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1 week ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Dawn Kitterman |Elena Cox |Adina Dragos
America’s national parks welcome millions of visitors per year, some 331.9 million in 2024. And parks offer more than just scenery. The 63 American national parks are vital to conservation and local economies. The National Park Service (NPS) is responsible for the sites, from larger parks like Yosemite to smaller sites. However, the NPS heavily relies on funding from the federal government. Trump’s federal budget cuts included significant cuts to the Department of Interior, which oversees the NPS.
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1 week ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Dawn Kitterman |Elena Cox |Adina Dragos
SARASOTA — Playwright Nia Akilah Robinson won the 2020 Charles Rowan Beye New Play Commission at Urbanite Theatre in downtown Sarasota. The resulting work, From 145th to 98th Street, will debut at Urbanite Friday, May 30, at 7:30 p.m.Jackie and Cedric moved their family from the heart of Harlem to 98th Street to create better economic opportunities for their children.
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1 week ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Dawn Kitterman |Elena Cox |Adina Dragos
U.S. District Courthouse for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee. (Photo by Michael Moline/Florida Phoenix)Following years of legal wrangling, including a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, a federal judge said Tuesday that he remains flummoxed about what the Legislature meant to accomplish by trying to limit social media content moderation.
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1 week ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Dawn Kitterman |Elena Cox |Adina Dragos
SARASOTA — Rowlett Middle Academy students made a strong showing at the opening of Art 4 Change’s inaugural student art exhibition, May 3 at the Gaze Gallery at Arcos in Sarasota. Among 227 submissions from six local schools, Rowlett student Layla Quesenberry took home both First Place and the People’s Choice Award in the nonprofit’s 2nd Annual “A Better World Through Art” poster contest. Layla’s winning piece, Love, features hands signing the letters L-O-V-E in American Sign Language.
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1 week ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Dawn Kitterman |Elena Cox |Adina Dragos
Gov. Ron DeSantis, Senate President Ben Albritton, and House Speaker Daniel Perez stand in front of a joint session of the Florida Legislature to hear the governor's State of the State address on March 4, 2025. (Photo by Jay Waagmeester/Florida Phoenix)Florida Gov.
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1 week ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Dawn Kitterman |Elena Cox |Adina Dragos
Florida Channel screenshot of Gov. Ron DeSantis in Miami on May 6, 2025.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis praised legislation Tuesday (SB 700) that would make Florida the second state in the country to ban fluoride from its water supply. He hasn’t actually signed the legislation yet but promised to while in Miami, just hours after the Miami-Dade County Commission voted to override Mayor Daniela Levine-Cava’s veto of an ordinance banning fluoride in drinking water.
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1 week ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Dawn Kitterman |Elena Cox |Adina Dragos
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan.
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1 week ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Dawn Kitterman |Elena Cox |Adina Dragos
Prison officers stand guard at a cell block at maximum security penitentiary CECOT on April 4, 2025 in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador. (Photo by Alex Peña/Getty Images)BALTIMORE — A federal judge in Maryland Tuesday will for 48 hours pause her own order to require the federal government to facilitate the return of an asylum seeker mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, while the court waits for the Trump administration’s anticipated appeal of her decision.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
rentcafe.com | Adina Dragos |Alexandra Both |Veronica Grecu |Mihaela Buzec
If you find yourself struggling to find last-minute decor ideas, you might be burnt out from all the noise surrounding holiday decorations. As everyone chimes in with the latest trends and this season’s “must-haves”, decision fatigue can settle in fast. And especially as a renter, you might be surrounded by tricks that you cannot implement in a rental apartment. That’s why we reached out to expert interior designers to help cut through the clutter.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
rentcafe.com | Mihaela Buzec |Veronica Grecu |Alexandra Both |Adina Dragos
Dreaming of that perfect place to live? Look no further! After analyzing 139 U.S. metros and using 17 key metrics to assess factors like cost of living, access to lifestyle amenities, and community spirit, we believe we’ve found the ideal locations — and it all hinges on livability. But, what exactly is livability? Think of it as the combination of all of the reasons that make you happy to call a place home.
