Otago lead scare: Water still undrinkable as ministry backs health response
16 Apr, 2021 02:31 AM
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Waikouaiti, Karitane and Hawksbury residents have been told not to drink tap water, nor use if for cooking, since February. Photo / Rebecca Ryan
Waikouaiti, Karitane and Hawksbury residents have been told not to drink tap water, nor use if for cooking, since February. Photo / Rebecca Ryan
Otago Daily Times
By: Grant Miller
A review into the health response to lead contamination of East Otago water supplies has found warnings to the affected communities were issued at the right time.
However, recommended changes include ensuring better reporting by water suppliers and a review of the process for public health units to get expert advice.
Trevor Noah has The Talk with viewers about police violence against Black people
“It has been another week in America,” began
Daily Show host Trevor Noah on Thursday, with the sort of deeply resigned wry gravitas signaling a piece on just how lousy a week it’s truly been. Continuing, Noah confirmed that fact, adding, “Which means it’s been another week of Black people being harassed or killed by the police.” Naming just two high-profile, caught-on-camera incidents of such police misconduct (Daunte Wright is dead, U.S. Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario was beaten and pepper-sprayed), Noah dutifully waded into well-explored waters as he attempted to unpack yet another week’s worth of documented proof that the experiences of policing are deeply, too-often fatefully, irrevocably different for not-white versus white households.
April 15, 2021
There was no plea in today s hearing and a judge said Kim Potter is not allowed to use, possess or transport firearms.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT
The former officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright made her first court appearance over Zoom today.
There was no plea in today s hearing and a judge said Kim Potter is not allowed to use, possess or transport firearms.
Potter is charged with second-degree manslaughter in what police described as an accidental shooting during a traffic stop.
Activists want a more serious murder charge filed and Wright s family wants a conviction, but says justice is unattainable.
09 April 2021 ECRI s WLI Growth Rate Little Changed
ECRI s WLI Growth Index which forecasts economic growth six months forward was little changed and remains well into expansion.
Analyst Opinion of the trends of the weekly leading indices
Please note that the coronavirus is a black swan event and the decline was immediate. In theory, this index is now indicating that in the second or third quarter of 2021 the economy should be in expansion year-over-year
Here is this week s update on ECRI s Weekly Leading Index (a positive number indicates growth):
Weekly Leading Index Rises
ECRI s U.S. Weekly Leading Index (WLI) rose to 156.1, a record high. The growth rate increased to 25.0%.
EXCLUSIVE: In an exclusive interview with theGrio, VP Kamala Harris calls for “full accountability” in the Chauvin case and said Wright “should still be alive today.” Policing in America as it relates to race and racial bias is yet again at the center of the nation’s consciousness following the recent fatal police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Minnesota, just miles away from the ongoing murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer involved in the death of George Floyd.