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CHOC Walk in the Park Raises Record-Breaking $3.9 Million to advance Children's Health in Orange County
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Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land could see $4M in renovations
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Springfield longstanding business to close this November after nearly 80 years
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City of Marshall moves forward with feasibility study to boost local business
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Staples Grocery aims to be a 'community hub' in Lucketts
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Need work, or maybe a health checkup? Visit this community fair in downtown Miami
In addition to job opportunities, attendees will also have access to health screenings and be able to renew their driver’s license.
Shelter-in-place lifted after shooting near Yale Health Center, police say
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2027 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 4
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Sister-owned concierge business celebrates 5 years in New Braunfels
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Urbanowski: The arts are more than entertainment — they are essential to community health
November is Arts & Health Month, which was created to celebrate and increase momentum for the growing field of arts and health around the world.
Urbanowski: The arts are more than entertainment — they are essential to community health
November is Arts & Health Month, which was created to celebrate and increase momentum for the growing field of arts and health around the world.
Pulse of Philanthropy: The Business of Being a Nonprofit
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Bradbury Science Museum Presents ‘Night With A Nerd: Neuromorphic Artificial Intelligence Wednesday Nov. 4.
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Benson names business execs, community leaders to transition team
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New Latino Democrats Group Aims to Build Political Power Across Five Boroughs
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Fidel Estrada Jr., East Austin business owner and community elder, dies at 90
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CB2 MEETING: Community Board 2 has scheduled a Regular Monthly Meeting and Public Hearing of the Full Board: Thursday, November 5, 2026, 6:30 P.M., at Sunnyside Community Services, 43-31 39th Street, Ground Floor, Sunnyside. CB6 MEETING: Community Board 6 Meeting Notice: Thursday, November 12, 2026 at Queens Borough Hall, Helen Marshall Cultural Center, 120-55
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Berks Nature to Launch New Mental Health Effort
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Brenda Lucas: Community news for Wednesday, Nov. 4
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Star Health's Arogya Seva Kendra clinics cross 1.8+ lakh beneficiary visits within a year of their inception, bringing free primary healthcare to communities across 9 states
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AFGHS co-signatory countries ask health care users to help fill the financing gap
Hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV on antiretrovirals could be targeted for user fees or community health insurance schemes requiring modest premium payments, according to the April 2026 version of the country’s America First Global Health Strategy implementation narrative.1 As part of the “sustainable financing for the private not for profit sector” strategy, 491 facilities will be targeted for a phased introduction of user fees and scale up of community health insurance programs.2 In the Ugandan context, PNFP facilities include faith-based hospitals and other health facilities, US missionary organizations and centers of excellence—services that are often co-located at government facilities but run with additional financial and technical resources. 402,000 people—or about 28 percent of the total Ugandan adult PLHIV population on treatment—get ART from the private not for profit sector. The selected facilities provide the majority of ART and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services. The plan doesn’t give the total number of clients served by the 491 facilities, so it is not possible to give a precise number. But the majority of 402,000 is a figure in the hundreds of thousands—hence the estimate I’m using.3 The April draft of the Ugandan implementation plan narrative is the only one I’ve been able to review. But the government of Uganda is not alone in turning to health care users to help fill the financing gaps caused by the abrupt withdrawal of US funds. In July 2025, the Government of Liberia introduced user fees for previously free services including “registration, accommodation, patient feeding, hospitalization, and a wide range of surgical and diagnostic procedures.”4 Earlier that year, Liberia rolled out a revolving drug fund designed to stabilize drug supplies by “allowing patients to pay a small fee for standardized, quality medications,” according to a Ministry of Health press release.5 (Both of these approaches had been proposed in the National Health Policy 2022-2031; media coverage explicitly connects the launch with the US foreign aid cuts.) The health financing strategies proposed by Uganda and established in Liberia are qualitatively different from user fees officially adopted by specific health facilities to cover funding shortfalls caused by the new US approach.6 The latter is a stopgap, adhoc change. The former is a national governmental adoption of policies that pass costs