Expanded Impact News

Expanded Impact Community Impact Newspaper / May 2, 2021

The Klein Virtual Academy is slated to open for the 2021-22 school year, pending full funding from the Texas Legislature, and will replace the district's current remote learning program, Klein Online. (Courtesy Canva) Klein ISD's new tuition-free, online school, Klein Virtual Academy, has been expanded to include students in third grade in addition to students in grades 4-12, district officials announced in a news release April 30.

Expanded Impact News-Leader / May 2, 2021

Like a matador with a red cape, Missouri lawmakers have side-stepped the charging reality of voter-approved Medicaid expansion, which was slated to go into effect in July. Olé! Fooled you! As a result, more than 200,000 low-income Missourians may or may not receive government-funded health insurance when they sign up for benefits July 1.

Expanded Impact Community Impact Newspaper / May 2, 2021

Position 6 in Magnolia ISD is up for election May 1. (Community Impact Newspaper staff) Updated 9:17 p.m. May 1 With all precincts reporting, incumbent Travis Moffatt appears to be the victor in the Magnolia ISD board of trustees race for Position 6.

Expanded Impact The Daily Gazette / May 2, 2021

Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation, the world-famous baby food factory that operated in downtown Canajoharie for nearly 120 years, began its storied life in the village as the Imperial Packing Company in 1891, founded by entrepreneur Bartlett Arkell and two sets of brothers, Raymond and Walter Lipe, and John and David Zieley, The plant's express purpose at the time was to smoke Beech-Nut hams using a method employed by the Lipes' father, Ephraim.

Expanded Impact Community Impact Newspaper / May 2, 2021

From left: James Golden has been named principal of Spring ISD, while Stacy Rodgers Smith will serve as principal of Spring ISD's Virtual Learning Academy and LeFredrick Smith will serve as principal of Ponderosa Elementary. (Courtesy Spring ISD) Spring ISD officials named Stacy Rodgers Smith the principal of the district's new Virtual Learning Academy via social media April 30.

Expanded Impact The Manila Times / May 2, 2021

In 2021, China's economic momentum will drive global economic prospects. But new trade wars could derail global recovery again. IN the first quarter of the ongoing year, China's gross domestic product (GDP) rose to a record 18.3 percent year-on-year. Despite the base effect, due to the pandemic plunge a year ago, the performance reflects strong [...]

Expanded Impact Community Impact Newspaper / May 2, 2021

Matt Machowiak, co-founder of the Save Austin Now political action committee behind Proposition B, spoke about the ballot measure and city leadership at a downtown victory party May 1. (Ben Thompson/Community Impact Newspaper) Updated May 1 11:52 p.m.

Expanded Impact talkbusiness.net / May 2, 2021

UA Walton College economist Mervin Jebaraj said new tax cuts and those proposed for later this year could help in a variety of ways, especially for lower income Arkansans, and he suggested the state's businesses will have to work harder to overcome a national negative reputation in the wake of this year's high-profile controversies in the legislature.

Expanded Impact Albuquerque Journal / May 2, 2021

Editor's Note: This is the second in a two-part series focusing on Los Alamos National Laboratory's expansion into Santa Fe. Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal The radio ad sounds ominous. "What you are about to hear is not based on a Steven King horror story," it begins.

Expanded Impact Reporter Newspapers / May 2, 2021

The Fulton County School System plans to spend $45 million over two years to boost students' academic recovery from learning losses caused by the pandemic. The "FOCUS" plan will direct more students to summer school and extend learning time through one-on-one or small group instruction.

Expanded Impact Berkshire Eagle / May 2, 2021

Almost two decades ago, Jennifer Michaels became the first person in Berkshire County to prescribe buprenorphine. Those early prescriptions saved lives, said Michaels, who serves as medical director of The Brien Center, but they came with stigma attached. "It was a bizarre dichotomy," Michaels said.

Expanded Impact Daily Advertiser / May 2, 2021

Editor's note: During May, the staff of The Daily Advertiser, will bring you a series of articles that look at Lafayette and Acadiana's past focused on segregation and racial inequities. We'll give you an honest, fair and often uncomfortable view where we as a community have been and where we are today.

Expanded Impact Clark County Blog / May 2, 2021

Global Expanded Polystyrene Packaging Market report provides in-depth analysis of Top Players, Geography, End users, Applications, Competitor analysis, Revenue, Price, Gross Margin, Market Share, Import-Export data, Trends and Forecast. The report offers a comprehensive insight into the development policies and plans in addition to manufacturing processes and cost structures.

Expanded Impact Governing / May 2, 2021

The goal is to add 4 million acres of farmland to the Conservation Reserve Program, which takes land out of production to blunt agriculture's environmental impact. The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would expand a program that pays farmers to leave land fallow, part of a broader, government-wide effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

Expanded Impact HuffPost / May 2, 2021

There's been lots of buzz about 's health care agenda and which proposals he's going to make a priority. But almost nobody is talking publicly about President Joe Biden an idea that could do a ton of good: Getting health insurance for the low-income people who are part of what's come to be known as the " Medicaid gap."

Expanded Impact Reuters / May 1, 2021

Canada's economy likely grew by 6.5% on an annualized basis in the first quarter, Statistics Canada said on Friday, though economists warned that the current third wave of COVID-19 infections will weigh in the second quarter. In a preliminary estimate, Statscan said the economy likely grew by 0.9% in March from February.

Expanded Impact Globalnews.ca / May 1, 2021

In the April 30, 2021, edition of Focus BC, host Richard Zussman speaks with Squamish Mayor Karen Elliott on the COVID-19 ban on non-essential travel and the sense of anxiety small tourist communities are feeling. BC Federation of Labour President Laird Cronk discusses the call for an expanded sick pay program in the province and looking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.