The latest numbers from Royal LePage suggest that Vancouver remains Canada’s hottest real estate market, strongly outpacing the rest of the country during the second quarter of 2016. According to the Royal LePage House Price Survey released Wednesday, the aggregate price of a home in Greater Vancouver rose 24.6 per ... Read More »
Detoxers usually avoid burritos — at least the carb-bomb kind. But over the past year, celebs have flocked to LA’s Shape House, a so-called “urban sweat lodge” that wraps its VIP clients in infrared sauna blankets that eerily resemble the Tex-Mex staple. Selena Gomez credits the heated wraps, which promise ... Read More »
Many experts believed that education technology (EdTech) has the ability to transform the field of education. That’s why, many tech companies have been recently investing more on EdTech platforms including Apple, Google and Amazon. Despite the rise of education technology, RAND Corp. policy researcher Julia Kaufman revealed in an open ... Read More »
Oh no! Michael Schumacher’s current health condition is reportedly taking a toll on his mental health as the embattled Formula One (F1) superstar struggles for recovery following the injuries he sustained during an unfortunate skiing accident at the French Alpine resort of Meribel almost three years ago. After coming out ... Read More »
SIOUX CITY, Iowa It’s one of the largest of Sioux city’s new elementary schools. It also may be one of the most energy efficient.The new multi-million dollar Perry Creek Elementary will open in the fall with some new bells and whistles no other local elementary has. As you walk through ... Read More »
Steve Anderson gives us a Yuuuuuuuge edition of the latest health wonk review over at medicareresources.org. “The big – make that yuuuuuuug – picture,” writes Anderson includes a Health Affairs Blog post by David Cutler in response to the recent National Health Expenditure Projections published in Health Affairs. The next edition will be hosted by Jason Shafrin ... Read More »
From a smartphone app delivering market prices to Guatemalan farmers to online nutrition tips in rural Colombia, the push to end hunger has entered a new era with the U.N. food agency deploying the latest technology to fight it. The World Food Programme’s (WFP) new innovation hub, launched in Munich ... Read More »
You know about home prices and rents soaring across the Puget Sound region and Washington — but you might be surprised at the latest type of property to get swept up in the state’s real-estate wave: farms. The average sale price of high-quality Washington farmland has increased 25 percent in ... Read More »
Aware that students in Oregon’s largest school district faced danger from lead paint, radon and tainted drinking water this year, the Portland school board pressed pause this week on buying something else some parents say could harm children’s health. Uncrustables. Yes, the individually packaged peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from Smucker’s lack ... Read More »
Two years since that fatal ski accident and Michael Schumacher went from being a legendary racer to an accident victim, losing life and hope with every passing day. The accident that occurred in the French Alps on Dec. 29, 2013, left Schumacher with a serious brain hemorrhage. Until now, not ... Read More »
Career and technical education (CTE) aka vocational education has been one of the alternative ways for high school graduates who are not interested in pursuing a college degree. Unfortunately, the program has recently been plagued with criticisms, from being a “second rate” education to the widespread gender inequality in CTE ... Read More »
Grand jurors criticized the district — which no longer owns and operates a hospital or other direct care assets to deliver acute health care solutions — for spending more time managing real estate holdings than focusing on its core mission to provide medical services. East Bay Times: Alameda County Grand ... Read More »
