COLUMBIA, Missouri, Oct. 29 -- Columbia College issued the following news: Florida activist Desmond Meade spoke about the importance of voting rights and compassionate civic engagement Thursday, Oct. 24, in Launer Auditorium at Columbia College. Meade serves as president and executive director of Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, a Nobel Prize-nominated grassroots organization known for its advocacy work on voting rights and criminal justice reform. In 2018, he led efforts to build suppor  more

TAMPA, Florida, Oct. 29 -- Tampa International Airport issued the following news on Oct. 28, 2024: * * * The money comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help pay for elements of Tampa International Airport's new Airside, which will break ground later this year. * * * Tampa International Airport will receive $40 million from the Federal Aviation Administration to help fund construction of Airside D. The award is part of the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), which Congres  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Oct. 29 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: The largest spacecraft to ever explore the solar system blasted into the sky above NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Oct. 14. NASA's Europa Clipper will orbit Jupiter and make 49 planned flybys of its moon Europa to study the moon's icy shell and help researchers better understand what lies beneath. Scientists at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Lab, which has  more