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On April 15th, Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was assaulted. The common life is not always easy, but what do we do when things go wrong?

Most publicly funded stadium projects are boondoggles. The Hobart AFL stadium is worse than that.

In den vergangenen sechs Jahrzehnten haben Starkregenereignisse als typische Auslöser von Muren zugenommen. Gleichzeitig drangen Siedlungen weiter in exponierte Lagen vor. Trotzdem gab es keine Veränderung der Anzahl, Größe und Saisonalität von schadenverursachenden Murenereignissen.

Virtual fundraiser sees "Neighbors Helping Neighbors" January 06, 2021PLYMOUTH — As we enter winters coldest month, many are struggling to stay warm, with the pandemic compounding the perennial challenge of paying for fuel. Despite the economic downturn, local businesses and individuals have stepped up with donations for the Keep the Heat On (KTHO) annual fundraiser, to be held virtually this year on Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. Keep the Heat On is a volunteer effort raising funds for the non...

Binyamin Appelbaum, the main writer on economics for the New York Times, thinks that economics was appropriately progressive—favoring severe market restrictions—in the first half of the twentieth century. All this changed in the fifties. By Christopher Caldwell. Simon & Schuster, 2020. 342 pages. The task that civil rights laws were meant to carry out—the top-down management of various ethnic, regional, and social groups—had always been the main task of empires. The US now imposes this...

Keep the Heat On goes virtual Fuel assistance "UnEvent" planned December 16, 2020PLYMOUTH — In a year when so many things have changed, the need for winter warmth and other necessities is greater than ever. The Keep the Heat On (KTHO) Committee has responded with a twist on its popular annual fundraiser on Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. "So many are suffering from the economic impacts of COVID-19," says event organizer Audrey Eisenhauer. "We cant gather in person, but rather than canceling were...