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Hi and welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to Point B. I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch.

The mobility world got busy this week. Really. busy. This is gonna be a long one, buckle up.

Take a look at the most recent survey we conducted with a bunch of venture capitalists about mobility and what areas interest them most. We talked to Ernestine Fu with Alsop Louie Partners, Stonly Baptiste and Shaun Abrahamson with Urban Us, Shahin Farshchi with Lux Capital, Kate Schox with Trucks VC and Jeff Peters of Autotech Ventures.

Reach out and email me at [email protected] to share thoughts, criticisms, offer up opinions or tips. You can also send a direct message to me at Twitter — @kirstenkorosec.

Alright, time to dig in. Vamos.

Micromobbin’

Uber tossed more than 20,000 JUMP bikes into a recycling yard following its deal to offload the JUMP brand to Lime. A photo below, courtesy of Cris Moffitt, shows a sliver of the thousands of bikes at the yard in North Carolina.

“The extent of waste is unfathomable,” the Bike Share Museum said in a tweet.

Since then, Tier Mobility CEO and co-founder Lawrence Leuschner said he wants to take some of those bikes, “repair them, and give them a second life – as we do for all of our vehicles,” he wrote on LinkedIn.

Image Credits: Cris Moffitt

Keaks (Kirsten Korosec) has been working on a big(ish) story about JUMP for the last week. Stay tuned and/or holler at her if you have any tips.

Meanwhile, we noticed Superpedestrian, the startup that makes self-diagnosing electric scooters, has teamed up with Zagster. Superpedestrian quietly launched LINK, its shared electric scooter service in partnership with Zagster in Fort Pierce, Florida in late December.

As of at least February 2020, Zagster had an agreement with Superpedestrian’s LINK to manage the fleet of shared scooters in Kansas, according to city commission documents. In March, the city council in Manhattan, Kansas authorized the city to negotiate a permitting contract with Zagster to run a six-month electric scooter pilot in partnership with Superpedestrian’s LINK.

Over in Europe, long-distance ridesharing startup BlaBlaCar said it’s expanding to scooter sharing. The company doesn’t plan to operate its own fleet of scooters. Instead, BlaBlaCar is partnering with Voi, a European e-scooter service that has raised $136 million over multiple rounds. Voi scooters will feature three different brands — Voi, BlaBlaCar and BlaBla Ride.

— Megan Rose Dickey

Deal of the week

It’s not a deal yet — well, as far as we know, but I’d be remiss not to highlight it here. I’m talking, of course, about the WSJ report that Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire self-driving vehicle startup Zoox.

Zoox is unlike any other autonomous vehicle startup I’ve encountered in the past five or so years. The company has taken on several capitally intensive and ambitious roles — electric vehicle designer and manufacturer, full stack autonomous vehicle developer and robotaxi operator. Zoox co-founder Jesse Levinson will disagree with me here — we’ve had this discussion before — but the company is essentially doing this alone. Yes, it has relationships and support from suppliers; it has investors. But it doesn’t have a meaningful OEM partner and backer like its competitors Argo AI and Cruise . And it has no where near the piggy bank that Waymo holds.

It’s a bold and risky strategy. It’s also expensive.

It’s a poorly kept secret that Zoox has had to do some belt tightening over the past 12 months. The company cut costs last year and tried to renegotiate some supplier contracts, sources told me at the time. In October, it raised $200 million in new convertible note funding, which was supposed to be folded into a Series C round and close by the end of 2019 or early 2020. As far as we know, that never happened. Sources have told me Zoox was in talks with OEMs about sealing a deal with a manufacturing partner that might also include financial backing. Daimler and FCA were name dropped in different conversations at the time, but I was never able to verify that the deals were close.

Then COVID-19 hit. Zoox tightened its belt further and cut nearly all of its contract drivers.

There’s no doubt that Zoox needs money to survive. But an Amazon-Zoox deal, if it happens, is bittersweet.

Zoox is the plucky startup — the stand-at-the-cliff’s edge pioneer that you want to succeed. Going it alone carries existential risk, but it has also given it the freedom to stick to its vision.

If acquired, Zoox will get sucked up into the Amazon ether and one wonders what it will become.

Other deals that got our attention:

Bolt, the Estonia-based company that provides on-demand ridesharing, scooters and other transportation services across some 150 cities in Europe and Africa, raised €100 million ($109 million) in a convertible note. Bolt also confirmed that is now valued at €1.7 billion (or nearly $1.9 billion at today’s rates). The money is coming from a single investor, Naya Capital Management, which was also a major backer of the company in its last round, a $67 million Series C announced in July 2019.

Ola Electric, the EV business that spun out of the ride-hailing giant Ola in 2019, acquired electric scooter startup Etergo. The Dutch startup built a scooter that uses a swappable, high energy battery that delivers a range of up to 240 km (149 miles). Ola Electric is aiming to produce and launch its own line of two wheelers as soon as this year.

Tesla’s board certified a financial milestone that unlocks the first tranche — worth more than $700 million — of an unprecedented multi-billion-dollar pay package for CEO Elon Musk, according a document filed Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The milestone allows Musk to purchase the first grouping or tranche of nearly 1.69 million shares at a steep discount. As far as we know (based on SEC filings) Musk has not exercised those options yet.

AV spotlight: Aurora

If you haven’t heard, there’s a battle over talent in the autonomous vehicle industry. One AV founder once described it to me as a “knife fight.”

It’s not just about hiring talent though. It’s about building the right culture to get the job done. In this case, it’s the not-so-small goal to develop and deploy autonomous vehicle technology at commercial scale.

Self-driving vehicle startup Aurora recently hit the 500-employee mark, an internal milestone capped by several new key hires, including Sagar Behere, as director of systems and safety engineering and Tara Green, who is leading human resources, recruiting and IT.

It wasn’t the 500-employee figure that I found interesting. It’s a new in-house program the company is calling Aurora Academy and Raul Rojas, a former professor of computer science and mathematics at the Free University of Berlin who was hired to lead it. The idea is to create a program where employees can build specific technical skills in the self-driving technology domain using its own experts. Rojas comes with deep background in robotics and autonomous vehicle technology. He met two of Aurora’s co-founders Chris Urmson and Drew Bagnell while participating in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Rojas also co-founded in 2011 Autonomous GmbH, an autonomy startup acquired by TomTom in 2017.

Aurora has hired computer scientists, engineers, physicists, and mathematicians to help in the complex task of integrating different hardware and software modules into an AV system. And yet, Rojas noted there is still a need “to build bridges across the various disciplines so that we can propagate expertise across all levels of the company.” He said that’s where Aurora Academy comes in.

The program kicked off in mid-March with a six-week course entitled “Essential Skills for Poses, Transformations and Lie Groups.” (Light stuff, right?) These are the mathematical tools that give roboticists a uniform and powerful framework for localization and motion planning.

Other classes will cover software engineering, sensor development, mathematical foundations, visualization, planning, control and machine learning. The academy will also be open to non-technical employees who want to learn more diverse skills, including how to program in Python.

“The self-driving world is still a small community, so there’s a limited pool of candidates to begin with, and not many universities offer specialized programs on autonomous driving, so it’s unlikely you will find someone right out of school with all the skills needed,” Rojas said.

For instance, Aurora acquired last year Blackmore, one of the few companies developing Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) lidar, which emits a low-power and continuous wave.

“It’s unlikely someone could have studied it in school, so in June we’re starting a course to teach the physics of Doppler lidar, how to process the data at the fastest possible rate, and how to profit from the measurements in perception tasks,” Rojas noted.

Is your AV company doing something interesting — you know, beyond bringing autonomous vehicles into the mainstream? Hit me up and tell me about it.

Dispatches from Africa

On demand mobility powered by electric and solar is coming to Africa.

Vaya Africa, a ride-hail mobility venture founded by Zimbabwean mogul Strive Masiyiwa, launched an electric taxi service and charging network in Zimbabwe this week with plans to expand across the continent.

The South Africa-headquartered company is using Nissan Leaf EVs and has developed its own solar-powered charging stations. Vaya is finalizing partnerships to take its electric taxi services on the road to countries that could include Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia, Vaya Mobility CEO Dorothy Zimuto told TechCrunch.

The initiative comes as Africa’s on-demand mobility market has been in full swing for several years, with startups, investors and the larger ride-hail players aiming to bring movement of people and goods to digital platforms.

Uber and Bolt have been operating in Africa’s major economies since 2015, where there are also a number of local app-based taxi startups. Over the last year, there’s been some movement on the continent toward developing EVs for ride-hail and delivery use, primarily around motorcycles.

Beyond environmental benefits, Vaya highlights economic gains for passengers and drivers of shifting to electric in Africa’s taxi markets, where fuel costs compared to personal income is generally high for drivers.

Using solar panels to power the charging station network also helps Vaya’s new EV program overcome some of challenges in Africa’s electricity grid.

Vaya is exploring EV options for other on-demand transit applications — from min-buses to Tuk Tuk taxis.

— Jake Bright

Layoffs, business disruptions and people

Let’s kick this section off this week by highlighting a new company hoping to disrupt van life.

Cabana is a new startup launched by a former Lime executive that’s bringing tricked-out vans with all the amenities of a Holiday Inn hotel room to cities on the West Coast, starting in Seattle. As TechCrunch reporter Jonathan Shieber noted, companies like Tentrr, HipCamp and even Airbnb have gotten in on the vanlife movement, and Cabana’s founder definitely thinks he can ride the wave.

Cabana has already raised $3.5 million from investors, led by Craft Ventures — the investment firm founded by David Sacks. Other investors include Goldcrest Capital, Travis VanderZanden (the chief executive and founder of Bird), and Sunny Madra, vice president of Ford X at Ford Motor Company.

Hiring news

Rivian appears to be planning to offer its own insurance to customers based on a new job posting for an insurance agency data manager first spotted by RivianForums, which passed along the tip.

The job is to lead Rivian’s property and casualty (P&C) insurance agency, a position that entails recruiting, training, coaching and managing employed licensed sales agents and an insurance customer care team, according to the posting on Rivian’s website. The employee will also sell insurance products and provide feedback to partners on opportunities, the posting said. It’s an unusual move, but not unprecedented. Last August, Tesla launched an insurance product.

Cruise has a new board member who comes with deep experience in tech and hardware. Regina Dugan has a lengthy resume that includes former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the current CEO of Wellcome Leap, a non-profit founded by Wellcome Trust to accelerate innovations that benefit global health. In between DARPA and Wellcome Leap, Dugan was head of Google’s Advanced Technology And Products (ATAP) Group and led Building 8, Facebook’s hardware skunkworks.

“In health care and in transportation, I believe in the power of science and technology to change our world. With this power comes the responsibility to deliver life-saving advances at scale — Cruise has the tech, the team, and the tenacity to get it done. I’m stoked to join,” Dugan said in a statement provided to TechCrunch.

Sweden-headquartered Voi Technology recruited Richard Corbett to head up its U.K., Ireland and Benelux operations. Corbett joins from rival Bird, where he spent two years as the U.S. company’s U.K. and Ireland chief, as well as helping to launch e-scooter rentals in Netherlands.

Layoffs and other departures

AirMap, an airspace services platform for unmanned aircraft, cut its staff. Layoffs.fyi reported that around 30% of the team was let go.

Aston Martin announced CEO Andy Palmer was leaving his post. His replacement is Tobias Moers, the current head of Mercedes-Benz’s AMG division, Car and Driver reported.

Welp … Audi fired Daniel Abt from its Formula E racing team after learning he had a professional sim driver race for him during a virtual competition called the “Race at Home Challenge” held last weekend. It appeared Abt was going to merely be suspended. Abt said in a video message published Tuesday on YouTube that Audi had dropped him from the team.

German auto supplier ZF Friedrichshafen plans to cut up to 15,000 jobs, or around 10% of its work force, by 2025 as a result of a slump in demand, according to a company memo that Automotive News reported. ZF said in an email to employees that half of the 12,000-15,000 job cuts would be in Germany.

Uber is cutting 600 jobs in India, or 25% of its workforce in the country. The job cuts, which affect teams across customer and driver support, business development, legal, policy, marketing, and finance, are part of the company’s global restructuring that eliminated 6,700 jobs this month.

Notable reads and other tidbits

Here are a few other items that caught my eye …

Deloitte Insights tackled a topic that many of us might be mulling as well. They looked at what mobility might look like after COVID-19. The report specifically explores four possible futures over the next three to five years. You can check out the full report here, which provides a high-level description of society, economy and geopolitics and then narrows in on transportation.

In one rosier scenario, dubbed “a passing storm,” the COVID-19 pandemic shakes society but, after a slow start, is met with an increasingly effective health system and political response, according to Deloitte. The pandemic causes long-term economic impact: e-commerce and last-mile delivery networks proliferate and are increasingly supported by autonomous vehicles and digitization of the logistics value chain. Vehicle sanitation becomes a priority, which leads to new self-cleaning materials, certification programs and form factors such as passenger partitions. The in-transit experience benefits from advances in digital entertainment and productivity prompted by the pandemic, including, potentially, AR and VR applications.

AV stuff …

I recommend reserving an hour or two to play around with this Global Autonomous Vehicles Index created by the autonomous vehicles group at law firm Dentons. It’s free and lets users compare the nuances of AV testing and deployment regulations across 18 countries and all 50 U.S. states. For instance, regulations in Canada don’t require a human driver in a vehicle when testing AVs. In China, rules require each organization to buy the compulsory liability insurance for traffic accidents for each vehicle. Yet in Germany, there are no special requirements for AVs which go beyond the motor vehicle liability insurance.

Baidu completed Apollo Park, an autonomous driving and vehicle-infrastructure testing base that houses more than 200 autonomous vehicles and is located in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area. The facility is used for vehicle storage, cloud control on remotely sensed big data, operational command, maintenance and calibration, as well as research and development.

Baidu has completed Apollo Park, an autonomous vehicle testing and development center. Photo: Baidu

Waymo will bring its autonomous vehicles back to public roads in the Bay Area starting June 8, The Verge reported. The plan, according to an email viewed by The Verge, is to use the self-driving vehicles to deliver packages for two Bay Area non-profits: illustrator Wendy McNaughton’s #DrawTogether, which provides art kits to Bay Area kids; and Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Autonomous robotics startup Nuro will test prescription delivery in Houston through a partnership with CVS Pharmacy. The pilot, which will use a fleet of the startup’s autonomous Toyota Prius vehicles and transition to using its custom-built R2 delivery bots, is slated to begin in June.

It’s electric …

Mercedes-Benz is now selling its EQV 300 all-electric premium van in Europe, the second EV to come out of the automaker’s initiative to produce a line of battery-powered models under its new EQ brand.

Rivian has resumed work at its factory in Normal, Ill. following a temporary shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Investor and customer Amazon provided an update this week stating that Rivian is still on track to supply it with electric delivery vans. Vans will begin delivering to customers in 2021, as previously planned. About 10,000 electric vehicles will be on the road as early as 2022 and all 100,000 vehicles will be on the road by 2030.

Audi created a new business unit called Artemis to bring electric vehicles equipped with highly automated driving systems and other tech to market faster.

Tesla slashed prices across its electric vehicle portfolio as the automaker aims to boost sales in an economy beaten down by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Model S and Model X saw base prices cut by $5,000, while the Model 3 standard range plus saw a $2,000 drop.

Ride-hailing and miscellaneous bits …

Uber is launching a book-by-the-hour feature in the U.S., starting Monday. The feature lets users book rides for $50 an hour and make multiple stops. The hourly booking feature, which is already available in a handful of international cities in Australia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, will initially launch in a dozen U.S. cities.

Core Investments, a Boston-based real estate development company, has proposed a last-mile delivery station for Amazon, Boston Business Journal reported.

Review: Lotus Evora GT

I delayed my first road trippin’ review to make room for Matt Burns’ take on his recent weekend with the $100,000 2020 Lotus Evora GT.

As Burns’ explains:

The Lotus Evora GT is supersized go-kart with nary an advanced technical feature. And I love it. While most cars are coming equipped with supercomputers, the lack of technical wizardry makes the 2020 Evora GT interesting, and that’s why it’s on TechCrunch.

Join Burns on his ride.

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We have 25 destinations where you can go to escape the gloomy winter months from Cyprus to Spain

It’s now, when gloomy winter months method, that family and friends ask for my recommendation.

They need to know the place they will luxuriate within the sunshine.

Right here’s my decide of 25 locations to whet your winter-sun urge for food.

CYPRUS – Pissouri

The Columbia Seaside Resort in Cyprus, which is positioned within the south-west of the island

The Columbia Seaside Resort resort within the south-west of the island has indoor and outside swimming pools, loads of locations to absorb the solar and a satisfying Mediterranean really feel to the structure. Seven nights from £891pp together with flights, transfers and B&B lodging (sovereign.com).

