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Downtown Austin Alliance to host Safety Forum Thursday

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:11:49 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Downtown Austin Alliance will host the Downtown Safety Forum on Thursday morning from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. The meeting will be held on Zoom, and people can register to attend online.According to the Alliance, Austin Police Lieutenant Zachary Lahood will speak about the Austin Police Department Real Time Crime Center and the High Activity Location Observation, or HALO safety camera system. Austin Police Commander Jeff Olson will provide an update on APD initiatives and downtown crime trends, the Alliance said. Bill Brice, Downtown Alliance Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, will give details about the number of people experiencing homelessness downtown in the month of July. At the July meeting, APD said it was working to crack down on open-air drug sales in downtown Austin.Police at the meeting said complaints of shoplifting, public drunkenness and people dealing drugs in alleys in the streets are what most people walking downt...

Georgetown ISD experiencing growing pains in country's fastest-growing city

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:11:49 GMT

GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) -- As the district with the unique distinction of serving the country's fastest-growing city, Georgetown ISD is racing to keep pace with its exploding student body population. However, in the words of Superintendent Dr. Devin Padavil, "there's no such thing as keeping up." NEXT: Set for School Thursday, the district with 13,155 students returns to school, facing new challenges related to growth, safety, and staffing. Padavil talked with KXAN ahead of the return about the district's plans for the upcoming school year. Tom Miller: Georgetown made headlines this year as the fastest-growing city in the country. As a school district, are you able to keep up with all of that growth in terms of having the [facilities] for the students?Devin Padavil: In terms of keeping up with the growth, Georgetown passed a 2021 bond that's going to take care of a lot of infrastructure issues. But there's no such thing as keeping up in Central Texas. So the need to keep up with ...

New community health center holds grand opening on St. Paul’s East Side

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:11:49 GMT

M Health Fairview held a grand opening Wednesday for Health Commons East — a new community health center on St. Paul’s East Side.The facility opened May 24. The M Health Fairview system and Augsburg University offer three similar programs in Minneapolis, the first of which was opened in 1992.The Conway Community Center at 2080 Conway St. hosts the walk-in clinic designed to remove barriers like insurance, transportation and language. All services are free and include blood pressure checks, medication management and vaccines.Per the request of residents, the health commons has started offering foot care after many insurance companies stopped providing the coverage, according to Nawal Hirsi, manager of community programs and initiatives at M Health Fairview.“The commitment of the organization is to the community,” Hirsi said. “St. Paul has one of the worst health disparities for people of color and there’s a lot of work to be done and we keep that a...

John Phelan: About those rankings …

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:11:49 GMT

When CNBC announced recently that they had ranked Minnesota fifth on their annual “America’s Top States for Business” ranking, the state’s media went wild. No less excited were our state’s political leaders, who have since been citing this and another CNBC ranking of fourth for “States to live and work in” as though they are incontrovertible facts. A closer look at these rankings suggests that the champagne should go back on ice.Any ranking of “America’s Top States for Business” ought to be somewhat correlated with business activity in the states. That is not the case for CNBCs ranking.Despite its ranking of fifth as a “Top State for Business” in 2023, Census Bureau data show that, in 2022, the number of new business applications in Minnesota declined by 6.2%, 37th (tied with Alabama) out of the 50 states and District of Columbia. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that, in 2022, the number of jobs in Minnesota increased by 2.8%, 39th (tied with Kansas) out of the 50 stat...

Four more new suburban restaurants (and one in Minneapolis) worth checking out

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:11:49 GMT

This season is a busy one for Twin Cities restaurants!Earlier this spring, we visited 10 great new restaurants around the metro, but even more fun neighborhood spots outside of St. Paul proper have opened since then.Here are five more new restaurants to check out this summer.Don Papi ChuloEnchiladas (left), beef birria torta sandwich (right) and Tony’s Fries with carne asada and queso (back), shown on Aug. 8, 2023, are all newer additions to the menu at Don Papi Chulo in Inver Grove Heights. The popular food truck expanded to a brick-and-mortar restaurant this summer. (Jared Kaufman / Pioneer Press)Popular South metro food truck Don Papi Chulo expanded to a permanent counter-service location in Inver Grove Heights this summer — and luckily, they kept their street-food sensibilities. The food truck menu was already quite extensive, and the brick-and-mortar kitchen has allowed them to branch out even more. So we figured we’d try some of the new additions.They’ve always offered a...