on to health care users, despite evidence that such approaches can exacerbate inequities and leave deficits unfilled. Two countries does not make a pattern, but they do point to urgent questions: Have other countries, including Liberia, included user fees or community health insurance schemes in their implementation plans? If so, do any of these narratives have what Uganda’s lacks: a fall-back plan in place in case these strategies for sustainable health systems fail to deliver—as they have before? I wonder if you think about it Subscribe Predictable pitfalls Both community-based health insurance and user fees are as old as the hills. And after decades of people climbing up these hills, duking it out, climbing back down—neither strategy has shown the results the Ugandan implementation plan is counting on. This is, in fact, a hill some folks are willing to die on. (You knew I’d get there, right?) In November 2025, an African-led team of health system experts published a paper directed at low- and middle income country governments trying to figure out how to create self-sustaining health systems. The money wasn’t coming back. It had been more than nine months since the season of freezing, waivering and wood-chippering; two months since AFGHS tumbled into the world touting co-financing requirements and reductions in future US government health aid. Governments were looking for strategies for sustainable, self-financed health systems, the authors wrote. For countries considering user fees and community health insurance to fill the financing gaps, they had a simple message: Don’t. On user fees, the paper states: “Reliance on user fees is ultimately a regressive and inequitable approach. It places a disproportionate burden on the poor and undermines health system goals of equity and financial protection. […] There is overwhelming evidence that user fees mobilise very limited resources for the public health sector, making it an inefficient mechanism for revenue mobilisation.” On community health insurance: “Attempting to shift the burden of funding previously donor-funded services, such as HIV care and management, and TB treatment, onto contributory schemes would exacerbate their fragility and fail to protect the population.”7 The WHO says that community-based health insurance “cannot be expected to provide a major source of funding or coverage,” and noted that most schemes offer only moderate benefit to individuals paying into them, and exclude the poorest segment of the population.8 And yet, the US-Ugandan implementation plan says that community health insurance is “the central pillar of this [PNFP] sustainability strategy” and that this approach that will generate “pre-paid pooled funding at facility and community level [that] improves financial risk protection for households, reduces catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure, and generates structured, transparent revenue streams that can progressively absorb recurrent costs including health worker salaries.” Unfortunately, Uganda’s own history suggests the pillar might not be able to bear this weight. Ugandans Have Been to this Rodeo Before—and Some Want Their Money Back Uganda introduced its first community health insurance scheme in 1996 with support from international donors.9 Thirty years later, somewhere between 0.2 and 0.3 percent of the population is covered by CHI; just over 1 percent has any kind of health insurance.10 User fees were universally introduced in 1993 as a condition of a World Bank loan.11 They were abandoned in 2001, and in 2004—the year I moved to Uganda to watch the free HIV program get underway—a definitive study found that the fees did not improve health systems and outcomes.12 In 2004, most clinics and hospitals had ‘free’ and ‘fee for service’ options for getting care.13 The fee for service, or “cash and carry” programs had often been established in the years prior to PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. People who could afford to paid for the drugs, often at facilities in the private-not-for-profit (PNFP) sector. When free drugs arrived, some people who’d been paying kept on doing so, perhaps because of shorter wait times, greater confidentiality, convenience or other factors. But in the year that I spent visiting the same clinics around the country week after week—including a “center of excellence” that maintained separate days for cash and carry clients and those accessing free ARVs—lots of people who had been paying tried to switch to the free option. They’d paid because they had no other choice. They’d sold pieces of family land, begged family members for loans, bought pills by the week, and sometimes by the day. Or they were just cash-strapped, like most of us, and wanted the funds for other things. 14 Twenty-two years later, this hasn’t changed. Ugandans pay out of pocket for 30-40 percent of their health care costs, leading one paper to declare that “falling ill is more than a health crisis. It is a financial emergency.”15 One recent study found that up to 48.5 percent of households dealing with tuberculosis sold something, took out a loan or dug into savings to defray the costs of TB care—which is supposed to be universally free.16 The Ugandan implementation plan does anticipate challenges. It proposes a phased approach, with 187 facilities introducing user contribution systems in Year 1, 152 in Year 2, and 153 in Year 3. Willingness to pay and feasibility studies will precede roll out; fees will be tiered by region, and a waiver system is proposed to ensure that no one has to pay who is unable to. Moreover, the plan provides for quarterly reviews of epidemiological data to “ensure that user contributions do not compromise epidemic control gains, ART continuity for the client cohort, TB case