Storm damage reports trickle into MEMA, next steps in disaster aid The state must meet a $4.5 million threshold in damages. (Source: AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) By Sharie Nicole | February 22, 2021 at 3:12 PM CST - Updated March 5 at 10:30 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - One week after mother nature pounded the state with heavy rain, which quickly turned into ice, families in Mississippi remain without food and water, the most basic necessities.
“I’m very weak and in pain and I can’t swallow my medicine,” Teresa Smith told WLBT Saturday.
Smith has since been able to get water, but electricity and utility crews are making daily progress as they work around the clock to repair infrastructure so no one has to be in the cold or dark.
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Print article SEATTLE The snowstorm that hit the Pacific Northwest last week dropped more than a foot of snow at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and left airlines struggling to maintain their schedules. Alaska Airlines passengers were particularly badly hit. Delta handled the weather a lot better. Seattle-based Alaska canceled more than 400 mainline flights at Sea-Tac between Feb. 12 and 15, when the snow finally began to clear. On Feb. 13, the worst day, Alaska canceled 81% of its scheduled flights in and out of Sea-Tac, according to aviation data analysis firm Cirium. The following day, Alaska canceled 37% of its scheduled flights. Those figures include all Alaska Air Group flights, counting those operated by its Horizon Air subsidiary and by contract carrier SkyWest, all of them flying in Alaska colors.
Kate MacNamara: Storm brewing for the Climate Change Commission
22 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Rod Carr, chair of the Climate Change Commission. Photo / Supplied
NZ Herald
OPINION:
At the end of January New Zealand s newly formed Climate Change Commission dropped a draft report of seismic proportions. The suite of proposals aims to sideline the main mechanism for reducing and offsetting New Zealand s man-made carbon emissions until now, the Emissions Trading Scheme. It would declare peak meat and dairy (our most valuable exports) and reduce livestock numbers from here.
And through a range of policy sticks, carrots and bans, it would have the Government reach into our living rooms and our driver s seats, dictating everything from how we heat our homes to how we get to work, in a slew of new, invasive, but surprisingly inexpensive ways.
Former Subcontractor Sentenced for Obstruction of Justice Published: 20 February 2021 20 February 2021
Washington, DC - A former subcontractor for the U.S. Marines Corps was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison for destroying records in connection with a federal investigation of bribery and procurement fraud at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune (MCBCL), located in Jacksonville, North Carolina, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. McQuaid of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
The former subcontractor, William Thompson, 56, of Sneads Ferry, North Carolina, previously pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of justice. According to documents filed with the Court, Thompson owned and operated C&D Painting and Construction, a construction company with its principal place of business in Sneads Ferry. Public Official 1 was a civilian employee of the U.S. Marine Corps who directed the procurement of information technology services and equipment t