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BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — When Asa Hutchinson launches his bid for president this week, he'll do so at a familiar location: the downtown square in the northwest Arkansas city where he was born, practiced law and first ran for office. But Bentonville today is vastly different from the sleepy small town of fewer than 9,000 people where he got his start handling real estate cases and writing ...
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A dilapidated building on the National Register of Historic Places will be torn down as part of a wider $500 million redevelopment project planned for Kansas City’s West Bottoms. Last week, a city board signed off on plans to demolish the Ridenour-Baker Grocery Co. Building at 933 Mulberry St. That will kick off the first phase of New York-based developer SomeraRoad’s plans to revamp more than ...
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The University of Virginia Alumni Association's trust that provides grant funding to initiatives within the UVa community has announced a package of what it calls "flash grants" to help fun student-run projects. The Jefferson Trust announced earlier this week that it had awarded $96,350 to 14 projects. The grants are called flash grants because students who apply know within weeks if they have ...
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Originally published April 18 on IdahoCapitalSun.com. Idaho’s largest electricity provider is taking steps to provide clean energy resources for the next 20 years, with one of its recent projects expanding the state’s solar power usage. In January, Idaho Power began providing energy through the Jackpot Solar Project, a new solar facility based on 952 acres south of Twin Falls. Developed by ...
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