management, or PMTCT services.” Alt text: A screenshot of a table included in the implementation plan narrative that is the subject of this stack. It’s got a fetching pink bar at the top. It uses the abbreviation “CHI” which is Community Health Insurance, and FBO which is Faith Based Organizations, and it details the number of facilities that will implement user fees with waivers and community health insurance schemes over the five years of the agreement. As I said in the footnote, this is a super interesting document with a lot of other rich material. Tell me what you see—and what you would have focused on. And if you’ve seen something like this, or anything else that strikes you, in another implementation plan, tell me that too. You can use the Substack message platform or try me on Signal at @endaplague_again.25 (because @mercoonfan was, weirdly, taken). But the plan doesn’t fully explain what will happen if this approach doesn’t work out. Yes, progress will be monitored, and corrective action triggered. However, there is no specified funding replacement if premium and fee revenue prove inadequate. Instead, the authors write, “Currently, COEs serve a total client cohort of over 180,000 across 28 facilities. In the initial years, the U.S. Government (USG) will provide financial support for clients; over time, user fees generated by COEs will become the primary source of funding for sustaining their services.” Failure does not really seem to be an option. Health insurance schemes are more acceptable to the Ugandan population than user fees. Members of Parliament and civil society traveled to Ethiopia to see how that country’s scheme worked. In a follow up report, a veteran civil society group recommended allowing the “health insurance ecosystem to grow organically and [to] keep reviewing the law and regulations as this growth takes root.”17 One study found that more than three-quarters of Ugandans were willing to join a health insurance program.18 However, coverage of community-based health insurance is minimal, as is coverage of any kind of insurance—including private plans.19 A national health insurance scheme bill has been stalled for several years and presently sits with President Yoweri Museveni.20 Community-based health insurance scheme that do exist are expanding in number, but losing enrollees. Between 2022 and 2026, the number of community-based health financing schemes across the country increased by 42 percent, while the number of people enrolled decreased by nearly 11 percent.21 None of this means that community-based health insurance should not happen in Uganda—or that people do not want insurance. It doesn’t even mean that user fees and waivers won’t ever work. But there is highly relevant evidence from Uganda and the surrounding region that it is quite optimistic to describe community health insurance and user fees as central supports for sustainable financing in any sector of the health system. And now for the best-case scenario In the best-case scenario22, the Ugandan approach does exactly what it sets out to do, and so does the Liberian fee structure and revolving pharmacy fund—though I’ve not confirmed that these are in the MoU. In one best-case scenario, Uganda is an outlier, and user fees and community health insurance are not recurrent pillars of self-sustaining financing in other countries’ implementation plans. In another best-case scenario, all countries that include these strategies enjoy success beyond anyone’s evidence-informed wildest dreams: reliable funding generated by health care users fees, great health care outcomes for everyone, no exacerbation of inequities, no crippling household debt. No sold land, repurposed school tuition or high-interest loans. In the best-case scenario, not one of the hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV receiving antiretrovirals from 491 PNFP facilities misses a refill or leaves care because of user fees or community health insurance premiums. This is the best-case scenario for these people for their own health, and for their families. It is also the best-case scenario if Uganda wants to stay on the path to eliminating HIV as a public health threat. According to the country’s most recent data, 96.5 percent of people living with HIV on antiretrovirals are virologically suppressed. Epidemic control depends ensuring that 95% of people living with HIV know their status, 95 percent of those individuals are on ART, and 95% of those individuals are virologically suppressed. Uganda is still struggling with the first “95"—a frankly abysmal 85.3 percent. If HIV epidemic control and the attendant prevention of new infections, avoidable suffering and premature death matter, the country cannot afford to lose any clients who are currently in care.23 As I write this a couple hours before the polls close for the US elections in the city I live in, I say with soul-deep sincerity: I am rooting for the best-case scenario. I think it’s safe to say that we all are.24 I think it’s also safe to say that if the US and co-signatory governments have inked plans that lead to successful expansion of community health insurance and strategic use of user fees, we all would like to know, now, so that we don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate when success happens. The implementation plan narratives have to enter the public domain. They are the fullest expression of a strategy co-created by two governments. There are assumptions and details that people living in the US and co-signatory countries need to understand that are not available in the MoUs or, to date, in the Congressional Notifications. Some of these details can help other countries that are, as I write this, still working on implementation plans. Others, like a solid count of how many other