SPAIN

Andalucia

The realm round Ronda is named Spain’s frying pan, however in winter the El Ventorillo villa comes into its personal. It has a tennis court docket and 50 acres of olive groves and grounds to discover. You simply want to seek out 12 or so pals to hitch you… Seven nights from £3,617, not together with flights (scottwilliams.co.uk).

Lanzarote – Playa Blanca

Grownup-only H10 White Suites is among the island’s finest smaller resorts with some nice offers if you happen to can journey in November (when temperatures are round 23C).

Seven nights from £789pp together with flights and B&B lodging (ba.com/lanzarote).

Lanzarote – Yaiza

This beautiful village is surrounded by vineyards, lava fields and farmland, so the ten-bedroom La Casona de Yaiza is an efficient base if you happen to like energetic holidays. It’s inside simple attain of the coast and Timanfaya Nationwide Park. Seven nights from £715pp B&B together with three dinners, automobile rent, strolling notes and maps however not flights (inntravel.co.uk).

La Palma

The island of La Palma within the Canary Islands mixes heat temperatures and black sand seashores

This island mixes clear skies with a group of villages and black sand seashores. Simply inland, the Hacienda de Abajo is a restored 17th Century sugar property with a restaurant, spa and swimming pool. Seven nights from £899pp together with flights, B&B lodging and transfers (prestigeholidays.co.uk).

Tenerife

On the sheltered west coast close to Playa del Duque, the five-star Vincci La Plantacion del Sur was as soon as a banana plantation however now glistens with gardens and a swimming pool. Seven nights from £935pp, together with flights, transfers and B&B lodging (sovereign.com).

ISRAEL – Tel Aviv

The typical every day temperature in Tel Aviv in December is 19C. New direct flights have began from London to Tel Aviv with Virgin Atlantic

With new flights from Virgin Atlantic, and December common temperatures of 19C, Tel Aviv is sensible, whereas the Dan resort, on the seashore, offers the glamour. Three nights from £699pp together with flights and room-only lodging (virginholidays.co.uk).

MOROCCO – Marrakech

Villa des Orangers has suntrap rooftops and cosy fires; plus this package deal has loads of extras, together with hammam remedies and a tour of Marrakech by sidecar. 4 nights, together with Membership Class flights, transfers and half-board from £1,819pp (service.co.uk).

UAE –Ajman

The smallest emirate within the UAE is 25 minutes from Dubai however has little of its neighbour’s high-octane presence and temperatures of 25C in November. The Oberoi Seaside Resort Al Zorah is an efficient match, a low-rise however luxurious resort on the seashore. 5 nights from £999pp B&B together with flights (wingedboots.co.uk).

OMAN – Outdated Muscat

The Chedi Muscat resort in Oman, which has infinity swimming pools and a relaxed atmosphere

Mendacity on the Gulf of Oman, the Chedi Muscat resort has infinity swimming pools and a relaxed atmosphere that fits this historic Center Jap nation effectively. Outdated Muscat is a brief drive away and temperatures might be within the excessive 20s in November and December. 4 nights from £1,375pp B&B together with flights and transfers (turquoiseholidays.co.uk).

CARIBBEAN

Antigua

Opening in December 1, adults-only Hammock Cove can have 42 villas with non-public plunge swimming pools. It’s aiming for ‘extremely all-inclusive’ model, with 24-hour room service. There are two eating places, a spa, pool and seashore. Seven nights from £2,969pp together with flights, transfers and all-inclusive lodging (kenwoodtravel.co.uk).

Nonsuch Bay Resort could also be all-inclusive however all of the rooms even have kitchens. Set in tropical gardens, it has its personal white-sand seashore in a protected reef. Crusing is large right here – and tuition is included within the value. Seven nights from £2,139pp all-inclusive, together with BA flights and transfers (ba.com/antigua).

The Grenadines

Petit St Vincent within the Grenadines, pictured, has 22 cottages, which have a system of flags to summon room service

Petit St Vincent is the connoisseur’s non-public island. There are many flashier ones however hardly ever with extra appeal or a greater wine cellar. All 22 cottages have a system of flags to summon room service in customised Mini Mokes. Seven nights from £4,115pp together with flights, full-board lodging and transfers (inspiringtravelcompany.co.uk).

St Barts

Le Sereno is a 39-suite resort (plus three villas) that manages to mix luxurious with a low-key presence on one of many island’s key reefs. Seven nights from £4,375pp B&B together with flights and transfers (service.co.uk).

Grenada

Silverlands in Grenada, which is described as a stylishly minimal resort on the seashore with infinity pool

Few Caribbean islands are as delightfully old school. This yr has additionally seen the opening of luxurious Silversands; a stylishly minimal resort on the seashore with infinity pool and gourmand restaurant. Seven nights from £2,655pp B&B together with flights and transfers (elegantresorts.co.uk).

MEXICO – Tulum

The Playa del Carmen can really feel as if it’s overwhelmed with huge resorts however head to Tulum and there are engaging small resorts. Run by a San Francisco couple, Zamas, on a stretch of white sand, has ten easy cabanas plus a self-catering home. Doubles from £113 an evening (i-escape.com).

USA – Florida

Fairly Naples is one in every of Florida’s finest resort cities, with white-sand seashores, piers and eating places. Villa leases are good worth; my favorite has three bedrooms and a pool. Seven nights from £759pp (based mostly on six sharing) together with flights and self-catering lodging (ocean-florida.co.uk).

SRI LANKA

Tangalle seashore in Sri Lanka. The typical temperature on the south coast of Sri Lanka is 27C

Really tropical in winter; the typical temperature is 27C. Tangalle, on the south coast, has seashores, wildlife and historical past. Buckingham Palace in Tangalle is a boutique resort on the Rekawa Lagoon nature reserve. Seven nights from £820pp B&B and another meals, plus excursions and transfers however not flights (travellocal.com).

SEYCHELLES

With simply 30 villas and 17 homes, seclusion is a part of the package deal value on the Six Senses Zil Pasyon, alongside snorkelling, paddle-boarding and expeditions to the close by archipelago. The six eating places, seashores and spa will make you need to keep put. Seven nights from £5,500pp together with flights, helicopter transfers and B&B lodging (scottdunn.com).

MAURITIUS

Mauritius enjoys highs of 27C in November. There are direct flights with BA from Gatwick

There are direct flights with BA from Gatwick to Mauritius and highs of 27C in November. The 163-room Residence on the east coast of the island has its personal spa, tennis courts and gardens. Seven nights from £1,790pp together with flights, transfers and half-board lodging (expressionsholidays.co.uk).

ZANZIBAR

Essque Zalu is a laid-back boutique resort on the north-eastern coast of Zanzibar. A sequence of rooms and suites look throughout tropical gardens and in direction of the sand; with excursions to neighbouring Jail Island and its 180-year-old tortoises. Seven nights from £1,410pp together with flights and half-board (bestattravel.co.uk).

VIETNAM – Da Nang

The Angsana Lang Co resort in Vietnam. It has a children’ membership, a golf course and a spa

The nation could also be buzzing with vacationers lately however there are nonetheless some escapes in Vietnam. With a 2½-mile seashore, the Angsana Lang Co resort permits households to mix children’ golf equipment, a golf course and a spa with the Unesco World Heritage websites of Hue, Hoi An and My Son. Seven nights from £1,125pp, together with flights and B&B lodging, based mostly on a household of 4 sharing (destinology.com).

THAILAND – Phuket

On one of many uncommon non-public seashores in Phuket, Cape Panwa has area and a plantation-style essential constructing with a swimming pool, restaurant and a set of strikingly modernist suites and rooms. Seven nights full board with Tui, together with flights and transfers from £1,031pp (tui.com).

AUSTRALIA – Perth

Perth is the sunniest metropolis in Australia. This vacation means that you can discover it together with the vineyards of Margaret River and the dramatic shoreline with temperatures hitting 29C in December. Eight nights, together with flights, transfers, room-only lodging and automobile rent from £1,599pp (prestigeaustralia.co.uk).

INDIA –Goa

The super-smart however charming Ahilya by the Sea lives as much as its identify with an attractive setting and a decor that’s as ingenious because the meals. From £192pp together with breakfast (mrandmrsmith.com).

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San Francisco: The metropolis’s famous cable cars are running again after a 12-day provider cease to rehabilitate the gearboxes that back flee the 19th-century public transportation machine. The wooden cars had been slowly rock climbing San Francisco’s hills Monday, with operators ringing their brass bells. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency removed the manually operated cable cars from streets Sept. 11. The gearboxes poke 30-foot-huge wheels in a cable automobile powerhouse that pull the 12 miles of steel cables below the cable automobile tracks that bewitch the engineless cable cars up the metropolis’s steep hills. Officials negate the work is segment of an give a enhance to mission began in 2017 to repair heavy gear in provider since 1984. It has an estimated trace of about $6 million.

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Durango: Officials negate fish populations within the Animas River comprise been severely depleted attributable to suffocation prompted by debris from a 2018 wildfire. The Durango Herald stories Animas River fish populations are down about 80% attributable to runoff stuffed with ash from the 416 Fire, which burned an estimated 84 square miles of mostly U.S. Forest Service land within the Hermosa Creek watershed in southwest Colorado. Dispute natural world officials negate heavy rains and flooding from July to September 2018 prompted the runoff. The first full-scale Colorado Parks and Natural world look for conducted since then chanced on a 64% decline from the river’s historical average amount of trout. Officials negate there changed into a 95% decline from the river’s historical average of fish longer than 14 inches.

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Groton: Greater than $2 million in federal grants has been awarded to a program to back create a clearinghouse for seaweed aquaculture review and promote southern New England shellfish aquaculture. Connecticut Sea Grant, based completely totally on the University of Connecticut’s Avery Level campus, will additionally be a contributor to 2 additional projects exciting the improvement of model relate legislation for seaweed sales and building a various seafood processing group of workers. The funding is segment of the Nationwide Sea Grant College Program, which specializes in marine review and sustainable building of marine resources. The Nationwide Sea Grant Seaweed Hub will get $1.1 million in federal funds, whereas the shellfish initiative will get $1.2 million.

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Dover: Dispute agriculture officials are growing a quarantine in northern Delaware so as to fight the unfold of the invasive spotted lanternfly. The quarantine now entails all of New Fort County north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. The relate Division of Agriculture is urging the public to execute on draw and anecdote the bug to the company. The invasive pest feeds on greater than 70 plant species, collectively with maples, apple trees and hops. Adults resemble colourful moths and are active from July to December. Below the quarantine, firms will need to comprise permits to pass regulated articles within or from the condominium. Regulated objects encompass plant life, proceed and construction supplies. The frequent public is urged to be aware a compliance guidelines.

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Washington: Hundreds of activists blocked predominant intersections throughout the nation’s capital Monday, disturbing speedy government action on climate commerce. Below the banner of ShutDownDC, a nice coalition of activist groups sought to lift the morning traffic within the capital metropolis to a standstill. At one area about three blocks from the White Rental, activists parked a yellow-and-purple sailboat within the center of the intersection with several protesters handcuffed to the frame. Washington police comprise a standing coverage to handbook sure of mass arrests of protesters, if imaginable. And even those protesters who needed to be gash free from the sailboat with welding gear had been no longer arrested. The Metropolitan Police Division did arrest 26 those that had been blockading the entrance to a valuable tunnel.

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Orlando: A girl is expressing outrage after her 6-twelve months-faded granddaughter changed into handcuffed, arrested and fingerprinted thanks to a tantrum in faculty. Meralyn Kirkland acknowledges that her granddaughter would possibly presumably well presumably want been performing out at school final Thursday but says it changed into because the baby had no longer been drowsing effectively thanks to a clinical condition. In an interview with WKMG Info 6, Kirkland acknowledged a workers member at an predominant college changed into kicked whereas looking out for to quiet the baby. That’s when the college’s resource officer, Dennis Turner, intervened and despatched the first grader to a juvenile detention center for fingerprints and a mug shot. Orlando police negate they’ve launched an interior investigation to resolve if the resource officer adopted appropriate protocol in engaging the girl on battery fees.

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Atlanta: A mapping program is discovering that rural broadband entry within the relate is worse than federal officials first draw. Lawmakers are trying to search out ways of bringing more broadband provider to rural areas – and they must know the extent of the topic. On the opposite hand, WABE Radio stories lawmakers comprise most efficient had mistaken maps from the Federal Communications Commission. Deana Perry, who runs the Georgia Division of Community Affairs’ rural broadband program, told lawmakers the FCC maps faded census blocks. If one particular person had broadband in a block, the total block changed into classified as served. Now, a brand new relate mapping program the employ of a type of methodology is discovering that there are vastly more underserved areas in Georgia than the federal maps showed.

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Captain Cook dinner: Moral four years after a valuable marine warmth wave killed monumental swaths of this archipelago’s fragile reefs, scientists are warning that a return of anecdote-environment hot water within the Pacific will cause more frequent bleaching and presumably coral demise. Even handed one of many relate’s most appealing coral reefs prospers appropriate below the outside in a bay on the west hover of Hawaii’s Immense Island. On shoreline a long way from the impacts of sunscreen and throngs of holiday makers, scientists ogle early signs of what’s expected to be a catastrophic season of coral bleaching in Hawaii. The ocean right here is about 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit above frequent for this time of twelve months. Coral can recover from bleaching, but when it's a long way uncovered to warmth over several years, the likelihood of survival decreases.

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Boise: A federal bewitch says a mining firm within the relate has no longer complied with court orders and continues to violate neat water rules. The Idaho Statesman stories U.S. Chief Magistrate Buy Ronald Bush on Thursday determined Atlanta Gold had no longer carried out huge compliance at its Montezuma Creek area above Atlanta in Elmore County. Atlanta Gold’s prison professional Michelle Components acknowledged Friday that the firm would wouldn't comprise any negate on the ruling. The bewitch acknowledged Atlanta Gold’s therapy machine remains incapable of treating elevated volumes of water from annual snow melt or other high-water events equivalent to heavy rains. He acknowledged development has been made, but improvement doesn't equal huge compliance with federal rules. Montezuma Creek is a tributary of the Heart Fork of the Boise River.

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Dixon: Ronald Reagan’s boyhood home would possibly presumably well presumably wish to discontinuance its doorways attributable to financial woes. WREX-TV stories the Ronald Reagan’s Boyhood Dwelling and Visitor’s Heart seeks donations to end afloat. Patrick Gorman, the center’s government director, says the condominium in Dixon generates $30,000 annually through excursions and the reward shop. Working charges trace about $70,000 a twelve months, creating a $40,000 annual deficit. The home is listed on the Nationwide Register of Historic Areas but receives no government funding. Jerry Schnake, the center’s assistant director, says it borrowed $100,000 from the home’s board of administrators in 2016 for a restoration mission, leaving it $70,000 in debt. Gorman says having to discontinuance the home would be a loss to the community and to anyone enraged about history.

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Gary: The metropolis plans to break a long-abandoned sanatorium constructed 90 years ago to aid the unlit community at a time when unlit folks weren’t welcome at so-called white hospitals. The (Northwest Indiana) Times stories the St. John’s Clinic building has been vacant because it closed in 1950 and changed into again and again named regarded as one of many relate’s most endangered structures by Indiana Landmarks. Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson says the building deteriorated so badly that demolishing it's needed for safety, because it could presumably well presumably crumple. Northwest Indiana Landmarks Director Brad Miller says St. John Clinic is past repair. He says it performed a predominant role, employing unlit doctors and nurses to deal with Gary’s unlit community before hospitals began treating folks of all races.

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West Des Moines: A new whiskey from a native distillery is hitting the shelves this tumble – and it’s mostly made with corn. Foundry Distilling Co. is releasing its first-ever batch of Corn Whiskey, which rested for 10 years in faded Templeton Rye barrels before bottling. Foundry owner Scott Bush says he became interested in corn whiskey a decade ago whereas running Templeton Rye. The whiskey is constituted of 81% corn, 15% rye and 4% barley and bottled at 91 proof. Little greater than 800 cases of Corn Whiskey will be made readily on the market. A diminutive amount of bottles is seemingly to be reserved now or bought foundation Nov. 2 at central Iowa retail outlets cherish Hy-Vee and Fareway. This spirit will be offered solely in Iowa, with an expected retail trace of $79.99 per bottle.

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Dodge Metropolis: A capuchin monkey is recovering after it changed into injured whereas it seems looking out for to give up an intruder from taking a younger monkey. Officials on the Wright Park Zoo negate the older monkey, Vern, changed into damage, and his son, Pickett, changed into chanced on on the outskirts of Dodge Metropolis on Sept. 3. The younger monkey changed into no longer injured. The Dodge Metropolis Each day Globe stories officials on the beginning draw Vern’s injuries had been minor, but a veterinarian chanced on injuries it seems prompted by blunt power trauma. The monkey underwent surgery at Kansas Dispute University on Sept. 10 to repair damaged bones. Zoo spokeswoman Abbey Martin acknowledged Monday that Pickett is doing effectively and abet on repeat. Vern remains in quarantine whereas he recovers. Dodge Metropolis police are investigating the incident.

