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In southwest Detroit, nearly half of the adults lack a high school diploma and more than half of the kids live in poverty. Neighborhood programs help kids stay in school, be productive and learn job skills, but what’s the point if kids can’t get to those programs? Often there’s no one to drive them, no…

Up here in Seattle, it can be easy to take water for granted. But just a short flight south, the state of California is in the midst of a record drought. The shortage has prompted the state’s governor, Jerry Brown, to tell agencies such as the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, to lower their water…

After arriving at the Fort Collins brewery on a crisp Colorado morning, Austin Whitaker strolls past a bike rack filled with custom Fat Tire vintage bicycles, gifts he and his fellow coworkers received on their one-year anniversary working at New Belgium Brewing. Inside, the musky scent of fermenting yeast fills the air, and colorful picture…

It’s only now that the East Coast and Midwest are thawing out from a long winter punctuated by unprecedented snowfall and bone-chilling temperatures. But in the thick of it, weather conditions changed rapidly. Using AccuWeather’s detailed forecasting, Lowe’s was able to get its trucks out ahead of those challenging conditions and get much-needed storm- and…

Steffen Hake knows the long, gritty hours involved in running a successful dairy farm, a life that can mean climbing out of bed before dawn and working past sundown — but he has an edge that generations of farmers before him never had. “When I get up in the morning and put on my boots,…