countries have plans for expanding user fees or health insurance, are important for regional and global health architecture reform initiatives. No matter how this election night turns out, there will be a slew of new Congressional member orientations, briefings and talking points papers in the next few months. Release of implementation narratives should be a bullet point in every context that AFGHS is discussed. These documents can be redacted so that procurement sensitive information isn’t disclosed. There is much more historical precedent for sharing such documents than there is for relying on user fees to fill health financing gaps. Let’s look at the information together so we can hope for the best and prepare for, you know, the other thing. Alt text: A substack first: a bicep selfie! It’s my arm - peachy-white skin, black shirt (flannel, notch neck, too hot for this appallingly balmy November weather, if you’re wondering) and a sticker that says I VOTED 2026. Beige letters on red for I voted. Beige on blue for 2026. You bet I did.25 In your wildest dreams. Subscribe 1 This is a really, really rich 95 page document. There are fascinating ideas and detailed plans in it. It is all worth reading AND I have, in this post, highlighted an instance of content that could pose challenges and certainly posits success of strategies that haven’t worked before. I would love to hear what readers’ see that’s interesting and should be lifted up as something to check for in other implementation plans. I will also shortly be adding a static page to the substack site where implementation plan documents will live. I will put the url into this footnote and it will also be there on emilybass.substack.com by the end of the week. Uganda Implementation Narrative Section 4 April 22 2026 Draft 1.51MB ∙ PDF file Download Download 2 User fees are costs charged for visits, labs, medicines or other health services, usually at the time they are provided. Community health insurance, or community-based health insurance, is what the World Health Organization calls “micro insurance,” which is health insurance targeted at low-income people. 3 As usual (by which I mean always), please prove me wrong. 4 https://smartnewsliberia.com/liberias-ministry-of-health-announces-2025-hospital-service-fees-for-public-facilities/?utm 5 https://moh.gov.lr/news/2025/grand-cape-mount-leaders-residents-embrace-new-community-pharmacy-program/?utm 6 https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/09/hiv-usaid-pepfar-africa-foreign-aid-cuts-mission-hospitals/?utm 7 https://gh.bmj.com/content/10/11/e021270 8 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/community-based-health-insurance-CBHI 9 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2827475/ 10 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861328/#b3-jpmph-23-110 11 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC527704/ 12 Same citation as the footnote 2 - the article is called “Learning from failed health care reform in Uganda.” To which I say: If only. If. Only. 13 There is a whole taxonomy of user fees to be aware of, if not commit to memory. Out of pocket costs are everything that someone pays for themselves. In this Stack, user fees are planned and policy-supported out of pocket costs. There are also out of pocket costs that people pay to buy drugs or receive tests or health care assessments that would be free if the drugs were on the shelves, or the machines or kits were available, or the staff were on site. A user fee is usually designed to be modest, pegged to willingness to pay, and may be waiveable at the point of care for anyone who is unable to do so. The costs for things that would otherwise be free are whatever the market will bear and people either have to pay them or go without. Out of pocket costs for services and stuff that aren’t available in public facilities are different again from bribes or unofficial fees that some health workers may impose, even though most are indefatigable, tireless and tired, and devoted to their clients. 14 For the record—which really is these footnotes—I would give a whole stack of fridge magnets for a systematic analysis of the economic and social impact of the Mass Unemployment Event in AFGHS countries among the very people who used to be able to afford and cover user fees, both for themselves and vast family networks. Locally employed USAID technical staff, house cleaners, caregivers, drivers and technicians were financial anchors for cousins, friends, friends’ children, friends’ childrens’ cousins, teachers, pastors, neighbors and so many other kinds of kin. Aid recipients lost direct funding; many other people who had not been aid recipients, but parts of the elaborate care webs that function as safety nets for so many people, lost crucial support too. And that’s even before we get to the people who worked at the hotels and restaurants and bars where people employed by the US and its implementing partners used to spend disposable income. Those businesses have lost revenue; those folks have lost jobs. It will be some time coming—and someone will have to fund this work—but I do hope it happens. And I hope, as usual, to be proven wrong. 15 https://eprcug.org/blog/how-out-of-pocket-healthcare-costs-keep-driving-ugandans-into-poverty/ 16 Another straight-to-the-point journal article title. Households experiencing catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis in Uganda: magnitude and cost drivers. