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Trump taps Project 2025 co-author to lead White House budget office
by Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch November 22, 2024 WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday invited Russell Vought to once again run the White House budget office, though it wasn’t entirely clear how the role will mesh with the government staffing and funding cuts envisioned by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. “Russ knows exactly…
What Kind of Revolution is In Store for America?
The balance of power may be in for a shift by Dave Nagle, Iowa Capital Dispatch November 21, 2024 It is always a good day when you start to write, and you know that history is holding your pen. There may be a revolution coming to America. If it arrives, this will be the third…
This School for Autistic Youth Can Cost $573,200 a Year. It Operates With Little Oversight, and Students Have Suffered.
by Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. From the first months that Brett Ashinoff was at Shrub Oak International School in New York, his parents felt uneasy about the residential school…
How Scientists and Teachers Brought Rare Dolphins Back from the Brink of Extinction
The Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) is one of the most common cetaceans in Brazil but also one of the most vulnerable, with numbers dwindling by up to 93% in the last 40 years. One of the worst affected regions is Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, where Guiana dolphins face daily industrial contamination, sewage and…
Environment Expert: ‘Our life support system is at risk’
At the 9th Our Ocean Conference in Athens, Mongabay’s Elizabeth Claire Alberts interviewed oceanographer and marine biologist Sylvia Earle about the pressures facing our oceans, actions needed to turn things around, and how to find hope for the future. Earle has been a trailblazer in her career as a scientist, with more than 225 publications…
NASA plans to put rail system on Moon by 2030
(Photo by Mike Petrucci via Unsplash) By Dean Murray via SWNS America is set to put a railway on the Moon by 2030. NASA has announced they are funding a rail system to support daily operations of a sustainable lunar base. Dubbed FLOAT (Flexible Levitation on a Track), the project has this month been selected…
Tesla layoffs now an ongoing “bloodbath”
Tesla’s layoffs expanded over the weekend with staff involved in software, service and engineering all reporting that they’d gotten their pink slips. The 10 percent workforce reduction announced earlier by CEO Elon Musk is, Electrek’s Fred Lambert writes, closing in on 20 percent. The layoffs were expected after CEO Elon Musk made an example of Rebecca Tinucci, Tesla’s former…
What’s Keeping the US From Allowing Better Sunscreens?
Michael Scaturro May 7, 2024 When dermatologist Adewole “Ade” Adamson sees people spritzing sunscreen as if it’s cologne at the pool where he lives in Austin, Texas, he wants to intervene. “My wife says I shouldn’t,” he said, “even though most people rarely use enough sunscreen.” At issue is not just whether people are using…
Billions of cicadas are about to emerge from underground in a rare double-brood convergence
John Cooley, University of Connecticut and Chris Simon, University of Connecticut In the wake of North America’s recent solar eclipse, another historic natural event is on the horizon. From late April through June 2024, the largest brood of 13-year cicadas, known as Brood XIX, will co-emerge with a midwestern brood of 17-year cicadas, Brood XIII.…
Grain fund bill had support but ran out of time
by Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 1, 2024 There is consensus among state lawmakers to update a fund that protects farmers when corn and soybean buyers go bankrupt, but a bill related to that goal failed this year because others took priority, according to a lawmaker who managed it. “We ran a little bit…