Shop Indie Local Week and Holiday Season, it’s way more than Shop Small Saturday

Guest post by Jen Risley, AMIBAThank you for your commitment to building the local economy movement!Wishing you an inspiring Shop Indie Local Week with the entire community. My cat Shamu (above) can’t wait for Plaid Friday!It doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Any local business…

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Charissa Thompson’s Fabrication Admission Leaves Sideline Reporters Aghast

Charissa Thompson’s statement that she had made up reports during N.F.L. games on Fox left many of her counterparts aghast.Since Thursday afternoon, those in the sports media industry, particularly women, have been talking about one thing: that the prominent broadcaster Charissa…

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Are TikTok and X Amplifying Antisemitic Content? It’s Increasingly Hard to Know.

People who study social media say the conflict between Israel and Hamas has underscored the need for better data transparency from platforms.As the Israel-Hamas war flooded social media with violent content, false information and a seemingly limitless swell of opinions, lawmakers…

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Los Angeles Will Offer More Energy Incentives to Low-Income Residents

A new study by the city’s utility and other researchers found that lower-income residents cannot afford electric vehicles and clean energy.Los Angeles said on Thursday that it would build electric vehicle chargers and offer bigger rebates for the purchase of battery-powered…

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Harsh Visuals of War Leave Newsrooms Facing Tough Choices

Gruesome photographs of Palestinian children killed in rocket strikes and Israeli infants murdered by terrorists. Digitally doctored images that whip around social media before they can be verified. Accusations — since rejected by multiple news outlets — that photojournalists had advance…

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In a Report Card on Global Warming, Nations Get a Very Poor Grade

Countries are taking “baby steps,” a U.N. official said. In a separate study, Saudi researchers warned of an “existential crisis” for their nation from rising temperatures.Despite the clear human and environmental toll of global warming, countries are taking only “baby steps”…

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Entrepreneur week advice for small towns: 3 practical steps for economic developers and chambers of commerce

Last year during entrepreneurship week, I saw lots of articles about what big cities can do to support entrepreneurship. Advice for small towns got left out. Again.So I wrote this entrepreneur week advice for small town economic developers and chambers of…

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Polluting Industries Say the Cost of Cleaner Air Is Too High

As the Biden administration prepares to toughen air quality standards, health benefits are weighed against the cost of compliance.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is about to announce new regulations governing soot — the particles that trucks, farms, factories, wildfires, power plants…

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