment Streaming Platform, on the Apple App Store
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 4, 2026 / (NASDAQ:PAVS) ("PAVS" or the "Company") today announced that its subsidiary, 2Lab3, launched AniMano+, an AI-native, vertical-first short-form dramas and animation streaming app, on the Apple App Store on October 23, 2026.AniMano+ combines storytelling and creative expertise with AI-enabled content production capabilities to develop entertainment for global audiences.
These 9 candidates for governor just made history
Voters on Tuesday elected the nation's first Black woman governor and the nation's first Native American woman governor.
Hal E. Kovert, Architect, Business Leader, Crothersville Native Succumbs
Hal E. Kovert, founder of Kovert Hawkins Architects in Jeffersonville and a longtime contributor to the civic and philanthropic life of Southern Indiana and Kentucky, died Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, at the age of 73. He was a native of Crothersville. Kovert co-founded Kovert Hawkins Architects with longtime business partner and friend John Hawkins in […]
National City Businesses Propose Sharply Lower Tax Increase
Business leaders tasked with crafting an alternative to a failed city business tax increase proposed a smaller increase that would raise $2.75 million annually in new revenue instead of $7.5 million.
macOS 27.3 adds native Markdown rendering to Quick Look
Starting with macOS 27.3, users can preview Markdown files with proper formatting directly in Quick Look. Here are the details.
- Tribal Business News
The December gathering in Washington, D.C., connects tribal leaders, lenders, foundations and investors as Native financial institutions grow and federal decisions shape their future.
SRS Altitude names Sullivan North America ART head
SRS Altitude, the alternative risk transfer managing general underwriter of Strategic Risk Solutions, on Tuesday named former Allianz Commercial executive Joe Sullivan head of alternative risk…
Cognitive Health Technologies Data Breach Affects 49,500 Individuals
Data breaches have been announced by Cognitive Health Technologies in New York, City Ambulance Service in Texas, Baraga County Memorial Hospital in Data breaches have been announced by Cognitive Health Technologies in New York, City Ambulance Service in Texas, Baraga County Memorial Hospital in Michigan, The Speech Clinic in Georgia, and Innovative Alternatives in Texas.
Before the Gender Gap Had a Name, Ms. Saw Women’s Political Power Coming: Six Stories From the Archives on the Power of Women Voters
A record 590 women filed to run for the U.S. House during the 2026 election cycle. Women candidates are also poised to make history in gubernatorial races across the country: Deb Haaland could become the nation's first Native American woman governor in New Mexico, while Keisha Lance Bottoms could become the first Black woman governor in U.S. history if elected in Georgia. Yet women still hold only about 28 percent of seats in Congress. And the stakes of this election—from reproductive freedom and immigration enforcement, to voting rights and the future of constitutional equality—extend far beyond the number of women elected. For more than five decades, Ms. has documented the growing power of women voters, candidates and elected officials. We've tracked the gender gap, challenged the barriers facing women in politics and explored what it would mean to build a democracy that represents all of us. These six selections from the Ms. Archive trace that history—from the earliest predictions of women's political power, to today's calls to fundamentally remake American democracy. (Full access to these selections and the entirety of 50+ years of issues of Ms. is available via the Ms. Magazine Archive on ProQuest, from Clarivate.)
Michael Wilbon, longtime ESPN commentator, is taking a leave of absence for 'health issues'
Wilbon, a Chicago native who turns 68 later this month, wrote in a post on X that he is taking a trip to "the injured list" but added he hopes it is "not an extended one."
Chicago Native Health Provider Must Repay $100,000 to Indian Health Service Despite Alleged Employee Fraud
The American Indian Health Service of Chicago (AIHSC) must pay $100,000 to the Indian Health Service (IHS), despite arguing it was a victim of fraud committed by its former executive director. On Oct....