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32938411 17 https://www.cehurd.org/download/technical-policy-brief-on-community-health-insurance-scheme/?wpdmdl=13661&refresh=6ae9122f5d4ed1793659439 18 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10125197/ 19 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861328/#b3-jpmph-23-110 20 https://ugandapost.news/uganda-to-make-health-insurance-mandatory-by-2026/ 21 https://shu.org.ug/download/235 22 With a nod, tip of the stack hat, and wag of the Mercoon tail to a deeply valued reader who told me that I have a tendency to speculate about the worst-case scenarios a little too much of the time. 23 https://news.mak.ac.ug/2026/10/uphia-2025-shows-ugandas-hiv-status-awareness-gap-despite-strong-treatment-outcomes/ As you’ll see in the next footnote, I’ve already written a subSubstack on another topic, so I will be brief with regard to the study referenced in this article. The Uganda Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment, or UPHIA, will never happen in this way again. For more than a decade, PHIAs have been supported by the US government as a way to generate accurate estimates of country progress on key HIV indicators. They are a holdover from the PEPFAR program that was laser focused on ensuring US taxpayer dollars subsidized progress in pandemic control. There may be other population-level surveys and the data may even be publicly released, as the entire set of FY2026 MER data have not. But PHIAs will never happen again. If you’re wondering whether the estimates of HIV progress at country level might get less reliable….you’re not alone. 24 Ooh baby, I hate “we” in almost all forms. But sometimes I go there, when I am looking for company, which I am. Because this Stack moves into the somewhat-uncharted territory of assessing what the implementation plan narratives may suggest about co-signatory countries’ roles and responsibilities to the people living within their borders. The MoUs, specimen and data sharing agreements were templates. Countries’ answers fit into pre-specified questions that did not include, “how are you going to fill financing gaps and stabilize your health system as this plan unfolds?” In contrast, the implementation narratives are open form—the product of co-creation between the two governments. Co-creation can mean lots of things, but nothing leads me to believe that implementation plans are ghost-written by the US government, or that contents were imposed by the US counterparts. Instead, I think the parts of the plans that read like country government initiatives are endorsed, if not initiated by, those governments. For instance, the Ugandan implementation plan narrative describes plans for revenue-generation through fees charged for equipment calibration, repair and maintenance provided through Uganda’s National Equipment Calibration Laboratory, and laboratory accreditation through the Uganda National Accreditation Service (UGANAS), targeting private sector, PNFP, research and academic clients. That’s super specific and also quite ambitious. It doesn’t read like an American idea. There’s also a provision for solar panels, and other stuff that feels country owned and driven. This is where it gets interesting. If co-creation is the case, then both the US and co-signatory governments are accountable for the contents and the outcomes. Most discourse about AFGHS to date has focused on the decisions that America has made, or demanded that other countries make. The AFGHS architects have monopolized the hot seat. As they should, in so many ways. America absolutely created the conditions under which countries needed to come up with health financing strategies to fill unanticipated, catastrophic funding gaps. And with not-too-long a lens, we can look back and see that America is also on the hook for its role in the Bretton Woods institutions that made user fees and health system fiscal austerity conditions of loans during the era of structural adjustment. But in the here and now, it is not at all clear to me that the US is requiring Uganda or any other country to implement specific approaches to sustainable financing. Instead, it is as the authors of that paper up in footnote 6 suggest: African governments have agency. As implementation plans roll out—whether or not the narratives are shared—it will be important to understand what this agency looks like and what it means for people, including the poorest of the poor. And it will be important to figure out how to talk about it safely, respectfully and critically in places other than the literal and metaphorical footnotes. 25 This week’s song is “Once upon a time” by the Moody Blues. (I know, this is gonna be a weird, largely banger-free end of 2026 playlist. HMU with requests.) AND please do watch the video and appreciate the truly amazing opening sequence—a drum kit wasteland, a coupla plastic bags, a bit of sand. Sort of like the hill where fiscal austerity policies that put costs on health care users might go to perish. But then there’s a lady with amazing hair. It’s worth it.
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The Community Health Foundation executive director addressed the Montgomery County Commission Monday on the 230-acre donation.
Columbus Library to host program on women in science
COLUMBUS—Columbus Library will host a program exploring the contributions of women in science on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 4 p.m. The program will feature Madame Perry, the Victorian-era, steampunk persona […]
Prop. 44: Voters decide on spending restrictions for healthcare clinics
Proposition 44, placed on the ballot by the SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West union, would require California’s community health clinics to spend at least 90% of their annual revenue on patient care or pay fines to the state.
California voters will decide Prop. 44, which would regulate community health clinic spending on program services
California voters are deciding on Proposition 44, which would regulate how much community health clinics spend on program services.
