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Amazon’s Fire TV is adding local news in many more cities

The Verge

At that time, the app offered local news coverage in 12 cities, including New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Miami, and more. But today, Amazon says it’s expanding local news to “88 major cities” across the US, “including popular local stations from news distributors such as ABC Owned Television Stations, CBSN, TEGNA, Cox, The E.W.

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This startup wants to use technology to help solve Austin’s housing shortage problem

TechCrunch

But this month, Homebound will be expanding to Austin, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. It’s going to be a huge market for us.”.

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How 4 New Jersey pools turned into a startup that just raised $10M

TechCrunch

At the age of 20, he founded Swimply , a marketplace for homeowners to rent out their underutilized pools to local swimmers, with Asher Weinberger. New markets that Swimply has recently expanded to include Portland, Oregon; Raleigh, NC and the California cities of Oakland, San Luis Obispo and Los Gatos. .

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Can the collective impact methodology accelerate the church’s mission?

ASU Lodestar Center

In every locale in which it is used, participating entities should adapt its application to its particular context. The first step to local adaptation is involving affected populations in the community’s story of change. Salisbury is the Pastor of Community Missions at Bay Leaf Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC.

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Founded by Opendoor and Twilio alums, Nomad closes on $20M to ‘transform the landlord-tenant experience’

TechCrunch

Last year, the company also entered the Phoenix market, and is eyeing Raleigh and then Charlotte, North Carolina, next. It also plans to continue to invest in its technology and partner with local real estate agents, property managers, lenders and service professionals. Nomad’s investors are, naturally, bullish.

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Social Networks in Small Places

NTEN

Jen Newmeyer, Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina I had a few assumptions I decided to test by talking to some organizations that work locally using social media. She's made some deep connections with the Raleigh community through Twitter, which have led to a number of outreach opportunities. Reinforcements!

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Police Scorecard visualizes data on policing to drive for equity and change

Tableau

They drew primarily from the FBI Uniform Crime Report, the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Annual Survey of Jails, and the US Census Bureau’s Survey of State and Local Government Finances. To fill in missing information, they obtained data from local agency publications and media reports. Visualization credit: Police Scorecard.

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