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GRASS-FIRE CYCLE IN HAWAII: THE IMPACT OF INVASIVE GRASSES ON MAUI’S DEVASTATING WILDFIRES August 14, 2023 by archyde 2023-08-14 10:14:15 – INVASIVE GRASSES HAVE STARTED THE MAUI FIRESTORM Within A Few Hours The Fire Destroyed A City, More Than 2000 Houses Were Destroyed And More Than 90 People Lost Their Lives. According To Experts, The Cause Is A Devastating “Grass-Fire Cycle”. Posted today at 12:14 p.m After the big fire: The road in Lahaina, Hawaii, that leads to the harbor. Foto: Etienne Laurent/EPA (Keystone) Many streets in Lahaina burned down completely. Within a few hours, the small town on Maui...

In Philadelphia, the animal tranquilizer xylazine has infiltrated the opioid supply, and it's been linked to horrific wounds and amputations. Manisha Krishnan By Manisha Krishnan TORONTO, CA March 22, 2022, 7:00am Drug Users Are Losing Their Fingers and Toes After Shooting ‘Tranq Dope’ PHILADELPHIA — Bill’s hands are so disfigured that he can no longer fit gloves over them. About two months ago, his right ring finger was amputated. In a matter of weeks, he could lose the middle finger on his left hand, which was swollen with a large, maroon-colored sore covering the knuckle when VICE News met him...

MISSING Gabby Petito and her fiance fought outside the Moonflower Co-op' just days before her disappearance, according to a new police report. Petito has been missing for two weeks after going on a cross-country road trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. The 22-year-old New Yorker was last seen on August 24 after leaving a hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, with Laundrie. Her family held a joint press conference with Florida police focusing on her disappearance on Thursday. While Gabby never returned home, her fiancé did and has since made headlines after he reportedly hired an attorney and refused to...

What You Need to Know About SIRVA, a Rare Side Effect of the Flu Shot Right out of the gate, it needs to be said that getting the flu shot is never a bad idea. Versions of the vaccine have been around for more than 70 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—and this year alone, flu vaccine manufacturers expect to supply up to 169 million doses of the vaccine. Basically, the flu shot is safe, reliable, and its benefits greatly outweigh any small risks that may be associated with the vaccine. So, as long as you’re...

NORTHAMPTON — Just when people thought the political stakes couldn’t get any higher than on Election Day, along comes Billy Wimsatt with a prediction about two runoff elections in Geprgia in seven weeks. Everything is on the line with these two races,” said Wimsatt, executive director of the Movement Voter Project, a Northampton based organization that raises and distributes money to progressive organizations that mobilize voters around the country (Snip!

On Friday evening, peaceful Black Lives Matter chants were shadowed by the deafening roar of motorcycle engines as counter-protestors — including some who were open-carrying firearms — followed the marchers on their route down Railroad Avenue to the Rifle Police Department. The march was organized on Juneteenth, the oldest celebration in the U.S. commemorating the end of slavery. It was the second time this month that several hundred protesters gathered in Rifle at City Hall. But unlike the June 2 vigil, Friday’s event was met by a significant counter-protest. As BLM supporters gathered in the plaza near city hall, several...

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At the bottom of today's front page. (Sunday 6/07/2020). The Boston Globe announced on the front page that "the Sunday Magazine was removed from as many copies of today's Globe as possible because a cover illustration, which was printed in May, bore an unintentional but close resemblance to the way George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis." 0

Hunter Biden and the former stripper suing him for child support reached a settlement Wednesday — shortly after an Arkansas judge scrapped his request to delay a court appearance over the coronavirus outbreak. Independence County Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer dismissed Biden’s claims that it was “unsafe” for him to travel and that appearing for a scheduled deposition this week could put his pregnant wife at risk for the illness. “[Biden] can come by plane, train, or automobile but life and work will and should continue in our communities and courts,” Meyer wrote in a ruling late Tuesday. “No health...

Gregory Lisby, the former kindergarten teacher and Worcester priest accused of child pornography possession, pleaded guilty to the charge in Boston’s federal court on Friday, according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Separately, Lisby has been accused of sexually abusing a teenager after he was ordained in 2007, the Telegram reports. Lisby started as a kindergarten teacher last year at Morgan School in Holyoke. He was arrested in Northborough in September on the child pornography possession charge and resigned from the job, writing to the district that he had been “accused of an awful crime.” Prosecutors said he could face...

