What Plants Can Teach Us About Politics
In his new book, ‘The Nation of Plants,’ botanist Stefano Mancuso offers a playful thought experiment: What if plants wrote a constitution?
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In his new book, ‘The Nation of Plants,’ botanist Stefano Mancuso offers a playful thought experiment: What if plants wrote a constitution?
BILL PEARSON Fri, 04/09/2021 - 7:45am Edgecomb has not had a property revaluation in 17 years, and it doesn’t look there will be one anytime soon. Selectmen discussed the timetable April 6, but their tax assessor isn’t available for three years. Instead, selectmen unanimously agreed to meet with Tax Assessor John O’Donnell of John E. O’Donnell & Associates, Inc. to begin estimating the project’s size and scope in preparation for a 2024 revaluation. “We’re receiving an increasing number of inquiries of taxpayers questioning their bills,” Selectman Mike Smith said. ...
PLR deems judicial modifications of trust don’t impact generation-skipping tax exemption. Private Letter Ruling 202108001 (released Feb. 26, 2021) addresses the intersection of the best of times – a grandfathered generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax-exempt trust funded generously enough to warrant the cost of a PLR application – and the worst of times, namely drafting careless enough to include a digit mid-word in the title of a trust article. And the hero of our PLR is, undoubtedly, the brave counsel who rode into the fray with the issue-spotting-telescope of a 1L confronting...
Woman reported sex attack but police failings nearly destroyed her career A judge found officers breached her human rights Updated Merseyside Police headquarters (Image: Liverpool Echo) Police failings deprived a woman of potentially "powerful" evidence against a man she accused of sexually assaulting her. The suspect was cleared of wrongdoing following a trial that became mired in claims the alleged victim's evidence was unreliable because she had taken cocaine that night. The woman denied this - but lost the opportunity to prove those claims were false because police did not test blood and ...
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