by Mary Yang | Oct 12, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Tuesday indicated that she is leaning toward cutting the length of programs in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan to pare down the $3.5 trillion price tag. The spending package, which was originally slated to dole out...
by Baylor Spears | Oct 6, 2021 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Some buildings in historically Black colleges and universities are in such bad shape that “when it rains outside, many times it rains inside,” the Tennessee State University president told a House subcommittee on Wednesday. Tennessee State University is...
by Janea Wilson | Feb 6, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — U.S. territories like the Virgin Islands are in need of more federal funding to improve infrastructure so they can withstand hurricanes or improve trade, the head of the Virgin Islands Public Works Department told a House hearing on Thursday. Delegate...
by Gabrielle Bienasz and Charlotte Walsh | Mar 22, 2019 | Featured, Living
YORKTOWN, Va. — Colonial National Historical Park is home to Yorktown, the site of the final major battle in the American Revolutionary War. Now, historical Yorktown is once again fighting for its life, but this time, it’s not because of British troops — rather a...
