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Black Hills Corporation (NYSE:BKH) has announced that it will be increasing its dividend from last year’s comparable payment on the 1st of June to $0.625. This takes the annual payment to 3.8% of the current stock price, which is about average for the industry.
Today, President Biden Signed an executive order to expand access to affordable, high-quality care and provide support for care workers and family caregivers. This executive order, which includes more than 50 directives for agencies across the government, is the most comprehensive set of executive actions any President has ever taken to make care more affordable […]
On Friday, people around the globe celebrated the International Day of Transgender Visibility and also were reminded of an ongoing struggle by LGBTQ communities for the right to exist. In Milwaukee, County Executive David Crowley signed a resolution making official the county’s opposition to the practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ citizens. Meanwhile, a delegation […]
The Biden administration is criticizing an announcement by OPEC+ members that they will cut oil production, arguing it is not advisable. “We don’t think cuts are advisable at this moment given market uncertainty — and we’ve made that clear,” a spokesperson for the National Security Council said. Saudi Arabia, along with Russia and other OPEC+ […]
Recently, a cohort of 36 students from MIT and universities across Hong Kong came together for the MIT Entrepreneurship and Maker Skills Integrator (MEMSI), an intense two-week startup boot camp hosted at the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node. “We’re very excited to be in Hong Kong,” said Professor Charles Sodini, LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering […]
In as little as a decade, there will be one retiree for every two workers in Canada. To address the looming labor shortage, Canada’s government announced a new goal in November to accept 1.45 million immigrants by 2025, with 60 percent trained in health care and other urgently needed job skills. Meanwhile, in the U.S., similar immigration […]
Crystal Leonetti is the Alaska Native affairs specialist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2022. (Photo by Lisa Hupp / USFWS) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a draft of its first Alaska Native relations policy, which the agency says is an effort to inform employees who have not previously […]
The world is already witnessing the consequences of human-caused climate change, including hotter temperatures, rising sea levels, and more frequent and severe storms. What’s harder to see are climate change’s effects on the spread of disease: on the mosquito that carries a virus, or the pathogenic bacteria on a piece of fruit. More From Our […]
An ominous sign hangs near Washington Square Park in New York on March 24, 2020, at the beginning of pandemic lockdowns seeking to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The virus spread anyway. (Jeenah Moon/For The Washington Post) October 19, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT Comment on this story Comment SOMERVILLE, Tenn. — Skill Wilson […]
Story at a glance Stroke occurs when a person experiences rapid deterioration in neurological function. Symptoms of stroke include numbness or weakness on one side of the body and loss of language. Data suggests that a less common type of stroke is increasing in the U.S., especially among Black people. Each year, about 795,000 people […]