Spending priorities | Taxing consumers | Health care. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for May 25, 2025.

PATNA: Nalanda, home district of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, has suddenly become a favourite destination for ...

Renewable energy storage provider Apatura has received planning permission from the Scottish government’s Energy Consents ...

As a scientist who depends on research grants, Elena Austin of the University of Washington can’t bear to look at the DOGE grant-slashing website. “I’ve been trying to avoid it,” she told me.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon posted the letter on her X profile on May 5, 2025. Another X user added corrections the next day. There is no proof Harvard University posted the "corrected ...

In a three-page letter sent to Harvard University on Monday evening, the Department of Education said federal agencies will no longer provide the wealthy institution with any grant funding, alleging ...

The City of Fairbanks is looking to take a page from the playbooks of Kenai and Soldotna by creating a storefront improvement program to spruce up its downtown business district. Resolution 5173 ...

On Monday, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon sent Harvard University an unhinged letter, which she also posted to X, decreeing that the higher education institution could no longer apply for ...

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The letter from the EPA does say that the termination decision can be formally appealed. “The city does intend to file an administrative dispute to the termination of the grant,” Sullivan said ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — A health food chain that got its start in Clay has agreed to pay about $7.8 million after making false statements to obtain a COVID-19 pandemic relief grant. CoreLife Eatery ...

Ms. McMahon made a point of mentioning Harvard’s wealth in her letter on Monday, describing the university’s endowment as a “head start” for an era without federal grant money. Much of the ...