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Getting Around Atlanta: The Ultimate Transportation Services Overview
Atlanta, Georgia, renowned for its rich history, vibrant culture, and economic significance, stands as a hub of activity in the southeastern United States. As a traveler, whether you're visiting for business or leisure, efficiently navigating the city is essential. Atlanta Transportation Services to help you get around smoothly, and this comprehensive guide aims to provide a detailed overview of these options, ensuring that you can explore Atlanta with ease.
Atlanta's Transportation Landscape
Atlanta boasts a diverse transportation landscape, accommodating the needs and preferences of various travelers. Here's an overview of the primary transportation services available:
1. MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority):
MARTA is Atlanta's public transit system, consisting of a network of buses and trains that serve the city and its suburbs. It's an affordable and eco-friendly option for getting around Atlanta. The MARTA rail system, which includes both heavy and light rail lines, is especially convenient for travelers. Key stations connect popular destinations like downtown Atlanta, Midtown, and the airport. The Breeze Card, MARTA's electronic fare payment system, makes it easy to pay for rides.
2. Bus Services:
In addition to MARTA's rail lines, the authority operates an extensive bus network that reaches various neighborhoods and destinations throughout Atlanta. Buses are equipped with modern amenities such as Wi-Fi, making them a convenient option for getting around the city. MARTA buses also connect with rail stations, offering seamless transfers.
3. Ridesharing Services:
Ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft have become increasingly popular in Atlanta. These services provide door-to-door transportation, with the convenience of booking rides through mobile apps. They're a flexible and often cost-effective choice, especially when traveling with a group or to destinations not easily accessible by public transit.
4. Taxis and Limousines:
Traditional taxi services are available throughout Atlanta, and you can easily hail one from the street or find them at designated taxi stands. Limousine services are also readily available for those seeking a more luxurious and comfortable ride. Both options are ideal for those who prefer a private and direct mode of transportation.
5. Rental Cars:
Renting a car is a popular choice for travelers who want the flexibility to explore Atlanta and its surrounding areas at their own pace. Numerous rental car companies have offices both at the airport and in various parts of the city. Keep in mind that Atlanta experiences traffic congestion during peak hours, so plan your routes accordingly.
6. Atlanta Streetcar:
The Atlanta Streetcar is a modern streetcar system that connects downtown Atlanta with key attractions like the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, the Sweet Auburn Curb Market, and the King Historic District. It's an excellent way to explore these historic areas while avoiding the hassle of parking.
7. Cycling and Pedestrian-Friendly Areas:
Atlanta has made strides in becoming more bicycle and pedestrian-friendly. The city has expanded its network of bike lanes and paths, making it easier for cyclists to explore. Additionally, certain neighborhoods, such as Midtown and Decatur, are highly walkable, with many attractions, restaurants, and shops within easy walking distance.
Navigational Tips:
Traffic Awareness: Be aware of Atlanta's traffic patterns, especially during rush hours. Plan your travel accordingly to avoid unnecessary delays.
MARTA Maps and Schedules: Familiarize yourself with MARTA's rail and bus maps and schedules, which are available online and at stations. MARTA provides real-time information on its website and through its app, making it easier to plan your journeys.
Rideshare Apps: If you plan to use ridesharing services, ensure you have the necessary apps installed on your mobile device and set up your payment method in advance for a seamless experience.
Conclusion:
Atlanta's transportation services provide travelers with a plethora of options for getting around the city. MARTA offers an efficient and budget-friendly way to explore Atlanta, while buses extend the reach to various neighborhoods. Ridesharing services offer convenience and flexibility, while traditional taxis and limousines cater to those who prefer private transportation. Renting a car provides independence, especially for exploring areas outside the city, and the Atlanta Streetcar offers a unique way to experience historical sites.
To make the most of your time in Atlanta, consider combining these transportation options based on your itinerary and preferences. By leveraging Atlanta's transportation network, you can navigate the city comfortably and efficiently, allowing you to fully enjoy all that this vibrant metropolis has to offer.
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Joseph McGill Jr. coming to Natchez for two-day program on slave dwellings
Joseph McGill Jr., founder and director of the Slave Dwelling Project
NATCHEZ, Miss. -- Joseph McGill Jr., a renowned authority on slave dwellings, is coming to Natchez for a two-day program that will feature a lecture and a living history campfire conversation.
The lecture, which is titled, “The Education Value of Sleeping in Slave Dwellings: Mississippi Edition,” will be presented at 6 p.m. Friday, April 14 at Historic Natchez Foundation. The campfire conversation will be held at 6 p.m., April 15 at the Auburn slave quarters.
Both events are free and open to the public. They are part of McGill’s nationally acclaimed Slave Dwelling Project. The two-day program is being hosted by Historic Natchez Foundation, Natchez National Historical Park, and Our Restoration Nation.
McGill is a history consultant for Magnolia Plantation in Charleston, S.C., and the founder and director of the Slave Dwelling Project. Through the Slave Dwelling Project, he has arranged for people to “sleep in extant slave dwellings,” providing experiences that “brought much needed attention to these often-neglected structures that are vitally important to the American built environment,” McGill said in a biographical sketch.
Since 2018, McGill has conducted more than 250 overnights in about 100 different sites in 19 states and the District of Columbia.
As a field officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, McGill worked to revitalize the Sweet Auburn commercial district in Atlanta, Ga., and to develop a management plan for the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area.
McGill is a former executive director of the African American Museum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and a former director of history and culture at Penn Center, St. Helena Island, South Carolina. He has also served as a National Park Service park ranger at Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston.
McGill holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Professional English from South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, S.C. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.
McGill’s work is recognized by authors and historians. He is featured in the books “Confederates in the Attic” by Tony Horwitz and “Behind the Big House” by Jodi Skipper.
Historic Natchez Foundation is located at 108 S. Commerce St. and Auburn is at 400 Duncan Avenue, both in Natchez. Parking is in the rear of Auburn, which is accessed from the second road on the right inside the Duncan Park Gate.
For more information, contact Carter Burns at Historic Natchez Foundation: Call 601-442-2500 or send email to [email protected]. Information about the Slave Dwelling Project can be found at https://slavedwellingproject.org/
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Bank of America Plaza, Atlanta
Centennial Tower, Atlanta
Downtown Atlanta
Haas Howell Building, Atlanta (two pics)
National Center for Civil and Human Rights,
497 Auburn Avenue NE, Atlanta (two pics)
Historic Fire Station No. 6, Atlanta (two pics)
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Amazing mural art in Atlanta’s historic Sweet Auburn district
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In 1986, Congress designated February National Black History Month, encouraging the American people to observe the history of Black Americans with activities and ceremonies. Now, cities around the country celebrate the month with a calendar full of events. If you’re looking for things to do in Atlanta to take part in Black history month, there’s no shortage of events and activities.
