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What to know about Linda Yaccarino, Musk's replacement as Twitter CEO

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:33 GMT

(The Hill) – Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced on Friday that Linda Yaccarino, a former head of advertising for NBCUniversal, will take over his role at the social media platform after six months of Musk being in charge. Musk first indicated that he hired someone to replace him in a tweet on Thursday, months after a majority in a Twitter poll (which he himself posted) voted for him to step down as CEO. He said the new CEO would start in about six weeks, and he would transition to a role as executive chair and chief technology officer of the company. Musk announced that Yaccarino will focus mostly on business operations, while he concentrates on product design and new technology. Yaccarino worked for NBCUniversal Media for more than 10 years, most recently serving as the chair of the company’s global advertising and partnerships for more than two and a half years, according to her LinkedIn profile.  Pay-per-article service coming to Twitter The company announced in a release on ...

A rainy night for everyone

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:33 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- It's been awhile since we had the weather we had from late last night through this morning. Every reporting station had measured rain with several cities recording more than one inch. Many locations have picked up more than two inches and one, the North Grape Creek near Johnson City with just shy of 3.50"What's better is that we had no hail nor damaging wind reports from these thunderstorms. There have been several Flood Advisories and one Flash Flood Warning. That warning covers a very small portion of southeast Bastrop and eastern Caldwell Counties into western to southern Fayette County until 11 a.m. CENTRAL TEXAS RAIN TOTALS NEW BLOG: HOW TO PREPARE FOR FLASH FLOODING All of Central Texas remains under a Flood Watch until at least 8:00 this evening. More rain is in the forecast not just for today for for tomorrow and on through the rest of the week. Flood Watch until 8:00 Saturday eveningToday's forecast calls for a 100% chance of additional showers and th...

St. Louisans unite for American Heart Association's Heart Walk

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:33 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- Thousands of people are expected to participate in the St. Louis Heart Walk this morning. It's a signature event for the American Heart Association. Businesses like Edward Jones, R-G-A, and American Heart Association volunteers will take part in this. So will heart disease and stroke survivors. This year's Metro St. Louis Heart Walk is put on by BJC Healthcare. Gates will open at Busch Stadium at 8:15 this morning. An on-field ceremony starts at 8:45.AND the walk takes off at 9 a.m.

Opinion: Colorado venue owners see ticket scams every night; SB 60 will shut them down

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:33 GMT

An elderly couple recently spent over $400 on tickets to see Sierra Ferrell from a third-party website. Upon learning that the show would not have chairs, they tried to get a refund. The scalper refused to issue a refund – a clear violation of the American Disabilities Act (ADA) – and when the couple tried to resell the tickets themselves, they realized no tickets had ever been sent over.In another case, a mother bought concert tickets on a resale platform as a 21st birthday present for her son – a diehard Louis the Child fan. After spending hundreds of dollars and flying out for the show, the mom received a devastating day-of-show message from the third-party site notifying her that no tickets were available.On a nightly basis, Coloradans are getting the rug pulled out from under them by ticket scalpers engaging in deceptive ticketing practices.Fortunately, the Colorado General Assembly passed a solution that would prevent these shady acts from happening. Led by Senators Robert Rod...

Family of slain East High student accuses DPS of negligence in failing to protect students

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:33 GMT

Luis Garcia. (Photo courtesy of the Garcia family)The family of the East High student fatally shot outside the school earlier this year is accusing Denver Public Schools, district leaders and the city of negligence in failing to protect students — including by removing armed police from the school.An attorney representing the family of Luis Garcia made the allegations in a legal notice preceding a wrongful-death lawsuit that was released by DPS on Friday, three months after the shooting, which remains unsolved by the Denver Police Department.In the four-page document, the family’s attorney accused DPS of negligence based on a lack of security, not providing enough student parking and the “willful and wanton removal” of Denver Police Department school resource officers from East.  Garcia, 16, was shot while sitting in his car outside of Denver’s largest high school on Feb. 13 and died more than two weeks later, on March 1.The attorney representing Garcia’...

