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The Sunshine State ranks 48th in the nation for teacher pay, outpacing just Maine, Arizona and Hawaii.
Tearing up roads, building high speed rail, and painting bike lanes are not enough.
Seattle embraces wood for high-rise construction in the face of climate change.
Without a war chest, producer turns to the new rules of guerrilla marketing.
Your choice is likely a tell among millennials, Gen Zers, baby boomers and Gen Xers.
A group of battery researchers at Dalhousie University, which has an exclusive agreement with Tesla, published findings in The Journal of the Electrochemical Society describing a lithium-ion battery that “should be able to power an electric vehicle for over 1 million miles” while losing less than 10 percent of its energy capacity during its lifetime. Its paper seems to affirm a promise made by Elon Musk last April.
Two years after Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs was named the private-sector partner to revitalize a waterfront community in Toronto, citizens and city officials remain divided about whether to move forward.
The percentage increase since 2012 of the number of registered quarries, rock mining operations and aggregate plants operating in Texas, far outpacing state regulatory oversight.
Jeff Bezos promises Amazon will be net zero by 2040; workers want more.
The state did not ask. Owners did not tell. Now nobody knows.
Small modular reactor technology offers a workable and safe energy alternative.
Former NSA chief says follow the money.
The jury is still out; research urges careful consideration of both short- and long-term outcomes.
A New Jersey software firm won a contract to process toll transactions. But the software was woefully unequipped to handle the number transactions, resulting in overbilling, missed payments and headaches for drivers.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the proposed plan, backed by County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, would pull riders off the city’s subway system. But the plan has the financial backing of the county.
The $1.44 billion general fund budget focuses largely on the retention and recruitment of Dallas police officers. The $874.9 million public safety budget makes up more than 60 percent of the general fund.
The value of a 2017 contract for 10 new streetcars canceled by the Seattle Department of Transportation on Monday. The new streetcars were longer and heavier than those the city bought earlier, and would have required up to $17 million in additional work to retrofit maintenance barns, stops and bridges.
(a) It is working better than sponsors could have imagined; (b) police are just warning motorists.
Electric Car Sales in the Golden State Are Brisk but Many Owners Have Nowhere to Plug In.
“Some people want to come into the office, some want to call, and then there’s the generation that doesn’t want to deal with anybody.”
A pair of donors from Texas are behind the pitch to city officials in Baltimore.
The number of online applications received by Amazon in the 24 hours after its six-city career day on Tuesday.
Officers help connect cellphones to vehicles’ Bluetooth technology as new law takes effect.
“When we don’t do our job well, you lose your confidence in our elections,” concedes Washington secretary of state.
Convenience and time savings are popular but not good enough reasons, group says.