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Some county officials say no, and are pushing to withdraw from the group. By Graham Kilmer - Jan 25th, 2021 10:04 am //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Milwaukee County Courthouse. Photo by Sulfur at English Wikipedia (GFDL) or (CC-BY-SA-3.0), via Wikimedia CommonsMembers of the Milwaukee County Board held a lengthy debate Thursday concerning whether they should remain members of the Wisconsin Counties Association...

Pete Comparoni | UK Photo. LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 15, 2021) — Following is a blog by University of Kentucky Associate Vice President for Philanthropy Brent Pieper.  Your institution has weathered many storms at national and world levels, thus causing a ripple effect of hard times across campus. You may bear the torch of experiencing the next one where you are now. Don’t panic. It’s your turn to lead the community to better days and it will happen. There’s already scar tissue that shows...

New Discovery+ Series UFO Witness Unveils Unseen Project Blue Book Files ✖ Project Blue Book is one of the most well-known investigative efforts into UFOs and extraterrestrial life, with the study being conducted by the United States Air Force in the 50s and 60s before shutting down in 1970. While some of the research conducted within Project Blue Book has been released, there is still valuable information that the general public has never seen, with the upcoming discovery+ series UFO Witnes...

Your evening longread: Cartoon Saloon and the new golden age of animation We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news. By Aoife Barry Thursday 7 Jan 2021, 8:30 PM Jan 7th 2021, 8:30 PM 8,649 Views 5 Comments Image: IMDB Image: IMDB EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven ...

discovery+ Has the Greatest Collection of Paranormal & Unexplained Content in One Place The Paranormal & Unexplained genre hub on discovery+ will launch with nearly 3,000 episodes of paranormal programming in its extensive library, establishing the largest collection of paranormal content available to users anywhere in the world. [via press release from Discovery, Inc.] SCREAM THE GREATEST COLLECTION OF PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINED PROGRAMMING WILL BE AVAILABLE IN ONE PLACE! Two-Hour Specials Gho...

16 min read Nearly all Irish restaurants, pubs, shops and cafes closed in 2020. But some will never reopen. Business owners talk about the year Covid-19 closed their doors for good There are few – if any – who have been unaffected by the pandemic. Lives have been taken and jobs lost. People have been effectively trapped in their homes for weeks on end, weddings have been cancelled or curtailed, church services forced online and holidays at home and abroad abandoned, sometimes at an en...

Discovery+ Reveals Impressive Slate of Paranormal Programming for Launch ✖ Fans of the paranormal have been given a number of compelling and unsettling experiences thanks to the Discovery Channel and Travel Channel over the years, with the upcoming launch of streaming service discovery+ not only offering thousands of hours of beloved series, but it will also unveil all-new programs and specials featuring fan-favorite investigators. In addition to exciting supernatural series being available w...

Steve Braunias: 2020 - The year of absence 10 minutes to read Steve Braunias looks back on 2020 and refuses to name the one thing that defined the year. It could have been worse. It wasnt like we suffered the utter devastation and plain unannounced rudeness of an asteroid flinging itself at the planet, like the one that struck 2.229 billion years ago in Yarrabubba, in Western Australia, and was confirmed in January as the worlds oldest asteroid crater. There wasnt an awful lot...

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize The critics’ top eight choices based on Christmas selections in national newspapers, the London Evening Standard, the TLS, The Spectator and the New Statesman. Plus, we take a look at some of the other best books which were released in 2020.  Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart  The winner of this year’s Booker Prize is a tale of poverty, addiction and abuse set in and around Glasgow in the 1980s. Shuggie Bain’s mother is an alcoholic; hi...