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01/02/2021 Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone The Prime Minister says it is incredibly encouraging that the Climate Change Commission's first official report shows that reaching our emissions reduction goals are both achievable and affordable. The commission's first report, published on Monday, laid out a path to drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions to meet the Paris Agreement targets. Three new targets for the country were set: an average reduction of 2 percent each year between 2022 and 2025, 17 percent each year between 2025 and 2030 and 36 percent each ye...

Rhoda Meek set up Isle20 at the beginning of the pandemic to support producers in Scottish islands sell their wares online AMIDST the gloom of a lockdown January it’s hard to see a bright side but a silver lining to the coronavirus cloud could be the number of businesses across Scotland that have embraced ecommerce for the first time. For artists, craft workers and microbusinesses particularly, a move online has staved off penury and for some has been so successful that they expect to continue to benefit post-Covid. Island and rural communities are among those that have been quick to ...

started typically enough for Seven Days writers. One reporter gave advice to a Wyoming woman who suspected a cop there had created a fake social media account, because we've apparently become reputed experts on that. Another learned about an Auschwitz survivor and member of the Polish resistance who shared his family name — and a strong resemblance to his father. You know, the usual stuff. But then, 2020 brought us COVID-19, and things got, well, very weird. Our writers, trained to witness and record the sensory details that bring stories to life, faced new obstacles. Ye...

Jan Wright This "backstory" is a part of a collection of articles that describes some of the obstacles that Seven Days reporters faced while pursuing Vermont news, events and people in 2020. I wrote a couple of stories last year about police using fake social media accounts to engage citizens — anonymously. After the practice brought down two top law enforcement officials in Burlington, I got an email from Kati Hime of Laramie, Wyo. "I have a strong suspicion that we are in a similar situation ... regarding an officer here," Hime wrote to me...

5:30 An issue that shadowed Burlington, Vermont officials throughout 2020 began at the end of 2019.  As Progressives took control of the City Council, policing issues were targeted. Now the department faces cuts moving into 2021. On December 16, 2019 Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger accepted the resignation of then-Police Chief Brandon del Pozo after he admitted using an anonymous Twitter account to criticize a local activist and department critic.  The mayor then appointed Deputy Chief Jan Wright to serve as Acting Chief.  But within hours she too was replaced after admitting to the mayor...