John Wood brings community spirit to Coastal North Theatre's second production
When the lights come up on opening night of Coastal North Theatre’s second ever production Thursday, Nov. 5, there will be more than actors, sets and props on the stage. There will be a community.
DAV Patriot Boot Camp helps Veteran entrepreneurs build businesses and community
DAV Patriot Boot Camp helps Veterans and military spouses build businesses through training, mentorship and lasting connections to a supportive community.
TDMHSAS Announces Expansion of Rural Mental Health Projects with New Grant
TDMHSAS and its contracted community mental health partners are excited to expand mental health and wellness services across rural Tennessee with a new federal grant. The department is receiving $10 million over the next five years through the Promoting Integration of Primary and Behavioral Health Care program.
New York health officials report 1st measles death in 3 decades
The New York State Department of Health and Lewis County Public Health yesterday reported the first known measles-associated death in New York State in more than 30 years. State health officials state: “The Department has offered resources to Lewis County to assist with community outreach and support local vaccination efforts – both in response to this c…
Brenda Lucas: Community news for Tuesday, Nov. 3
Click for community news in the Huntington, West Virginia, and Tri-State area.
The Lyric hosts monthly storytelling open mic focused on live entertainment, community confidence
On the first Thursday of every month, a similar scene plays out in The Lyric: a microphone positioned at the front of the Tiki Lounge, a wall of skulls on one end and faux foliage on the other. For the Oct. 1 event, a woman stepped on stage and pulled a piece of paper from...
CHI Health offering personalized ‘Tree of Love’ ornaments to benefit central Nebraska hospital foundations
Community members in Kearney and Grand Island can honor loved ones while giving back to local healthcare initiatives this holiday season through CHI Health’s annual Tree of Love.
From Detroit to Warsaw: Was NATO enlargement driven by US electoral politics?
In October 1996, Bill Clinton announced in Detroit his commitment to expanding NATO into Central and Eastern Europe. With its large Polish-American community, the city was no accidental choice. In this conversation with Marc López Plana, Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro explains to the editor and director of 'Agenda Pública' how US electoral calculations helped shape a decision that would transform European security.
C2C helps students turn passion into business ventures
The Campus to Community (C2C) student fund program, created by the Center for Student Entrepreneurship (CSE), is designed to help student entrepreneurs take the step from a campus-supported business to a community venture. Students have the opportunity to pitch to receive up to $10,000 in non-equity grant funding. Six student entrepreneurs were selected for the...
Inaugural ROC Startup Week celebrates Rochester's entrepreneurs and small businesses
Rochester's startup community came together Monday night to kick off the inaugural ROC Startup Week, a six-day celebration of local entrepreneurs, small businesses and innovation.
Adam Robinson's tragic Florida Learjet crash shakes the tech community
Tech founder Adam Robinson, 45, died in a Learjet crash in Florida on Sunday. Robinson's bootstrapping philosophy inspired many entrepreneurs.
After 50+ years, beloved business owner retiring
Victoria Kelley, owner of Tory's Jewelry on Washington Street is retiring. Tory's Jewelry is one of Marblehead's longest-running businesses. "I’ve made the decision to retire!" Kelley announced on Instagram Nov. 2. "Owning Tory’s Jewelry and being part of the Marblehead community has been a special piece of my life. Over the years I’ve had the
Golden Demon 2026 – SPIEL Essen Finalists, Part One
See loads of awesome miniatures that earned Finalist pins.
Salina Science Event to Feature Astronaut
A NASAS Astronaut who piloted the Space Shuttle Columbia will host an event in Salina. Students, families, and community members are invited to experience the excitement of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics at Liftoff to STEAM, a free community event taking place Saturday, November 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the campus […]
MSAVHCC 10th annual Business and Community Award Gala
The gala is held in honor of Hispanic businesses and their impact across Coastal Georgia; it's their tenth annual gala. It will be held on Nov. 7.
Health officials push MMR vaccine amid Chippewa County Measles outbreak
Chippewa County health officials are urging residents to verify their immunity status and get vaccinated as a local measles outbreak reaches 33 confirmed cases, with ongoing community spread prompting heightened public health measures.
