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• How Milwaukee Shook Off the Rust – POLITICO Magazine

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• Senate hopeful Harrington aims to expand opportunity, fight income disparity – GazetteNET

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  Senate hopeful Harrington aims to expand opportunity, fight income disparity GazetteNET She also volunteers with programs to provide expanded educational opportunities for young people in Berkshire County: the Railroad Street Youth Project, the Crocus Fund and the Berkshire Academies' Mentors. And she serves on the Affordable Housing … and more »

• Jesse Ventura: The DEA has just been 'toying with us' on legalizing marijuana – CNBC

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• Sculley outlines annual spending plan – mySanAntonio.com

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  Sculley outlines annual spending plan mySanAntonio.com Under the spending proposal, local libraries are set to get about $3 million in additional funding while Animal Care Services' budget is poised to increase by $900,000, which will fund, among other things, more ACS officers, additional spay/neuter … and more »

• The missing ingredient in American infrastructure repair – The Hill (blog)

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• Sunburn for 8.17.16 — 13 days until Florida's primary elections – SaintPetersBlog (blog)

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• Patrick Murphy gets League of Conservation Voters endorsement – Florida Politics (blog)

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  Patrick Murphy gets League of Conservation Voters endorsement Florida Politics (blog) Murphy and LCV Action Fund Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Tiernan Sittenfeld spent much of the announcement, made in Palm Beach Gardens Tuesday, attacking Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's environmental … Environmentalists and … and more »

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• Sunburn for 8.16.16 — 14 days until Florida's primary elections – SaintPetersBlog (blog)

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• Solar ETF Gets Singed As Crumbling SunPower Adds To Industry Woes – Investor's Business Daily

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• What to do with coal workers? Retrain them for solar, says study – RenewEconomy

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  What to do with coal workers? Retrain them for solar, says study RenewEconomy As is the case in Australia, US solar jobs already outnumber jobs in the coal sector; Pearce and Louie note that as of November 2015, America's solar industry employed 208,859 solar workers, compared to roughly 150,000 jobs remaining in the domestic …

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• How US Solar Is Doing So Far This Year – And What The Industry Needs To Do Ahead – Solar Industry

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• What If All US Coal Workers Were Retrained to Work in Solar? – Harvard Business Review

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  What If All US Coal Workers Were Retrained to Work in Solar? Harvard Business Review Our study (published in the journal Energy Economics) quantified the costs and benefits of retraining coal workers for employment in the rapidly expanding solar photovoltaic industry—and it explores different ways to pay for this retraining. First …

• Can We Help the Losers in Climate Change? – MIT Technology Review

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• Primary: Four candidates seek two seats in Bennington 2-1 District – The Manchester Journal

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• California May Put Climate Plan to a Public Vote – Scientific American

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• California is first state to release its Clean Power Plan blueprint – Midwest Energy News

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• Swarthmore students, community groups bring solar energy to North Philadelphia – Philadelphia Public School Notebook

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  Swarthmore students, community groups bring solar energy to North Philadelphia Philadelphia Public School Notebook Crawford and Sanders were selected to receive training from Solar States through YouthBuild, a community-based program that provides education and job opportunities for at-risk youth. “The training was good,” said Crawford. “They give you paid training.

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• Clean Energy Groups See Opportunities in Clinton's Jobs Plan – Bloomberg BNA

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  Enthusiastic responses to PM Lee's invitation #InviteMeToNDR The Online Citizen “What would you do if you could be PM for 12 hours?” That was the question posed to launch a contest for citizens to attend this year's National Day Rally. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) is holding the social media … and more »

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• Greens demand widespread renewable retraining to "tap into energy potential" – CommonSpace

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