See the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
From Feb. 16-19, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform at the Fox Theatre. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was founded in 1958 by Alvin Ailey with the mission of showcasing African American dance. This month, dancers will put on five performances with critically acclaimed “Revelations” as the finale. Tickets for this event are available at alvinailey.org along with the Fox Theatre’s website or at the Fox Theatre box office.
Feb. 16-19. $29-$89. Fox Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta. foxtheatre.org.
Visit the National Center For Civil And Human Rights
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights opened in June 2014. Throughout the year, the museum is dedicated to highlighting the accomplishments of the American civil rights movement and the worldwide human rights movement. Along with their exhibitions of artifacts from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the center hosts various performances and lectures for the public. Tickets to visit can be purchased on the center’s website.
100 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd., Atlanta. civilandhumanrights.org.
Visit the King Center
Like the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, the King Center provides opportunities for the public to learn about Black history and the civil rights movement. At the center, attendees can visit the crypt of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King and the Eternal Flame which symbolizes the ongoing movement to achieve King’s vision for equality. Admission to the King Center is free and a map of the campus can be found at thekingcenter.org..
449 Auburn Ave. NE, Atlanta. 404-526-8900, thekingcenter.org.
Attend Atlanta Black Expo
On Feb.11, Urban Atlanta & Taste Urban Atlanta will host a Black business expo. Urban Atlanta is dedicated to providing spaces for Black business owners to connect with each other and the community. Taste Urban Atlanta works to uplift Black food business owners. This event will feature music, food and drinks with plenty of opportunities for shopping, networking, family fun and more.
11 a.m.-7 p.m. Feb. 11. $15; VIP $45. Cobb Galleria Centre, 2 Galleria Parkway SE, Atlanta. atlblackexpo.com.
Jim Hill’s ‘Born to Be’
Jim Hill is a self-taught mosaic artist who will have his first big show at age 75 in February. Because his family couldn’t afford to buy paint, Hill chose torn paper as his medium. His work concerns the history of slavery and racism in the U.S. The show, titled “Born to Be,” will feature work that goes back to the early ‘60s but also includes Hill’s latest collection “A Piece of Life,” which offers large-scale mosaics of civil rights leaders. The show opens with a reception from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 9 at Mason Fine Art.
Through Feb. 28. Mason Fine Art, 764 Miami Circle NE, Suite 150, Atlanta. 404-879-1500, masonfineartandevents.com.
‘Remembrance as Resistance: Sweet Auburn Rise’
Atlanta artist and activist Charmaine Minniefield’s Praise House Project has placed place site-specific art installations in locations throughout the metro Atlanta area, including 2021′s “Remembrance as Resistance: Preserving Black Narratives” in Oakland Cemetery. In honor of Black History Month 2023, the project will mount a series of site-specific public art installations, exhibitions, and programs in downtown Atlanta, along Auburn Avenue in the King Historic District. The installations will explore the history of the 1906 Race Massacre and the legacy of Black resistance.
Feb. 3-5. Find a full schedule of planned activities online. Along Auburn Avenue, Atlanta. praisehouseproject.org.ExploreExplore Black History Month news from the AJC
Deana Lawson
Covering a period of 15 years, the first museum survey of the work of Brooklyn, New York-based photographer Deana Lawson is on its final tour stop at the High Museum through Feb. 19. The show blends her composed, staged domestic portraits with found photography, advertising imagery, holograms and crystals. “Her images of Black men, women and children become chronicles of the beauty of ordinary lives and its pleasures and pathos,” wrote AJC visual arts critic Felicia Feaster in her review. Join co-organizer Eva Respini of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and director of New York University’s Center for Black Visual Culture Deborah Willis at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 ($20) for a discussion of Lawson’s work.
Through Feb. 19. $16.50, ages 6 and above; free for children 5 and younger and members. High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta. 404-733-4444, high.org.
Roswell Roots
The annual Roswell Roots festival offers a series of events honoring Black History Month and will get under way on Feb. 3 with the Black Opry Revue at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center. Music and storytelling will highlight the contributions of Black country artists, taking on perceptions of what it means to be a country musician in America. They’ll also stage the play “The Spirit of Harriet Tubman” as part of the Family Series on Feb. 3 and 4. The one-woman show will tell stories both familiar and rarely heard about the Underground Railroad conductor. Check the Roswell Roots website for a complete schedule of events.
Black Opry Revue: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3. $27.50-$32.50. “The Spirit of Harriet Tubman”: 10 a.m. Feb. 3-4. $12. Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St., Roswell. 770-594-6232, roswellroots.com.
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Auburn Avenue, Atlanta
Blocks like this one on Auburn Avenue, east of it’s intersection with Piedmont Avenue, are my favorite.
As far as its function goes, it has a mix of old and newer buildings that house residential, commercial and non-profit uses. It also has a mix of transportation via sidewalks, streetcar, and car traffic slow enough to allow safe bike travel.
For greenery, there’s a pocket park off to the left and small trees planted alongside the sidewalk. Very inviting.
For historical significance, you can’t do much better – this Sweet Auburn district is where African Americans established businesses, congregations, and social organizations within the harsh climate of the Jim Crow south. Big Bethel AME church, with congregational roots that pre-date the Civil War, has remained a strong presence here even after African American residents and businesses moved out of the district during the 1970s and 80s.
I suspect a lot of people see this block from the highway – the overpass is way in the background – and wonder what’s down here. It’s the city.
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The promising plan for an empty lot on Auburn Avenue
Historic District Development Corporation (HDDC) is putting something in a long-empty property, pictured above, that sits on Auburn Avenue near its intersection with Hilliard Street. This is good news. The amount of disused space on this historic street, and along the streetcar track that runs on it, has been a burden for too long. Progress of any kind is a positive, but this project looks particularly promising due to its affordability component and its public engagement.
The plan is to fill this space with a three-story mix of residential and commercial. Dubbed “The Front Porch,” it'll have retail spaces on bottom with apartments for rent for sale above. HDDC was approved for Eastside TAD financing for the project, at the December, 2019 Invest Atlanta Board meeting. The rendering below comes from the project’s Loopnet listing.
According to the Invest Atlanta documents, the development will also involve the “repurposing” of two nearby buildings, including the former Haugabrooks Funeral Home (below), as well as a surface parking lot.
HDDC hosted a community-engagement session about their plans in October (pictured below, from their Instagram account), and attendees we’ve spoken to report that they're hopeful about a positive outcome with this development.
Curbed Atlanta has a full writeup on the planned mixed-use structure, along with multiple renderings of it.
To get an idea of how beneficial this is going to be for the neighborhood, we reached out to LeJuano Varnell with Sweet Auburn Works (SAW), an organization that advocates for preservation-based redevelopment while also supporting the retention of existing residents, businesses, and architecture in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood.
Varnell says that part fo the importance of Front Porch is that it’s going to provide an “inventory of lowered commercial rate space in the neighborhood,” something that allows opportunities for "home-grown small businesses.”
