Patch AM: How Gig Harbor’s new six-year road plan could affect your commute

Coming up on the Gig Harbor Patch calendar: Gig Harbor Beer & Cider Festival ...
Auburn Wire

City gives $470K grant to kickstart downtown Salem grocery store

Salem officials voted unanimously on May 11 to give $1.2 million in grants to a downtown grocery store and West Salem ...
KUOW

Cut to pre-K program leaves WA school officials frustrated

An early learning program designed to prepare children in Washington for kindergarten will soon shrink by nearly 2,000 slots due to cuts state lawmakers approved earlier this year. The state’s top ...
The Denver Post

Colorado students left in lurch as state plans to eliminate teacher recruitment program

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Weeks from graduation, Colorado legislators are planning to cut a teacher recruitment program that promised to pay two years of a student’s college tuition ...
The Topeka Capital-Journal

Kansas lawmakers cut housing program despite state's crisis | Opinion

Kansas legislators have significantly reduced and set a 2028 sunset for the Kansas Affordable Housing Tax Credit (KAHTC). The KAHTC program, established in 2022, was projected to create over 6,400 ...
Argus Leader

As AI Reshapes the Workforce, BUiLT RITE Opens Applications for Leadership Cohort to Strengthen Skills It Can’t Replace

We are living through a moment where the workers who will thrive are not those who outsource their thinking to AI. Instead, they deepen the capabilities that no algorithm can replicate.” — Peter ...