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Frankfort: Dispute officials are preparing to begin a program that objectives to amplify the amount of students attempting for elevated education after high college. The Council on Postsecondary Training says in a assertion that the statewide beginning of Gear Up Kentucky is planned for Wednesday at Jap Kentucky University. On the muse, 12 college districts comprise been chosen to participate in this intention that’s being paid for through a grant from the U.S. Division of Training. Gaining Early Consciousness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs presents free products and companies to back students develop better academically and to amplify their recordsdata about postsecondary choices and financing. Council President Aaron Thompson says the initiative “is a sport changing program” that will back discontinuance fulfillment gaps and streamline pathways to university.

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Grosse Tete: Authorities negate a camel at a truck give up petting zoo sat on a girl after she crawled into its enclosure. Iberville Parish Sheriff’s officials told The Imply on Sunday that the Florida woman’s husband had been throwing treats to their dog below the camel’s fence. Their dog went into the enclosure, and the girl crawled below barbed wire to retrieve the pet. That’s when the 600-pound camel sat on her. She told deputies she bit the camel to free herself. The lady changed into brought to a sanatorium. Deputy Louis Hamilton Jr. acknowledged the couple provoked the camel and cited them for a leash legislation violation. Tiger Truck Quit is about 16 miles out of doorways of Baton Rouge and retains Caspar the camel as an enchantment.

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Vinalhaven: Four properties owned by the unhurried pop artist Robert Indiana are in fact in possession of the root that intends to transform his Huge title of Hope island home into an art museum, the root’s chairman says. The Vinalhaven properties, assessed at $1.4 million, encompass Indiana’s Victorian condominium, collectively with a colossal building that can aid as a studio and artist area, one other building that can aid as reward shop and ticket venue, and a microscopic home, Larry Sterrs says. Indiana’s estate remains embroiled in a lawsuit by a firm that held the copyright for his iconic “LOVE” sequence. The lawsuit changed into filed the day before Indiana’s demise final twelve months. With the property transfer this month, the root, which isn’t a social gathering to the lawsuit, can continue its work to turning his used home into a museum to repeat his art work and create art and arts education purposes.

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College Park: A federal bewitch has thrown out a psychotherapist’s lawsuit disturbing the relate’s ban on treating minors with conversion therapy, the put collectively of looking out for to commerce a consumer’s homosexual orientation. U.S. District Buy Deborah Chasanow’s ruling Friday rejected Christopher Doyle’s claims that the legislation violates his First Modification rights to free speech and spiritual freedom. The bewitch acknowledged prohibiting the put collectively of conversion therapy on minors doesn’t prevent licensed therapists from expressing their interior most views about conversion therapy to minor purchasers. Even handed one of Doyle’s attorneys says they will enchantment the bewitch’s decision. Gov. Larry Hogan signed the measure into legislation in Could also simply 2018, making Maryland the 11th relate to create legislation against conversion therapy for minors.

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Boston: Michael Bivins, a founding member of the bands New Version and Bell Biv Devoe, is popping his attention from song to sports. The Roxbury YMCA in Boston says Bivins has teamed up with Puma to sponsor a basketball league for adolescence ages 9 to 13. Every Saturday for 10 weeks, eight teams will compete within the league expected to attract 100 youths. Puma and Bivins’ BivFam Basis are conserving all charges. Bivins is a Boston native who restful lives within the metropolis and fondly remembers his comprise days playing adolescence basketball. In a assertion from the Y, Bivins in contrast the league to winning a Grammy. “I desired to – cherish we negate within the song change – remix it and lift it abet,” Bivins says.

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Detroit: Fire has destroyed a building that is segment of the metropolis’s celebrated out of doorways art mission is named the Heidelberg Project. Flames had been shooting during the roof before firefighters brought the blaze below regulate Monday morning. The building east of downtown Detroit has “you” painted throughout it, regarded as one of many structures with the work of artist Tyree Guyton. The rear changed into gutted, and lumps of bricks had been all around the save. Guyton is legendary for attaching sneakers, clocks, vinyl data, stuffed animals and other objects to flee-down homes within the neighborhood. A spokesman, Dan Lijana, says the Heidelberg Project has been hit with fireplace within the past. “Each time we’ve emerged from it stronger,” he says.

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St. Paul: A illness unfold by bugs has killed a wild deer come Caledonia in Houston County and is suspected within the demise of one other deer nearby. The Division of Pure Resources acknowledged Monday that Houston County is the second county in Minnesota the save wild deer comprise shriveled epizootic hemorrhagic illness. The viral illness changed into confirmed in two farmed deer earlier this month come Rushford in Houston County and in four wild deer come St. Stephen in Stearns County of central Minnesota. The relate’s first known occasion of EHD changed into final October, when it killed six captive deer in Goodhue County of southeastern Minnesota. EHD is unfold by a biting insect called a midge, or no-seeum. It’s no longer regarded as a chance to humans but kills deer fleet.

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Jackson: The Mississippi Division of Archives and Historic past is offering back to offset the cost of discipline journeys to the relate’s twin history museums within the capital. The department says it has $25,000 to back students who back most public colleges to discuss over with the Museum of Mississippi Historic past and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and is calling for to bewitch more. Students within the Biloxi, Jackson and Sunflower County districts are admitted free attributable to an endowment established by the W.K. Kellogg Basis. The department says bus firm Cline Excursions is offering free transportation to students in districts within 50 miles of regarded as one of Cline’s six hubs in Ridgeland, Oxford, Starkville, Hattiesburg, McComb and Memphis, Tennessee. Division director Katie Blount says the goal is for every Mississippi pupil to discuss over with the museums.

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Spokane: Spokane College District has adopted a four-day week starting this tumble to enhance workers recruitment and retention. The district can’t provide salaries as high as neighboring districts because it's a long way microscopic and lacks resources. Students back classes Tuesday through Friday with longer work days. Spokane Superintendent Della Bell-Freeman says this permits the district to give more benefits to fresh and future workers. These benefits encompass three-day weekends, fewer work days total, and more family and free time. Dispute lawmakers permitted this selection for districts facing advanced choices throughout an economic downturn in 2010, when relate funding changed into diminutive. Since then, 61 districts comprise transitioned to a four-day week, collectively with Spokane and 27 other districts this twelve months.

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Billings: Officials negate it could presumably well presumably lift days to sure a rockslide within the metropolis that damaged a condominium and fleet trapped a relate lawmaker who lives there. The Billings Gazette stories the condominium on the irascible of the Rimrocks changed into beaten early Saturday, and a neighbor helped free Republican Earn. Invoice Mercer, an prison professional who changed into trapped interior. The mosey left a chase of colossal boulders blockading the residential boulevard. Billings public works director Dave Mumford says the cleanup will beginning up after a geotechnical knowledgeable assesses the soundness of the mosey condominium. Mumford says it could presumably well presumably lift about a days to sure the boulevard. He says folks need to restful steer sure of the condominium because the slope and the condominium each appear unstable.

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Falls Metropolis: Officials are bearing in mind declaring their community “a metropolis of arts.” Space KNCY stories that the Metropolis Council is predicted to make a proclamation next month. The southeast Nebraska community claims Saturday Evening Post illustrator John Falter as a native son, as effectively as painter Alice Cleaver, artist and author Alan Tubach and jazz musician Pee Wee Erwin. The curator at Stalder Gallery in Falls Metropolis, Christina Wertenberger, says this type of proclamation would aid other cities to adopt a identical proclamation and be a step ahead in growing folks’s recordsdata of the humanities. Library Director Hope Schawang says the proclamation would be good because the metropolis has been accumulating and maintaining visible arts for greater than 100 years.

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Reno: A Las Vegas-based completely mostly developer is proposing to form a 20-epic luxurious resort within the coronary heart of downtown Reno. CAI Investments has submitted an utility to the metropolis detailing its plans for a high-give up resort on Courtroom Avenue appropriate south of the Truckee River off South Arlington Avenue. The pass comes greater than a decade after the firm first submitted plans for a broad tower in Reno. CAI Investments CEO Christopher Beavor acknowledged in a video posted on the firm’s web pages that this will be the first “flooring-up, non-gaming, non-smoking upper upscale resort ever constructed in Northern Nevada.” It additionally is predicted to encompass workplace save to back meet rising save a matter to within the Reno condominium.

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Plymouth: Excessive college students within the relate who participate within the FIRST Robotics Opponents will bag an additional chance to repeat off their abilities and presumably invent college scholarships. The Governor’s Cup competition being held Saturday at Plymouth Dispute University will enable as a lot as 50 high college seniors to invent scholarships for one semester at regarded as one of many University Intention of New Hampshire or community college campuses. Greater than 25 teams from high colleges throughout the relate are expected to participate. The off-season competition changed into created through a partnership exciting Gov. Chris Sununu, FIRST New Hampshire, the university and community college systems, Eversource and BAE Systems.

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Newark: Sampling in quite a lot of of homes uncovered to handbook in ingesting water has chanced on that as a lot as 99% of metropolis-issued water filters are working, metropolis and relate officials acknowledged Monday. Tests valid during the final several weeks had been performed after water in two homes with lead pipes showed elevated lead ranges final month without reference to the employ of the filters. Since then, residents in about 14,000 homes comprise been receiving bottled water allotted by the metropolis and spiritual groups. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy acknowledged Monday that about 300 homes had been tested and that 97% of the filters labored effectively when the tap changed into changed into on. That amount rose to 99% if water ran for 5 minutes before samples had been taken. Metropolis officials acknowledged they would continue distributing bottled water on the moment.

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Albuquerque: A federal bewitch has rejected an effort by a Native American tribe to reclaim Valles Caldera Nationwide Preserve. U.S. District Buy James Browning no longer too long ago issued a sealed idea denying Jemez Pueblo’s dispute that its aboriginal property rights had been never extinguished. In a court submitting that summarized his findings, the bewitch acknowledged the federal government had sure title to the land, and the case changed into being brushed off. Jemez Pueblo considers the nearly 140-square-mile swath of federally managed public land as a spiritual sanctuary and segment of its extinct area of beginning. The property is home to monumental grasslands, the remnants of a broad volcanic eruption and regarded as one of New Mexico’s most renowned elk herds.

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New York: First lady Melania Trump rang the gap bell Monday on the New York Stock Commerce. The change’s first female president, Stacey Cunningham, escorted Mrs. Trump and discussed the change’s history with her. They had been flanked by kids from the United Countries Global College whereas standing in front of a backdrop promoting Be Most effective, the first lady’s adolescence initiative. Mrs. Trump obtained applause on the change flooring and chatted with the kids, who regarded enraged and apprehensive. Earlier recordsdata stories acknowledged some oldsters had objected to what they perceived as a politically themed tournament. Participation changed into voluntary. Republican President Donald Trump is in New York for a three-day discuss over with to the United Countries.

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Ocracoke: The relate’s top education official says quite a lot of of iPads will be despatched to students and teachers on an island damaged by Storm Dorian. North Carolina Public Faculties acknowledged in a press liberate that Superintendent Mark Johnson launched Monday that the department of public instruction would send 200 iPads to Ocracoke College, the save flooding compelled 185 students out of their building. The department says it hopes the iPads will back students end on agenda with schoolwork until their building is seemingly to be reopened. Students are at display attending classes in a instructing center. The liberate says the Sept. 6 typhoon flooded Ocracoke College with greater than 3 toes of water. Gov. Roy Cooper has asked President Donald Trump to repeat the island a catastrophe condominium so federal funds is seemingly to be accessed.

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Mandan: Metropolis leaders are bearing in mind a proposal to solve an ongoing dispute about whether a Western-themed bar need to restful be allowed to avoid losing a mural in front of the building. The Bismarck Tribune stories Lonesome Dove’s art work and all other present murals would be permitted below the proposed ordinance, but new murals would want to be aware a a type of area of requirements. Lonesome Dove homeowners Brian Berube and August Kersten sued the metropolis over freedom of speech in Could also simply after they had been ordered to avoid losing the mural. The painting depicts the title of the bar collectively with a rearing horseman against brown hills at sundown. Attorney Robert Frommer, who's representing the Lonesome Dove, says the proposed initiative “raises valuable constitutional concerns.” Metropolis commissioners will vote on the proposal Oct. 1.

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Columbus: Four transgender folks disturbing a relate rule preventing folks from changing the gender listings on their beginning certificates comprise won their day in court. U.S. District Courtroom Buy Michael Watson denied the relate’s interrogate that the lawsuit filed by the ACLU, Lambda Moral and the ACLU of Ohio be brushed off. The lawsuit contends the beginning certificates rule imposed by the relate Division of Effectively being and the Space of job of Very predominant Statistics is unconstitutional. Most states already enable such adjustments. Ohio and Tennessee are the final two to ban them. A federal lawsuit disturbing Tennessee’s rule changed into filed in April. Kansas ended a federal lawsuit there in June, when Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly struck a deal by agreeing to enable gender identification adjustments on Kansas beginning certificates.

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Norman: The new intervening time president on the University of Oklahoma is condemning the employ of blackface after a pupil’s social media put up showed a white man with a unlit substance painted on his face. OU President Joe Harroz acknowledged in a assertion unhurried Sunday that whereas wearing blackface is racist, free speech protections seemingly prohibit him from doing away with the pupil from campus. The university newspaper OU Each day reported that the pupil acknowledged he changed into wearing a charcoal face cowl and had no racist intent. A community of unlit pupil leaders notified OU administrators regarding the put up Sunday. Two students withdrew from OU final twelve months after a video surfaced of a girl in blackface, and the university severed ties with a fraternity in 2015 after a racist chant changed into caught on video.

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Bend: A university draw says a Pacific Northwest bat that migrates south for the cool weather faces a valuable chance from wind mills. The Bend Bulletin stories a draw by Oregon Dispute University-Cascades concludes that the hoary bat faces an unsure future because its numbers comprise declined by 2% per twelve months. A draw author, Tom Rodhouse, says bats is seemingly to be killed by collisions with propellers and by barotrauma, which occurs when bats circulation through low force zones created by spinning blades of a wind turbine. The sudden commerce in force causes bats’ lungs to make greater sooner than the bats can exhale, ensuing in burst vessels that possess their lungs with blood. Rodhouse says hoary bats in most cases circulation into peril zones because their delicate sonar capabilities can’t detect force drops.

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Harrisburg: The Dispute Police says it hopes to resume accumulating recordsdata early next twelve months on the shuffle of drivers whom troopers pull over after a recordsdata group reported the put collectively ended seven years ago. Highlight PA acknowledged Friday that the company stopped recording the shuffle of drivers in 2012. A relate police spokesman says the commerce changed into attributable to review indicating there wasn’t proof of racial disparities in traffic stops. Highlight PA says relate police tracked that recordsdata until the mid-1970s, then resumed in 2002. A 2004 anecdote chanced on there wasn’t constant proof drivers had been being stopped thanks to their shuffle or ethnicity. The draw additionally chanced on, alternatively, that there comprise been “racial, ethnic, and gender disparities” in how stopped motorists had been treated by troopers.

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Providence: Federal justice officials negate the metropolis’s college district had failed its English learning pupil inhabitants for years. The Boston Globe stories it obtained a letter despatched to the metropolis by the Justice Division’s Civil Rights Division in 2018, declaring the district changed into developing English learning students “to fight and, too in most cases, to fail.” The letter says oldsters had been improperly immediate to waive their child’s good to English language purposes. After receiving the letter, the metropolis launched it changed into overhauling its purposes and hiring more teachers certified to educate those students. A metropolis spokeswoman declined to negate on the letter but referenced a settlement into which Providence entered with the Justice Division final twelve months to make sweeping adjustments and determine students immediate of language products and companies. The relate is taking regulate of the struggling district.

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Allendale: The relate’s smallest county is as soon as again breaking in a brand new leader, native son William Goodson. Allendale County has had to rent a brand new county supervisor about every three or four years in this century to this level. It’s laborious to avoid losing folks without family or other ties in a area without a Walmart and about an hour away from the closest movie theater or interstate highway. The roughly $72,000 salary, whereas appropriate for Allendale County, is about on par with the pay for running the parking department in Charleston. The county now has about 9,000 folks, shedding 14% of its inhabitants because the 2010 U.S. census. A half of-dozen 1950s-generation accommodations line U.S. Freeway 301 during the coronary heart of the county. As soon as the principle New York-to-Miami vacationer highway, it lost the holiday traffic decades ago after Interstate 95 opened two counties over.

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Expeditiously Metropolis: Dispute regulators will interrogate the Legislature to require greater financial ensures for oil and gas wells in accordance to a failed 40-effectively pure gas mission within the northwest segment of the relate. Dispute minerals and mining administrator Mike Lees says the the department will interrogate for adjustments to the bonding requirements when legislators meet again this cool weather. The Expeditiously Metropolis Journal stories his comments got right here final week throughout a gathering of the relate Board of Minerals and Atmosphere. Lees says the department will suggest that every oil and gas drillers be required to put up bonds of both $50,000 per effectively or a $100,000 blanket bond for an limitless amount of wells, without reference to depth.