STL’s own Guy Torry headlines Gallery Laughs season finale at Saint Louis Art Museum
Before comedy became a content category, before every comic had a podcast, a streaming special and a million social media followers, Guy Torry was helping change the game. This weekend, the St. Louis native returns home as the headliner for Gallery Laughs at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Torry will take the stage Friday, Nov. […]
Cedar Rapids pop artist Landyn Zane hits stage at Opus
“Great pop music can be made anywhere, even Cedar Rapids,” Iowa native and self-taught pop artist Landyn Zane says. He’ll make his headlining debut Thursday, Nov. 5, at the Opus Concert Cafe.
Spoiler candidates are nothing new in US politics. It’s clear why Trump is targeting Peltola
Republicans are focused on a race that could flip the Senate – and where an Alaska Native is favored
Danone research finds health and digestibility drive plant-based dairy alternatives
Danone’s research identifies digestibility, health, and taste as key consumption drivers for plant-based dairy alternatives such as yogurt and drinks.
‘Wildwood’: An imaginative masterpiece
Fantasy adventures simply don’t get better than this
Firelight Media Awards 10 Documentary Filmmakers $25K
From Native athletes to Black marching bands and trans elders, the selected films capture urgent stories of resistance, identity, and belonging.
Sick of being told to ‘just lose weight’? Health promotion shouldn’t come with weight stigma
Health promotion often treats weight loss as the primary pathway to better health – but it’s not. Here’s what the alternative looks like.
‘Bipolar Blonde’ Business Owner Opens Up About Finding Color in the Darkness
Kentucky native Morgan Hutchinson has always had a knack for bringing color and joy into women’s lives through her clothing label BURU. Now, she’s inviting them into a more personal side of that missi...
Two New Orleans 'Lion King' Broadway stars missed home: 'Grateful to be back'
New Orleans natives Jennifer Theriot, 35, and Vernon Brooks III, 28, have spent years living out of a few suitcases and a trunk. Touring with Disney’s Broadway musical “The Lion
Grove student earns national recognition for her science project
A Northeast Oklahoma student earned recognition at a national science contest for her work on how Native Americans used plants to treat illnesses.
Grove student earns national recognition for her science project
A Northeast Oklahoma student earned recognition at a national science contest for her work on how Native Americans used plants to treat illnesses.
5 New Foldable Phones To Consider Instead Of The iPhone Duo
Compare top foldable alternatives to the iPhone Duo: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Galaxy Z Flip 8, Xiaomi 18 Fold, and Motorola Razr.
People on the move in Indian Country
November’s People on the Move highlights appointments and honors across Native business, finance, health care, education and tribal enterprises.
Deb Haaland Was a Climate Hero of the Left. Now She Wants to Govern Oil-Rich New Mexico.
On the cusp of becoming America’s first Native woman governor, the former interior secretary confronts questions about her climate commitments.
Free Webinar on Alternative Health Care Cost-sharing for Farmers
If you are a farmer looking for alternatives to rising health insurance costs, you can learn more about a medical
Power List interview: Vietri CEO Emerita Susan Gravely
Vietri CEO Emerita Susan Gravely joined High Point University President Nido Qubein in the Power List interview, a partnership for discussions with influential leaders. The interview was edited for clarity. Rocky Mount native Susan Gravely co-founded Vietri with her mother and sister after the trio took what she describes as a magical trip to […]
Nintendo Switch 2 gets its first reportedly 100% native PlayStation 1 emulator
Nintendo Switch 2 now reportedly runs PlayStation 1 games through a fully native homebrew emulator developed by Izmysh. The project uses the console filesystem and microSD storage.
Mapping Jackson’s environmental health: Community Noise Lab tracks illegal dumping and mosquito risks across wards
JANS – Since 2025, the Community Noise Lab – founded and led by Jackson native Dr. Erica Walker – has systematically tracked and cataloged illegal dumping
Hackers just stole $6 billion in crypto. It’s not the first time, and it won’t be the last
For years, the crypto industry has tried to shed its affiliation with crime while marketing itself as a safe alternative to traditional banking and investing. But once again, a record-shattering heist is deepening concerns about crypto’s vulnerabilities.
