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Orange and Rockland Utilities has filed a rate increase request with the New York state Public Service Commission to take on a number of projects. The company wants to invest in improvements for its electric, gas and clean energy delivery.
On the electric side, O&R proposes a series of initiatives, including, says spokesman Mike Donovan, a $28 million project to underground more key overhead electric lines to protect them from storm damage.
“We’re going to be doing thousands of feet of line, 14 different projects just for that,” Donovan says.
Other initiatives include overhead spacer cable projects, at $5 million for more than 30,000 feet, and grid modernization, with a $16 million price tag to expand automation. O&R plans to expand its tree trimming and removal programs. And the company proposes building two electric substations in Rockland County, one for $51 million in Stony Point, and a $28 million one in New City.
Massive Cheating Scandal Rocks the Air Force Academy
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Academy basic cadets participate in the first phase of basic cadet training with marching drills on July 8 on the Terrazzo at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. The academy has investigated 249 cadets for alleged cheating last spring, after three-quarters of the academy s students were sent home in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. (Trevor Cokley/Air Force)
The outbreak of COVID-19 last spring forced the United States Air Force Academy (AFA) to switch to remote learning. The move, which was geared at keeping cadets safe, caused a second outbreak, this time of cheating.
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The policy specifically bars intentional strikes to the head or face in most circumstances.
“Never (as a police officer) would you stand toe-to-toe and just trade punches with somebody,” said Chris Burbank, the vice president of law enforcement strategy at the Center for Policing Equity and the former chief of the Salt Lake City Police Department. “So, I don’t see the benefit of this other than for an archaic tradition.”
Just two county police academies Cape May and Mercer still include boxing in their training programs, and Mercer hasn’t featured it during the coronavirus pandemic, Aseltine said.
But the drill also has many defenders in the police community who argue that police officers will inevitably encounter uncooperative and violent offenders and need to be taught how to defend themselves in a physical confrontation.