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Posted: Mon 17th May 2021 Pandemic impact on town centre set to be discussed by councillors – but “longer-term trends also need to be considered” Ways to “target empty and problematic buildings” in Wrexham town centre to meet the changing needs of the economy are set to be discussed this week. As with all towns and cities, the coronavirus pandemic has affected the occupancy rate in the town as several high street retailers and eateries shut up shop for good. Many of these have been o...

Beware the illusion of fortress Australia. We remain isolated as others reopen Tim Soutphommasane © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Erik Anderson/EPA Fortress Australia is one of our abiding national illusions. As an island nation, we are preoccupied with threats from outside, and convinced we have it within our power to keep them at bay. So it has been with this Covid pandemic. Listening to debate today, there are many Australians perfectly content with the federal gove...

Phumla grows as nature leader Common Purpose has run similar programmes in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean region, with Mavas support enabling the programmes implementation in the African continent. Monday, 10 May 2021, 12:02 Phumla Nyathikazi GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - Phumla Nyathikazi, the socio-economic officer for the Wilderness section of the Garden Route National Park, has just completed an innovative leadership course throug...

My immediate reaction was: Is that all? Its long been an open secret that the police dont bother investigating break-ins. Some forces admit they will only send a copper if the intruder is still on the premises. Even that doesnt apply in London, where criminals responsible for 90 per cent of burglaries can expect to get away with it. Police no longer bother investigating burglaries - and this deliberate dereliction of duty has been going on for years, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN A couple of years ...

Little Rock: A model for the country The Central Arkansas Library System will join with the city of Little Rock this week for the first in a four-part discussion that’s part of a national effort, Our Common Purpose, to produce a “more resilient democracy.” The first virtual discussion, from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, will talk about how Little Rock can be a model for national communities in this project. Advertisement Arkansas’s capital city will be the nation’s municipal “champion”...

Date Time Positive Tech Solutions will forge recovery: Global Technology Governance Summit Concludes More than 2,000 leaders from 125 countries gathered to shape the trajectory of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Business leaders emphasized the importance of positive solutions that technology can bring to societal, climate and equity issues The summit’s conclusions will feed into platforms, initiatives, and projects for the upcoming Special Annual Meeting 2021 in Singapore For more informatio...

This was the Met’s George Floyd moment. Pictures of police officers pinning a young woman to the ground during a peaceful protest have been beamed round the world on TV and social media. No one died, fortunately, but I defy anybody to look at those disgusting images without being overwhelmed by a stomach-churning sense of revulsion. What the hell were they thinking? Who authorised this heavy-handed brutality? Does the Commissioner of the Met really think this is a legitimate way for her subor...

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DU announces Memorandum of Common Purpose with MRCTI Ammoland Inc. Posted on IMG Ducks Unlimited U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Today, Ducks Unlimited and the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative (MRCTI) signed a Memorandum of Common Purpose, signaling our shared goal to protect and restore wetlands and riparian habitats along the Mississippi River for the benefit of migrating waterfowl and Mississippi River communities. One of America’s largest expanses of wetlands, the Mississippi R...

Montage by Niko Yaitanes/ Harvard Magazine; images by Unsplash.  Several months before the invasion of the United States Capitol threw the nation’s seat of legislative power into peril, the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s survey on civic knowledge found that barely half of American adults can name all three branches of government, and 20 percent cannot name any rights protected by the First Amendment. Remarkably, these figures constitute  improvements on the results of the previous 15 ...