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...winery structures are symbols of the continuity of the wine industry in this valley," explained supervisor Diane Dillon, whose great-grandfather Connelly Conn - Conn Valley's namesake - used to grow grapes for the old Franco-Swiss Winery. "Everyone wants to have a wine industry like ours, and almost every state says it has a wine region now. But ours is 150 years old, and these historic buildings tie the current industry to the past and ensure that their context is not forgotten...
...also has been tackling members' problems with the bill issue by issue. Earlier in the week she worked with the New York delegation to iron out changes to the Senate bill, which punished "do-gooder" Medicaid states that already provided the most generous benefits - essentially robbing the rich states to pay for the poor ones. She also met with the Congressional Black Caucus to address some of their concerns about affordability and access. And she then spent a lot of time with the Hispanic Caucus assuaging their worries about provisions that prevent illegal and some legal immigrants from purchasing insurance...
...educated population (43% of Austin residents have a bachelor's degree or higher), mix in a robust venture-capital scene (one of the best outside Silicon Valley), add a supportive community of peers (groups like Bootstrap Austin band together hundreds of entrepreneurs) and wrap all that up with a state government unafraid to throw money at companies that need a little help getting off the ground...
...Employers are stepping up too. A few blocks east of the state capitol stands a hospital, one of 10 in the metro area owned and run by the not-for-profit Seton Family of Hospitals. An adjacent building that used to be a children's hospital now houses a clinical-education center. Wards and operating rooms are filled with patients - sophisticated, computer-controlled dummies that nurses-to-be can use to receive valuable training. One dummy even gives birth...
...habitats of the local bear and bird populations. "So far, practically everything that we supposedly agreed to with the government and the contractors has in the best case remained only on paper," the group said. Both Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Federation have broken off ties with Russia's state-owned Olympstroi construction firm, citing an unwillingness of the company to cooperate. (When reached by TIME, the company declined to comment...