Heated Tobacco: A New Trend That Is Raising Heart Health Concerns
By HealthDay Staff HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, Oct. 30, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Heated tobacco is gaining popularity around the world, marketed as a less harmful alternative to cigarettes. But new research is raising red flags — finding that just one session can affect cardiovascular function. These ...
The politics of war
Israel went to the polls last Tuesday and it is the turn of the United States next Tuesday. The differences in the two elections are self-evident. Compared with the US, which has favourable geography and does everything at scale, Israel is tiny and part of an unstable region. For its elections, it has adopted an almost pure form of proportional representation based on lists. This encourages multiple parties and can make it almost impossible to form a government, as we can now see. The US system is complex in its own way but discourages third parties. Yet for all the differences in size, geography, and political systems, the fates of the two countries are closely connected. Israel has come to depend on the US to sustain its military strength, and over the past few tumultuous years that dependence has created resentment in the United States. The Biden administration was punished for appearing to give Netanyahu a blank check after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023, and not holding Israel back as it employed ruthless tactics in Gaza. Because of the treatment of Palestinians, American views of Israel have grown progressively more negative over the past few years. Only a third now support the Israeli government. While on the left, this is largely because of how Israeli forces have operated in Gaza and, more recently, how the settler movement has behaved in the West Bank, for the American right the issue has been about how Benjamin Netanyahu persuaded Donald Trump to forget his wariness about more Middle Eastern wars and agree to a joint attack on Iran, which has gone badly wrong. The Palestine question was not a big issue for the two large Jewish blocs in last Tuesday’s election. Both supported a tough response to Hamas after October 2023 and neither accepts a two-state solution. It was, however, the threat posed by the ethno-nationalist policies of Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the two extreme members of Netanyahu’s coalition, and their tolerance, even encouragement, of settler violence, that brought out the Arab voters. (In principle this should strengthen their position though to turn into real power would require the ‘Change Bloc’ overcoming their opposition to involving Arab parties. The alternatives are a National Unity government, defection from the Change Bloc to Netanyahu, or deadlock and another round of elections in the new year.) There was also broad support for the war against Iran among the Jewish parties. The difficulty here is that the objectives behind the war have yet to be met, and that continuing with military operations depends on the United States. In this way the two elections have come together at a crucial moment. If Netanyahu hoped that a victory over Iran would help him retain his majority, cementing his legacy as an Israeli war leader, it did not work out that way. Trump also expected a great victory about which he could boast. He promised at most the end of a hateful and aggressive regime, with a record of hostility to both the United States and Israel, or at least the elimination of Iran’s military capabilities and the end of its nuclear programme. Eight months on, there is not much to boast about; vital objectives remain elusive: the Iranian regime is even more hardline than before; the international economy is barely coping with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz; and Saudi Arabia is struggling with an unwanted conflict with the Yemeni Houthis. For all these reasons, the Iran War has been a dark cloud hanging over both elections. Yet the issue has been approached in different ways. Netanyahu sought to push the issue before the election while Trump has been more cautious. Trump’s essential claim is that there is nothing to worry about and he’s still working out what final steps need to be taken to provide a definitive conclusion to the conflict. Netanyahu’s final pitch was that there was lots to worry about. He focused on Israel’s dire security situation, with the Iran War unfinished and the prospect of imminent economic isolation because of international sanctions. For him it is imperative to defeat Iran decisively, and without delay. Why this different response to the same war? Part of the answer lies in how public opinion in the two countries responded to the war. In this post, I show how this came about. We await the outcome of the US midterms but know the result, at least in terms of the share of the vote if not yet the shape of the new government, of the Israeli election. With the elections out of the way Netanyahu is pressing for another round in the war. Trump is less sure. I conclude with thoughts on the importance of how he decides.
Golden LEAF names Ted Lord as CEO
The Golden LEAF Foundation board picked Winston-Salem native Ted Lord as the organization's fourth president and CEO. He will succeed Scott Hamilton, who is retiring after leading the group since 2019.