Minnesota boy named Grady takes a road trip to reunite with a giraffe named Grady

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:11:49 GMT

A milestone birthday can really make you think.As 13 approached, Grady Holton thought about a giraffe.Grady has a lot in common with this giraffe. Well, mostly one thing: The boy and the giraffe are both named Grady.“My giraffe twin,” Grady says.But could these “twins” reunite before the milestone?It was a birthday wish.This interspecies friendship began in Jacksonville, Florida.“My husband was in the military, and we were stationed down in Jacksonville,” says Grady’s mom, Lisa Holton. “We would go to the Jacksonville Zoo all the time.”Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens welcomed a baby giraffe in February 2013.“We found out when we were visiting that his name was Grady,” Holton says.This was big news for Grady the boy, who turned three that year.Grady Holton, then 4 years old, with Grady the giraffe, then 2 years old, at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida, in June 2015. (Courtesy of Lisa Holton.)̶...

98.3 TRY Social Dilemma: Would You Bill Your Family for Medical Advice?

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:11:49 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Today's 98.3 TRY Social Dilemma came from Jimmy and it's about family and advice. Here's his email: Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Hi Jaime I recently (about eight months ago) got remarried after my first wife passed away. My wife is a doctor...an internist to be specific. We dated for two years before we got married and my family was great with her. But, ever since we've gotten married, my family, and I mean, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, etc. all feel like they can call or email her with every single medical question under the sun. It doesn't happen once or twice. I mean, she's getting questions at least 3-4 times a week, anything from dealing with a bee sting, to an ache or pain someone has. I think my wife should start charging for consultations because it's gotten out of hand. I say $25 per question unless it's an emergency. That's still a lot cheaper than what they would pay their own docto...

5 things to know this Thursday, August 17

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:11:49 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Happy almost Friday! According to Meteorologist Jill Szwed, we'll have some warm and muggy temperatures under a mix of sun and clouds. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! A teenager died after a shooting in Fort Ann Wednesday evening, police said. The incident took place around 5:15 p.m. at an apartment building on Charles Street. Meanwhile, the FBI and Saratoga County Sheriff are investigating a case that involves tampering with a railroad track. These stories, and more, are covered in your five things to know this Thursday morning. 1. Teen killed in Fort Ann shootingA teenager has died after a shooting in Fort Ann Wednesday evening, police said. The incident took place around 5:15 p.m. at an apartment building on Charles Street.2. FBI investigating rail line tampering in CorinthThe FBI and Saratoga County Sheriff are investigating a case that involves tampering of a railroad track.3. 16-year-old charged ...

Ask Amy: Doctor’s husband quarantines from friend

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:11:49 GMT

Dear Amy: My wife is a doctor who, at the beginning of the pandemic, needed to be extremely cautious about her exposure to COVID.We asked our adult daughter, “Sarah,” to limit the circle of people she had personal contact with so we could still have in-person visits with her and our grandchildren, while protecting my wife’s patients.One day we saw a picture of Sarah on social media having cocktails unmasked and indoors at a mutual friend “Carrie’s” house.We informed both Sarah and Carrie that Sarah now had to quarantine for two weeks.We called Carrie to ask her to stop these invitations so that we could see our daughter.While we were on the phone with Carrie, she texted Sarah to invite her for cocktails that evening (Sarah was sitting next to us while we called)!My wife later told Carrie how angry we were.Carrie brushed this off and said my wife was being overly sensitive.A few weeks later, Carrie’s husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer. She promptly informed everyone how impor...

Reforming the Common European Asylum System 

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:11:49 GMT

The migratory pressure on Europe has exposed the need for a reform of the EU asylum system, as well as for greater sharing of responsibility between EU countries, Society.In recent years, people have been fleeing to Europe in large numbers from conflict, terror and persecution in their own countries. In 2022, EU countries received 966,000 asylum applications - almost double the number of applications in 2021. Irregular crossings also peaked last year, reaching around the highest number since 2016 and up 64% from 2021. The EU is reforming the Common European Asylum System to ensure that all EU countries take shared responsibility for asylum management.Read more about the EU response to the migrant challenge.Introducing responsibility-sharing with the new asylum and migration management regulationThe procedure for seeking refugee status is determined by the Dublin regulation, the single most important element of the Common European Asylum System. It determinS which EU country Is respo...