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Palo Alto: Billionaire playground or Darwinian hellscape? Why not both?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoStanford University's Hoover Tower rises above the Stanford campus. Malcolm Harris' new history of...
TechCrunch interview: ‘Palo Alto’ author Malcolm Harris
TechCrunch· 8 months agoMost of the tenets that helped capitalism take root and thrive in California two centuries ago are...
WWI nurse returns home as Utica hospital head nurse: This week in Mohawk Valley history
Utica Observer-Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year ago1800, 223 years ago Watch us grow Oneida County — a jewel sitting in the center of the state and...
How to access CalKIDS, a state-funded college savings account for low-income families
The Desert Sun via Yahoo Finance· 2 weeks agoCalKIDS is a state program that funds up to $1,500 for eligible low-income public school students to...
Lincoln's funeral train makes stop in Utica: This week in Mohawk Valley history
Utica Observer-Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 weeks ago1865, 159 years ago A time to mourn The funeral train carrying the remains of assassinated President...
The Suburbs Made the War on Drugs in Their Own Image
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn 1956, Jane Tompkins of Maplewood, New Jersey, waged her own war on drugs. Tompkins, who was then the state director of the New Jersey Commission on...
Desert Sands Unified to raise teacher pay, hire more counselors under new contract
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDesert Sands Unified School District has updated its contract with the teachers' union — raising...
Where did every U.S. president go to college?
List Wire via Yahoo Sports· 2 months agoWhere did every U.S. president go to college? (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images) “Where did you go to school?” It’s a common question asked of...
17 presidents who grew up in surprisingly humble homes
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 3 months agoJimmy Carter's childhood home in Plains, Georgia.Shutterstock; AP/Mark Humphrey Some presidents like...
'What if America runs out of bombs?'
The Week via Yahoo News· 1 month agoFighter plane at sunset. 'What if America runs out of bombs?' Matthew Petti in Reason The United States has the world's "most powerful military," says...