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Nashville: The relate Division of Forestry has moved up its out of doorways burn enable beginning up date this tumble. Burn permits are in fact required to begin up all open-air out of doorways fires within 500 toes of any wooded area, grassland or woodland. Burn permits in most cases beginning up Oct. 15 and flee through Could also simply 15. Permits will be issued by phone or on-line, if stipulations enable. Tennesseans are encouraged to review native restrictions of their neighborhoods before conducting any burning process. In Brentwood, Nolensville and Spring Hill, fireplace officials comprise suspended issuing burn permits, citing “continual warmth and drought stipulations in Heart Tennessee.”

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Dallas: A white police officer who fatally shot a unlit neighbor in his comprise home changed into distracted by a phone name with a colleague with whom she’d been romantically eager, a prosecutor acknowledged Monday in the beginning up of the officer’s trial. Amber Guyger, 31, has acknowledged the shooting final twelve months happened after she entered the neighbor’s home one flooring up by mistake. She is on trial for the demise of 26-twelve months-faded Botham Jean, whom she acknowledged she mistook for an intruder in her comprise home. The case is being heard by a jury that perceived to comprise a majority of girls and folks of colour. Jean, an accountant from the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia, “changed into doing no hurt to anyone, which changed into his manner,” Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Jason Hermus acknowledged in a gap assertion. He famous Jean changed into in his lounge drinking a bowl of vanilla ice cream when Guyger entered.

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St. George: Municipal officials negate they are looking out for to reevaluate an ordinance that allowed banners for a homosexual pleasure competition to be hung from metropolis light posts. Banners in St. George for the Pride of Southern Utah competition Saturday comprise prompted a discussion of imaginable limits on signage hung from metropolis-owned property. The competition that drew quite a lot of of folks to the metropolis in southwest Utah additionally prompted on-line debates regarding the banners on St. George Boulevard. The discussion began after an email from Councilwoman Michele Randall pronouncing she changed into dim with the banners changed into posted on social media. Randall’s message says the metropolis council need to restful re-evaluate allowing “political statements” on municipal property. Mayor Jon Pike says the coverage that seemingly predates the hot council need to restful be reconsidered.

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Brandon: The metropolis is drafting a legislation that will presumably well presumably restrict building within its river corridors. The Rutland Herald stories the back to the metropolis of Brandon would be that the community would pay less after a federal declared catastrophe. Ed Bove, of the Rutland Regional Planning Commission, says river corridors are the save the riverbeds tend to pass throughout or after storms. They're no longer to be at a loss for phrases with floodplains, which can presumably well presumably be the save water rises and inundates the condominium. He says the improvement restrictions for designated river corridors don’t entirely prohibit building, but what gets constructed into them desires to be designed a sure manner, and building permits need to restful be despatched to the relate for review. Some areas of Brandon are inclined to flooding.

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Richmond: Penal advanced officials are unconstitutionally limiting public entry to executions within the relate by blockading witnesses from seeing sure steps within the process, four recordsdata organizations yell in a federal lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Courtroom in Richmond alleges the department is violating the First Modification by the employ of curtains to block witnesses from seeing “needed steps” in accomplishing a deadly injection or electrocution – the 2 execution systems allowed below relate legislation. “These limits on witnesses’ skill to survey Virginia’s executions severely curtail the public’s skill to heed how those executions are administered, or to assess whether a explicit execution violates both the Structure or the relate’s prescribed execution procedures, or is otherwise botched,” the recordsdata organizations relate within the lawsuit.

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Olympia: New relate rules for promoting cattle are scheduled to lift create in October, rock climbing fees and nudging producers into the employ of USDA-permitted radio-frequency identification tags. The Capital Press stories ranchers who employ the “840” tags – a three-amount world code for the U.S. – will be ready to anecdote sales on-line to the relate Division of Agriculture. The department hopes the ease will motivate more cattlemen to make employ of the heed. The 840 tags enable animal-health officials to trace a cow from beginning to slaughter. The USDA intends to make 840 tags predominant by 2023. The federal company says monitoring every cow will restrict crippling change sanctions if a farm animals illness breaks out. The 840 tags and on-line reporting will be voluntary, for now.

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Charleston: A bill expected to be launched throughout the 2020 legislative session would possibly presumably well presumably give up greyhound racing within the relate. Info retail outlets anecdote Republican Senate President Mitch Carmichael launched an idea part Tuesday calling for an give as a lot as the put collectively. He’s now facing opposition from some relate delegates. The Parkersburg Info and Sentinel stories the casinos make video lottery funds of about $15 million annually to the West Virginia Lottery Commission. The lottery commission transfers the cash into purse accounts on the casinos and the racing commission. Carmichael says the cash subsidizes the greyhound change but is seemingly to be better invested in roads and education. Democratic Delegate Shawn Fluharty says ending greyhound racing would bag rid of as many as 1,700 jobs in West Virginia.

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Wildfires burning around the West. Rising seas lapping at the East. Animal feces, coal ash, and fertilizer fouling waterways from the Carolinas to the Midwest. Bridges, roads, and pipelines crumbling across the country. With the midterm elections less than a month away, communities across the United States face some of the most formidable scientific, environmental, and technological challenges in decades. On November 6, voters from Alaska to Florida will choose not just their next governor, state representative, or member of Congress, but to some degree how we live for decades to come. “This is the most important election of our lifetime,” says Bill Holland, New Mexico policy director for the League of Conservation Voters.

In the 36 gubernatorial and 470 congressional races around the country, some of these challenges, like opioids and fossil fuels, are campaign issues, while others, such as climate change’s role in severe wildfires, don’t appear on any candidates’ platform. But, whether these matters are on their minds, the victors will face them once sworn in. Their decisions will help shape how well storm-ravaged communities adapt, whether the water is safe to drink, how open our internet will be, and more.

These are the top science, technology, or environment issues facing each state—plus Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. Even if it never surfaces on the campaign trail, science is always on the ballot.

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Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Alabama: Keeping drinking water drinkable

With more than 100 mines, the Black Warrior River watershed is one of the largest coal-producing regions in the South. It also provides drinking water for Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and other Alabama cities. While the mines employ hundreds of people, runoff from the operations carries heavy metals, acids, and sediment into waterways. Strip mining—in which workers scrape the surface of a mine and dump waste rock into valleys that run into river valleys—is one of the worst culprits. Environmental groups, including the Black Warrior Riverkeeper, say the Alabama Department of Environmental Management has failed to enforce laws that would protect water quality in the region. They’ve filed several lawsuits to compel the department to address the issue.

Alaska: Guarding calving grounds

The 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to North America’s largest caribou herd. It also encompasses what energy companies believe is the biggest untapped oil and gas reserve left in the U.S. Companies have angled to drill in the refuge’s coastal plain for almost four decades, but congressional attempts to open the lands failed amid concerns that it would damage the caribou’s calving areas. Now, the industry might get its wish. Last year, Congress authorized drilling in the area as part of a tax reform bill, and directed the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas leases to energy companies by 2024. BLM has received a proposal for seismic exploration of the 1.6-million-acre plain this coming winter. Longtime drilling proponent Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and other supporters say development would be limited to no more than 2,000 acres. But a U.S. Geological Survey study of the effects of such development on caribou found that the animals avoided calving in any areas with concentrations of drilling infrastructure, which could cause the mammal’s numbers to dwindle. Similar studies also found that the herd avoids areas near oil and gas fields in the Canadian side of its range.

Arizona: Water conservation

For decades, two massive reservoirs—Lake Mead on the Arizona-Nevada border and Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border—have stored water from the Colorado River for cities and farms in Western states, including California, Nevada, and Arizona, as well as Mexico. But a triple whammy of prolonged drought, this past winter’s paltry Rocky Mountain snowpack (which feeds the river’s lower basin), and years of overuse by cities, farms, and factories have left levels low enough to risk a water shortage—the first ever—within the next two years. By the end of this year, Lake Mead will be at 1,080 feet above sea level, just 5 feet above the threshold that triggers the declaration of a shortage. If that happens, under agreements among the states that share the basin’s water, Arizona and Nevada, who have the most junior rights in the basin, would face the biggest cuts. Grand Canyon State water managers recently began drafting a drought contingency plan to soften the blow through conservation and other measures. The team hopes the legislature will approve the plan when it reconvenes in January.

Arkansas: Monitoring confined animal feeding operations

The animal waste and dirtied water flowing out of high-density hog farms, a type of confined animal feeding operation (CAFO), have troubled clean-water advocates for years. The fate of Arkansas’ largest—C&H Hog Farms, a 6,500-head facility in the Buffalo River watershed—could determine the collective destiny of all other CAFOs in Arkansas. In operation since 2012, the facility has been hotly contested by some residents and local environmental organizations, including the Buffalo River Watershed Alliance and the Ozark Society. The groups worry that the estimated 2.5 million gallons of annual waste will leak into waterways and cause harmful algae blooms (rapidly growing colonies that produce toxins) downstream. The state Department of Environmental Quality suspended permitting of other CAFOs in the area, and, earlier this year, continued its crackdown by denying the facility’s renewed operating permit. C&H has appealed the decision.

California: Forging paths forward

To some degree, California and its nearly 40 million residents face almost every issue in the country. Where the Golden State sets itself apart, though, is in how its solutions to those issues can often set a national standard.

Climate change is at the root of its most pressing issues—a five-year drought, more-frequent wildfires, and water scarcity—but the state’s long-running push to expand renewable energy is facing challenges. Gov. Jerry Brown and some state lawmakers worry that President Trump’s embrace of fossil fuels will interfere with state’s 12-year-old effort to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and its new plan to go carbon-free by 2045. Thanks to a range of measures—capping industrial emissions, setting high vehicle fuel-efficiency standards, and providing incentives to switch to solar—the initial plan has met its goal of slashing greenhouse gases to 1990 levels four years ahead of schedule. (That’s more ambitious than targets in other states, which aim to cut emissions to higher 2000 levels.) In August, however, the Trump administration proposed revoking California’s authority to impose its own automotive standards. These and other federal climate-change rollbacks might be enough to sway voters, according to some analysts.

The state is also a bellwether in the national debate about internet freedom. Home to the nation’s leading tech companies, California is working to fill the regulatory vacuum left by the June federal repeal of Federal Communications Commission net neutrality regulations. This past August, state lawmakers passed a bill that will bar internet-service providers from slowing or blocking websites, and restrict “zero-metering,” the practice of not counting preferred services and apps against a customer’s monthly data limits. But days after Gov. Brown signed the bill into law in September, the Justice Department filed a legal challenge against it, arguing that internet runs between states, and is therefore subject to federal oversight.

Colorado: Quelling wildfire

The Spring Creek Fire scorched 108,000 acres of southern Colorado in July, making it the third-biggest blaze in the state’s history—and this past summer was its worst fire season in more than a decade. While August monsoons diminished the risk, the burns’ effect on vegetation led to another problem: floods. Without roots to hold the soil, sheets of water overflowed waterways and washed out roads. In the coming years, a Centennial State collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder could help officials and land managers prepare for the next big burn. The prediction system will combine weather data, vegetation type, topography, and fire-behavior models to determine where a blaze will spread, how severe it will become, and how it will behave. The project, which is in the testing stage, has bipartisan support in the statehouse.

Connecticut: Bad air days

During a heatwave this past August, health officials issued a warning that has become very familiar to residents of the Nutmeg State: Elderly folks and people with asthma should stay indoors until smog levels subside. Air pollution remains a problem throughout the Northeast, but Connecticut has it worst: For two out of the past three years, the state has had 30 bad air days—when levels of ground-level ozone, a component of smog produced by vehicles and other sources, reached levels that could lead to asthma attacks and breathing problems. Neighboring Massachusetts, the state with the next-worst quality in the region, experienced about 3. The daily crush of commuters on I-95 is part of the problem; transportation accounts for 36 percent of emissions, according to the state’s 2013 greenhouse gas inventory (its most recent). Connecticut is also a victim of geography: It sits below an air-current highway that streams pollution from coal-fired power plants in Midwestern states. The state is one of 19 (including the District of Columbia) challenging the Trump administration’s decision to freeze fuel-economy standards for cars and sport utility vehicles at 2020 levels. Gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont is among those making noise about the decision and has also vowed to put more electric vehicles on the road; challenger Bob Stefanowski has not taken a position on the issue.

Delaware: Blocking offshore drilling

Tiny Delaware is mostly coastal, and its economy relies heavily on beach tourism. In 2016, nine million visitors generated $500 million in tax revenue. So when President Trump announced plans to open most of the nation’s coastline to offshore energy development, state officials—worried about tourism-killing oil spills and unsightly derricks—swiftly moved to fill the regulatory vacuum. This past June, lawmakers passed a bill that bans offshore oil and gas drilling in the state. Gov. John Carney, who has spoken out against Trump’s plan, signed the measure September 20. While state waters extend only 3.5 miles offshore, companies wanting to develop in the zone would still have to get state permission to build pipelines and other infrastructure. The bill grants local regulators the authority to deny such permits. Companion legislation also empowers the state to take legal action to challenge oil and gas leases in federal waters.

Florida: Coastal protection

With 8,436 miles of coastline, more of Florida is at risk from sea-level rise than any other continental U.S. state. A recent University of Florida study found that levels rose more than 0.79 inches per year between 2011 and 2015 along the Sunshine State’s east coast. A May report by the Union of Concerned Scientists predicted that, in a worst-case scenario, three Florida communities, including two in the Keys, could experience double the current rate of tidal flooding by 2030; by 2045, 15 more communities, including Miami Beach, could see increased inundations; and 14 more, including Cocoa Beach-Cape Canaveral, Fort Lauderdale, and Jacksonville Beaches, would be regularly swamped by 2060. Despite this and other analyses, local lawmakers and Gov. Rick Scott have resisted statewide efforts to prepare for a waterlogged future. Some coastal communities are beginning to adopt their own measures to deal with the rising waters; Miami Beach, for example, has redesigned stormwater-drainage systems and plans to raise roads by 2 feet—although some residents have fought those efforts, saying elevating streets could hurt property values.

Georgia: Conserving marshland

Georgia harbors one-third of the East Coast’s remaining salt marshlands, which filter pollutants, buffer against storm surges, and provide habitats for birds, shrimp, crabs, and other wildlife. But the Peach State’s marshes are in trouble. A recent University of Georgia analysis found a 35 percent drop in vegetation along the coast over the past 30 years. A spike in temperatures and prolonged drought are largely to blame—as is encroaching development. As building continues, legislative pushback has been sparse: A bill, introduced by state Rep. Matt Dubnik, would create a specialty license plate to generate funds to support wetlands conservation and restoration.

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Hawaii: Reconciling wildlife protection and green-energy development

The Aloha State and California share the most ambitious green-energy target in the nation: One-hundred percent of the archipelago’s electricity must come from renewable sources like wind and solar by 2045. But the proliferation of wind turbines has come with an unexpected cost. The structures are killing large numbers of endangered Hawaiian hoary bats, the state’s only native land mammal. Under a special provision of the Endangered Species Act, a trio of Hawaiian wind farms secured a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to cover the accidental “take” of 92 bats over 25 years, but they’ve reached that limit in just six. Earlier this year, wind generators asked the agency to raise the limit to 483 bats. To receive the expanded permit, the companies will have to show what measures they’ll take to minimize harm to the bats—such as shutting off turbines when winds are mild to avoid collisions, and using ultrasonic sound to shoo the critters from the blades.

Idaho: Sharing the forests

For decades, Western states have sought greater say in how the government manages federal land within their borders. The fracas has often ended up in court, but Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and other officials have come up with a compromise that could help ease those tensions—at least relating to the state’s 20 million acres of federal forests. Under the new “good neighbor” plan, foresters will work alongside U.S. Forest Service officials on federal projects, such as thinning overcrowded areas to reduce wildfire risk. “We’ve made a lot of progress on the politics of forest management,” says John Freemuth, a professor of public policy at Boise State University. Policymakers and public land advocates around the West are keeping an eye on how the new collaboration plays out.

Illinois: Cleaning up the Great Lakes

Fifty years ago, the Great Lakes—the world’s largest source of freshwater—were widely polluted. But after a decades-long federal cleanup effort, the lakes have begun to rebound. The upward trend might be in jeopardy, though. A June executive order, which revoked a 2010 order by President Barack Obama to protect and restore Great Lakes ecosystems, could open the door to oil and gas development—and the potential for spills that could foul drinking water and harm aquatic life. Congressional candidate Sean Casten, a biochemical engineer and clean-energy entrepreneur, has made Great Lakes protections a campaign issue, accusing incumbent Rep. Peter Roskam of not doing enough. Though it should be mentioned that Roskam has fought a separate Trump effort to defund the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, aimed at protecting water quality and ecosystem health.

