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Drought conditions ‘significantly improved’ statewide, task force closed Thu, 12/17/2020 - 6:00pm AUGUSTA — Maine’s Drought Task Force met virtually Thursday to discuss the drought conditions across the state. Since the Task Force met a month ago, drought conditions have significantly improved across the state. According to the latest Drought Monitor, five percent of the state remains in drought status. The National Weather Service reported large precipitation gains over the last month, noting most areas received normal or above normal precipitation amounts. While snowpack i...

Weeks ago. when farmers have catastrophic damage like that from natural disasters, we have decided as a country that they should be able to turn to the emergency conservation program at the farm services administration. it's basically a program that says, it's not in our national interest as a country to lose all our farmland and to have to sell it off for development or whatever because of one-time disasters. if a farmer is hit by an act of god, we have this emergency conservation program, essentially as insurance of last resort, to help farmers save their land and not go belly up because of ...

Those inspectors are staying home. we're hoping there's no plot being hatched against the united states that in normal circumstances would be ferreted out by one of our intelligence agencies that is mostly manned by civilian employees, since 72% of our civilian employees in the intelligence community have been sent home. but then there's all the stuff that's not just about closing your eyes and cringing and hoping something really awful doesn't happen miss sthuf that -- there's also the stuff that we have agreed as a country that we ought to do, which we now have just stopped. take, for exampl...