Michigan’s early child care workforce is in crisis. Here’s why
The median hourly wage for Michigan child care workers — many of whom are women of color — was roughly $11 in 2019, with nearly one in five early educators living below the poverty line. That’s one of the findings from a January report that led two groups — the Michigan League for Public Policy, including Kids Count in Michigan, and […]
DIY Filter System Helps Stop COVID-19 Spread
As the United States enters a third year of living with COVID-19 — and many states begin to treat it as endemic rather than pandemic — a debate has begun over what lessons can be learned from the last few years and how they can be applied to public health. Among them is a growing […]
Cigarette Smoke Smell Removal Air Purifier
Many places like restaurants, pubs, and night clubs are fast becoming smoke free, or at least mandatory to have a portion of the space sectioned off for smokers. If your senses are discerning enough though, you would know that the second hand smoke is drifted almost to every corner of the space, even if there […]
Fair Lawn NJ 2022 budget calls for more trees, water treatment plant
FAIR LAWN — The proposed municipal budget for 2022 includes a substantial increase for planting trees and also calls for a new water treatment plant. “We are really focused on greening up Fair Lawn, and it’s part of our overall plan with making sure Fair Lawn’s more environmentally friendly,” Mayor Kurt Peluso said. In the borough’s $60 million […]
Poultry owners need to protect bird health
The Delaware Department of Agriculture has been warning poultry owners since January to take extra precautions to protect their birds after detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds in the Atlantic Flyway. Now, after a case of HPAI was announced in late February in a commercial poultry farm in New Castle County, DDA […]
Improving school air quality is crucial to student health
Mark Ereth, MD, MA, is an emeritus professor at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. Barbara A. Garza is superintendent of the AESA International School System and head of school at AESA Prep Academy in Austin, Texas. The rapid spread — and now decline — of the omicron variant raises critical questions about how to fight […]
Albuquerque city councilors have opposing views on vaccine mandates for city employees
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque city councilors are meeting on Monday. On the agenda are a number of hot-button issues that include competing legislation. The first to be heard, introduced by council president Isaac Benton would put in place a vaccination mandate for city employees that includes Albuquerque Police officers and firefighters. Councilor Benton says vaccines […]
Clearing the Air: UConn School of Nursing donates air purifiers to Coventry schools | Connecticut & Region
COVENTRY — Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, many schools with aging ventilation systems have struggled to remove virus-carrying particles from the air. The University of Connecticut School of Nursing has devised an innovative solution, however, that was being installed today in Coventry schools. Some 150 do-it-yourself air purifiers, known as Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes, built by university […]
Pentagon to shutter fuel facility that leaked into Pearl Harbor tap water
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the permanent closure of the Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Hawaii, the final chapter in an embarrassing saga for the Pentagon after leaks from the massive facility contaminated Pearl Harbor’s tap water. The fuel tanks, dating to World War II and built into the side of […]
Plenty of smiles, some nerves as ‘mask optional’ rules start in large N.J. school district
As the chapter on face masks in New Jersey schools ended Monday morning, future lawyer Diana Zanga did not hesitate when she arrived at Grove and Murray Streets in Elizabeth. Crossing guard, Deborah Walker, didn’t either. They hugged. But Zanga made sure her face mask was fastened on first and Walker had hers at the […]