He also says that it’ll deliver “affordable home ownership opportunities” that create “a path for long-time renters to have an equity stake in the growth of the neighborhood.”
Here’s a look at the mix and pricing for residential units on the development, from the Invest Atlanta document:
Similarly, HDDC has partnered with a developer on an under-construction condo building on a formerly-empty property at 22 Airline Street in Old Fourth Ward. Most of the homes are being sold at market rate, but they’re maintaining ownership of some of the units so they can sell/lease at affordable rates.
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#GeorgiaInMini | 3 | Sweet Auburn Historic District - Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park| Atlanta, Georgia | This national historic park consists of several buildings in this area including King Jr’s boyhood home and the original Ebenezer Baptist Church where both he and his father were pastors. It’s vital to the life and legal of King Jr. as a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. The park is 35 acres and has a visitor center, a museum that chronicles the Civil Rights movement, an 1894 firehouse, and shotgun houses among others. The King Birth Home is located at 501 Auburn Avenue and was built in 1895. King’s maternal grandparents bought the house in 1909 and their family lived until 1941. The first level includes the front porch, parlor, study, dining room, kitchen, laundry, bedroom and a bathroom. The second level includes four bedrooms and a bathroom. (at Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site) https://www.instagram.com/hemuvenkat/p/BxaMM7dDhO5/?igshid=17yt440mbi3c3
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MVP Kamala's schedule for June 18th
On Friday, Madam Vice President was bound for Atlanta, Georgia for her second We Can Do This," vaccination state tour, on Monday she was in Greenville, South Carolina. The tour helps with vaccine education and outreach efforts in order to reach President Biden's goal of getting 70 percent of Americans vaccinated by July 4.
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She arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport where she was welcomed by the State's federal legislator Georgia's 5th congressional district Representative Congresswoman Nikema Williams, Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Atlanta's Mayor Keisha Bottoms.
1) She began her tour at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination site at Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Church is a historic church in the black community located in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn district where many US civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr had preached in the 1960s
During informal remarks to those who were being administered vaccines, the Vice President urged people, “These vaccines are safe and effective. It will save your life and the lives of people you love,” she also said “to get the word out” to help their friends and neighbours overcome obstacles to getting vaccinated like needing childcare and fear of needles.
She was accompanied by Congresswoman Nikema Williams, from right, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Senator Jon Ossoff, Senator Raphael Warnock, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Dr. Jayne Morgan, Cardiologist and the Executive Director of the COVID Task Force at the Piedmont Healthcare Corporation
2) After she departed for Clark Atlanta University, where she gave remarks at a COVID vaccination mobilization event. During her remarks, she said,“But there are some people, a lot of people might say, ‘I haven’t been vaccinated yet because I’m just not sure," she also acknowledged people's hesitancy, "It is OK to have questions," and she urged Atlantans to tell their friends and neighbours: “We can say with confidence the vaccines are safe, they are free and they are effective.”
Clark Atlanta University is a private Methodist historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. The University is the first HBCU in the Southern United States founded on September 19th 1865 as Atlanta University, it consolidated with Clark College to form Clark Atlanta University in 1988.
3) After giving the remarks she participated in a close room conversation on voting rights with community leaders.
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Liliana Bakhtiari is no stranger to activism. She attended her first protest march when she was 8 years old, with her father, a first-generation Iranian immigrant. “I grew up working and doing community service, social justice work, and community organizing and activism,” she tells Teen Vogue. Now the 29-year-old, who grew up in the Atlanta area, is hoping to effect change in a different way: as an Atlanta City Council member for District 5. And though Bakhtiari is relatively young, her life has been packed with experiences that have helped shape her views and her platform.
Bakhtiari’s mother, a second-generation Iranian immigrant, worked to put Bakhtiari’s father through school at Georgia State University. He eventually opened a pharmacy in Atlanta’s historic Sweet Auburn district, providing affordable medicine to people who previously couldn’t access it, and Bakhtiari was right by his side. “I grew up working at my dad’s pharmacy with him,” she says. “I saw a lot of Atlanta at the time when it was really just rampant poverty.”
But she also saw what it was like just outside the city, going to school in Gwinnett County, where she was one of a few Middle Eastern kids among an overwhelmingly white student population. “I faced a lot of racism in elementary school . . . it only worsened as I got older,” she says. “Kids would ask me how many goats I was going to be traded for on my wedding day. I got made fun of fairly constantly for looking different and for having darker hair, for having darker skin. There were certain traditional practices — I wasn’t allowed to shave my legs or do my eyebrows until I was way older, and I got made fun of a lot for that. [People] asked me . . . if my father was a terrorist.”
This is important. Read the full story at Teen Vogue.
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How One Neighborhood Endured a Century of Systemic Racism
The history of Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Historic District mirrors that of many Black communities across the country. READ MORE... from Apartment Therapy| Saving the world, one room at a time https://ift.tt/3g0o40W
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How One Neighborhood Endured a Century of Systemic Racism
The history of Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Historic District mirrors that of many Black communities across the country. READ MORE... from Apartment Therapy| Saving the world, one room at a time https://ift.tt/3g0o40W
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How One Neighborhood Endured a Century of Systemic Racism
The history of Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Historic District mirrors that of many Black communities across the country. READ MORE... from Apartment Therapy| Saving the world, one room at a time https://ift.tt/3g0o40W
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I lived in Atlanta for years. Took so many walks in centinial Olympic park, I've played all over that city just to see it destroyed. From some one that knows the people, knows the borrows jnside and out..... I know that our city did not come for itself. People on the outside looking in are trying to blame blacks for the destruction of the city and their own homes and business but some one tell me how none of our borrows look like down town? All the primarily black borrows of Atlanta are untouched. East point West end Greenbrier College Park Old Nat Sweet Auburn district MLK historic district (litteraly blocks from the epicenter of the protests) just to name a few.... Places that people from outside the city would not know of and would not go anywhere near if they did. The places that got hit the hardest were prominent white borrows that the world sees that tourist know of. City center Centinial Olympic park 5 points Lenox North side I will tell you now.... We are not destroying what is ours. Black communities are not destroying themselves..... Those who are protesting are going after primarily white areas. True Atlanta is not destroying Atlanta!!!!! The areas being hit the hardest is where most of the oppression is. #georgefloyd #atlanta #atlantaga #protest #blacklivesmatter #colinkaepernick (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA0drxgHZKt/?igshid=g3nqipp1jwze
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Phoenix Flies celebration of Atlanta history is back on—virtually, of course
Learn about the Healey Building’s historic Gothic Revival architecture later today. | The Healey Condos
The event series kicks off tonight, with a webinar on downtown’s century-old Healey Building
With the novel coronavirus forcing folks indoors, Atlanta’s historically festival-packed spring has largely been relegated to a series of Netflix and disinfectant wipes.
