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American Airlines in February detailed a bankruptcy-restructuring plan that eliminated 2,100 jobs from its Tulsa maintenance base. Workers are worried about their jobs, and business leaders are concerned layoffs could mean losing about 10 percent of the area’s aerospace workforce. And while the bulk of the base’s employees live in big-city Tulsa, the bankruptcy could […]
At this point, politicos figure nine states could go to either Obama or Romney this November: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin and…New Hampshire. All of them went for Barack Obama back in 2008. But New York Times reporter Michael Cooper notes that Republicans have also made some major strides in those states […]
The weak economy has exposed shortcomings in a little-known program of the U.S. State Department. Each year, tens of thousands of refugees arrive in the U.S. Most take out federally-funded loans to cover the cost of travel. But in this economy that has left so many without work, refugee advocates and refugees themselves say the […]
Monday night StateImpact Texas hosted an event called Invasive Species and Why We Love Them With Salt, part of KUT Austin’s regular Views and Brews: Conversations at the Cactus Cafe series. We took a look at the issues of invasive species in Texas (over beer) and examined some of the solutions on the table. And […]
U.S.News & World Report just released its most recent list of high school rankings. Seven Florida high school’s ranked among the nation’s top 50. But we thought it might be interesting to see how U.S. News’ ranking compared to the rankings the Florida Department of Education released last year. A handful of schools showed a […]
The tools and training teachers need to implement the nationwide standards could be the Common Core’s Achilles heel, writes EdWeek.
Doctors in heavily drilled areas across Pennsylvania are starting to see more patients who report symptoms they think might be related to gas activity. But with all the talk about health concerns and Marcellus Shale, what are the links between the two? And where does a doctor turn for answers? For this story, we spoke […]
While both presidential candidates seem to agree that student loan interest rates shouldn’t be allowed to go up, there are still bigger cost issues that