'This is so crazy!' Virginia college student looking for shark teeth finds rare Native American spearpoint
A biology student found a Native American stone spearpoint when searching for shark teeth along the coast of Virginia.
PODCAST: Keeping Native capital flowing through political change
Native CDFIs finance homes, support small businesses and create jobs. Keeping capital flowing into their communities also requires a voice in the policy decisions that shape federal funding and bank investment. In a new episode of Difference Makers 3.0, Native CDFI Network CEO Pete Upton and policy consultant Ian Record join host Brian Edwards to […]
PODCAST: Keeping Native capital flowing through political change
Native CDFIs finance homes, support small businesses and create jobs. Keeping capital flowing into their communities also requires a voice in the policy decisions that shape federal funding and bank investment. In a new episode of Difference Makers 3.0, Native CDFI Network CEO Pete Upton and policy consultant Ian Record join host Brian Edwards to […]
St. Mary’s business manager retires after 32 years of service
Business managers like Elaine Stanislawski don’t come around every day or even every decade. The 81-year-old New Jersey native has served St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church in Fredericksburg for the past 32 years.
Federal Agencies Join Forces to Better Diagnose, Manage Sepsis in Indian Health Service Facilities
Two federal agencies are collaborating to increase positive outcomes for sepsis patients and Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) yesterday ann...
Federal Agencies Join Forces to Better Diagnose, Manage Sepsis in Indian Health Service Facilities
Two federal agencies are collaborating to increase positive outcomes for sepsis patients and Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) yesterday announced a new partnership with the IHS to create a standard for hte the early identification and management of sepsis through a quality improvement initiative. Sepsis occurs when […]
Legends Radio highlights Claudio Jaffé’s musical passion
Claudio Jaffé COURTESY PHOTO This week's Legends Radio Local Artist Spotlight shines on internationally celebrated cellist Claudio Jaffé.For Claudio, a lifelong passion for music began at an early age. At just eleven years old, he made his orchestral debut in his native Brazil, launching a career that would take him to celebrated stages across the globe, including New York, London and Tokyo.A prizewinning performer and Yale University graduate, Jaffé has dedicated much of his career not only to musical excellence but also to sharing his knowledge with aspiring musicians. He previously served as Dean of the Lynn University Conservatory of Music.Today, Claudio serves as principal cellist of the Palm Beach Symphony, performing in the orchestra's Masterworks Concert Series at the Kravis Center. He also hosts “Symphony Sessions: Lunch & Learn,” giving music lovers an opportunity to explore the stories, composers, and preparation behind upcoming concerts. His scheduled sessions for the 2026–2027 season include February 4 and April 22.Beyond the stage, Jaffé remains deeply involved in community outreach and music education. Through school residencies, student coaching, and educational performances, he continues to share his experience with young musicians throughout Palm Beach County.His contributions reflect a career dedicated not simply to performing beautiful music but also to ensuring its appreciation continues for generations to come. His commitment to both performance and education continues to make a lasting impact on South Florida's cultural community.That is why Claudio Jaffé is this week's Legends Radio Local Artist Spotlight.