But not all hope is lost for people who need their fix of regular Atlanta traditions.
The Atlanta Preservation Center’s 17th annual Phoenix Flies event series, a celebration of the history “that makes Atlanta cool,” as APC director of operations David Mitchell put it, at first seemed doomed to be put on hold until the viral outbreak can be contained.
Now, though, the show is back on—virtually, of course.
The itinerary for the free(!) series has certainly shifted, as taking people on tours of Atlanta’s historic structures and communities is not kosher at the moment.
“We are not encouraging anyone to do anything against the guidelines,” Mitchell told Curbed Atlanta. “Stay at home.”
The digital extravaganza kicks off at 7 p.m. tonight with an online lecture about downtown’s historic Healey Building.
Led by Healey Building resident Wendy Darling, the seminar promises to dig into the background of the century-old Gothic Revival skyscraper—“the jewel of the Fairlie-Poplar National Register Historic District,” the event page says.
And that’s just the beginning of Phoenix Flies this year.
Next week, well-known Atlanta real estate developer Gene Kansas will host a talk of his own, Mitchell said.
Details of the virtual discussion are still being worked out, but Kansas is expected to talk about, among other things, the Constellations co-working space in Atlanta’s historic Sweet Auburn district.
Following that—the dates and times remain TBD at the moment—APC will curate digital events by developer Newport, which is reimagining several blocks of South Downtown, author Ted Barris, and Central Atlanta Progress.
“We are the Atlanta Preservation Center, and we are not going to let the center of this storm disrupt our mission,” Mitchell said.
source https://atlanta.curbed.com/2020/4/2/21202711/coronavirus-atlanta-phoenix-flies-virtual-historic
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Hartford: Slip-hailing company Lyft is offering powerful-needed free transportation in town to faded inmates via a modern partnership with town and a nonprofit criminal justice reform neighborhood. Louis Reed, nationwide organizer for the bipartisan neighborhood #decrease50, announced Wednesday that an initial installment of 60 to 80 codes free of payment Lyft rides is now on hand for distribution at town’s Welcome Center. Mayor Luke Bronin says transit bus routes are tiny, and the modern partnership will relief get folk to job interviews or health care appointments. Hartford is the first city to pick out fragment in this plot, nonetheless diversified cities and organizations around the nation are expected to enlighten, at the side of Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland and Contemporary York City, to boot to a pair of rural areas.
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Dover: Officers are making ready to send potable water to properties advance Dover Air Power Defective after deepest wells were stumbled on to have chemical contaminants exceeding federal health advisory levels. The Delaware Issue Recordsdata reports town’s utility committee voted Oct. 29 to waive an annexation requirement so the properties can get city water service. Issue officers announced in July that defense force officers had notified them about wells substandard with per- and polyfluoroalykyl substances. Such chemical compounds are stumbled on in diversified products, at the side of firefighting foam that has been used at defense force bases nationwide. City Manager Donna Mitchell says Dover needs the waiver in preparation of the contaminated coming forward and asking for water service relief, which she says it has yet to fabricate. The contaminated has been providing bottled water to affected properties.
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Washington: An ex-FBI agent is telling jurors that Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone quoted his hero Richard Nixon as Stone entreated an companion now not to contradict his non-public testimony to lawmakers. The quote was cited in a Stone textual pronounce detailed by faded agent Michelle Taylor at Stone’s trial. A Stone companion, radio host Randy Credico, was requested in 2017 to appear earlier than the House Intelligence Committee. That’s when Stone texted him: “ ‘Stonewall it, plead the fifth, the relaxation to assign the concept …’ Richard Nixon.” Stone is on trial in federal court in Washington on prices of lying to Congress and tampering with a behold. He was charged under particular counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Stone denies wrongdoing. Stone has prolonged admired Nixon and has a tattoo of the late president on his support.
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Wauchula: A 33-year-feeble orangutan granted correct personhood by a non-public in Argentina is settling into her modern atmosphere at the Center for Massive Apes in central Florida. Patti Ragan, director of the center in Wauchula, says Sandra is “very sweet and inquisitive” and adjusting to her modern residence. She was born in Germany and spent 25 years at the Buenos Aires Zoo earlier than arriving in Florida on Tuesday. In 2015 Attain to a resolution Elena Liberatori dominated that Sandra is legally now not an animal nonetheless a non-human particular person with rights. She remained at the zoo, which closed in 2016, except leaving for the United States. On the center, Sandra joins 21 orangutans and 31 chimpanzees rescued or retired from circuses, stage reveals and the weird and wonderful pet alternate.
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Atlanta: For the first time in three decades, town is now not going to host a Peach Drop to ring in the modern year. The Atlanta Journal-Structure reports Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms broke the news Tuesday in direction of an interview with Majic 107.5/97.5’s afternoon host Ryan Cameron. Bottoms says officers are taking a ruin to reevaluate the place and the intention in which the tournament is deliberate. She says town now now not owns Underground Atlanta, which adds issues to hosting the tournament, which has at instances drawn 100,000 folk. The Peach Drop debuted in 1989 – a play off Contemporary York City’s Times Sq. ball descend. After a non-public developer purchased Underground Atlanta, town moved the Peach Drop to Woodruff Park for Contemporary Year’s 2017 nonetheless brought it support to Underground Atlanta last year.
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Honolulu: A settlement has been reached over a deadly excessive-rise fireplace, even supposing the amounts to be paid by insurance protection companies to plaintiffs remains confidential. The Honolulu Basic particular person-Advertiser reports a settlement conference was concluded Tuesday regarding the July 2017 Marco Polo building fireplace that killed four folk. Officers whisper the fireplace at the 568-unit building was one of many worst in stylish Honolulu historic past, requiring the efforts of about 130 firefighters. A non-public has ordered defendants to get monetary disbursements out of an escrow legend by Jan. 15. The settlement looks to unravel loads of court cases filed over the fireplace that caused an estimated $107 million in hurt. Attorneys whisper they’re now not allowed to keep in touch about settlement amounts their customers are expected to receive.
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Boise: The verbalize granted a conditional waiver Thursday to the U.S. Department of Energy that may per chance likely even enable analysis quantities of spent nuclear gasoline into the verbalize after years of blocking off such shipments. The settlement announced by Gov. Brad Cramped and Attorney Fashioned Lawrence Wasden, each Republicans, technique the Idaho Nationwide Laboratory may per chance likely even receive about 100 kilos of spent gasoline for experiments as fragment of a U.S. system to develop nuclear vitality and carve support greenhouse gas emissions. The waiver requires the Energy Department to first indicate it will process 900,000 gallons of excessive-level radioactive liquid extinguish that sits above a broad aquifer that gives water to farms and cities. The Energy Department has spent some $600 million seeking to fabricate that, so some distance having failed nonetheless reporting correct progress earlier this year at its Built-in Wreck Medication Unit.