Indiana: Containing coal ash

The Hoosier State has more coal-ash disposal ponds than any other, and tests show groundwater near 15 power plants is contaminated with a cocktail of cobalt, lead, arsenic, boron, molybdenum, radium, and thallium. So when the EPA announced in July changes to coal-ash regulations adopted by the Obama administration, the Hoosier Environmental Council and other advocates in Indiana warned that the move could leave more of the state’s water resources vulnerable to pollution. The new rule ditches the requirement that state officials force coal companies to monitor groundwater, and gives states more flexibility in determining how companies should handle ash dumps. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has indicated it will now loosen requirements; though some companies, such as the Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), have said they plan to continue monitoring groundwater and proceed with coal-ash pond closures.

Iowa: Curbing farm pollution

Phosphorus and nitrogen runoff from the Hawkeye State’s farms has worsened: Nitrogen alone increased 47 percent over the past five years, according to a recent University of Iowa study. This is in spite of a five-year-old plan to reduce nutrient pollution by 45 percent. And what happens in Iowa doesn’t stay in Iowa. These nutrients flow into waterways that eventually pollute the Gulf of Mexico, where they feed the area’s infamous “dead zone.” The overload feeds massive algae blooms that cause oxygen levels in the now 8,776-square-mile swath to drop so low that marine life can’t survive, threatening the region’s seafood industry.

Kansas: Dry-cleaning chemicals in residents’ water

This past summer, an investigation in the Wichita Eagle newspaper found that hundreds of residents drank and bathed in water fouled with the dry-cleaning chemical perchloroethylene (PCE) for more than six years—and that state officials failed to inform the communities. At one site, PCE levels in the groundwater were 8.1 parts per billion; EPA limit is 5 ppb. As many as 22 other contaminated sites may have gone unaddressed, according to the investigation. A 1995 state law lobbied for by the dry-cleaning industry appears to be largely to blame. The Kansas Drycleaner Environmental Response Act included a provision that directed state regulators to refrain from looking for contamination from dry cleaners and “make every reasonable effort” to keep sites off the EPA’s Superfund list. Residents are calling for the state to scrub up the areas and for lawmakers to strike the part of the legislation that bars checking for PCE leaks in groundwater.

Kentucky: Fighting opioid abuse

More than 1,500 people died from drug overdoses in the Bluegrass State in 2017, an 11 percent increase over 2016—with heroin, fentanyl, or both involved in many of them. State lawmakers are taking a multipronged approach to tackling the problem: They’ve limited fills to three days (rather than the five- to seven-day bars in most states) to keep doctors from overprescribing the meds; state Attorney General Andy Beshear has sued seven pharmaceutical companies for failing to disclose how addictive their painkillers are; and a bipartisan bill to legalize medical cannabis, which for some could be used as an alternative pain medication, will likely be reintroduced in the 2019 legislature. “We’re still not taking this seriously enough,” Gov. Matt Bevin cautioned at the National Governors Association meeting in July.

Louisiana: Land loss

More than 2,000 square miles of Louisiana have slipped into the Gulf of Mexico since 1932. (Even a lab that studies flooding might have to move because of rising waters.) Encroaching seas are only partly to blame; erosion and subsidence—sinking of the land because of its underlying geology—allow water to encroach farther than it otherwise would. The loss of storm-surge-buffering wetlands also puts the shoreline at greater risk during severe weather. Hundreds of thousands of homes, economically important fisheries, and tourist centers like New Orleans are all in the danger zone. Now, the state has a plan to fortify the coast. Initiatives include restoring wetlands, and breaching barriers to reconnect the Mississippi River with its floodplain and deliver land-building sediment. But finding enough funding to implement the $50 billion plan has been a challenge, in part because of lower-than-expected oil and gas revenues that help fund the program.

Maine: Keeping smog in check

This past July, Maine Gov. Paul LePage asked the EPA to exempt much of the state from the Ozone Transport Region air-quality program. Created under the Clean Air Act, the 11-state partnership monitors and limits emissions that cross state lines. Under the regulation, the Pine Tree State’s paper and lumber mills must cut pollutants such as the volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides that contribute to smog. LePage, at the behest of the forest-products industry, contends that Maine contributes little to the Northeast’s smog issue; environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Council of Maine, however, say that the coalition is why the state’s ozone levels remain low, and that backing out would only dirty up their air.

Maryland: Protecting the Chesapeake

The Chesapeake Bay defines Maryland. The estuary—the third largest in the world—runs down the state’s middle, and generates billions of dollars each year in recreation, tourism, and seafood revenues. For decades, pollution from industries, farms, and cities in the watershed was so severe that crab and oyster populations shrank, spurring the EPA to mandate a cleanup in 2010. Halfway to the 2025 deadline, progress has been uneven: The watershed states (Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York—plus Washington, D.C.) have cut phosphorus and sediment, but, according to a July report, there’s still too much nitrogen. Common in fertilizer, the chemical washes off fields and causes oxygen-sucking algae blooms. The EPA has asked the states for specific nitrogen-reduction plans in the next phase of restoration.

In some corners of the Bay watershed, cities are also struggling to cope with a 55 percent increase in heavy rains. Ellicott City, a nearly 250-year-old town in Howard County, has experienced two once-in-a-millennium-level floods within two years—the latest delivering 8.4 inches of rainfall and a 17-foot surge. Hydrologists suspect a number of factors are to blame, including the conversion of forests to pavement and a lack of flood infrastructure. Parts of Baltimore, Anne Arundel, and Prince George’s counties also dealt with increased flooding this year, but the state’s elected officials are divided over what to do. They passed a measure in 2012 requiring municipalities to reduce the risk by installing new flood-taming infrastructure paid for by a new “stormwater fee;” The law was repealed after critics maligned it as a “rain tax,” but environmental advocates and affected residents are pushing officials to reinstate it.

Massachusetts: Aging gas lines

A series of explosions along natural-gas pipelines in Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, Massachusetts, on September 13 killed one person, injured 25, and sparked several fires. The event has focused attention on delivery safety—especially in states with aging infrastructure. Initially, inspectors found that the pressure in the pipes just before the explosions was 12 times what’s normal: 6 pounds per square inch instead of 0.5 pounds; a recent report tips ongoing repairs on old iron pipes as the root cause. Families affected by the blast have filed a class-action lawsuit against Columbia Gas of Massachusetts for negligence. Massachusetts has some of the oldest conduits in the country, and the incident has drawn the attention of officials elsewhere who are also dealing with the problem of outdated infrastructure. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration have issued warnings to utilities that aging pipelines need to be replaced for years. But it isn’t cheap: New pipelines can cost more than $1 million per mile.

Michigan: Updating infrastructure to prevent water poisoning

Four years after lead contamination in Flint’s drinking water made national headlines, Michigan has adopted the strictest lead rules in the U.S. In June, regulators finalized requirements to eliminate lead service lines by 2040. “As a state, we could no longer afford to wait on needed changes at the federal level,” Gov. Rick Snyder said in a statement. Under the new Michigan Department of Environmental Quality standards, public water utilities will have to swap out the state’s 500,000 lead pipelines, and cut the amount of lead in drinking water below 12 parts per billion (the EPA limit is 15 ppb). Utilities, which will have to pay for the work, say replacing the lines will be too costly and won’t necessarily prevent another Flint-like crisis. A big part of the problem there, they note, is that the city failed to add anti-corrosion chemicals when it switched its water source to the Flint River. The new rules do not require corrosion-control evaluations when municipalities turn to alternate sources. Gubernatorial candidate and former State Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer has proposed a replacing the state’s aging water infrastructure faster. Her opponent, state Attorney General Bill Schuette, led the investigation of the crisis that resulted in charges against 15 former and current Flint and state officials.

Minnesota: Minding mining

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is famous for its crystalline waters, evergreen forests, and moose herds. But just upstream in Superior National Forest lie rich deposits of copper and nickel, and mining companies are making a new bid to plumb the precious metals. Amid concerns from some residents, the outdoor recreation industry, and some lawmakers that the earth-moving could send mercury and arsenic into the protected area, the Obama administration placed a moratorium on mining in the area in late 2016. The Trump White House has peeled back those rules and recently gave Twin Metals Minnesota (a subsidiary of a Chilean company) the go-ahead to dig on the lands. Another firm, PolyMet Mining Co., wants to extract copper and nickel in the nearby Lake Superior watershed. The issue has divided residents: Outdoor recreation outfitters and environmental groups are suing to overturn the decision. Meanwhile, mining interests, some labor unions, and a few politicos are defending the mines as job creators. Rep. Rick Nolan, who angled for the lands to be opened up (they’re in his district), is not running for re-election; both candidates vying for his seat, Pete Stauber and Joe Radinovich, also support mining in the area, as do gubernatorial hopefuls Tim Walz and challenger Jeff Johnson.

Mississippi: Rebuilding bridges

Failing infrastructure is a problem across the country, but in Mississippi, it’s a full-blown crisis. Nearly 500 bridges are in such disrepair that the state Department of Transportation (DOT) had to close them—in some cases isolating rural residents. Communities and local businesses are pressing Magnolia State lawmakers to fix the deteriorating thoroughfares, but measures to deal with the problem have yet to gain traction. After the tax-averse legislature failed to pass a repair plan this past March, Gov. Phil Bryant announced that the DOT would immediately close another 83 bridges. Engineers and inspectors deemed the aging crossings unsafe for vehicles.

Missouri: The fake-meat debate

Missouri has become the epicenter of a fracas between meat producers and the burgeoning “fake meat” industry, a market that has jumped 24 percent since 2015. This past May, the legislature passed a bill that bars makers of flesh substitutes from using the word “meat” on their labels. Backed by the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association and pork producers, the bill could stifle growth of a new industry, according to meat substitute producers. Columbia-based Beyond Meat, for instance, could likely have to change its name, and warns that the measure could result in job loss. The company, together with University of Missouri researchers, has developed plant-based burgers, chicken strips, and sausages that closely resemble real meat. Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown says the bill would do little to convince consumers to opt for the real thing. In late August, vegan food maker Tofurky, along with the Animal Legal Defense Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, filed suit against the state, arguing that the new law stifles free speech and hampers competition.

Montana: Land use

What activities—mining, logging, livestock grazing, recreation—should and should not be allowed on Montana’s 27 million acres of federal land has been a flashpoint in Big Sky Country for decades. This year, access advocates have 29 Wilderness Study Areas in their sights, but these untrammeled tracts are good candidates for permanent congressional protection. At the behest of state lawmakers, Rep. Greg Gianforte has introduced two bills in Congress to allow logging and mining on the largely untouched areas. Environmental groups argue the lands, which total 690,000 acres, are worth protecting. At public discussions on Gianforte’s bills held in August—including one hosted by challenger Kathleen Williams—Montanans expressed a range of views on the measures: Some are worried about the impact on wildlife and ecosystems, while others hope for access for off-road vehicles and economic gains from diversifying permitted uses on the lands.

Nebraska: Expanding internet access

Nebraska’s 1.9 million residents are spread over 76,824 square miles of land, making it one of the nation’s most sparsely populated states. This dispersion presents a huge challenge in connecting households and farms to the internet. According to census data, 81 percent of homes in the Cornhusker State’s metro areas have internet access, compared with 73 percent in smaller cities and rural areas. The gap can be perilous: Many can drive two hours or more to reach medical care; a connection would allow them to use telemedicine for quicker diagnoses and earlier treatment. Access can also help farmers become more efficient and competitive by allowing them to employ sensors and other networked systems to monitor metrics like soil moisture and crop health. While competition among providers has hindered progress in some states, in Nebraska, companies like Cox Communications—which used a state grant to wire up a “Wi-Fi bus”—are collaborating with regulators to address digital deserts. A new law signed by Gov. Pete Ricketts this past April created a multidisciplinary Rural Broadband Task force and authorized the state Public Service Commission to give grants to companies that submit the lowest-cost bids for connectivity measures. “Closing the rural digital divide is an all-hands-on-deck exercise,” says Gus Hurwitz, a telecommunications expert at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Nevada: Debating the fate of Yucca Mountain

In Nevada’s tight senate race, both incumbent Sen. Dean Heller and challenger Rep. Jacky Rosen claim to be the most capable of quashing a controversial 30-year-old plan to build the U.S.’s only permanent, high-level nuclear-waste storage facility in Nevada. Developing Yucca Mountain, a volcanic rock ridge about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, has been fraught since Congress identified the site in 1987. Continued concerns over groundwater contamination and the potential for spills during transport ended with the Obama administration mothballing the project in 2009. Now, amid a new push for nuclear power, the dormant program—which proponents say is the safest option for storing such waste—might get a revival thanks to a House vote and a proposed $120 million White House budget boost, both aimed at expediting Yucca’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.

New Hampshire: Maintaining renewable-energy growth

New Hampshire is at a crossroads in its efforts to produce more renewable energy. Under a 2007 state rule, utilities must include more green power in their mix of sources. The 2018 target is 18.7 percent; by 2025, that target will be 25.2 percent. Granite State lawmakers recently passed bills to goose both the solar- and timber-based biomass industries, but only one survived the governor’s veto pen. The failed measure would have quintupled the allowable size of solar projects that qualify for net metering (the practice of selling excess power back to the grid). But incumbent Gov. Chris Sununu, who faces renewable-energy advocate Molly Kelly, nixed the measure, saying it would drive up electricity prices—already some of the highest in the nation. Lawmakers did, however, override his veto for a law requiring utilities to buy more power from six faltering biomass plants in the state. But the Energy Justice Network and other critics question whether biomass should qualify as a clean renewable: Burning wood emits sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulates, as well as heat. Still, proponents point out, biomass produces far fewer greenhouse gases than fossil fuels: 18 grams of CO2 (equivalent) per kilowatt hour, compared to 840 for oil and 1,001 for coal.

New Jersey: Getting a grip on stormwater

The Garden State is covered in more pavement and cement than any other; hardscapes make up 12 percent of its area. When it rains, rather than seeping into the ground, the water funnels into storm drains, often overwhelming aging pipes and washing pollutants from parking lots and roads into waterways. In some places, especially in many of the state’s older cities such as Newark and Trenton, drainage and sewer infrastructure combine in one system, adding even more pollutants to the mix. Jersey lawmakers are considering allowing municipalities and counties to establish stormwater utilities; these new public works would receive funding from fees placed on property owners based on how much pavement and rooftop area they have.

New Mexico: Drought

The average annual temperature in New Mexico has risen about 2.7 degrees over the past 45 years, making it one of the fastest-warming states in the union. Climate-change-fueled drought has dewatered long stretches of the Rio Grande, withered crops, and forced ranchers to reduce cattle herds. A lack of planning by state water managers and government officials—experts have warned of more-frequent drought for years—hasn’t helped. The parched conditions also have turbocharged the natural fire cycle; as of late September, 26 large forest fires had burned across the state. With the consequences of climate change at residents’ doorsteps, managing it is a recurring theme on the campaign trail. Gubernatorial candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham vowed to ramp up renewable energy development, calling for 50 percent of the state’s electricity to come from climate-friendly sources by 2030—and reach 80 percent by 2040. The efforts could bolster the state’s solar industry, which could be hurt by Trump administration’s solar tariffs.

New York: Restoring water quality

The Empire State has a lot of water cleanup ahead. According to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, as of this past August, 54 bodies of water have harmful algae blooms—rapidly growing nutrient colonies that can kill marine life and cause illness in humans. Fueled by warming waters, blooms lace both salty areas such as the Long Island Sound and freshwater deposits such as the Finger Lakes. At the same time, industry might also be compromising the wet stuff. In 2015, residents of Hoosick Falls, a village in eastern New York, discovered the chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in its water supply, blaming the nearby Saint-Gobain Performance Plastic manufacturing plant. Though the state sided with the villagers and set aside $25 million for relief efforts, the town is still waiting on an alternative source of H2O. Lawmakers are addressing the state’s overall clean-water issues broadly: They’ve passed $2.5 billion in funding to replace pipes and install new treatment systems; estimates from the state comptroller’s office, however, put the cost of proper plumbing closer to $40 billion.

North Carolina: Regulating coal ash

In the Tar Heel State, officials are grappling with how to handle a nasty byproduct of coal-fired power: the toxic ash that incinerated carbon leaves behind. After a 2014 ash spill in the Dan River, state lawmakers directed Duke Energy to close off and contain all 32 of its North Carolina ash basins. But stored waste and chemicals such as arsenic and lead can still continue to seep into the waterways. (Hurricane Florence floodwaters have further exacerbated the issue, breaching two containment dams.) In April, the state Department of Environmental Quality fined the coal company $156,000 for ground- and surface-water contamination from ash stored at its power plants—the latest in a series of fines. Advocates, including the Southern Environmental Law Center, however, say the state should strengthen cleanup requirements, particularly in light of the EPA’s July decision to toss 2015 federal standards and give states greater authority to set coal-ash regulations.

