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Michigan State University Foundation Wins Tibbetts Award
EAST LANSING, Michigan - The Michigan State University Foundation announced today that it is one of the recipients of the Tibbetts Awards given by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). A non-profit organization, the MSU Foundation's mission supports research,...
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US to Support Africa on Its Energy Journey
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The strategy is for the U.S. government to work with U.S. companies that want to do business in Africa and to work with countries in Africa that want to do business with U.S. companies. Two years ago, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry...
Zaferes leads a USA podium sweep in WTS Yokohama
Japan - With a dominant performance, American Katie Zaferes claims a hat trick in the 2019 World Triathlon Yokohama, with teammates Summer Rappaport and Taylor Spivey accompanying her in the podium in the fourth podium sweep for USA in the history of WTS. USA dominant...
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Kentucky Derby Festival Raises Record Funds
It was another record year for the 2014 Kentucky Derby Festival Foundation Charity Module Program. 32 different charitable organizations raised funds by having individual runners and running teams participate in the Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon and miniMarathon...
CHICAGO
Chicago Marathon Boosts Economy
CHICAGO – The Bank of America Chicago Marathon continues to contribute to Chicago ’s economy, with the 2016 race delivering an estimated $282 million in total business impact to the city. The findings come from the latest economic impact study reported today by Bank...
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Zaferes leads a USA podium sweep in WTS Yokohama
Japan - With a dominant performance, American Katie Zaferes claims a hat trick in the 2019 World Triathlon Yokohama, with teammates Summer Rappaport and Taylor Spivey accompanying her in the podium in the fourth podium sweep for USA in the history of WTS. USA dominant...
BALTIMORE
Baltimore Running Festival economic impact
BALTIMORE - Corrigan Sports Enterprises, Inc (CSE) announced the 2014 Baltimore Running Festival generated an estimated $40.2 million in economic impact according to a recent study by RESI, an economic research and consulting firm located at Towson University. The...
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Fired From Teaching American History
Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History Five years ago, I had every reason to believe that my job as a history professor at Barnard College was secure. I had been teaching there for four years, I had published my dissertation with a major publisher, and because...
Launch of Nationwide Preschool Campaign
"Preschool Nation," a national communications advocacy platform that showcases the societal benefits of quality early childhood education for young children, families, communities and businesses across America, will launch today Through the vehicle of a collaborative...
McQueen steers USA to Mixed Relay Gold
Canada - In Mixed Relay terms, Chase McQueen may have been the least experienced man on the USA team at the Groupe Copley World Triathlon Series Montreal, but he delivered a consummate final leg to ensure the USA left with gold on Sunday afternoon. Taylor Spivey had...
Living standards on decline
The typical American family now earns less in real terms than it did way back in 1989, according to the Census Bureau. Median household income fell for the fifth consecutive year, to $51,017 in 2012, and is now 8.3 per cent below its pre-recession peak in 2007....
Cover-up overruled by Congress
The United States Congress has acted to prevent its aid to Ethiopia being used to fund forced evictions of tribal peoples in the south west of the country. The provisions in the Omnibus Appropriations Bill for 2014 represent a slap in the face for USAID, which last...