US engineers have identified a problem nobody had ever expected to confront so soon: the approach of the flooded internet, caused by worldwide sea level rise. Within 15 years seawater could be lapping over buried fibre optic cables in New York, Seattle, Miami and other US coastal cities, according to a new study.
The state's officially adopted target is 40 percent of its population having at least a four-year college degree, for another 40 percent having a two-year degree or a professional credential, and every Oregonian having at least a high school diploma. It's an ambitious goal, especially for a state with one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country and which bumps along toward the bottom of higher education spending.
On the heels of the presidential inauguration, an event is coming that will allow community members to show solidarity and share their support for those who may be most affected by this transition of power.
Chances are, if you went to school at Linfield College or Portland State University, you have a more debt than, say, someone who went to Reed College. The average student loan debt among the Class of 2015 nationally was $28,400.
It's advice generations of parents have given third-graders before a first performance on a field or in a recital. Hillary Clinton gets some old advice for her historic speech: Be yourself It's advice generations of parents have given third-graders before a first performance on a field or in a recital.