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Coleson McCoy watches Heather Milliron work on a project in advanced physical science at the Global Impact STEM Academy in Springfield, Ohio. The city, which lost jobs as factories closed, is trying to boost local incomes with education.

Candidates Want To Raise The Economic Tide To Lift Opportunity, But How?

Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talk about increasing opportunities for coming generations. Some analysts say boosting economic growth would help, but the way there is complicated.

Best Of Home Post: Quadruple Amputee Keeps Promise To Greet Combat Unit Standing Up (Video)

I wrote this post on Labor Day, 2012. No one I've written about has labored harder to recover from his injuries than Travis Mills, one of only five quadruple amputees to survive the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He continues to inspire...

Bill Conti is the principal pops conductor for the San Diego Symphony. He is composing the orchestral music inspired by San Diego.

San Diego Symphony Composing Music Inspired By Crowdsourcing

The San Diego Symphony asked everyday San Diegans to send in videos of their music to help inspire an original orchestral composition about San Diego.

"Juliana Huxtable own art 1": <em>Untitled (Destroying Flesh) </em>from the "UNIVERSAL CROP TOPS FOR ALL THE SELF CANONIZED SAINTS OF BECOMING" series, 2015

Heavenly Bodies

This year, a cast of progressive experimentalists, such as Arca, Juliana Huxtable and Elysia Crampton, among others, tackled matters of identity with an imaginative and expansive focus.

Volunteers James Fitzsimmons, Joy Ng and CaTamira Babino test the Coreolous Effect machine.

GENIUS BY STEPHEN HAWKING: Where Are We?

Airs Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

Sam, Zainab and Amanda during Demo 2. They are binding the atoms together to see how many different combinations they can make.

GENIUS BY STEPHEN HAWKING: What Are We?

Airs Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

The cities of Carlsbad, Oceanside, Vista, San Marcos and Escondido are investing in a venture to create a joint identity.

North County Cities Seek Regional Identity

The five cities that lie along the Highway 78 corridor in San Diego’s North County are banding together to develop a regional identity to help attract more jobs.

Spider Martin's most well-known photograph, Two Minute Warning, shows marchers facing a line of state troopers in Selma moments before police beat the protestors on March 7, 1965. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.

Photographer Helped Expose Brutality Of Selma's 'Bloody Sunday'

Some of the most iconic images of marchers being attacked by Alabama state troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, were captured by a white photojournalist who stumbled onto the historic events.

Lin-Manuel Miranda appears in <em>Hamilton's</em> opening night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City, in August 2015.

Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks 'Hamilton': Once A 'Ridiculous' Pitch, Now A Revolution

When the Broadway musical's creator said the life of Alexander Hamilton embodied hip-hop, people laughed. Now, he's written a book about the national phenomenon with former critic Jeremy McCarter.

Law enforcement officers keep the scene of an explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City, on the day after the blast injured dozens.

One Blast Injured Dozens In Chelsea. I Saw A 2nd Device Shortly Afterward

NPR Books editor Petra Mayer was in the Manhattan neighborhood on Saturday when she saw what looked like a pressure cooker on the sidewalk. Suddenly she found herself at the heart of the night's news.

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