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Dust storm causes deadly highway pileup in Kansas. Here’s what to know

Fast Company Tech

Dust storms have a history of causing fatalities The High Plains Museum in Goodland displays a photo of a tractor buried in blown soil in the 1930s, a reminder of the consequences of a severe drought across the Great Plains that came after farming had destroyed native grasses. Similarly, a dust storm on I-55 between St.

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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

Kindful

This Women’s History Month, we’re proud to highlight the innovative and impactful work of these Kindful customers. Headquarters in: Albuquerque, NM. The post Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment appeared first on Kindful. Impacting: Incarceration and addiction. Become a monthly donor.

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Airbnb has blocked tens of thousands of bookings in party crackdown

The Verge

The Denver Post reports that it’s blocked 5,000 bookings in Phoenix, 4,500 in Las Vegas, 4,500 in Seattle, 2,600 in Denver, 2,600 in Portland, 1,800 in Salt Lake City, and 1,500 in Albuquerque. WLWT5 reports that 2,000 bookings were blocked in Cincinnati, while 3,800 were blocked in Austin, according to KXAN.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History. He also did stints in other markets including Los Angeles, Sacramento and Albuquerque. McLane holds an MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA, a BA in History from UCSB, and is a graduate of the world-renowned Missouri Auction School.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

Museum 2.0

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Microsoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0

Ars Technica

On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm not here to do a history of Microsoft, because Wikipedia already exists and because the company has already put together a gauzy 50th-anniversary retrospective site with some retro-themed wallpapers.

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Minor League Baseball isn’t afraid to get weird—and it’s paying off

Fast Company Tech

The Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes and Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats are the only professional sports clubs that exist in the states of New Mexico and New Hampshire, respectively. Instead, they play into their home citys history and come up with hyper-local identities. The resulting team brands are nothing short of full-on wacky.