“Several people have told me lately that they’ve stopped being able to read, echoing my own experience,” author Katherine May confessed in her newsletter recently. Statistics suggest May and her ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Hunter discovered that if you recalibrate a course to prioritize “developing a ...

MINOT — With state lawmakers having imposed a new 3% cap on local spending growth, I don't think it's good policy any more for local governments to give away property tax revenues through abatements ...

A stunning report revealed that many university professors now find themselves teaching students who struggle to read, not just to interpret literature or write essays, but to understand basic text on ...

VALENCIA COUNTY, N.M. — Valencia County property owners will notice an adjusted property tax bill after an error in November caused an erroneous increase. The ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. To keep South Carolina seniors from losing their homes, state Senate leaders want to double a current property tax exemption and drop its age requirement to 60. The proposed property ...

Put down Wordle. New brain-exercise-for-the-day just dropped. “Can you read 900 words per minute?” a viral post that has been doing the rounds on X, challenges. “Try it.” If you made it to 600 words ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

Charlie DeLoach never intended to serve on a jury, let alone one deciding arguably the state’s highest-profile murder case. An educator who grew up in the Bromley Heath public housing development in J ...

“Accused: The Karen Read Story” purports to tell the story of Karen Read, who was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, motor vehicle homicide, and leaving the scene of a deadly crash after ...

For this week’s Ask An SEO, a reader asked: “Is there any difference between how AI systems handle JavaScript-rendered or interactively hidden content compared to traditional Google indexing? What ...

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