Albany cutting utility costs by 20% at three schools

The Albany city school district is using a $10 million grant to get a $98 million project without any local tax impact.
Gothamist

Council bill aims to permanently disarm NYPD's robot dogs

A city councilmember wants to preemptively disarm the NYPD’s robot dogs. Councilmember Jennifer Gutierrez said she planned to introduce a bill on Thursday that would prohibit the NYPD from deploying ...

'I can never let go' - the fight for cold case answers

"I can never let it go," she adds. "For these few things that are happening now, okay, it's 50 years down the road, but I'm ...
WUFT

RFK Jr. wants to treat addiction by creating wellness farms. Does it work?

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a farm community in Italy for people with addiction is ...
Digital Information World

Asphalt is everywhere, but is it bad for our health?

Research from Fini and others shows that asphalt begins releasing different, more toxic strains of VOC as bitumen breaks down ...
The Journal of the San Juan Islands

A warning from the boardroom: OPALCO’s departing board president sounds energy alarm; County Council members call for community engagement

Instead, when outgoing OPALCO Board President Vince Dauciunas stood before the San Juan County Council on Monday, April 20, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Young Innovators Have Created a ‘Fitbit’ to Predict Epileptic Seizures

Truman Pierson and Christopher Fitz are developing behind-the-ear EEG patches and an accompanying app that issues an alert if ...