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19h ago
Federal, state and city officials break ground in 2022 on a mixed-income residential development at Cayce Place, Nashville’s largest subsidized housing property. The city is replacing aging structures on the site, built between 1941 and 1954. (Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency, CC BY-ND)
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Madhuri Sharma, Mikhail Samarin
The Conversation
Rents across the U.S. have climbed to staggering levels in recent years. Millions of renters spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities, a situation that housing experts call being cost burdened.
High rents affect almost ..read more
Omaha Daily Record
19h ago
BioFiber’s mechanism and structure. (Mohammad Houshmand via Elsevier)
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Mohammad Houshmand, Yaghoob Farnam
The Conversation
Some say there are two types of concrete – cracked and on the brink of cracking. But what if when concrete cracked, it could heal itself?
We’re part of a team of materials scientists and microbiologists that has harnessed the power of bacteria to create biological fibers that initial results suggest can heal cracks in concrete. We’re working on a technology that, if we work out the kinks and manage to bring it to the market one day, could extend the life spa ..read more
Omaha Daily Record
20h ago
An exterior rendering of the garden area of the planned Omaha central library. (Courtesy of HDR and APMA)
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Cindy Gonzalez
Nebraska Examiner
OMAHA — The fundraising effort to pay for the Omaha Public Library system’s new central library has surpassed its $158 million goal.
Partner organizations describe the 96,000-square-foot facility under construction at the southwest corner of 72nd and Dodge Streets as a new “cultural and technological landmark.”
They said in a news release that the amount raised represents one of the largest philanthropic commitments to a U.S. public li ..read more
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20h ago
By
Jackie Veling
NerdWallet
In January, I received an email from my apartment complex saying that I could now divide my monthly rent into two payments via a product called Flex.
I would make the first payment on the first of the month, but I could choose when to make the second payment. According to the email, this would help me pay rent on time, improve my cash flow and even build my credit history. Enticing, right?
It sounded familiar. “ Buy now, pay later ” plans, popular in the retail industry, operate similarly. With buy now, pay later, you pay for a purchase over a series of ins ..read more
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23h ago
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2d ago
Trent Jollensten repairs a line and pole west of Ragan, Neb. (Brad Norton / AP Photo, Kearney Hub)
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Robert Zullo
Nebraska Examiner
Across the country, electric demand is growing and could explode if green goals like electrifying home heating, industry and transportation come to fruition. At the same time, many states, utilities and businesses have pledged to decarbonize, helping push older coal and gas power plants that have struggled to stay economically competitive into retirement.
Yet in the queues run by the organizations that manage the electric grid in much of the nation ..read more
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2d ago
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Barry Butterfield
Nebraska Examiner
While the United States dawdles, Canada has quietly taken the lead in countering China’s grip on the global supply of critical metals. Both the United States and Canada have raised the alarm over China’s control of mineral supply chains, but only our northern neighbors are taking decisive action to do something about it.
It is not rocket science to figure out how to solve the crisis. Nor is it hard to tell whether a country is serious when it proposes a solution. Canada wants to slash the time it takes to get new mines up and running, and it’s ze ..read more
Omaha Daily Record
2d ago
Dave Reuter, with Habitat Forever, lights a prescribed burn.
(Kori Newby / AP photo, The Telegraph Herald)
Firefighters keep watch for smoke from a fire tower in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho, in 1932.
(K. D. Swan / Forest Service)
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Mark Krelder
The Conversation
In the U.S., wildland firefighters are able to stop about 98% of all wildfires before the fires have burned even 100 acres. That may seem comforting, but decades of quickly suppressing fires has had unintended consequences.
Fires are a natural part of many landscapes globally. When forests aren’t allowed to bu ..read more
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2d ago
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2d ago
Closeup of Resume. (Shutterstock)
By
Daniel Douglas
The Conversation
As private firms and governments struggle to fill jobs – and with the cost of college too high for many students – employers and elected officials are searching for alternative ways for people to get good jobs without having to earn a traditional college degree.
Microcredentials are one such alternative. But just what are microcredentials? And do they lead to better jobs and higher earnings?
As a sociologist who has examined the research on microcredentials, the best available answer right now is: It depends on w ..read more