From Business to Beluga Whales: Inside Briana Maltez’s Marine Biology Journey
Beneath the hum of filtration pumps and the rhythmic trickle of saltwater tanks, Briana Maltez is completely in her element. The Texas A&M University at Galveston marine biology major is following her lifelong love of animals—and that passion drives her pursuit for a second bachelor’s degree in a field that endlessly ignites her curiosity.As a native of nearby Sugar Land, Maltez did not initially set out toward coastal science. She initially earned a degree in agricultural business through the Texas A&M RELLIS campus in Bryan, but her subconscious fascination with ocean life grew into an unignorable question during her time there: What if? Photo courtesy of Briana MaltezThe query continued to plague her until a turning point came during a Florida trip to near the end of her first degree. Up-close encounters with marine life reignited a childhood dream and shifted her trajectory toward the sea. Yet, stepping into an entirely new field required a leap of faith. Faced with the daunting prospect of starting over, Maltez placed her trust in Texas A&M Galveston as the premier marine biology program in the state. Deciding that she would never feel satisfied unless she tried, she applied—finding the resolve to face the demanding science curriculum head-on.Any lingering doubts vanished during her first semester on the island campus. The close-knit campus environment and small class sizes allowed Maltez to build immediate connections with her professors and peers—a welcoming backdrop where her love for ocean stewardship could truly take root.“I instantly fell in love with the campus and the small classes,” Maltez recalled. “I was like, ‘Yep, I’m so happy I came here.'”Before long, Maltez found a second home inside the university’s Sea Life Facility. Designed to mirror complex, large-scale aquarium infrastructure on a manageable scale, the space offered Maltez a safe training ground to grow familiar with system maintenance and water chemistry under the tutelage of Sea Life Facility Manager Katie St. Clair. While tending to the tanks there, she grew especially fond of watching the facility’s resident clownfish breed and care for their clutches.“Katie definitely wants us to learn, ask questions, and get hands-on experience,” said Maltez. “So, it has been great having her help with getting pre-experience before doing it in the real world.”That hands-on experience quickly sparked a deeper interest in animal husbandry—the daily art of monitoring the animal’s diets, observing their behavior, and maintaining the aquarium’s overall health. Eager to turn those newfound practical skills into technical credentials, Maltez even earned certifications in life support systems and water quality management through Aquatic Animal Life Support Operators courses.Maltez’s passion soon extended beyond campus boundaries. During a summer study abroad program in South Caicos, Turks and Caicos, Maltez immersed herself in underwater field research. In addition to learning about local history and ecotourism impacts, she snorkeled daily, utilizing drones and hydrophones to record underwater bioacoustics and listen to the often-missed crackles of snapping shrimp, fish, and lobster larvae. Maltez at SeaWorld San AntonioPhoto courtesy of Briana Maltez“What you don’t realize is that there’s so many animals around you, but because they sense, you already, they run away,” Maltez explained. “I think that’s really cool to experience, because you don’t even think about that when you travel.”Yet, among all her academic adventures, a week-long course at SeaWorld San Antonio through MARB 302 stands out as a defining milestone. Camping on-site alongside fellow marine biology majors, Maltez gained behind-the-scenes access to professional veterinary and husbandry operations, building lasting friendships and even interacting with penguins in the snow.The undeniable highlight of the trip was face-to-face interaction with beluga whales. Having admired the titanic cetaceans for years, getting to learn directly from their trainers solidified her ultimate aspiration: to care for belugas and contribute to conservation research supporting wild populations in Alaska.“They are one of my favorite animals, and I had heard so much about them,” said Maltez. ”Getting to see them up close was an amazing experience.”When she is not analyzing marine environments, Maltez documents campus life through her camera lens. As a photographer for the Nautilus student newspaper, the Yell Leaders at Midnight Yell, and the Shark Scholars club, she brings the university’s passionate energy into sharp focus. With less than a year remaining until graduation, Maltez looks back on her decision to return to school with gratitude. Taking her journey one day at a time helped her push through demanding coursework, unlocking opportunities she once thought were out of reach. Today, Maltez stands as a compelling example of what happens when passion meets purpose: By trusting her drive and embracing every hands-on experience, she has transformed a second chance at college into an opportunity to dive into a career beneath the waves.
ASUS announces availability of 720Hz and 540Hz OLED monitors, starting at $699
ASUS has announced availability of its 24.5-inch Tandem WOLED monitors with native 720Hz and 540Hz refresh rates. US prices start at $699, although UK retailers still list preorders.
Aggie B.A.T.S. gets ready for Halloween party
Aggie B.A.T.S., an inclusive alternative goth club, will co-host with KDVS this year’s Halloween Goth Gala at Watermelon Music’s Melon Ball, an all-ages, open-to-the-public, pay-what-you-can party.This year, the festivities feature
Politicians are afraid to fix taxes. So 100 citizens tried.
