Ananya Chetia

Nov 3, 2024 | cjr.org | Dhrumil Mehta |Sarah Gotfredsen |Ananya Chetia |Hazel Gandhi

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Just days ahead of the 2024 presidential election, local “news” network and progressive political campaign vehicle Courier Newsroom’s homepage featured an article outlining political ad spending in the final weeks ahead of polling day.

Oct 4, 2024 | india.mongabay.com | Ananya Chetia

Assam’s annual floods pose a challenge for students commuting to schools and cause damage to the school’s infrastructure. While residents and school staff have taken efforts to prevent disruptions in education for the students, resources are limited. Floods on average, affected over four lakh people each day throughout June and July 2024, in Assam. In 2017, when Bipin Dhane was asked to establish the first school for the Mising tribe in the river island of Majuli, Assam, he could not refuse.

Mar 8, 2024 | thecollegianur.com | Reeve Boeckmann |Ananya Chetia |Caitlin McCormack

Among thousands of voters waiting hours to watch former president Donald Trump speak at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, Erica Mazzella stood across the street from the convention, holding a cardboard sign that read ‘Abort Trump’ with ‘ACAB’ and ‘Free Palestine’ scrawled in small print along the sides. “One man said ‘you don't need to build a wall between us’ which I thought was hilarious,” Mazzella said.

Mar 6, 2024 | henricocitizen.com | Ananya Chetia

A bill that will establish Virginia’s first “green bank” passed 57-40 with bipartisan support in the House Monday. The bill, SB 729, creates the Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank, which is a government organization that speeds up clean energy projects through public funds, grants, loans and other financial methods, Kimberly McKay, legislative fiscal analyst for the committee said.

Feb 26, 2024 | henricocitizen.com | Ananya Chetia

The House passed an environmental literacy bill to provide Virginia schools the tools to educate students about climate change by a 53-46 vote on Feb. 13. The bill, HB 1088, passed along party lines. The bill directs Virginia’s Board of Education to have criterias on climate change and environmental literacy that are based on peer-reviewed scientific sources for local school boards in Virginia. Del. Betsy Carr (D-Richmond), who introduced the bill, said HB 1088 was inspired by John B.