Colorado College poll: Westerners favor public lands in feds' hands
52 percent of respondents approve of continuing drilling and mining at the current pace, but with increased safeguards for land and water — a view that significantly outweighs alternatives approaches, including increasing drilling and mining (10 …
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Colleges experiment with application alternatives
At the National Association for College Admission Counseling conference in October, I attended a session where admissions officers from several colleges talked about new approaches they are using in applications. While many colleges use application …
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Andrew Cuomo tries again to offer college to state prison inmates
His plan includes $ 50 million more for job apprenticeship programs, $ 100 million to turn failing schools into community schools, and expansions of reentry programs for former prisoners and alternatives to incarceration like drug treatment and …
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