Community Corner—Tubman Center for Health and Freedom
Community Corner highlights the work of Seattle Human Services’ community partners in their own words. Our goal is to gather stories and photos that illustrate their amazing work on behalf of the people of Seattle. This post focuses on the Tubman Center for Health and Freedom, a multifaceted healthcare system designed specifically to meet the […]
Entertainment This Week with Correspondent Mike Marra
Airdate: November 2nd, 2026 County Administrator Mike Overton with Energy Projects UpdateNovember 2, 2026New Listings from ERA Reardon’s Jenna ChmielewskiNovember 2, 2026ARTitude Holiday Market Returns at New VenueNovember 2, 2026Entertainment This Week with Correspondent Mike MarraNovember 2, 2026Commonwealth Commerce Center Hosting Hunting Widow’s Bingo NightNovember 2, 2026MLK-CIA Announces Community Charette for Proposed Mixed-Use Development ProjectNovember…
Mayor Sarno attends the Continuing the Legacy of Care Baystate Mercy Health Event
Mayor Domenic J. Sarno joined, brought greetings and thanks with President and CEO of Baystate Health Peter Banko, President and Chief Operating Officer Andrew Ritz, State Senator Adam Gomez and State Representative Carlos Gonzales, among dozens of elected officials, board of trustees’ members, staff, and community supporters for the Continuing the Legacy of Care Baystate Mercy Health Event. Mayor Sarno states, “With the Baystate Mercy Merger that happened this weekend, I looked forward to joining with community stakeholders, local leaders, and team members as Baystate Health and Mercy reflect on their commitment to building a thriving and growing Baystate Mercy Hospital. Right from the beginning of Trinity’s abandonment of Mercy Hospital, I and my colleagues in government were adamant and steadfast in our assistance efforts to make sure that we had two quality hospitals for Springfield and Western Massachusetts. I once again commend Baystate Health President and CEO Peter Banko and his team for stepping up to make this come to fruition.”
AAPI organizations highlighting important midterm election issues for community
Members are highlighting important issues
Midterm election impact on small business owners
Owners of Lit Coffee Roastery & Bakeshop, Action Wheels Bike Shop and Crewy Woo said their futures are on the ballot this midterm season.
In an Alaska fishing community, the Dan Sullivan episode takes an ominous turn
In Petersburg, Alaska, nobody has seen Dan J. Sullivan for weeks. Sullivan's rustic home stood dark a day after FBI agents paid a visit to friends who donated to his campaign to unseat the Republican senator with the same first and last name.
As AI solves complex maths puzzles, mathematicians face uncertain future
How the technology will affect a field known as most difficult discipline of all has sparked heated discussions in mathematical community.
Fayetteville PWC to host Veterans Business Expo Nov. 12
The Fayetteville Public Works Commission (PWC) will host a Veterans Business Expo on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at PWC's Main Operations Complex, located at 955 Old Wilmington Road in Fayetteville. The event will provide Veteran-owned businesses with an opportunity to showcase their products and services directly to government entities, public agencies, contractors and resource partners. The expo is designed to encourage networking, strengthen business relationships and connect Veteran entrepreneurs with potential opportunities for growth and collaboration. The Veterans Business Expo reflects PWC's ongoing commitment to supporting local businesses, fostering economic development and creating opportunities for businesses throughout the Fayetteville and Cumberland County community. The event is being promoted in collaboration with the Veterans Business Outreach Center at FSU (VBOC) and the Fayetteville-Cumberland Regional Entrepreneur & Business HUB.
When you invest in the Seymour Center, you create scientists like Ellie
My name is Ellie Giles, and I’m a sophomore in the Marine Studies program at Oregon State University. The Seymour Center has been so many things to me: a community, a place of discovery, and even a second home. I still remember my first field trip there in second grade, being instantly drawn to the […]
Brownsville BCIC Earns Four International Economic Development Awards
The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation received four 2026 Excellence in Economic Development Awards from the International Economic Development Council, recognizing its strategic planning, community grants, public reporting, and business education programs, BCIC announced Aug. 20.
Families flood downtown Lodi for annual Business Trick or Treat
Lodi area families suited up in their costumes, grabbed the biggest buckets they could find, and headed to Main Street for some candy and community building on Friday, Oct. 30.
Pulte eyes Beachwood for new 73-home, single-family community
Pulte Homes plans new housing development in Beachwood called Founders Reserve.
The Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign Returns
The Salvation Army invites the community to Give With Joy this Christmas season as its iconic Red Kettle Campaign returns to McAllen. More than just a holiday tradition, the red kettle is a symbol of hope, compassion and generosity—supporting vital programs that serve thousands of individuals and families in need throughout the year.