Connecticut’s property tax system has been broken for decades and the politicians have failed to fix the problem. So now, they’re trying something new: a citizens assembly. (Citizens assemblies are also old. They go back to Ancient Greece, when lawmakers were chosen not through elections, but through random lotteries.) Today on the show, Connecticut’s citizens assembly. It's like jury duty, but for taxes. About hundred random people from all around Connecticut come together to try to solve the state’s property tax problem. They wrestle with whether they should raise taxes, cut spending, find efficiencies, or a mix of everything. Will this alternative attempt to solve the unsolvable succeed, or will it be politics as usual?It’s a modern case study of what happens when politicians step aside to let citizens decide what’s best. Come along as we talk to the professor who helped put this assembly together, learn from the citizens involved how this experiment changed them, and meet the politician who agreed to take their proposals to the state legislature. Planet Money will be at Kilkenomics Festival 2026. Tickets here.Read: - Our book: Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life - Our weekly longform Planet Money newsletter- Our weekly Indicator round-up newsletterFollow: - Instagram- TikTok- YouTube- FacebookSupport public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.This episode of Planet Money was hosted by Erika Beras and Jeff Guo. It was produced by James Sneed with reporting help from Áine Pennello. It was edited by Jess Jiang, Sierra Juarez is our fact-checker, and Jimmy Keeley & Travis Hagen engineered the show. Alex Goldmark is the executive producer of Planet Money..
Ancient migration linked to genetic health risks for Native Hawaiians
Rare genetic variants found among Polynesians reveal gaps in global databases that could have implications for health care.
Charleston Ballet debuts 'Legend of Mothman', about West Virginia's famous cryptid
The Charleston Ballet debuted "The Legend of Mothman", a collaboration between Deborah Novak and choreographer Kim Pauley, Oct. 23, 2026, at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia. The 40-minute program featured dancers dressed in 1960s-inspired costumes and an original score by Charleston-native composer Matthew Jackfert, who hosts "Film Score Fridays" for West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Farm Family of the Week
The Crider crowd may be scattered across central and eastern Illinois, but they farm from Gibson City and Argenta to St. Joseph and beyond. Dan Crider, a St. Joseph native,
Charleston Ballet debuts 'Legend of Mothman', about West Virginia's native cryptid
The Charleston Ballet debuted "The Legend of Mothman", a collaboration between Deborah Novak and choreographer Kim Pauley, Oct. 23, 2026, at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia. The 40-minute program featured dancers dressed in 1960s-inspired costumes and an original score by Charleston-native composer Matthew Jackfert, who hosts "Film Score Fridays" for West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Greensburg native moves branded apparel business KP Threads to hometown storefront
When Kelly Pruss saw a “for rent” sign in the window of a storefront at the corner of South Urania and Euclid avenues in Greensburg, she knew it was the perfect place for her 3-year-old branded apparel boutique. Pruss, 55, of Greensburg started KP Threads out of her home in
The Business Exit Strategy More Owners Should Be Talking About
Discover how employee ownership trusts (EOTs) offer business owners an alternative exit strategy that preserves company culture while realizing business value.
FHLBank Topeka awards $4M in tribal housing grants
Federal Home Loan Bank Topeka awarded a total of $4 million in grants to 14 tribes and tribal housing entities for home repairs, housing construction, infrastructure and homebuyer assistance. The 2026 awards, announced Oct. 20, come through the bank’s Native American Housing Initiatives Grants Program, which supports affordable housing and community development in Colorado, Kansas, […]
Shaker grad leads Cortland men's soccer into SUNYAC tournament
Catching up with Section 2 graduates and Capital Region natives playing collegiate sports.
Nintendo Switch games can now run on Mac thanks to a Wine-like tool, and 85 titles are already compatible
Nxnative allows Switch games to run on Apple silicon.