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Chicago: Advocacy groups at the side of the ACLU of Illinois have filed court cases in opposition to two county sheriff’s departments for alleged violations of the TRUST Act, which limits cooperation between native police and federal immigration authorities. The groups whisper it’s fragment of an effort announced Thursday to show screen law enforcement agencies for compliance of the 2017 that law prohibits native police from conserving a particular person on an immigration detainer except there’s a warrant signed by a non-public, among diversified things. The court cases narrate sheriff’s departments in Stephenson and Explore counties unlawfully detained loads of immigrants for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after minor traffic offenses. Republican faded Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the TRUST Act in 2017 with backing from law enforcement. Democrats widely supported the premise.
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Indianapolis: Regardless of warning indicators flashing this past summer season, Indiana economists whisper they manufacture now not query a recession in 2020, nonetheless the verbalize’s economy will proceed growing at a slower streak. A tight labor market, weakness in manufacturing and the continued alternate war with China are expected to make contributions to a slowdown in the verbalize’s economy. Indiana’s financial output is expected to grow at a streak of about 1.25% next year, in step with the most contemporary financial forecast released by the Kelley College of Industry at Indiana University. Per the forecast, Indiana’s 2020 economy will seemingly be anemic. There are present intellectual spots, such because the 50-year low in unemployment, more folk collaborating in the labor force and elevated wages. Nonetheless economists in the support of the Kelley College forecast talked about political dysfunction and international alternate friction have disrupted provide chains, causing industry and user self belief to erode.
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Cedar Falls: The University of Northern Iowa’s president says he’s forming a committee to address minority and diversified students’ allegations of systemic racism on the Cedar Falls campus. President Trace Nook took responsibility in a most modern letter to the college community for the college’s failure to adequately fulfill needs feature by an ad hoc student neighborhood and backed by the student govt. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports Nook’s action follows a social media advertising and marketing campaign of criticism by the student neighborhood, Racial and Ethnic Coalition. Among diversified things, the neighborhood posted video testimonials from minority students talking about issues they’ve had on campus, at the side of facing a racist professor and seeking to navigate college fluctuate policies.
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Topeka: Time is running out to originate construction on a modern coal-fired vitality plant earlier than its enable lapses. The wrestle over the plant has lasted bigger than a decade. By the time the Kansas Supreme Court docket cleared the technique for construction in 2017, a company eager on it called the potentialities it can likely likely be constructed “some distance-off.” Nonetheless the Kansas City Basic particular person and Wichita Eagle list that paperwork they obtained picture the utility spearheading the project told regulators “foremost pastime” remains in building the plant. Sunflower Electrical Energy Corp. requested for an 18-month extension of a key enable “to finalize preparations” for its construction. Issue regulators renewed the enable except March 2020 and warned they'd now not enable more time. Sunflower didn’t rule the relaxation in or out this week.
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Frankfort: Issue parks are offering a discount on lodging to active-accountability defense force people and to veterans via March 31. An announcement from Kentucky Issue Parks says the USA Militia Good deal is on hand to those currently serving in the navy, retired people of the defense force, veterans, Nationwide Guard people and reservists. With the carve price, hotel rooms originate at $59.95 a evening, and one-bed room cottages originate at $79.95 a evening. The charges are correct at a majority of Kentucky’s 17 resort parks, nonetheless there’s a $5 upcharge at Barren River, Cumberland Falls, Kentucky Dam Village, Lake Barkley, Lake Cumberland and Natural Bridge. The discount is additionally on hand at John James Audubon Issue Park. Extra data is on hand online.
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Contemporary Orleans: Five hundred seventy-one of many verbalize’s public schools, or about 44%, have “many times struggling groups of students” and are actually required to rep improvement plans. Louisiana’s Department of Education released efficiency data Wednesday as fragment of the verbalize’s compliance with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. Among the 571 schools are 271 labeled as wanting “total improvement,” for chronic low overall grades or terrible commencement charges. Three hundred diversified schools – at the side of some with excessive overall grades – must work to toughen efficiency among sub-groups of students, at the side of English language rookies, low-earnings students and those with disabilities. The division pointed to promising findings, at the side of more schools earning A and B grades.
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Harrington: A lobsterman hauled in an weird and wonderful steal 5 miles off the flit – a stay deer. Ren Dorr says he was setting traps when he saw a young deer Monday morning. He says the deer had given up swimming and was being carried farther offshore. He and his crew hauled the 100-pound buck aboard. Having a wild animal in a confined condo may per chance likely even be anguish. Nonetheless Dorr tells the Bangor Day to day Recordsdata that the deer was so tuckered out that he “laid just correct down savor a dog.” He says it took a half of-hour to plot support to Harrington, where the deer was feature free. Dorr says that he has considered deer swimming earlier than nonetheless that this was diversified. He says that if he and his crew hadn’t intervened, the deer would were “a goner.”
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Baltimore: The different of holiday makers who visited the verbalize last year may per chance likely even have dropped relatively of, nonetheless a list says they spent extra cash than in 2017. The Financial Affect of Tourism in Maryland list was announced Wednesday at the annual Maryland Tourism and Shuttle Summit. The list says company spent bigger than $18 billion last year, up about 2.1% from the earlier year. Total visitation decreased from 42.5 million to 41.9 million in 2018, nonetheless the decrease was offset by will increase in visitor per-commute spending. That was driven by longer stays at more in-verbalize locations. The list says most of Maryland’s company got right here by car. Alternatively, the Thurgood Marshall Baltimore-Washington International Airport served a list 27.2 million passengers last year.
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Boston: The mayor says an effort to rename the sq. in a historically sad neighborhood to Nubian Sq. isn’t slow despite the failure of a citywide referendum. Democratic Mayor Marty Walsh talked about Wednesday that his verbalize of labor will seemingly be meeting with title-switch advocates to keep in touch about next steps. Walsh says that entails formally petitioning town’s Public Improvement Commission for the title switch. He says voters in the Roxbury neighborhood overwhelmingly approved the proposal to rename Dudley Sq.. Walsh’s verbalize of labor says 1,986 Roxbury residents voted in favor to 957 in opposition to. The nonbinding referendum failed citywide, with 46% in favor and 54% in opposition to. Supporters want to rename the industrial center after the usual African empire because Thomas Dudley played a key role in Massachusetts’ slave alternate in colonial instances.
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Corwith Township: The verbalize now owns a huge, prolonged-sought allotment of northern property boasting a lake, forests and rare species that’s in the fluctuate of the verbalize’s elk herd. The Michigan Department of Natural Property says it’s performed the $3.8 million defend shut of the Storey Lake property. The deal to have interplay roughly 2,000 acres in the north-central Decrease Peninsula took about two decades to wrangle. The land in Otsego and Cheboygan counties sits between diversified pieces of public acreage: the Pigeon River Country Issue Forest and a tract of verbalize-managed forest land. Officers whisper the property is commence for correct hunting, fishing, tenting, hiking and plant life and fauna viewing. The public will seemingly be invited to pick out part in putting in place an get right of entry to concept. The land once was in the fingers of an proprietor from Switzerland.
