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Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices.
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In this episode of The Internet Says it's True, we explore a truly unexpected heritage-risk story: the Poison Book Project, where conservators discovered that beautiful emerald-green book cloths from the 19th century were hiding arsenic-based pigments. -
In this episode of Innovating Leadership Co-Creating Our Future, Beryl Tomay and Aaron Parness take us behind the scenes at Amazon’s “Delivering the Future” event to explore how technology, robotics, and human-centered leadership are transforming work at massive scale. -
This CMC forum features Dontavius Jarrells, Representative, 1st District, Ohio House of Representatives, Paula Powell, Senior Vice President, Research and Development, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company; Adam Sharp, Executive Vice President, The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation; Bill Stanley, State Director, The Nature Conservancy in Ohio, with moderator Carol Kauffman, CEO, Ohio Environmental Council. -
In this episode of Protecting What Matters, learn why Ohio businesses need to report these funds, how the state processes them, and how you can search for money that might belong to you. -
In this timely and provocative episode of Innovating Leadership Co-Creating Our Future, Maureen Metcalf interviews Ira Chaleff, author of To Stop a Tyrant and The Courageous Follower, to explore how power is exercised, and challenged, inside both governments and organizations.
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Even if the government shutdown ends this week, flight disruptions are expected to linger. And, Google has launched a lawsuit targeting text message scammers. -
The House may vote as early as Wednesday afternoon on a measure that will end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, but Democrats remain deeply divided about whether to support it.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Republican Congressman Mike Lawler of New York about the imminent House vote on a deal to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met in Baltimore this week to elect a new leader and renew their commitment to advocate on behalf of migrants in the U.S.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts about the pending vote on a measure to end the government shutdown.
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Telehealth for Medicare started during the pandemic and became popular quickly. But the shutdown put an abrupt halt to payments for the service.
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Kevin Curry, a food influencer and a former SNAP recipient, explains where SNAP recipients can get the most up-to-date information on their benefits, and how anyone can find free or affordable food.
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With a panel of leaders, this CMC forum explores the origin, impact, and future of the Columbus Promise. The program’s key partners – the City of Columbus, Columbus City Schools, I Know I Can, and Columbus State – and an array of private backers – have all recently recommitted to launching a new phase of the program, with more than half of a new $25 million goal already raised.
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