North Carolina is also home to the world’s only population of red wolves, a species poised for a (second) extinction. After hunting and other threats led the carnivores to be declared extinct in the wild, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced a colony in 1987. Today, only about 40 remain, and wildlife advocates fear that a new Interior Department plan to allow landowners to kill wolves outside their protected habitat could wipe out the rest.

North Dakota: Preserving air quality

Vast and sparsely populated, North Dakota has historically had some of the best air quality in the nation. Bismarck, for example, ranks among the American Lung Association’s top five least-polluted cities. But a recent oil-and-gas surge is testing the state’s ability to balance economic development with environmental protection. In July, Meridian Energy Group began constructing an oil refinery about 3 miles from Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The company claims the facility will provide 200 permanent jobs, but a trio of advocacy groups, including the Dakota Resource Council, are concerned that the resulting pollution will foul the park’s air. The groups sued the state in July; the plaintiffs contend that Meridian underestimated how much sulfur, methane, and other pollutants the facility will emit, and that the state health department’s monitoring requirements are inadequate. The legal challenge to the facility’s permit was dismissed in September; other suits are still pending

Ohio: Finding opioid solutions

The opioid epidemic is a top campaign issue for gubernatorial nominee Richard Cordray, a former consumer-protection official in the Obama administration. He’s openly blamed his opponent, current state Attorney General Mike DeWine, for a 20 percent spike in drug fatalities from 2016 to 2017—largely driven by an increase in fentanyl use. Ohio has one of the highest opioid-related overdose death rates in the nation. But opioid experts note that there’s little an attorney general can do to aid treatment or stop doctors from over-prescribing the drugs. DeWine did sponsor law-enforcement training as well as sued drugmakers and distributors for downplaying the addictiveness of such meds. Through the state’s job-creation agency’s “Third Frontier” program, Ohio also offered $20 million in grants for innovative solutions, including a $3 million effort to develop “abuse-resistant” opioids.

Oklahoma: Earthquakes from oil and gas development

Earthquakes in Oklahoma are up about 13,000 percent in the past decade, according to U.S. Geological Survey data. The uptick coincides with an increase in oil and gas development—more specifically, the practice of injecting wastewater into deep wells. Several landowners and the Pawnee Nation have sued natural-gas companies over resulting property damage. But the case is difficult to make: While a new study published in the journal Science suggests injection wells can trigger tremors several miles away, and a 2015 report from the Oklahoma Geological Survey linked the wells to property damage, it’s hard to connect damage from a rumbler directly to a specific constellation of wells. A federal court recently dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed by homeowners. Current state laws won’t do much to prevent further damage: A 2016 measure allowed the oil-and-gas authority to regulate how much wastewater goes into wells; the effort reduced minor tremors but did little to curtail the bigger ones, prompting calls to further limit the practice.

Oregon: Curbing pollution to protect water

From sea to peak, Oregon is struggling with the consequences of climate change. Its low-elevation mountain snowpack—which provides crucial river flows for cities, farms, and fish when it melts each spring—is shrinking faster than similar reserves elsewhere in the West.

The state’s saltwater resources are in trouble too. A 2017 study by Oregon State University found that increased carbon pollution has spiked ocean acidity along the Pacific Coast, making the area one of the worst in the world for oysters, crabs, and other marine life. But even as Oregon launches a collaborative working group of scientists, fishermen, and wildlife and agriculture officials to find workable solutions, legislative efforts to pass an emissions-reduction program have sputtered. Supporters hope a proposed “cap-and-trade” measure, which would require the state’s biggest CO2 emitters to either reduce their output or buy overages from other businesses, will finally pass in the 2019 legislative session.

Pennsylvania: Figuring out fracking

The Keystone State sits atop one of the richest natural-gas deposits east of the Mississippi, making it a poster child in the national debate over hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” Opponents of the drilling technique—which involves pumping sand and a largely unknown chemical cocktail deep into the ground to pry open rock fissures and release trapped gas—scored a major victory this past spring. The Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that creating gas-releasing fractures that extend beneath neighboring property amounts to trespassing. Analysts expect the ruling to inspire a wave of similar suits across the country. Meanwhile, politicians remain at loggerheads over the issue: While a new set of regulations in 2016 gave the state the authority to institute their own safeguards for drilling near public-water resources, industry advocates in the legislature continue to fight further restrictions.

Puerto Rico: Preparing for the next storm

Puerto Rico is still recovering from the 2017 hurricane season, which saw two storms pummel the territory, leading to more than 2,975 deaths—the worst natural disaster in its history. The local Climate Change Council says the island remains unprepared for the realities of intensifying storms, severe droughts, and eventual 2-foot sea-level rise that scientists predict. “Delayed decisions may cost human lives, destroy critical infrastructure, and damage the economy,” the council wrote in a 2013 report. Yet over the past decade, numerous fortification plans have fizzled, and a climate-change bill introduced this past January focused only on cutting emissions. Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares is looking to the 50 states for help by providing more federal funding to preparedness efforts. He’s encouraging Puerto Ricans in other states to vote for representatives and senators who pledge to do so.

Rhode Island: Paying for climate resiliency

The Ocean State is a national leader in the fight against climate change. It built the nation’s first offshore wind farm in 2016; it created 15,000 new green jobs; and, in July 2018, Rhode Island was the first state to file suit against fossil-fuel companies for climate-related damages like eroded beaches and the saltwater contamination of groundwater. (Previously, only cities like New York and Imperial Beach, California, had pursued legal action.) The nation’s smallest state has good reason to be worried: A recent Union of Concerned Scientists analysis warns that by 2045, almost 900 homes will face flooding from rising seas. Warming temperatures contribute to threats like drought and heat waves, but also could heat the oceans, pushing valuable cold-water-loving species like lobster and cod farther north. As the state awaits the fate of its legal challenge against 21 companies, officials are implementing the climate action strategy Resilient Rhody. These initiatives range from restricting and pulling back coastal development to restoring storm-buffering wetlands and improving emergency-response systems.

South Carolina: Monitoring oil cleanup

In December 2014, residents near the western South Carolina city of Belton spotted pools of gasoline. They’d discovered that energy giant Kinder Morgan’s underground Plantation Pipeline had spilled almost 370,000 gallons of gas into a tributary of the Savannah River. While the company has repaired the line, petroleum pollutants such as benzene and toluene continue to seep downstream. Two local groups, Savannah Riverkeeper and Upstate Forever, have filed suit under the Clean Water Act to force Kinder to continue the cleanup. Their case received a boost in May, when the U.S. Court of Appeals denied the company’s request for a rehearing—though it plans to ask the Supreme Court to review the case. While local officials support the lawsuit, incumbent state Attorney General Alan Wilson has sided with the defendants; his challenger Constance Anastopoulo has been quiet on the issue.

South Dakota: Finessing fossil fuels

Fossil fuels are front-of-mind for South Dakotans. The upcoming Keystone XL pipeline will cross the state as it ferries oil from Canada to the U.S. Last November, the existing Keystone pipe spilled 210,400 gallons of crude oil onto farmland near the northeastern town of Amherst. Residents worry that the new project will only increase the risk of future accidents. The Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, whose lands lie just downstream of where the conduit would cross the Cheyenne River, has vowed to stop it, while a trio of measures introduced by Democratic state lawmakers to regulate the pipeline industry have run out of gas.

Meanwhile, the Mount Rushmore State’s congressional delegation is united in favor of ethanol. While the biofuel’s credibility as a clean alternative to fossil sources remains questionable, the industry pumps almost $1 billion into the local economy, and the state is home to the world’s largest producer: POET. In April, the EPA under the Trump administration granted fossil-fuel refineries 25 waivers, excusing them from a 2007 law that would otherwise require them to blend in proportions of biofuels each year. Industry leaders worry the move will decrease demand, and ethanol producers and farm groups sued the EPA over three of the waivers in late May.

Tennessee: Strengthening water standards

The Volunteer State is awash in water-quality troubles. Exhibit A: Two years after the state lowered stormwater runoff standards for new construction projects, regulators have proposed more easements for real estate developers and transportation officials seeking to pave wetlands and divert streams. Exhibit B: Environmental group Tennessee Riverkeeper is suing the town of Pulaski, an hour south of Nashville, for the release of 30 million gallons of untreated wastewater; when the town’s infrastructure overloads during heavy rains, human waste can combine with runoff, overwhelming treatment plants and fouling waterways. Exhibit C: In eastern Tennessee, locals are pushing for the closure of the U.S. Nitrogen plant, which opened along the Nolichucky River in 2016, after a series of pollution violations. Riverkeeper and other groups say tougher regulations, strict enforcement, as well as infrastructure improvements are necessary to solve the state’s water woes.

Texas: Flood management and rural healthcare

As Houston continues to recover from Hurricane Harvey, new data from the U.S. Geological Survey confirms that the storm was the biggest rainfall event in U.S. history. It won’t be the last: A recent MIT study found there’s an 18 percent chance that record rainfall will hit the Lone Star State by 2100. Whether the region will be ready for the next storm is an open question. This past July, the Army Corps of Engineers allocated $4 billion to shore up coastal levees, but much of the flood infrastructure Harvey damaged still has not been fixed—and each new storm weakens it further. The state is also still vulnerable to accidental chemical releases, like the one that occurred when a power outage during Harvey led to a fire at the Arkema chemical plant. Thankfully, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in August that the Environmental Protection Agency must require safeguards to prevent the accidental release of toxic chemicals into the air.

Healthcare access is also top-of-mind among Texans, especially those in sparsely populated areas. About 36 percent of low-income rural residents do not have health insurance, compared with 29 percent in urban areas, making Texas one of the worst states in the nation for the rural uninsured, according to a report from Georgetown University and the University of North Carolina. To compound the problem, 14 rural hospitals have shuttered since 2010. Residents must rely on urgent-care centers or drive several hours to the nearest city for care. Healthcare advocates, including Dayna Steele, candidate for Texas’ 36th congressional district, are vocal about closing the gap. Steele has called for the state to incentivize healthcare providers to stay in rural areas and expand broadband connectivity, which could aid in telemedicine.

Utah: Protecting public lands

This past December, President Trump shrank two national monuments in Utah: Bears Ears by 85 percent and Grand Staircase-Escalante by about half. This past August, a draft plan from the Bureau of Land Management confirmed that the removed acreage would be opened up for mining and drilling—precisely what conservationists at groups like the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance had feared. Beehive State politicians say that the monuments, both established within the past 25 years, are an unnecessary restriction on development, but those in favor of protection say the lands are key to keeping wildlife habitats and fossil troves intact. Currently there are five suits in federal court that challenge the president’s move. Those who want to open up the lands are “a very small group of people,” says Nada Culver, senior counsel and director of the BLM Action Center at the Wilderness Society. “It’s so hard to see this happening.”

Vermont: Landfill expansion

The Green Mountain State’s last open landfill, the 78-acre Coventry facility near the Canadian border, could soon become even bigger, much to the chagrin of local residents and some of our neighbors to the north. The owner, Casella Waste Systems, has applied for a permit to expand into 51 acres of adjacent land, which would allow it to take in 11 million more tons of trash and stay open another two decades. But locals worry that the project will contaminate groundwater and nearby Lake Memphremagog, which provides potable water for about 200,000 people in Quebec. Casella officials say they will minimize groundwater pollution risk by double-lining the new addition and funneling any contaminated fluid into storage tanks, but Canadians who live nearby worry those safeguards might not be sufficient. This past July, a member of Canadian Parliament, Denis Paradis, urged Vermont regulators and incumbent Gov. Phil Scott to delay public meetings on the proposed expansion until the International Joint Commission, a body charged with resolving water disputes between the U.S. and Canada, can study potential effects on the lake. In August, officials agreed to hold off on granting the expansion, pending groundwater testing. Neither Scott nor challenger Christine Hallquist has taken a public stance on the expansion.

Virginia: Preparing for sea-level rise

Rising seas are lapping at states all along the East Coast, but the stakes are especially high in Virginia. Scientists expect levels in the Old Dominion to swell by at least 1.5 feet by 2050, swamping shoreline cities like Hampton Roads and Virginia Beach, and the 4,300-acre naval base in Norfolk. Since the 1980s, the area has experienced a 350 percent uptick in “sunshine flooding”—rising waters from high tides rather than storms. And March data from researchers at the College of William and Mary shows sea-level rise is accelerating: now 5.1 millimeters a year, compared with 4.6 millimeters a decade ago. Officials are deploying patchwork fixes like dikes and porous pavement (which allows water to sink into the ground beneath), but some coastal residents are resistant to what might be the optimal solution: retreat to higher ground with the help of government buyouts.

Washington: Taxes for carbon emitters

Voters here could make history. The ballot includes a measure to establish a carbon fee, a surcharge on most (but not all) sources of fossil-fuel emissions. If adopted, lawmakers expect the program to raise about $1 billion a year for clean-energy development and other efforts to fight climate change. Starting at $15 per metric ton of carbon, the price would rise by $2 per ton of emissions each year. If Washingtonians greenlight the fee—which enjoys support from environmental, labor, social-justice groups, and local tribes—the state will be the first to adopt a such a scheme. Fossil-fuel companies have spent millions opposing the program, focusing primarily on its exemption for certain polluters, such as a coal-fired power plant set to shutter in 2025. Other critics, such as the group No on 1631, say the fee—which would tack 14 cents to the cost of a gallon of gasoline and about 15 cents a gallon to the cost of home heating oil—amounts to a tax that would hit low-income residents hardest.

Washington, D.C.: Doubling down on drainage

D.C.’s drainage is overwhelmed during storms, sending pollutants that normally would run to treatment plants into waterways that empty into the Chesapeake Bay. The overflow, which is worsening as storms intensify, threatens the region’s progress in cleaning up the estuary. In June, the EPA issued the District some of the most stringent water-management directives in the region. The agency called for D.C. to 1) “immediately” reduce the amount of E. coli washing into the Bay; 2) create more “green infrastructure” such as gardens, vegetated roofs, and porous pavement that allow rainwater to sink into the ground; and 3) plant almost 7,000 new trees each year, 3,000 more than the previous guidance. “Most of the permits I’m familiar with in the other [Bay] watershed states don’t have these numerical requirements, don’t talk about trees, don’t talk about street sweeping, don’t talk about green roofs,” says Lee Epstein, Lands Program director for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. He and other advocates say the new permit is an improvement, but it might not address the stormwater problem swiftly enough.

West Virginia: Monitoring natural gas

Natural-gas production has increased fivefold in West Virginia over the past decade. Some lawmakers and residents worry that the state will repeat the same policy missteps with the natural-gas industry that it did with coal: imposing only a few regulations to protect water and ecosystems, and offering generous tax breaks that result in little revenue for the state (the fourth poorest in the nation, with a poverty rate of 17.9 percent). A proposed tax on natural-gas companies from Gov. Jim Justice to fund a pay raise for teachers fizzled this past spring amid strong pushback from industry leaders.

Wisconsin: Protecting groundwater

Unregulated groundwater pumping by farms has lowered levels in 22 lakes and several streams in central Wisconsin, spurring an outcry from lakeside homeowners, anglers, and environmental advocates such as Clean Wisconsin. Generally speaking, overpumping lowers the water table, causing spring-fed streams to drop as well. Many of these waterways are also polluted. An influx of nitrogen from farming fertilizer has spurred the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to add 242 bodies to the state’s “impaired waters” list, bringing the total to 1,124. In some areas, fertilizer and animal-waste runoff is making its way into private wells. In Kewaunee, Wood, and Juneau counties, between 40 and 50 percent of the sources are contaminated with E. coli or nitrates. “Literally people have excrement coming out of their taps,” says George Meyer, who headed the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources from 1990 to 2002 and is now executive director of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation. Meyer and other advocates say the state legislature and Gov. Scott Walker’s administration have failed to enforce clean-water rules and groundwater protections; challenger Tony Evers, who has a slight lead over Walker according to a Marquette University Law School poll, has called for strengthening water-safety measures.

Wyoming: Combusting over coal

More than any other state, Wyoming—by far the nation’s top coal producer—stands to economically benefit from the Trump administration’s decision to scuttle the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which set strict limits on carbon emissions from power plants. The new rule encourages coal-fired generators to become more efficient but does not impose a carbon-emissions cap. (Wyoming is one of a dozen coal-producing states that challenged the Clean Power Plan in court.) While analysts expect the changes to prolong the life of a few plants, some point out that coal’s bigger problem is that natural gas and renewables now outcompete it. The black stuff accounted for about half of the nation’s electricity 10 years ago, but a series of plant closures have cut production to about one-third. More facilities will likely shutter over the next two years, according to the S&P Global Market Intelligence. Environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, say they will sue if the Trump plan, which is still being finalized, goes into effect. Cowboy State candidates universally back the coal industry. But at the same time, a new energy source is on the rise in Wyoming: wind. In the next few years, about 5,000 megawatts of new wind energy could come online in the state.