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St. Paul: Gov. Tim Walz has requested U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to deny a catastrophe for 12 counties of northwestern Minnesota where farmers are having a elaborate harvest season. In his quiz Thursday, the governor talked about the unrelenting tainted weather this season has plot on high of challenges farmers were already facing from low commodity prices and alternate uncertainties. He says crops have fallen victim to flooding, disease and freezing temperatures. A secretarial catastrophe declaration would get emergency loans on hand to affected producers. The USDA normally requires that a county have a 30% loss in manufacturing of now not decrease than one gash. Walz notes that the soybean and sugarbeet harvests in northwestern Minnesota are running technique in the support of attributable to heavy rains, whereas an early freeze ended many of the potato harvest.
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Taylor: The mayor has all straight away resigned after bigger than four decades relatively than labor. The Oxford Eagle reports James E. Hamilton sent his resignation to the Taylor Board of Aldermen this week. He additionally stepped down because the town’s planning administrator. No critical aspects or reasoning were equipped to the overall public, and the newspaper says its makes an strive to contact Hamilton were unsuccessful. Alderman Ellen Meacham says the aldermen unanimously voted to settle for every of Hamilton’s resignations, though she desires Hamilton may per chance likely even’ve finished the last two years of his present duration of time as mayor. The board on Tuesday discussed a diversified election to be held in early 2020. Crucial aspects aren’t finalized. Hamilton ran unopposed in essentially the most most modern election in 2017.
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Kansas City: A frigid weather draw had folk in the metro station attempting bigger than just correct a sweater this week – it additionally had them reaching for nostril plugs. The Nationwide Weather Provider speculated in a tweet that a frigid front that swept into the metro Wednesday evening carried farm odors with it and trapped them in the shallow fragment of the atmosphere. One particular person replied to the clarification announcing, “I believed my dogs tracked in poo from outside! I’m now not crazy.” Meteorologists later tweeted what they described as a excessive-resolution reverse trajectory model to picture the seemingly provide of the “questionable air quality.”
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Helena: The Massive Divide Ski Put may per chance likely likely be the first ski station in the verbalize to commence for the modern season this Saturday. Aided by the early chilly and snow this descend, the crew has been making snow for a pair of weeks now. Owner Kevin Taylor tells the Self reliant File that the Nov. 9 opening will seemingly be its earliest ever to having a chairlift running. Taylor says the ski station opened Nov. 10 last year and Nov. 11 in 2017. Running on Saturday may per chance likely likely be the Sincere Excellent fortune Chairlift on the decrease mountain to boot to the yard towrope. Snowmaking continues on some additional runs, nonetheless for the reason that most modern chilly snap was so rapid, Taylor is unsure whether or now not diversified runs will commence this weekend or next.
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Lincoln: Officers concept to diminish crew at one verbalize-drag residence for juvenile offenders whereas adding to the team at two diversified companies and products. The Department of Successfully being and Human Products and companies announced the changes Wednesday as fragment of a a lot bigger overhaul of its Formative years Rehabilitation and Medication Center draw. Department officers whisper they concept to carve support the team at the YRTC in Geneva effective Jan. 6, 2020, because that facility won’t be serving as many youths. Nonetheless they concept to hire additional employees at YRTC companies and products in Lincoln and Kearney. Department officers whisper crew individuals who lose their jobs may per chance likely have the different to enlighten for jobs at the diversified YRTC companies and products or in diversified areas in verbalize govt. They whisper they hope to steal employees whenever doable.
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Las Vegas: The Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Property’ resolution to pick out some distance flung from its web place a list a pair of sacred American Indian place is drawing criticism. A division first payment talked about the elimination resolution got right here at the quiz of the Issue Historic Preservation Place of work over issues it will also picture the place to vandalism or looting. Nonetheless Rupert Steele, chairman of the Utah-essentially essentially based mostly Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, whose tribe is among folk that take into legend the place sacred, talked about no one consulted the tribe regarding the resolution. The Goshute, Ely and Duckwater Shoshone tribes all take into legend the place, known because the swamp cedars, sacred and non-public the bushes are threatened by a proposal to pipe groundwater from northern and eastern Nevada to Las Vegas. “I may per chance likely per chance like that up there,” Steele talked about of the eradicated list. “That technique the guidelines may per chance likely even be free flowing to the total folk.”
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Plymouth: Plymouth Issue University has got a $48,000 grant to put in force a program to educate kids regarding the risks of e-cigarettes. The program known as “CATCH,” an acronym for Coordinated Technique to Child Successfully being. It entails lecture room lessons, come in direction of-led actions, and social and community beef as a lot as educate kids. By January 2020, students in the PSU Successfully being and Physical Education Teacher Certification program who're making ready to remain student educating or college health self-discipline experiences will receive practising. They'll put in force this plot in 35 center and excessive schools in direction of the verbalize in spring 2020. The grant is from the CVS Successfully being Foundation.
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Atlantic City: The federal govt has dropped its objection to a pair of southern Contemporary Jersey towns the enlighten of sand from a nearby offshore place to replenish their seashores. The most modern action by U.S. Internal Secretary David Bernhardt ought to serene get ongoing beach widening and storm security projects more cost-effective. It additionally removes the necessity for an weird and wonderful proposal floated loads of months ago that would have let some towns shave sand off the end of a pair of of their bigger dunes and enlighten it to widen seashores. On Monday, Bernhardt wrote to Salvage. Jeff Van Drew, a Democrat who represents the affected station of the southern Contemporary Jersey flit, announcing the protection reversal. The prohibition “was growing pointless crimson tape that was having the reverse manufacture of its real intent,” Van Drew talked about in an announcement.
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Roswell: A lawyer from this town smartly-known because the place of an alleged 1947 UFO smash says he's going to self-discipline President Donald Trump in early-voting Contemporary Hampshire. The Roswell Day to day File reports approved reliable Rick Kraft has filed the categories needed to appear on the ballotas a Republican candidate in the first-in-the-nation presidential predominant. Per the Contemporary Hampshire secretary of verbalize’s web place, Kraft filed his declaration of candidacy Tuesday. The 61-year-feeble Kraft says he made up our minds to drag after he and his foremost other visited the Contemporary Hampshire Issue House in Concord, Contemporary Hampshire, and realized how easy it is to get on the ballot. He called the streak “a bucket list-form ingredient.” Kraft says he would now not concept on coming into any diversified verbalize primaries or caucuses.