Insurance, building codes, helicopters: Colorado’s 11 new laws to protect residents from wildfires

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:33 GMT

Gov. Jared Polis signed a suite of wildfire prevention and recovery-related bills Friday, clearing the way for the state to stand up a new emergency insurance plan, standardize fire-resistant building codes and buy a $26 million firefighting helicopter.The 11 bills were all passed during the 2023 legislative session, which ended Monday. They represent the legislature’s ongoing efforts to protect the state from wildfires, which Polis called a “year-round reality in Colorado,” nearly three years after the worst fire season in the state’s history and 18 months after the Marshall Fire swept through Boulder County.The measures cover insurance, disaster preparedness and evacuation modeling, and the tinder and wildfire mitigation workforce. Flanked by fire officials, legislators and firefighting equipment, Polis signed the bills in four cities and towns across the Front Range.“Strategic investments on many different fronts is really what we need to be doing,&#...

Denver-based software company Poppulo laid off 80 employees as tech industry downsizing continues

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:33 GMT

Poppulo, a Denver-based software development company, laid off 80 employees at the end of April, including 20 workers in Colorado.The move follows downsizing in the tech industry that started in 2022, with impacted companies including Twitter, Microsoft, Dell Technologies Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram. But other Colorado sectors aren’t immune to layoffs either, with the energy, cannabis and manufacturing sectors also taking blows earlier this year.Although inflation is steadily slowing, and the U.S. isn’t in a recession yet, the economic forecast for 2023 remains shaky.“We made the difficult decision to reduce our global workforce by approximately 12%,” said Eoin Byrne, chief people officer at Poppulo. Founded in 2011, the company specializes in communications and workplace technology.With its headquarters at 1221 Broadway in Denver, Poppulo also maintains offices in Massachusetts, Ireland and England. Out of the laid-off e...

“I will watch it like a hawk:” Restored Ninth Street home to honor displaced Aurarians unveiled by CU Denver

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:33 GMT

One day in November, University of Colorado Regent Nolbert Chavez walked from his office to the Centennial House at 1050 Ninth St. on Denver’s Auraria Campus, arriving to find a hawk lying dead on the front porch steps.“Its body was still warm,” Chavez said.The hawk was a frequent visitor and symbol of security Chavez had come to admire after months of checking on the progress of the Centennial House — the first home restored on the Auraria Campus’s historic Ninth Street. Chavez has shepherded the Ninth Street restoration, promising displaced Aurarians like Rita Gomez, who grew up at 1050 Ninth St., that he will take care of their former neighborhood.Ninth Street is a strip of homes on the downtown Denver college campus that was spared at the time of the former Auraria neighborhood’s destruction to create the higher education complex. Thirty-six square blocks, more than 300 homes, were demolished beginning in 1972. Fourteen original Victorian-styl...

Shrimp farming in landlocked Colorado? A few residents are “giving it a shot”

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:33 GMT

Jessica Littlefield and Oswald Duarte‘s hobby farm in Calhan is a place where sheep roam, horses run, chickens flock – and, soon enough, where shrimp will swim.“We are giving it a shot,” said Littlefield, co-owner of Rocky Mountain Shrimp Co. “There’s not a right way to grow shrimp, but there are a whole lot of wrong ones.”If all goes according to plan, the pair will order tens of thousands of Pacific white shrimp in the late summer or early fall for their first harvest.In the landlocked state of Colorado, the couple are newcomers in the niche industry of indoor shrimp farming. They’re not the only ones in the state to try their hand at the task – but just a couple have succeeded at the expensive, time-consuming job.The shrimp that ends up on American dinner plates typically arrives frozen from foreign countries, including China, Thailand and Indonesia. They’re raised on outdoor farms in tropical climates. But the traditional process h...

Kazakhstan’s progress faces many headwinds; the West should not be one of them

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:33 GMT

The escalation of geopolitical tensions linked to the Ukrainian crisis has highlighted two main opposing camps of countries — an Alliance of Democracies on one side and a Group of Authoritarian Regimes on the other - writes Luc Rodehefer. A number of countries have resisted choosing sides, however, as they strive to balance their national interests with international developments while simultaneously advocating the need to maintain peaceful diplomacy and global connections.While the number of these so-called “in-between” countries abound (particularly in Latin America, Africa, and South and Central Asia), only a few of them have upheld an outspoken commitment to the principles of multilateralism and non-violence. One of these is Kazakhstan, which, through its rhetoric and actions, has consistently demonstrated a commitment to international principles enshrined in the UN Charter despite severe challenges to the country’s economy and stability brought on by recent global developments....