Business Beyond the Beach: The Miami Foundation & Give Miami Day
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Host Brittnie Bassant sits down with Jocelyn Noya Quintana, Chief Marketing Officer, and Laurel Woloszyn, Philanthropy Director, from The Miami Foundation to discuss their work strengthening the community and the impact of philanthropy across South Florida. They also highlight Give Miami Day, Miami’s biggest annual giving event, and how […]
SF Giants Community: Congrats Valkyries!
The Golden State Valkyries are your 2026 WNBA Champs!
How might women be reintroduced into the science community they helped create?
Experts explore how female STEM experts can be reintroduced into the conversation after decades and even centuries of being omitted.
Inside The Loop with Christian Perry: Perspectives on Power, Politics, and Progress in Chicago
Op-Ed: Black Political Leadership is The Key to Success for the Left’s Longterm Electoral Project Christian Perry is a community organizer, leadership strategist, and political operative from the Southside of Chicago who serves as Campaign Manager for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s re-election campaign Photo/Associated Press Democrats have spent decades asking Black voters to save the party. […]
Henrico Business in Brief: Nov. 2, 2026
Weekly news and notes from the Henrico business community. Sarah Payne has joined Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer’s corporate accounting team as a senior financial analyst, the Henrico-based firm announced Oct. 26. Payne previously worked as a financial analyst for the Virginia Department of Health. Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announced Oct.
Dead By Daylight Faces Backlash Over Free Skins For BurntPeanut
The developers say a community manager acted without authorization
Baptist Health adds two Jacksonville-area pediatric practices
Baptist Health has added two Jacksonville-area pediatric practices to its network, connecting community-based care with services at Wolfson Children’s Hospital.
Knox Community Hospital to join Kettering Health
KCH said the decision followed months of evaluation, including more than 800 hours of onsite and virtual meetings.
Intel "Larrabee" GPU System Surfaces with Working Drivers
Recovered drivers have reportedly restored 3D acceleration to an Intel "Larrabee" prototype, offering the community a rare chance to test the company's abandoned graphics project. Reddit user "pkellythompson" discovered the hardware in equipment purchased at a storage auction, along with two USB...
Explore events for small businesses across Pa. during Global Entrepreneurship Week at Penn State
Global Entrepreneurship Week Penn State will bring entrepreneurs, business owners, students and community members together through events across central Pennsylvania and the commonwealth, offering networking, workshops and opportunities to connect with local businesses and entrepreneurial resources.
Poll flashes warning signs for Republicans in 7 battleground Senate races
Senate polls show Democrats leading in Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Maine and Alaska, with Trump's approval at just 38% across the seven battlegrounds.
Shook Construction celebrates 100 years of building community
Over the decades, the construction company has delivered some of its most significant work across Northeast Ohio. Philanthropy also is central to the business.
Protect yourself and our community with a flu shot
A Tallahassee doctor explains why getting an annual flu shot is the best way to protect yourself and your community.
PRG PROJECTS OPENS NEW LONDON STUDIO TO COLLABORATE WITH LIVE ENTERTAINMENT'S CREATIVE COMMUNITY
PRG Projects, part of global entertainment technology company PRG (Production Resource Group), today announced the opening of Project Studio, a new collaborative space in central London that expands the company's custom engineering and technology integration capabilities, bringing its technical expertise closer to the creative teams shaping the future of live entertainment.
PRG PROJECTS OPENS NEW LONDON STUDIO TO COLLABORATE WITH LIVE ENTERTAINMENT'S CREATIVE COMMUNITY
/PRNewswire/ -- PRG Projects, part of global entertainment technology company PRG (Production Resource Group), today announced the opening of Project Studio, a...
Brenda Lucas: Community news for Monday, Nov. 2
Click for community news in the Huntington, West Virginia, and Tri-State area.
Dead by Daylight Devs Apologize After TheBurntPeanut Stream Stirs Controversy in Its Community
Behaviour Interactive has responded after what appeared to be a Dead by Daylight collaboration with controversial streamer TheBurntPeanut caused backlash in its community.
Sony Issues Yet Another PS5 Firmware Update as Jailbreak Whac-a-Mole Continues Ahead of GTA 6 Release
Sony has released yet another PS5 firmware update as it battles to keep a lid on the homebrew community’s ongoing effort to jailbreak the console ahead of the release of GTA 6. Here's what it does.