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Florida: A Norway shipshape that years ago was displayed on its proprietor’s espresso table will rapidly rise in a magnificent grander setting: the center of Rockefeller Center. Carol Schultz equipped the sapling for the 1959 Christmas season. After exhibiting it in her residence in the village of Florida, Contemporary York, she planted it in her front yard. In 2010, Schultz and her companion Richard O’Donnell went on Rockefeller Center’s web place and made the 14-ton tree’s narrate for stardom. Earlier this year, they realized it had been chosen. It was decrease Thursday and lifted by crane onto a flatbed truck. This will seemingly likely advance Saturday at Rockefeller Center, where this may per chance possibly likely even be hoisted and surrounded by scaffolding for the decoration process. The lighting fixtures ceremony is slated for Dec. 4.
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Charlotte: Sixteen-year-feeble environmental activist Greta Thunberg says she plans to abet a youth-led climate rally in the Tar Heel Issue this week. Thunberg tweeted Wednesday that she will seemingly be a part of the strike Friday at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Executive Center. Thunberg won international attention for a speech at the United International locations Climate Action Summit in September. Recordsdata retail outlets list the narrate Friday is being organized by the student-led N.C. Climate Strike motion. An total lot of folk attended a rally the neighborhood hosted in September, the identical day hundreds of hundreds of folk around the enviornment skipped college and work to drag govt action on climate switch.
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Bismarck: A descend survey indicates the mule deer population continues to recover in the western North Dakota Badlands thanks to yet one more correct year of fawn manufacturing. Mule deer in the predicament persisted three straight harsh winters ending in 2011 that resulted in list-low fawn manufacturing. The Bismarck Tribune reports biologists counted 2,218 mule deer in direction of the October survey, shut to last year’s 2,446. The ratios of 41 bucks per 100 does and 84 fawns per 100 does additionally held regular. Issue Wildlife Chief Jeb Williams says the real numbers are encouraging even in the occasion that they don’t signify an amplify. Hunting mule deer does was banned for four straight seasons starting in 2012 to help the population recover. North Dakota’s gun season for mule and white-tailed deer opens at noon Friday.
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Columbus: Gov. Mike DeWine has signed into law a measure repealing the verbalize’s gross sales tax on tampons and diversified female hygiene products. The Republican governor signed the measure Wednesday. It was integrated in yet one more invoice that gives a tax credit ranking to teachers who engage college gives. Democratic verbalize Salvage. Brigid Kelly, of Cincinnati, and Republican verbalize Salvage. Niraj Antani, of Miamisburg, cosponsored the real legislation repealing the so-called red tax. Most states serene tax tampons and diversified menstrual products, at the side of pads and cups. They’re normally categorized as “luxury objects” in preference to necessities that are now not taxed, equivalent to food or clinical gives. Ohio is among a pair of dozen states that have currently changed such policies.
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Tulsa: A Republican verbalize lawmaker has abandoned his effort to rename a stretch of Route 66 after President Donald Trump. Issue Sen. Nathan Dahm told the Tulsa World on Wednesday that he’s performed seeking to rename the 4-mile stretch of the iconic motorway in northeastern Oklahoma after Trump. The Oklahoma Route 66 Association and Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell each impulsively rejected naming sections of Route 66 after Trump or any diversified political resolve. Pinnell, who oversees Oklahoma’s advertising and marketing and branding, and others were working to connect the route of the faded U.S. 66 for tourism. Pinnell says a “uniform branding” will rapidly be rolled out. Issue Salvage. Ben Loring, who represents the district where the proposed stretch of motorway is located, says it will even have adversely affected tourism.
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Portland: The verbalize Department of Environmental Quality says smoky skies and stagnant air are expected to hang round in Oregon and southwest Washington for yet one more week. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the agency in the muse issued an air quality advisory Monday nonetheless on Wednesday prolonged the warning. The agency now expects the air quality advisory to be in manufacture except now not decrease than Nov. 12. Stagnant air cases are trapping smoke and diversified contaminants advance the floor where folk breathe. A total lot of county and native health agencies have issued burning restrictions. DEQ requested folk to enlighten burn restrictions of their areas and defend some distance flung from pointless outside enlighten, critically those with lung or heart issues and young kids.
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York: Police officers are alleging in some DUI instances that those that’ve currently smoked marijuana have green tongues. Law enforcement is even told to investigate cross-test a “doable green coating” in one in fact just correct practising program taught all over the enviornment. Police can narrate no scientific analysis to help up the premise. Yet, for decades, they’ve used the observation as one of loads of indicators to interpret doable motive and get arrests in criminal instances. An prognosis of larger than 1,300 DUI instances that reached the York County Court docket of Fashioned Pleas in 2018 stumbled on now not decrease than 28 that talked about phrases equivalent to “green coating,” “green movie” and “green tint.” Scott Harper, a defense approved reliable in West York, list it as “more or much less junk science.” He currently argued in a DUI case in York County that there’s “no evidence that a ‘green tongue’ is indicative of any particular stage of marijuana impairment (assuming it in fact is evidence of the relaxation at all).” The Nationwide Group for the Reform of Marijuana Laws was more blunt. “The science in the support of marijuana consumption turning your tongue green is ready as sound because the science in the support of the earth being flat or that lying makes your nostril grow,” Erik Altieri, govt director of NORML, talked about in an electronic mail.
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South Kingstown: Researchers whisper the verbalize’s rich, moist soil may per chance likely even get it a pacesetter in the manufacturing of saffron, a luxurious spice. The Windfall Journal reports University of Rhode Island researchers stumbled on a take a look at feature may per chance likely even yield 12 kilos of saffron per acre once a year – bigger than double the harvest in Iran, which produces 90% of the enviornment’s saffron. Researchers whisper the domestic attach apart a matter to for saffron is on the rise, with 35 heaps imported in 2016 and 50 heaps predicted by 2021. Saffron is popular in Center Japanese, Indian and diversified cuisines nonetheless has diversified makes enlighten of. Wholesale prices drag about $5,000 per pound. Buyers can pay $20 for a pair of threads of saffron and $95 for a quarter-ounce. University researchers whisper saffron is costly because it’s delicate to reap.
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Reevesville: The ballotfor the mayoral whisk in this little town was blank Tuesday, leaving voters to jot down in whomever they wished. The Put up and Courier reports Paul Wimberly didn’t know he’d been reelected as Reevesville’s mayor except he spoke with a reporter the next morning. Wimberly has been mayor for 34 years nonetheless missed the election registration decrease-off date this year when Dorchester County was attach apart responsible of the whisk. The hopeful contenders on the City Council additionally missed the decrease-off date, that technique the whisk had no first payment candidates. Wimberly talked about he wasn’t too afraid, because the 1.6-sq.-mile town of about 196 folk is aware of his face and title. So he’s now help in the $300-per-year management role for the town, which depends totally on volunteer positions.
