Mar 19th, 2010 · Beginning next year, loads of federal stimulus money will flow to doctors and hospitals to help them buy systems for electronic medical records. Now there's an online calculator you can use to estimate how much your local hospital would be eligible to receive.
Mar 19th, 2010 · While the music festival South by Southwest attracts thousands of industry types to Austin, Texas, other locales are trying to make sure the host city doesn't get too much credit as being the "music city." Places like Nashville, Seattle and even the state of Louisiana have sent contingents. Blake Farmer of member station WPLN reports.
Mar 19th, 2010 · Parents at the East Village Community School in New York City held a "bake-in" Thursday to protest a local education policy that forbids students from selling homemade bake sale items, but permits the sale of certain pre-packaged junk foods. The protest comes at a time when reducing childhood obesity and providing access to healthy food during the school day are major items on the agenda of education and health policymakers nationwide.
Mar 18th, 2010 · The Los Angeles band's sound synthesizes vocal harmonies influenced by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (or the more contemporary Fleet Foxes) with the reverberant rhythms of Afrobeat, indie rock and chamber pop. Local Natives performed at NPR Music's daytime party in Austin, Texas, on March 18.
Mar 18th, 2010 · Local Natives' "Airplanes" takes about four seconds to announce itself as the lighthearted romp it is; that's about how long it takes for the band to start booing its own piano player. As if reminding itself to perk up, "Airplanes" quickly self-corrects into a jaunty wonder, as its pleading chorus ("I want you back") hurtles along with something resembling school spirit.
Mar 15th, 2010 · U.S. and Afghan forces are continuing an offensive to clear insurgents from Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. But the most difficult part of the operation — paving the way for Afghans to take the reins and establish effective local governance — has only begun.
Mar 15th, 2010 · The Obama administration wants to completely change the No Child Left Behind law. Officials will send Congress a plan Monday they say will give states and local school districts more flexibility to revitalize primary and secondary schools.
Mar 15th, 2010 · The Obama administration wants to completely change the No Child Left Behind law. Officials will send Congress a plan Monday they say will give states and local school districts more flexibility to revitalize primary and secondary schools.