Transport is at the heart of our environmental crises. In the UK, traffic is responsible for about 25 percent of air pollution. As the climate crisis intensifies, transport (excluding aviation and shipping) contributes to 23 percent of the country’s emissions. In this context, initiatives promoting alternative modes of travel are on the rise: low-traffic neighbourhoods […]
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Martin Wolf's musings about what lies in store for Europe has a huge blind spot as far as the US is concerned.
Brad Blitz looks at the storm of controversy over Gary Lineker's comments on the Illegal Migration Bill, and while he finds no evidence of Nazi policy, does hear echoes of fascist rhetoric
There is much that the global feminist movement can learn from the current women’s struggle in Iran and their vision.
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John Thune embodies the rail industry’s Washington influence machine that could now kill bipartisan safety legislation.
Prominent right-wingers at the BBC have long been given the sort of leeway for their views that those on the left never will, writes Adam Bienkov
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Low- to moderate-income communities continued to feel the effects of the pandemic in 2022. Though facing their own struggles, nonprofits helped them recover.
Social scientists pursue a variety of different purposes such as predicting events of interest, explaining individual events or general phenomena, and controlling outcomes for policy. It is interesting to note that the language of“cause” is employed in all these contexts … What kind of causal hypothesis should be investigated (and, in tandem, what kind of […]
How John Galbraith correctly called many developments that have had great political and economic significance, like the decline of unions
Jelle Barkema How concerned should policymakers be as UK business insolvencies have soared to 60-year highs? This phenomenon has been extensively covered in the media; with media outlets attributing the record-breaking numbers to a ‘perfect storm’ of energy prices, supply-chain disruptions and the cost of living squeeze. Insolvencies are a popular measure of economic distress … Continue reading Corporate insolvencies reaching record highs: a look under the hood
Silvergate: In 16 months from $239 at peak crypto consensual hallucination to $2.76, including the 44% plunge afterhours.
HAIR salon owner Michelle Clarke, partnered with Phil Myers from Pacific Dance Centre, and coached by teacher Carol Myers, is having a ball learning her dance for Stars of Coffs Coast, the Cancer Council’s major fundraiser in Coffs Harbour. “Carol and Phil are fun to be with and very patient with this uncoordinated stick on...
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Fun times at "the pee place."
DeSantis eyes a presidential run.
JAGUN Aged and Community Care in Moonee Beach has received $95,000 through the NSW Government’s Community and Place funding program. The Jagun Yilldaan (Homeland Sacred Pathway) project includes the construction of an 80 sqm shed to enable undercover events, group sessions, training sessions, meetings and cultural services for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community....
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THE F U Cancer weekend is a two-day event of fitness, fun, charity and community on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March, organised by Em Pitomaki, manager at F45 Training Coffs Harbour. Em is a contestant in the Cancer Council’s Stars of Coffs Coast event, and is partnered for the dancing fundraiser with Jade Naidu...
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MOVING with the times, the Dorrigo Country Women’s Association (CWA) Hall is one of five premises being upgraded into a co-working space providing affordable, equipped and shared community spaces for women in regional and rural parts of the state, through a NSW Government grant of 400,000 to the CWA of NSW. “Dorrigo CWA branch has...
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MEMBERS of the Community Use Permaculture Space (CUPS), located on Brian Navin Park at Park Beach Plaza shopping centre in Coffs, are having a planning meeting on Saturday 1 April to share initial garden designs and hear community suggestions. The group is asking for interested people to come along, share their thoughts and hear what’s...
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In the light of recent debates about whether we are back in the 1970s, where the only ostensible similarity is that inflation has accelerated over the last year or so, I dug into my data archives to remind myself of a few things. One of the problems with dealing with official data is that it…
COFFS Harbour Golf Club is celebrating a funding boost of $208,540 for one of its priority projects, under the NSW Government’s Infrastructure Grants program. Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh said this significant funding will enable the club to replace its roof and also install new rooftop solar, a project which the club has been...
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The Daily Mail had an article on this, and it’s worth reading.
Are sanctions REALLY wrecking life in Russia? As British supermarkets ration eggs and vegetables – thanks in part to Europe sanctions' boomerang effect- shelves in a provincial Russian city are groaning under piles of fresh food.https://t.co/REMDCmSi6k via @MailOnline
— Elijah J. Magnier
(@ejmalrai) March 8, 2023
A dig down in this reveals two main factors (the Daily Mail was pro-Brexit and discounts that factor).
Injury lawyers are preparing to file a class action suit against the AFL, which they say must better care for hundreds of former players harmed by concussion within the sport. read now...