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Pierre: Gov. Kristi Noem says the verbalize is now bigger than 99% compliant with federal Precise ID necessities ahead of next year’s decrease-off date. Noem talked about Thursday that early work by the verbalize’s driver licensing program to meet the decrease-off date technique that every body eligible South Dakotans, with solely a pair of exceptions, have already got been issued a Precise ID-compliant license or card. She says the October 2020 decrease-off date will form now not have any manufacture on those with a Precise ID license or card issued in South Dakota. The federal Precise ID Act sets minimal security standards for licenses. A Precise ID-compliant driver’s license will seemingly be needed to board domestic flights starting Oct. 1, 2020. South Dakota began issuing Precise ID-compliant licenses and identification playing cards Dec. 31, 2009.
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Knoxville: Functions are actually commence for a modern scholarship at the University of Tennessee that guarantees definite students free tuition. A college news open says the UT Promise scholarship is equipped to qualifying verbalize residents attending UT’s campuses in Knoxville, Chattanooga, Martin and Memphis. It requires that students total eight volunteer service hours a semester and make a selection part in a mentoring program. To be eligible, present, fleshy-time UT students will must have a family family earnings under $50,000 yearly and qualify for the Tennessee HOPE Scholarship. Scholarship students will seemingly be paired with a mentor in descend 2020. To enlighten for the scholarship, present students must total the scholarship application and the 2020-21 Free Utility for Federal Student Support by Feb. 1. They additionally must total eight hours of community service by July 1.
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Huntsville: An inmate who was a member of a white supremacist gang was executed Wednesday evening for strangling a girl merely about 20 years ago over fears she would alert police about his drug operation. Justen Hall, 38, got a lethal injection at the verbalize penitentiary in Huntsville for the October 2002 slaying of Melanie Billhartz. Prosecutors talked about Hall killed Billhartz, 29, with an extension wire from his drug condo in El Paso and then buried her physique in the desolate tract. His attorneys had requested to quit the execution, alleging he was now not competent to be executed and had a historic past of mental illness. Nonetheless a non-public in El Paso last month denied the quiz. Hall was the 19th inmate attach apart to loss of life this year in the U.S. and the eighth in Texas. Three more executions are scheduled in Texas this year.
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Salt Lake City: A lawmaker who was aiming to be the first Latina mayor of Salt Lake City has conceded the whisk to a city councilwoman who rose to prominence combating air pollution. Democratic Sen. Luz Escamilla talked about in an announcement Wednesday that she conceded in a phone name to fellow Democrat Erin Mendenhall and wished her the “easiest of success.” Mendenhall took a commanding early lead with merely about 59% of the vote Tuesday, nonetheless Escamilla vowed to defend in the whisk except the count was total. Escamilla says that changed after she got modern critical aspects on the different of uncounted mail-in ballots. She says the figures were decrease than expected, making it very now not actually for her to overtake Mendenhall. Mendenhall will change one-duration of time Mayor Jackie Biskupski, who made up our minds now not to drag all over again.
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Burlington: Famend Vermont ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is accused of misleading its customers regarding the create of milk and cream used in its products. Environmental advocate and faded gubernatorial candidate James Ehlers says father or mother company Unilever is making the most of pretend advertising and marketing, in step with a most modern lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court docket in Burlington. The federal criticism filed Oct. 29 alleges that Unilever violated its customers’ belief by announcing Ben & Jerry’s products were made with milk and cream sourced from “satisfied cows” on Vermont dairy farms that make a selection part in its humane “Caring Dairy” program. Handiest a minority of the cream and milk used in the ice cream comes from a pair of of these farms, the criticism alleges. “The last milk and cream originates from factory-fashion, mass-manufacturing dairy operations, precisely what buyers who make a selection Ben & Jerry’s products would savor to defend some distance flung from,” the criticism says.
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Abingdon: Voters have defeated a proposal that would have relocated their historic courthouse’s capabilities to a vacant Kmart building in a strip mall. The Bristol Herald Courier reports every precinct in Washington County voted in opposition to the proposal in a referendum this week. The streak was proposed because county officers and judges had expressed effort over security points and a lack of condo and parking. Nonetheless the premise had drawn derision at earlier public hearings. County Administrator Jason Berry says the live result's a “sure message from the oldsters.” He says a committee discovering out the negate will now revisit at 2016 engineering watch and likely take into legend modern alternatives.
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Olympia: Issue auditors whisper an investigation revealed elevators and escalators are now not yearly inspected as required by verbalize law. KING-TV reports the Department of Labor and Industries failed to stare bigger than half of of the verbalize’s 18,000 conveyances in 2018. Investigators whisper hundreds of conveyances failed to have inspections for 2 or three years, and three were now not inspected in over 10 years. Department officers whisper the backlog was attributable to a building affirm that generated more elevators and escalators wanting inspections. Officers whisper the verbalize additionally struggled to steal inspectors, nonetheless additional funding has allowed the division to pay larger salaries and add additional inspectors. Officers whisper deepest insurance protection policies require conveyance inspections a pair of instances a year. The verbalize division solely serves as a evaluate and steadiness.
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Daniels: An American Heritage Girls troop has helped to lift funds for its mentor’s most cancers remedy. The Register-Herald reports troop people Kate Hontz, Rebekah Stephens and Callie Bethel held a fundraiser last Saturday to help pay for Rachel Quesenberry’s chemotherapy treatments. Callie told the newspaper that the trio “just correct wished to fabricate the relaxation we are succesful of also” to help with Quesenberry’s clinical prices. The 33-year-feeble Quesenberry was recognized with breast most cancers in January and has since passed via chemical and surgical treatments that require her to dash back and forth between Huntington and Daniels. The newspaper says Quesenberry has had IV transfusions that require her to pick out additional chemotherapy remedy for five years. The newspaper says all proceeds from the tournament will dash straight away to Quesenberry, as will any vendor costs.
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Madison: Contemporary data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reveals students at the verbalize’s flagship campus are getting out sooner than ever, in mild of mounting nationwide issues and conversations regarding the rising mark of college. College students who graduated from UW-Madison with a bachelor’s stage in the 2018-19 college year did so in a median of fine under four calendar years – 3.96 years, to be loyal – in step with data from the college’s Place of work of Academic Planning and Institutional Study. It’s the first time since the college started monitoring moderate time to stage four decades ago that the amount has been so low. The frequent, calculated in fleshy calendar years (now not academic years), technique students are serene spending a diminutive bigger than the eight-semester now not new to most bachelor’s stage programs.
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Cheyenne: An duration in-between legislative panel has rejected a proposal that would amplify the verbalize tax on alcohol to fund substance abuse remedy programs. The proposed invoice equipped by Republican verbalize Sen. Charlie Scott, of Casper, was voted down 7-6 on Wednesday by the Joint Committee on Labor, Successfully being and Social Products and companies. Proponents of the invoice famed that Wyoming’s excessive suicide payment indicates the persevering with substance issues facing the verbalize and that substance abuse programs in the verbalize had considered sizable funding cuts in most modern years. Alternatively, opponents contended that the tax amplify was unfair and pointless because present revenues were satisfactory to address the substance abuse programs.
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