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  • Shooter's Grill (CO) owner served with restraining order after reopening

    05/14/2020 11:00:31 AM PDT · by dware · 30 replies
    KJCT8 ^ | 05.14.2020 | Natalie Cruz
    RIFLE,Colo.(KKCO)-- Earlier this week Shooters Grill in Rifle reopened for dine-in service, which is against the state’s safer-at-home order. Unlike Mesa County, the Governor has not approved Garfield County for dine-in eating, which means they are only supposed to provide curbside pick-up and delivery. Owner Lauren Boebert, who is also a candidate for the Third Congressional District in Colorado, told us the rule is unconstitutional. She opened up last weekend for dine-in service at 30% capacity. Boebert was initially served with a cease and desist order Tuesday afternoon by law enforcement officials.
  • History Lies In The Silt Of Tyre

    10/10/2005 3:23:10 PM PDT · by blam · 8 replies · 663+ views
    The Times (UK) ^ | 10-10-2005
    History lies in the silt of Tyre By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre THUS Kipling saw the end of Empire. Nineveh is now a collection of dusty mounds on the Tigris near Mosul, endangered by looting in the lawlessness of modern Iraq, but Tyre survives as a modest port on the coast of Lebanon. It is also an archaeological site of immense potential importance, a study concludes. The silting up of its ancient northern harbour “means that the heart of the Bronze Age, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Byzantine ports...