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ARRL -Eddie De Young, AE7AA, of Clearwater, Florida, has been named Awards Editor of CQ Amateur Radio magazine. His first Awards column appears in the September 2019 issue. De Young succeeds Ted Melinosky, K1BV, who served both as Awards Editor and USA-Counties Award Custodian for more than 20 years. Brian Bird, NX0X, now is USA-CA custodian.

Licensed since 1954, De Young has held more than two dozen …

Past Japan Amateur Radio League Vice Chair Hisao Shono, JA1AA, SK

3 days ago

ARRL -Hisao Shono, JA1AA, died on August 19. He was 100. Shono served two terms as vice chair of the Japan Amateur Radio League. He was licensed in 1938 as J2IB. In 1952, when Amateur Radio was again permitted in Japan, he became the first to be relicensed and became JA1AA. He enjoyed DXing and QRP operation.

Hurricane Watch Net Suspends Operation, May Reactivate on Saturday

3 days ago

ARRL -The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) suspended operation temporarily at 1600 UTC today (September 6), after a 139-hour marathon activation that began last Saturday. The net may reactivate if weather conditions dictate.

“The hurricane has been moving just offshore of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina,” HWN Manager Bobby Graves, KB5HAV, said. “This morning, Hurricane Dorian made US lan…

FCC Extends Waiver Permitting Use of PACTOR 4 for Hurricane Relief Efforts

3 days ago

The October issue of Digital QST is Now Available!

3 days ago

The K7RA Solar Update

3 days ago

ARRL -Old Cycle 24 sunspots returned this week, but for only two days (Sunday and Monday) with a sunspot number of 12. Average daily solar flux increased from 66 reported in last week’s bulletin to 67.4 this week.

Radiation from a coronal hole increased the average planetary A index from 5.7 last week to 19.9 this week, with the level on Saturday and Sunday at 38 and 45. In Fairbanks, Alaska’s College…

The Space Weather Woman

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – Our Sun and the Hurricane Create a Perfect Storm – The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW

The superheterodyne radio

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – The superhet or superheterodyne radio has been in use for over a hundred years and it is still one of the most popular formats for a receiver

STEVE returns during Labor Day geomagnetic storm

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – Last weekend polar skies lit up brightly in response to a geomagnetic storm. But not all the lights in the sky were auroras. STEVE was there, too

Radio hams track interfering signals

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – ARRL report volunteers from the Skagit Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Club (SARECC) in Anacortes, Washington, recently assisted the US Coast Guard in tracking the source of interference on VHF Marine Channel 5A (156.250 MHz)

International Air Ambulance Week 2019

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – This year’s International Air Ambulance Week will take place between 7th and 15th September with the focus on supporting and generating donations for flying medical services around the world. The event covers two weekends, giving amateurs a great chance to get involved and support the event

Hurricane Dorian: Ham radio important in emergencies

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – WVLT TV news reports amateur radio operators are helping during Hurricane Dorian

GJ, Jersey

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – Bob, GU4YOX, will be active in this year’s CQWW DX CW Contest (November 23-24th) as GJ4YOX

DXCC Most Wanted

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – The ‘DXCC Most Wanted’ entities list has been updated on ClubLog as of August 30th

2m Threat: Radio DARC broadcast

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – This Sunday morning at 0900 GMT the Radio DARC broadcast on 6070 kHz AM will cover the role of the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in the recent French threat to 144-146 MHz

DX News from the ARRL

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – The American Radio Relay League’s round-up of the forthcoming week’s DX activity on the amateur radio bands

North American CW Sprint Set for September 8 UTC

4 days ago

ARRL -The fall running of the North American CW Sprint, sponsored by NCJ, is this coming weekend. Many operators believe it levels out the playing field, making it the most fun of any contest. An operator must QSY (change to another frequency) after making a single contact where he/she initiated the contact by calling a CQ, or by contacting a station calling CQ and “inheriting” the frequency after th…

Washington Amateur Radio Club Volunteers Track Interfering Signals

4 days ago

ARRL -Volunteers from the Skagit Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Club (SARECC) in Anacortes, Washington, recently assisted the US Coast Guard in tracking the source of interference on VHF Marine Channel 5A (156.250 MHz). This channel serves the commercial Vessel Traffic Service north of Bush Point on Whidbey Island, as well as in some Canadian waters in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The service …

QST Congratulates its Key Competition Winners

4 days ago

ARRL -Ingenuity and craftsman abound within the Amateur Radio community, as shown in the results of the 2019 QST Key Competition. More than two dozen entries were submitted, and the judges gathered in late July to evaluate them. The competition sought Morse key and paddle designs in four categories: straight key, semiautomatic key (bug), paddle, and sideswiper. Each was a mechanical work of art, but …

The Doctor Will See You Now!

4 days ago

WSPR explained: How to get started with one-way ham radio

4 days ago

Southgate ARC – Geoff Fox writes on Extreme Tech about how radio amateurs transmitting as little as one milliwatt can be heard on the other side of the world

Key role of radio hams in natural disasters

4 days ago

Southgate ARC – WBRC TV News reports on the important role radio amateur undertake during hurricanes or tornadoes

IARU attends ITU Inter-Regional Workshop

4 days ago

Southgate ARC – As part of its strategy to support the topics of interest to the amateur service at WRC-19, IARU is present at the third inter-regional workshop in Geneva this week

Hurricane Dorian: Storm watch continues

4 days ago

Southgate ARC – ARRL reports as of 1500 UTC Sep 4, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was reporting that a hurricane warning has been extended northeastward along the North Carolina coast

Hurricane Dorian: Radio hams help connect with families in Bahamas

4 days ago

Southgate ARC – WINK TV news reports communication is key after a devastating storm. Families across Southwest Florida are trying to make sure families in the Bahamas are safe. That’s when ham radios come in handy

Foundation Licence course on the London/Essex border

4 days ago

Southgate ARC – Loughton and Epping Forest Amateur Radio Society ( LEFARS ) will be running a weekend Foundation Level Course and Exam over the weekend of the 5th and 6th of October at All Saints Church Hall, Romford Road, Chigwell

EURAO Party – Autumn 2019: claiming for 2m

4 days ago

Southgate ARC – The European Radio Amateurs’ Organization announces a new party on the air, this time with the motto: ‘claiming for 2m’

Amateur radio opens the world

4 days ago

Southgate ARC – Krugersdon News reports on Clarissa Clarke ZS6LIS who was one of the South African representatives at the Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) event in Bulgaria

2019 Syllabus Foundation in Braintree

4 days ago

Southgate ARC – The Braintree and District Amateur Radio Society in Essex is one of the first clubs to announce a 2019 syllabus Foundation course

Tony’s 10m Band Report

4 days ago

Southgate ARC – Strangely during the week was better than the weekend, Sunday was especially poor. Top chased after DX was OH73ELK (Finland). ~Also TM17FFF (France), 5T5PA (Mauritania)and S55G (Slovenia) showed up well. But there were others

Storm Watch Continues Along Southeastern US Coast

5 days ago

ARRL –[UPDATED: 2019-09-05- @ 1942 UTC] Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®) teams from Florida to Virginia went on alert this week, even before Hurricane Dorian left the Bahamas and started making its way up the southeastern US coast. As of 1800 UTC on September 5, Dorian was back to a Category 2 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 110 MPH. It was 115 miles south-southwest of Wilmington, North…

Regional Organizations Wrapping Up WRC-19 Preparations

5 days ago

ARRL -The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) held its final preparatory meeting ahead of World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19), convened by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Attending the session in South Africa was Brian Jacobs, ZS6YZ, who represented the South African Radio League (SARL) and International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 (IARU R1) as part of the South Afr…

Tracking Dorian: Hurricane Watch Net Hunkered Down for the Long Haul

5 days ago

ARRL -The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) has been in continuous operation for Dorian since last Saturday at 2100 UTC, and it plans to remain in operation on 14.325 MHz and 7.268 MHz until further notice, HWN Manager Bobby Graves, KB5HAV, said. The storm, then a Category 5 hurricane, made landfall on Grand Bahama Island with maximum sustained winds of 180 MPH, where it stalled for a day and a half. Only on…

NZ5A Wins the August QST Cover Plaque Award

5 days ago

ARRL -The winning article for the August 2019 QST Cover Plaque award is “Optimizing Propagation on 630 and 2200 Meters” by Robert S. Logan, NZ5A.

The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular article in each issue — is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll web page.

Route 66 on the Air

5 days ago

Southgate ARC – The Route 66 on the Air event will take place from September 7 until September 15 with special event calls W6A to W6U

Radio Amateurs of Canada AGM

5 days ago

Southgate ARC – The Radio Amateurs of Canada is pleased to hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Riverview, New Brunswick just outside of Moncton. The AGM event will be hosted by the Moncton Area Amateur Radio Club and will be held in conjunction with its Annual Fleamarket, which is being held at the same location. All RAC members are encouraged to attend the Annual General Meeting

Hurricane Dorian: Temporary waiver for ham radio mode Pactor 4

5 days ago

Southgate ARC – ARRL reports the FCC has granted ARRL’s emergency request for a temporary waiver to permit only those radio amateurs active and involved in Hurricane Dorian response and relief efforts to use the PACTOR 4 digital protocol on HF

HRN412 EmComm, Huricanes, and Elmers

5 days ago

Southgate ARC – David and Jim Aspinwall NO1PC talk Ham Radio: EmComm, Dorian, Elmering, etc

Ham Radio gets embedded RTL-SDR

5 days ago

Southgate ARC – Tom Nardi writes on Hackaday about the work of Rodrigo Freire PY2RAF who has integrated a RTL-SDR into a Yaesu FT-991

IOTA news from the DARC

5 days ago

Southgate ARC – Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

ARES on Alert for Hurricane Dorian’s Possible Arrival

6 days ago

Route 66 On the Air Special Event Set Announced

6 days ago

FCC Readies for Hurricane Dorian

6 days ago

ARRL -As Hurricane Dorian nears the US southeast coast, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai reports the agency been working throughout the weekend to finalize preparations for the storm and coordinate with federal and state partners.

“Our staff has reached out to wireless carriers and broadcasters to offer assistance,” Pai said in a statement. “With our government partners, including FEMA, we have worked to ensure…

FlexRadio Teams with Raytheon Team to Develop Airborne HF Radio

6 days ago

ARRL -In a strategic partnership with Raytheon, US Amateur Radio equipment manufacturer FlexRadio®has been selected by the US Air Force to adapt its off-the-shelf SmartSDR/FLEX-6000 architecture for HF modernization of airborne communications platforms. The new radio will provide beyond line-of-sight, long distance communications for air crews.

“We are excited to convey that our proven modular direct …

A New QST QuickStats Poll Has Been Posted

6 days ago

September is National Preparedness Month

6 days ago

Radio Romania to end shortwave broadcasts?

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – It looks as though Radio Romania International may be planning to end broadcasts on shortwave according to a press release from the Romanian Syndicate of Journalists MediaSind

2019 37th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – Please join us for the 2019 AMSAT 50th Anniversary Symposium, to be held in the Washington, DC Metro Area on October 18, 19, and 20, 2019

GB100GP active for Jamboree on the Air this October

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – The Scout’s UK Headquarters station GB2GP, located at Gilwell Park, North London, will be active for this year’s JOTA with the very special callsign GB100GP to celebrate 100 year’s of Scouting at Gilwell Park

Annual maintenance shutdown of the MSF service

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – The annual maintenance shutdown of the MSF service to allow safe working on the masts and antennas will take place on 12 September 2019

FCC Grants Temporary Waiver Permitting Use of PACTOR 4 for Hurricane Response and Relief

7 days ago

ARRL -The FCC has granted ARRL’s emergency request for a temporary waiver to permit only those radio amateurs active and involved in Hurricane Dorian response and relief efforts to use the PACTOR 4 digital protocol on HF. The waiver is valid through 2100 UTC on Friday, September 6. The waiver request was necessary because Section 97.307(f) of the FCC’s Amateur Radio Service rules limits digital data …

WRC-19 Asia-Pacific preparatory meetings

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – WIA Board Director Greg VK2GPK reports WIA continues its commitment to international representation in the lead up to the ITU World Radio Conference (WRC-19) which is being held in Egypt later this year

South Orkney Islands DXpedition

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – VP8/VP8DXU Corporate Sponsors — We are delighted to announce that Low Band Systems will supply their High-Power Bandpass Filters for all planned bands. This complement of best in class filters, in conjunction with vertical and horizontal polarized antennas, will allow us to operate two stations on the same band simultaneously and improve overall inter-station operability

Rescue assistance by Malabar Amateur Radio Society (MARS)

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – A few hours after the landslide occurred at Kavalpapra, Nilambur in Kerala, INDIA on August 9 where around 40 houses where gone under the mud and the all means of communications were breakdown, members of Malabar Amateur Radio Society (MARS) played a crucial role providing communication support to the Authorities

QSO Today – Eric Sears – ZL2BMI

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – Eric Sears, ZL2BMI, who joins me from New Zealand, is famous for this 80 meter QRP double sideband rig that he designed and documented in the 1980s for his personal use when “tramping” in the forests and mountains of New Zealand

ICQPodcast – Radio Caroline (GB55RC)

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Chris Howard M0TCH, Martin Rothwell M0SGL, Ed Durrant DD5LP, Frank Howell K4FMH and Bill Barnes N3JIX to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is the GB55RC activation onboard Radio Caroline at the start of August

Ham College 56

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – General Amateur Radio Exam part 27. Meters, Batteries, RF Exposure. Plus surprise visit from Ray Novak, N9JA live in the Icom booth at Tokyo Hamfair 2019. Preview ground breaking new technology

DXCC Country/Entity Report

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 25th August, through Sunday, 1st September there were 207 countries active

ATU finalises its positions for WRC-19

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – IARU Region 1 has released a report on the African Telecommunications Union preparatory meeting for WRC-19 held in East London, August 26-30

AMSAT SA Dual Band Yagi now available for export

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – AMSAT South Africa (AMSAT SA) has developed a dual-band Yagi VHF/UHF antenna for satellite operation

ADF4351 new Arduino code

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – I have been challenged by another member of our club, the Banbury Amateur Radio Society, to get some code working to program the Analog Devices ADF4351 – a digital signal generator with a range of 35MHz to 4.4GHz (yes you read that right)

IOTA news from OPDX

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin

Major Hurricane Dorian Prompts Sustained Activations

8 days ago

ARRL -Hurricane Dorian, now a dangerous Category 5 storm, hit the island of Abaco in the Bahamas with 185 MPH winds and heavy rain. The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) on 14.325 MHz (7268 MHz alternate) and the VoIP Hurricane Net (EchoLink WX_TALK Conference) remain activated in conjunction with WX4NHC at the National Hurricane Center to keep on top of ground-truth weather information and to handle emergen…

ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program is Now Accepting Applications

8 days ago

ARRL –Applications for the 2020 ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program will be accepted between September 1 and December 31, 2019.

All applicants must be FCC-licensed radio amateurs, and many scholarships have other specific requirements, such as intended area of study, residence within a particular ARRL Division, Section or state, and license class. Applicants should review the scholarships and check of…

ICQ Podcast Episode 303 – Radio Caroline (GB55RC)

8 days ago

ICQ Podcast -In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Chris Howard M0TCH, Martin Rothwell M0SGL, Ed Durrant DD5LP, Frank Howell K4FMH and Bill Barnes N3JIX to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is the GB55RC activation onboard Radio Caroline at the start of August.

ICQ AMATEUR/HAM RADIO PODCAST DONORS We would like to thank Joe Ferguson (W4JF) and our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit – http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate

– Parks on the Air Come to England – World’s First FT8 Contact on 122 GHz – VRT Withdraws Slur Against Radio Amateurs – BBC Service to Kashmir on Shortwave Increased – Ideas Sought for the Next FUNcube Satellite – Hiram Percy Maxim 150th Birthday Celebration – Radio Hams Continue Support of RNLI – Automated Contacts Prohibited – RSGB Release Mock Exam Papers

The Space Weather Woman

8 days ago

Southgate ARC – Hurricane Dorian and Smart Space Radiation Medicine – The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW

Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP

8 days ago

Southgate ARC – Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to remain at low levels

The satellite phone you already own: From orbit, UbiquitiLink will look like a cell tower

8 days ago

Southgate ARC – For anyone that’s ever been broken down along a remote stretch of highway and desperately searched for a cell signal, knowing that a constellation of communications satellites is zipping by overhead is cold comfort indeed

The September/October 2019 Communicator

8 days ago

Southgate ARC – Projects, News, Views and Reviews… Back after Summer break, here is the September / October SARC Communicator newsletter

SARL attended ATU APM19-4 meeting in East London

8 days ago

Southgate ARC – SARL News reports the fourth and final African Telecommunications Union WRC-19 Preparatory Meeting was held in East London (South Africa) from August 26-30, 2019

Ham radio operators stand ready in case of disaster

8 days ago

Southgate ARC – British Columbia local news reports amateur radio may be the only communication left after a major calamity

GB8NCI at Exmouth National Coastwatch Institution

8 days ago

Southgate ARC – The Exmouth Journal reports amateur radio enthusiasts across Europe learnt about the work of the National Coastwatch Institution thanks to an Exmouth station’s annual radio event on August 24-25

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Efficient Solar Services to offer SunPower Direct program to solar customers

Efficient Solar Services, a San Diego solar brokerage firm, and SunPower have partnered to offer a direct solar solution. This partnership allows solar customers to purchase, finance or lease SunPower panels while dealing directly with the manufacturer. From design, permitting and installation, SunPower will be part of the customer experience.