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Breaks Ground on New Health Care Facility
The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska broke ground today on a $46 million health service facility in Omaha, Neb. The Tribe purchased the former InfoUSA campus in 2017 and has been working with Indian Health Services to begin construction. The new 40,000-square-foot facility will expand the reach of the Ponca Health Service with more providers, specialty […]
Nearly half of AAPI women lack a reproductive health provider, survey finds
A survey of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women and gender-expansive people found nearly half of respondents don’t have a reproductive healthcare provider and more than half don’t know how far they would need to travel for abortion care.
Native Hawaiians and Easter Islanders came from same 'ultravoyager' group
Members of the same people who settled Easter Island also discovered Hawaii, a new study finds.
UT Austin unveils UT Dell Medicine as it bets big on new AI-native hospital
The University of Texas at Austin unveiled Tuesday a unified academic health system, called UT Dell Medicine, that brings its clinics, Dell Medical School and the upcoming UT Dell Medical Center un | UT Dell Medicine wants to build the hospital of the future from the ground up. Health system leaders detail their tech-forward strategy.
Native Finance: Spirit Lake Tribe's New Clinic
Spirit Lake Tribe secured $60 million in tax-exempt financing from Key for a $73.4 million health clinic backed by New Markets Tax Credits.
Scientists Have Discovered Where Native Hawaiians Came From, And The Genetic Effect of Their Long Voyage
A seafaring adventure for the ages.
Scientists Have Discovered Where Native Hawaiians Came From, And The Genetic Effect of Their Long Voyage
A seafaring adventure for the ages.
Native Housing: USDA Supports Tribal Home Loans
Six Native CDFIs will receive $6.18 million in USDA financing to support 43 home purchase loans and 25 home repair loans across six states.
Clarivate's Web of Science Research Intelligence Is Now in Use by 100 Institutions
Clarivate reached a milestone of more than 100 institutions across 25 countries and regions adopting Web of Science Research Intelligence, an AI-native research intelligence platform designed to support institutional decision-making across funding, strategy and impact.
From iPhone Duo to Mac, Craft shows what a native productivity app can do
It’s been a busy fall for Apple. iOS and macOS 27 arrived in September, iPhone Duo went on sale just...
New Project Lets Nintendo Switch Games Run Natively on Apple Silicon Macs and iPhones
An open-source project called nxnative lets Nintendo Switch games run natively on Apple Silicon, without an emulator in between. Built by developer seedds, the tool takes a user's own game files and prod.keys and turns them into an app for iPhone, iPad, or Mac. YouTuber Andrew Tsai put it to the...
Halide’s Duo update just knocked an item off my camera wish list.
Halide III just got its iPhone Duo update with re-worked controls for the new screen formats and a feature that Apple’s native camera app left out: a waist-level viewfinder. When you use the phone in its L-shaped pose the image preview will appear on the top portion of the screen. I was hoping I’d be able to move the preview to the lower half of the screen and use it like a classic Hasselblad camera. It’s a nerdy little detail, but Halide is made by nerds, for nerds, and I appreciate that. [Link: Halide for Duo: Electric Boogaluo | https://www.lux.camera/halide-for-duo/ | Lux — iPhone camera apps, camera reviews and more]
Walter Koenig, ‘Star Trek’ franchise's original Chekov, dies at 90
Walter Koenig, the 'Star Trek' franchise's original Chekov, has died at 90. The Manhattan native was the son of Lithuanian immigrants.
You can now run Nintendo Switch games natively on iPhones and Macs
This works because the Switch and Apple's recent devices both use Arm-based processors, meaning a game's instructions are already compatible with an iPhone's chip. PC ports like...
Spooky Science Carnival Ticket Giveaway
Win a Family (4) Four Pack of Tickets to the Spooky Science Carnival at the Science Spectrum. This “spooky, not scary event” will be held on Friday, October 30th, from 5:00pm-9:00pm all throughout the museum. This event is perfect for those looking for a safe Halloween alternative and a fun, educational party all rolled into one!
Native practices, Western science work to restore Shasta County land
Native Roots Network is teaching a new generation of stewards to care for Indigenous and public land in Shasta County, Redding and beyond.