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Stimulus in Action: “Beginning to Percolate Nationwide”

Building repairs are underway on public housing in Imboden, Ark., and Cumberland, Ill., states across the country are receiving money to weatherize the...
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Environmental Protection Agency Halts Mountaintop Removal Permits

The US Environmental Protection Agency this week called for a halt to select mountaintop removal permits, in order to address their impact on...
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Healthiest Cities in US: Lincoln, Nebraska is #1

The top four healthiest cities for 2007 according to the US Centers for Disease Control are: Lincoln, Nebraska; Fargo, North Dakota; Boulder, Colorado; and...

US Communities Build Earthquake Safe School in China

Members of the Chinese community in Oklahoma and West Virginia have decided to take direct action to help children whose schools crumbled in the...

Computer Dance Game Gets Students Active

Dance, Dance Revolution (DDR), a video game of footwork and music, has "succeeded in getting even young people who hate sports to take exercise"...
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States Take the Lead on Health Care Reform

Massachusetts has accomplished the improbable: It got Democrats and Republicans to agree on how to provide nearly every resident with health insurance. And it...
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Schools Take Action on Overweight Kids

In response to a steep rise in obesity among children, some public schools are taking action. It shocked me to learn that only 6...

Video Game Therapy Retunes Brain

Doctors in 2002 pronounced Ethan Myers brain dead for life. Today he is at peer level in reading, walking and talking, and for much...
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Chicken Manure, Fats, New Source of Energy

Chicken Fat Heats Buildings - Alternative to Imported Oil University of Georgia scientists say chicken fat, restaurant grease, and other ‘bio-fuels’ are a good...
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The Doctor is a Clown?!?

Do you like the academy award-winning actor Robin Williams? Does free medical care sound like a good idea to you? How about a movie...

‘The Largest Environmental Restoration in History’ Continues to Restart the Heart of the Everglades

24 years ago, a fledging Good News Network reported on a vote in Congress to restore the Florida Everglades. Rep. Clay Shaw, (R - FL)...

Good News in History, March 23

249 years ago today, American Founding Father Patrick Henry spoke to Virginia legislators, where he famously proposed that their colony should join the revolution...

Good News in History, March 17

124 years ago today, Isadora Duncan, the first modern dancer, made her debut as a solo interpretive dancer in London to crowds who marveled...

Good News in History, February 22

195 years ago today, Spain sold Florida to the United States as part of the Adams-Onis Treaty. It settled a standing border dispute between...

Cicadas Are Coming: Rare ‘Dual Emergence’ Could Awaken a Trillion Bugs of 2 Species – First Time in 221 yrs

No one alive today will see it again—the convergence of two cicada broods that will practically shake the Midwest with their chirping. The appearance of...

Good News in History, January 9

Happy 80th Birthday to Jimmy Page, the brilliant guitarist, songwriter, and producer whose groundbreaking band Led Zeppelin released its first album 51 years ago...

Good News in History, December 28

50 years ago today, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published The Gulag Archipelago, a literary investigation of the prison-labor camp system in the Soviet Union between 1918...

Good News in History, December 15

10 years ago today, China became the third nation to land a rover on the moon with their Chang'e-3 orbiter and rover. The soft...

Good News in History, December 11

4 years ago today, the residents of Bougainville, an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea, voted in a 98% majority for independence of their...

Good News in History, December 4

128 years ago today, Feng Youlan was born. This Chinese academic and philosopher was instrumental in reintroducing the Chinese classics of philosophy to the...