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Building a decentralized bank for micro businesses in Latin America

In Barranquilla, Colombia, Edinson Flores has run a small, family-owned fast-food business for many years. But when his family became sick with Covid-19, he had to stop working and pay for medical care. When his family recovered, Flores still had customers and equipment, but he couldn’t afford the supplies he needed to get his business […]

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Afghanistan Earthquake Victims Face Struggles Getting Aid

By GLENN GAMBOA, AP Business Writer Getting donations to Afghanistan earthquake victims will be far more difficult compared with other disasters due to sanctions against the country’s Taliban government and its troubled relationship with Western nations, experts say. International groups that maintained operations in the country following the collapse of its government last year have

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University officials mark high point in new Center for Science and Technology Innovation

University of Mississippi officials and others celebrated a milestone in the construction of the emerging Jim and Thomas Duff Center for Science and Technology Innovation during a topping-out ceremony Thursday (June 23) on campus. Touting the economic and academic implications of 202,000-square-foot science, technology, engineering and mathematics building, Chancellor Glenn Boyce was among some 100

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Becker County goes into crisis mode after Information Technology team resigns

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — The Becker County Sheriff’s Office is deeply concerned about the loss of technical support for officers on patrol and in the office, and for correctional officers at the jail, following the recent resignation of two-thirds of the Information Technology team at Becker County. The exodus of Becker County employees is largely

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More buildings on the way in Grand Prairie business park

Developer and investor Crow Holdings Industrial is planning three new buildings in its Wildlife Commerce Park in Grand Prairie. The 220-acre business park is on Belt Line Road north of Interstate 30. The industrial development is on the former site of the International Wildlife Park, which closed in the 1990s. Crow Holdings since 2014 has

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Wichita candidate for Kansas House focuses on transgender rights, health care, business

LAWRENCE — Kansas House candidate Jaelynn Abegg said her consideration for public office began while advocating earlier this year in Topeka against Senate Bill 160, which would have banned transgender athletes from school sports. Abegg, who labels herself as a progressive Democrat, is running against incumbent Republican Rep. Brenda Landwehr in the GOP-leaning 105th District

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