Illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios America needs technical workers — and supply isn’t measuring up to demand. The big picture: Older workers in the skilled trades are retiring and not enough young people are training up to take their jobs as construction workers, plumbers, electricians and beyond. By the numbers: The construction industry faces a gap of...
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From student to author
-Submitted photo Ruech “Ray” Malou, a student at Iowa Central Community College, holds a copy of his newly published novel “How Sweet Is Salt.” Malou, of Storm Lake, based the novel on a story he began writing in high school and turned it into a complete book following a creative writing class at the college....
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St. Patrick’s Day rites: Parades, bagpipes, clinking pints
AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton Jack Stephans cheers while watching the St. Patrick’s Day parade from the crowded oak-shaded square, Friday, March 17, in historic downtown Savannah, Ga. Oh, Danny boy, ’tis the time of year when Irish bagpipes are calling in the concrete glens of New York City, across the swooning...
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Wheeling Central Graduate, Wayt, Adds More A-A Honors
Kenadee Wayt has been walking around the Mount Union campus like she’s on top of the world. And, really, as it pertains to NCAA Division III sprinting, she is. The Wheeling Central graduate enjoyed performances to remember in Birmingham last weekend at the NCAA Division III National Indoor Track and Field Championships. Wayt...
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Justice Signs PEIA, Pay Raise, Budget Bills
photo by: Steven Allen Adams CHARLESTON – Gov. Jim Justice put his signature Friday on the budget for the next fiscal year which includes raises for public employees, a separate bill providing raises to school employees and troopers, and a bill to keep West Virginia’s public employee health insurance program...
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Langworthy Hears Manufacturing Issues In Local Stop
U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy, center, talks to Weber Knapp President Rhonda Johnson about what they produce as Todd Tranum, left, with the Manufacturers Association of the Southern Tier, looks on. P-J photos by Gregory Bacon Rhonda Johnson started on the assembly floor of Weber Knapp in 1991. Today she is the president of the company,...
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Colorado Springs at-large council candidate questionnaire: Roland Rainey Jr.
Role and vision What is your elevator pitch for why voters in Colorado Springs should choose you as the next at-large council representative? During these unique times, we need a community leader with fresh eyes, fresh perspective, innovative vision, and extraordinary energy to address concerns and issues impacting our city and its citizens. I have...
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Senator Moran, ATF, BJA visit Wichita State to announce new campus facilities
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach and Senator Jerry Moran recently visited Wichita State University to announce plans for a unique new National Forensic Laboratory at WSU. The forensic laboratory is a new $75 million facility that will complement the Gun Crime Intelligence Center of Excellence (GCIC) and National Integrated...
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10 in-demand remote jobs paying $100,000 or more that companies are hiring for now
Even though fewer people are working from home now compared to two years ago, it’s still not a bad time to find a remote job — and some of the most in-demand roles companies are hiring for come with a six-figure paycheck. FlexJobs, one of the most popular job boards for remote opportunities, saw a...
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Viewpoint: Driving evolution in leadership across the nuclear sector : Perspectives
17 March 2023 Attracting, developing, supporting and retaining the right leaders will help determine the destiny of the nuclear sector in the coming years, writes Callum Thomas, CEO of Thomas Thor. Callum Thomas (Image: Thomas Thor Associates) In recent times, we could perhaps characterise the nuclear sector as “a quiet achiever”, but the shifting macro context...
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Celebrating 25 years and a front-row seat to history, courtesy of Valpo’s Bryce Drew
DENVER — Time is gray hair. It’s grown-up kids. It’s dreams, stumbles, long days and fast years. Twenty-five years of basketball time meandered through the hallways inside Ball Arena on Thursday. A hoops family, an all-time moment, roads less traveled and two brothers still in the game. And me. I haven’t had an occasion to...
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Ukraine war live updates: Turkey will start ratifying Finland’s NATO application; International court issues arrest warrant for Putin for alleged war crimes
White House welcomes Turkey’s decision to bring Finland into NATO alliance Jake Sullivan, White House national security adviser, speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. Ken Cedeno | Bloomberg | Getty Images The White House welcomed...