But now, looming GOP-led funding cuts are concerning media allies that local public broadcasters would be forced to downsize or shutter, damaging news operations and hurting locals’ ability to get timely emergency alerts like the one issued in Alaska.

While public TV and radio stations in much of rural America don’t depend on federal funding as heavily as their Alaska counterparts, the cuts would hit many of them hard. In Colorado’s Four Corners region, KSUT gets 20 percent of its funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Throne Labs is betting that Uber-like ratings and privacy-protecting sensors can lead to a better, more enduring system of public toilets.

Despite recent claims by President Donald Trump that former Biden officials doctored files related to Jeffrey Epstein, many of the documents -- including those mentioning Trump and several prominent Democrats -- have been public for years.

Jr. and Omeed Malik rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as renegades. They had just turned PublicSquare, a Yelp-like directory of con

The federal money is appropriated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes it to NPR and PBS. Roughly 70% of the money goes directly to the 330 PBS and 246 NPR stations across the country, although that’s only a shorthand way to describe its potential impact.

In the Bay State, residents can purchase land right down to the low-tide line, leaving many beaches — including in popular tourism destinations — privately owned and off limits to the general public.

As value grows in private markets, fund managers, brokerage houses, and savvy start-ups are building products that aim to expand access to them.

The Chicago Public Library has a particularly proud history of advancing democratic principles, having been the first to draft an Intellectual Freedom Policy in 1936 in order to protect the rights of people to read books on all sides of controversial subjects.