A new law in Cambridge encourages police officers not to arrest unlicensed drivers in an effort to protect undocumented immigrants from having their information shared with federal immigration officials. The City Council voted Monday to pass the Welcoming Community ordinance, which directs officers to summons unlicensed drivers instead of arresting them whenever possible. The ordinance also prohibits the Cambridge police from: inquiring about a person’s immigration status; initiating an investigation or take law enforcement action based on a person’s immigration status; arresting or detaining a person due to an ICE detainer or administrative warrant; initiating investigations or taking law enforcement...

Over the course of his public life, Donald Trump has made any number of incendiary, bizarre and flat-out false comments. And since he began his campaign for the presidency in 2015, Trump has kept the quotes coming at an ever-increasing, ever-exhausting pace. “I am a very stable genius.” “I alone can fix it.” “Why are we having all these people from sh*thole countries come here?” “Nobody has more respect for women than I do.” (The latter comment came the same night he referred to Hillary Clinton during a 2016 debate as “Such a nasty women.”) As much as they’ve become...

Two Boston City Hall officials have been convicted of conspiring to extort the founders of the Boston Calling music festival, federal prosecutors said. Kenneth Brissette, the city’s director of tourism, and Timothy Sullivan, chief of intergovernmental affairs, were charged in US District Court in Boston with illegally pressuring Crash Line Productions into hiring nine members of a stagehands union to please Mayor Martin J. Walsh, a former union leader with close ties to organized labor. Jurors, who had deliberated for only a few hours, convicted Brissette of both charges he faced — Hobbs Act conspiracy and Hobbs Act extortion, according...

Dogs in the Roaring Fork Valley have found another way to get stoned other than the bo ring break-in of edibles at home: They are eating human feces tainted with marijuana. Dr. Scott Dolginow, who owns Valley Emergency Pet Care in Basalt, said he is seeing anywhere between three and 10 dogs a week that come in with marijuana toxicity. His working theory is that these dogs are eating human feces that have enough THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, in it to carry over for a second high. And they are finding these piles of pot-laced poop on trails...

Late Breaking News! Source: Secret Service has responded to second fence jumper at White House. Alarms have sounded. Dogs charge from cars. (Moments ago) Follow up: Secret Service dogs apprehend single fence jumper who is now now being questioned.

Let me get this straight: You’re real cool and edgy. You think global warming is the greatest threat to America, Maya Angelou is better than Shakespeare, people with more money than you have too much and big government is suited for every task except the task of defending the country. Oh, and you’re way into, like, several Eastern religions. To which I say, “Yawn.” Come on. You think exactly what your college professors told you to think, exactly what government bureaucrats told you to think and exactly what your friends told you to think — all because your goal in...

Deion Sanders knows better than most that there's power in a nickname. When he was still just a skinny cornerback at Florida State University, he dubbed himself "Prime Time" and birthed an alter ego that would earn him fame, riches, and a place in the pantheon of the 20th century's greatest athletes, not to mention greatest egos. Yet for Sanders today, nicknames are more a matter of convenience than a conscious act of branding. "Blind Side," yells the Hall of Famer. "You're up!" It's another sweltering June morning on the artificial turf of Texas A&M-Commerce's football field. The campus, an...

BOISE -- Crews are still trying to sort through unknown substances in a Boise apartment that could contain low levels of radiation. The Environmental Protection Agency began cleaning up the mess found inside a unit at The Renaissance at Hobble Creek. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been investigating the case along with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality. The EPA began cleaning the apartment, stairs, and sidewalk where they say traces of the potentially hazardous material were found. Last Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission interviewed the tenant who was suspected of buying and selling radioactive material on eBay. Once the...

eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar is starting a news outlet called First Look Media. In the site's animated video, he describes it as "a new kind of marriage between a technology company and a new kind of newsroom," and that one of its goals will be to "make it easier for journalists to deliver the transformative stories we all need." Omidyar is known as a philanthropist, and has put his money where his mouth is (in this case, he is reportedly investing $250 million in the First Look venture). His Omidyar Network - with its funding of many altruistic initiatives such...

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