“We have helped thousands of homeowners, businesses and non-profits go solar throughout all of California,” said Jordan Litrownik, CEO of Efficient Solar Services. “We have now expanded to Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey and New York. Near-term plans also include Utah, Texas, Florida, South Carolina and Pennsylvania. We have always offered customers the world’s best panels, but now we can give them the world’s best service.”

Traditionally, solar companies use subcontractors to provide installation services for their customers. With the new direct structure, this is now a thing of the past.

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SunPower Direct gives clients the peace of mind that their solar project is being facilitated by the company that manufactures it. Efficient Solar Services will be the first point of contact for those looking to go solar. ESS will qualify homes and educate homeowners on how solar works, the savings and the benefits. ESS has an extensive team of knowledgeable project coordinators, not only in solar technology, but also with available rebate and incentive programs.

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Houses For Sale in Blue Point, NY

Boylan Ln, Blue Point, NY

Price: $399000

Cleared And Treed 1.1 Acre Lot Will Afford Unobstructed Views To The Great South Bay From Second Floor. By Suffolk County Protected Wetlands. The Treeline On The Property Is At The Northern Border With Most Of The West And South Of The Property Clear. One Of A Kind Building Opportunity In South Blue Point.

136 Division Ave, Blue Point, NY

Price: $345000

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5 Dietz Ct, Blue Point, NY

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39 Boylan Ln, Blue Point, NY

Price: $459000

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Classic early 1900’s Colonial sits on just over half acre lot in beautiful South Blue Point. The wrap around porch welcomes you as you enter into the foyer. Lovely moldings, hardwood floors and high ceilings bring you back to days gone by, while the homes’ large eat in kitchen featuring Carrara Marble counter tops and stainless appliances offer you an updated version. French doors in the kitchen lead to the backyard where you will find the 16 x 32 in-ground pool for those beautiful summer days. Speaking of summer days, Corey Beach, the Blue Point fishing pier and famous “Flo’s Luncheone tte are all just a short stroll or bike ride away! Downtown areas of Sayville & Patchogue are close by as well, offering great restaurants, nightlife & shopping. Ferry service to Fire Island is also available. This home also offers a 3 car garage, inground sprinklers and fully fenced yard, including a separate safety fence around pool.

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6 Kuebler St, Blue Point, NY

Price: $448000

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15 Kuebler St, Blue Point, NY

Price: $299900

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Ham Radio Updates

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Propagation de K7RA

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VK6WIA NewsWest

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New amateur radio maps

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Southgate ARC – EI8IC has released a number of new amateur radio maps: CQ Zones, ITU Zones, UK/EI Contest District Codes

Ham radio continues on the Hi-Line

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Southgate ARC – The Havre Daily newspaper interviews Lloyd Stallkamp NO7G about ham radio and the Hi-Line Amateur Radio Club

Ham radio company wins big

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Foundations of Amateur Radio

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Eddie De Young, AE7AA, Named CQ Awards Editor

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Licensed since 1954, De Young has held more than two dozen …

Past Japan Amateur Radio League Vice Chair Hisao Shono, JA1AA, SK

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Hurricane Watch Net Suspends Operation, May Reactivate on Saturday

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“The hurricane has been moving just offshore of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina,” HWN Manager Bobby Graves, KB5HAV, said. “This morning, Hurricane Dorian made US lan…

FCC Extends Waiver Permitting Use of PACTOR 4 for Hurricane Relief Efforts

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The October issue of Digital QST is Now Available!

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The K7RA Solar Update

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Radiation from a coronal hole increased the average planetary A index from 5.7 last week to 19.9 this week, with the level on Saturday and Sunday at 38 and 45. In Fairbanks, Alaska’s College…

The Space Weather Woman

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Southgate ARC – Our Sun and the Hurricane Create a Perfect Storm – The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW

The superheterodyne radio

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Southgate ARC – The superhet or superheterodyne radio has been in use for over a hundred years and it is still one of the most popular formats for a receiver

STEVE returns during Labor Day geomagnetic storm

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Southgate ARC – Last weekend polar skies lit up brightly in response to a geomagnetic storm. But not all the lights in the sky were auroras. STEVE was there, too

Radio hams track interfering signals

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International Air Ambulance Week 2019

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Hurricane Dorian: Ham radio important in emergencies

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Southgate ARC – WVLT TV news reports amateur radio operators are helping during Hurricane Dorian

GJ, Jersey

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Southgate ARC – Bob, GU4YOX, will be active in this year’s CQWW DX CW Contest (November 23-24th) as GJ4YOX

DXCC Most Wanted

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Southgate ARC – The ‘DXCC Most Wanted’ entities list has been updated on ClubLog as of August 30th

2m Threat: Radio DARC broadcast

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Southgate ARC – This Sunday morning at 0900 GMT the Radio DARC broadcast on 6070 kHz AM will cover the role of the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in the recent French threat to 144-146 MHz

DX News from the ARRL

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Southgate ARC – The American Radio Relay League’s round-up of the forthcoming week’s DX activity on the amateur radio bands

North American CW Sprint Set for September 8 UTC

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Washington Amateur Radio Club Volunteers Track Interfering Signals

2 days ago

QST Congratulates its Key Competition Winners

2 days ago

The Doctor Will See You Now!

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WSPR explained: How to get started with one-way ham radio

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Southgate ARC – Geoff Fox writes on Extreme Tech about how radio amateurs transmitting as little as one milliwatt can be heard on the other side of the world

Key role of radio hams in natural disasters

2 days ago

Southgate ARC – WBRC TV News reports on the important role radio amateur undertake during hurricanes or tornadoes

IARU attends ITU Inter-Regional Workshop

2 days ago

Southgate ARC – As part of its strategy to support the topics of interest to the amateur service at WRC-19, IARU is present at the third inter-regional workshop in Geneva this week

Hurricane Dorian: Storm watch continues

2 days ago

Southgate ARC – ARRL reports as of 1500 UTC Sep 4, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was reporting that a hurricane warning has been extended northeastward along the North Carolina coast

Hurricane Dorian: Radio hams help connect with families in Bahamas

2 days ago

Foundation Licence course on the London/Essex border

2 days ago

EURAO Party – Autumn 2019: claiming for 2m

2 days ago

Southgate ARC – The European Radio Amateurs’ Organization announces a new party on the air, this time with the motto: ‘claiming for 2m’

Amateur radio opens the world

2 days ago

Southgate ARC – Krugersdon News reports on Clarissa Clarke ZS6LIS who was one of the South African representatives at the Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) event in Bulgaria

2019 Syllabus Foundation in Braintree

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Southgate ARC – The Braintree and District Amateur Radio Society in Essex is one of the first clubs to announce a 2019 syllabus Foundation course

Tony’s 10m Band Report

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Storm Watch Continues Along Southeastern US Coast

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Regional Organizations Wrapping Up WRC-19 Preparations

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Tracking Dorian: Hurricane Watch Net Hunkered Down for the Long Haul

3 days ago

NZ5A Wins the August QST Cover Plaque Award

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ARRL -The winning article for the August 2019 QST Cover Plaque award is “Optimizing Propagation on 630 and 2200 Meters” by Robert S. Logan, NZ5A.

The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular article in each issue — is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll web page.

Route 66 on the Air

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Southgate ARC – The Route 66 on the Air event will take place from September 7 until September 15 with special event calls W6A to W6U

Radio Amateurs of Canada AGM

3 days ago

Hurricane Dorian: Temporary waiver for ham radio mode Pactor 4

3 days ago

HRN412 EmComm, Huricanes, and Elmers

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – David and Jim Aspinwall NO1PC talk Ham Radio: EmComm, Dorian, Elmering, etc

Ham Radio gets embedded RTL-SDR

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – Tom Nardi writes on Hackaday about the work of Rodrigo Freire PY2RAF who has integrated a RTL-SDR into a Yaesu FT-991

IOTA news from the DARC

3 days ago

Southgate ARC – Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

ARES on Alert for Hurricane Dorian’s Possible Arrival

4 days ago

Route 66 On the Air Special Event Set Announced

4 days ago

FCC Readies for Hurricane Dorian

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“Our staff has reached out to wireless carriers and broadcasters to offer assistance,” Pai said in a statement. “With our government partners, including FEMA, we have worked to ensure…

FlexRadio Teams with Raytheon Team to Develop Airborne HF Radio

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“We are excited to convey that our proven modular direct …

A New QST QuickStats Poll Has Been Posted

4 days ago

September is National Preparedness Month

4 days ago

Radio Romania to end shortwave broadcasts?

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Southgate ARC – It looks as though Radio Romania International may be planning to end broadcasts on shortwave according to a press release from the Romanian Syndicate of Journalists MediaSind

2019 37th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting

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Southgate ARC – Please join us for the 2019 AMSAT 50th Anniversary Symposium, to be held in the Washington, DC Metro Area on October 18, 19, and 20, 2019

GB100GP active for Jamboree on the Air this October

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Annual maintenance shutdown of the MSF service

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Southgate ARC – The annual maintenance shutdown of the MSF service to allow safe working on the masts and antennas will take place on 12 September 2019

FCC Grants Temporary Waiver Permitting Use of PACTOR 4 for Hurricane Response and Relief

5 days ago

WRC-19 Asia-Pacific preparatory meetings

5 days ago

South Orkney Islands DXpedition

5 days ago

Rescue assistance by Malabar Amateur Radio Society (MARS)

5 days ago

QSO Today – Eric Sears – ZL2BMI

5 days ago

ICQPodcast – Radio Caroline (GB55RC)

5 days ago

Ham College 56

5 days ago

DXCC Country/Entity Report

5 days ago

Southgate ARC – According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 25th August, through Sunday, 1st September there were 207 countries active

ATU finalises its positions for WRC-19

5 days ago

Southgate ARC – IARU Region 1 has released a report on the African Telecommunications Union preparatory meeting for WRC-19 held in East London, August 26-30

AMSAT SA Dual Band Yagi now available for export

5 days ago

Southgate ARC – AMSAT South Africa (AMSAT SA) has developed a dual-band Yagi VHF/UHF antenna for satellite operation

ADF4351 new Arduino code

5 days ago

IOTA news from OPDX

5 days ago

Southgate ARC – Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin

Major Hurricane Dorian Prompts Sustained Activations

6 days ago

ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program is Now Accepting Applications

6 days ago

ARRL –Applications for the 2020 ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program will be accepted between September 1 and December 31, 2019.

ICQ Podcast Episode 303 – Radio Caroline (GB55RC)

6 days ago

The Space Weather Woman

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – Hurricane Dorian and Smart Space Radiation Medicine – The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW

Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to remain at low levels

The satellite phone you already own: From orbit, UbiquitiLink will look like a cell tower

6 days ago

The September/October 2019 Communicator

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – Projects, News, Views and Reviews… Back after Summer break, here is the September / October SARC Communicator newsletter

SARL attended ATU APM19-4 meeting in East London

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – SARL News reports the fourth and final African Telecommunications Union WRC-19 Preparatory Meeting was held in East London (South Africa) from August 26-30, 2019

Ham radio operators stand ready in case of disaster

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – British Columbia local news reports amateur radio may be the only communication left after a major calamity

GB8NCI at Exmouth National Coastwatch Institution

6 days ago

G2-class geomagnetic storm in progress

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – A solar wind stream blowing faster than 700 km/s is lashing Earth’s magnetic field on Aug. 31st. This has sparked a G2-class (moderately strong) geomagnetic storm

French ham radio societies to meet

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – A meeting of France’s national Amateur Radio Societies is planned for September 22, societies represented will include DR@F, Union of Radio Clubs, AMSAT-F and REF

Digicel makes donation to Amateur Radio Club

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – Dominica News reports Digicel recently donated 150 batteries to the Dominica Amateur Radio Club Inc

Nebraska QSO Party

7 days ago

WA7BNM Contest Calendar – 1300Z, Sep 7 to 0100Z, Sep 8

Florida ARES Members Volunteer in Preparation for Hurricane Dorian

7 days ago

ARRL -The Florida’s three ARES® Section Emergency Coordinators are collecting information from ARES volunteers in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Dorian. The SECs have set up a volunteer form for Florida ARES members to express their desire to help in the areas of Florida affected by the impending hurricane. The volunteer’s information will be used to fulfill mission requests and allow SECs …

Propagation de K7RA

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – The current stretch of spotless days is now over three weeks, according to spaceweather.com. The continuing quiet seems eerie.

RSGB release Mock Exam papers

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – The RSGB has released 2019 syllabus mock papers for the Foundation, Intermediate and Full amateur radio exams

VK6WIA NewsWest

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – NewsWest for Sunday 1st September is the Club Focus edition. In this edition we give over as much space as is needed so that clubs can promote themselves and what they do

Foundations of Amateur Radio

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – Gate-keeping, special people and bullies – One of the recurring topics in my experience of amateur radio is that associated with people who use the hobby as an excuse to sow discontent. That comes in many forms, at the extreme end it’s harassment, but it also comes in the form of gatekeepers and nay-sayers

Packet Radio (Post Apocalyptic Internet?) – Computerphile

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – Prehistoric WiFi? Converting bits into audio and broadcasting them via radio – Dr Aaron Jackson demos packet radio

Chance of Aurora Saturday evening

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – The British Geological Survey has issued a Space Weather Alert. A high speed solar wind stream is expected to arrive today, August 31, Aurora possible in the evening

CEPT CPG decides position on 144, 50 and 1240-1300 MHz

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – At the insistence of the European Commission, a WRC-23 agenda item was considered necessary to address the world-wide protection of Regional Navigational Satellite Systems from amateur emissions in the band 1240-1300 MHz

Celebrating 90 years of Baldock Radio Station

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – In 1929, Baldock Radio Station opened its doors for the first time. That was the start of a nine-decade journey (and counting) that would see it evolve from a radio receiving station to the home of Ofcom’s work on managing the airwaves

160th anniversary of the Carrington Event

7 days ago

Southgate ARC – Michael Marcus N3JMM reports that Sunday, September 1 is the 160th anniversary of the Carrington Event – the largest documented solar storm and the beginning of understanding how it affects terrestrial systems

Hurricane Watch Net Set to Activate on Saturday

8 days ago

ARRL -The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) has been closely watching the progress of Hurricane Dorian and will activate on Saturday at 2100 UTC and remain in continuous operation on 14.325 MHz and 7.268 MHz.

Over the past 24 hours, the hurricane’s forecast track has shifted slightly, which will take the storm over the northern Bahamas before it strikes southeastern Florida.

As of 1500 UTC, Dorian was some 48…

US Jamboree on the Air Station Registration System Now Available

8 days ago

ARRL -A new registration system has been established for US stations planning to participate in the 2019 Scouting’s Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) in October. JOTA Coordinator Jim Wilson, K5ND, said the new system will enable JOTA organizers to directly publish station information to facilitate contacts and more readily provide information to those who have registered.

“It will also help us collect inform…

Florida Division of Emergency Management Seeking Qualified Amateur Radio Volunteers

8 days ago

ARRL -Florida’s Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) has notified the state’s Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®) groups that it’s soliciting in-state Amateur Radio volunteers to assist with emergency communication in preparation for Hurricane Dorian. The storm is predicted to make landfall on the southeastern Florida coast on Monday. Volunteers must registerwith the Florida Division of Emerge…

144 – 146 MHz Removed from French Proposal for Additional Aeronautical Applications

8 days ago

The K7RA Solar Update

8 days ago

ARRL -Tad Cook, K7RA, in Seattle, reports: The current stretch of spotless days is now over 3 weeks, according to Spaceweather.com. The continuing quiet seems eerie. For this past reporting week, Thursday through Wednesday, the average daily solar flux (10.7 GHz radiation recorded in Penticton, British Columbia, which roughly tracks with sunspot activity) was only 66. I couldn’t recall when the weekl…

VDSL: PTA imposes restrictions on Radio Amateur

8 days ago

Southgate ARC – Iceland’s national society, the IRA, reports on a case of a VDSL system allegedly failing in the presence of an amateur radio signal

Telford Hamfest at new venue

8 days ago

Southgate ARC – This Sunday is Telford HamFest and it is at a new venue, the Harper Adams University Telford TF10 8NB

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