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VIDEO: Venezuelan-Native CEO Builds 115-Employee Engineering Firm

1 year 1 month ago
From 5 on Your Side: Lusnail Rondon Haberberger formed a family. Familia is their number one core value. It’s the foundation to her business called Luzco Technologies, a woman-owned boutique engineering company. “We do high powered designs for electrical facilities and its partners,” Haberberger explained. With her at the helm, her firm has flourished. For […]
Tom Finan

Raw data: The cost of disasters

1 year 1 month ago
As long as we're on the subject of disasters, here is NOAA's estimate of the cost of large disasters over the past half century: Both the number of big disasters per year and the cost per year have gone up about 6x since the '80s.
Kevin Drum

St. Louis' CITYPARK ranked among world's most stunning sports venues

1 year 1 month ago
ST. LOUIS - CITYPARK, the home field for Major League Soccer's St. Louis SC, has been named as one of the "World's Most Beautiful Sports Venues List 2024," according The honor was given by Prix Versailles, which releases a series of lists honoring the finest architectural projects across different venues worldwide. The list for the [...]
Nick Gladney

Disaster relief in Republican-land

1 year 1 month ago
Three weeks ago: Republicans in disaster-prone states, eager to present a united front during government funding talks, are shrugging off a disaster aid cliff — even as a storm barrels toward the Gulf Coast. ....“Disasters happen,” said Florida Republican Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, chair of the State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee, when asked about Johnson's continuing resolution.... ...continue reading "Disaster relief in Republican-land"
Kevin Drum

Governing after Hurricane Helene

1 year 1 month ago
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. We’re Jake Bittle and Ayurella Horn-Muller, two reporters here at Grist, and we’ve been traveling up and down the Gulf Coast of Florida over the past week reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which has devastated much of the Southeast and killed more than 100 people […]
Jake Bittle