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Street homelessness went up in Los Angeles.
In Nithya Raman’s district, it was nearly cut in half
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who is running for mayor against incumbent Karen Bass, seized on significant decreases in street homelessness in her district Friday while blasting increases citywide.
Street homelessness
— people living outdoors or in their vehicles
— went down by 49% in Raman’s district compared to the previous year, she said at a pre…

Street homelessness went up in Los Angeles. In Nithya Raman's district, it was nearly cut in half
Street homelessness — people living outdoors or in their vehicles — went down by 49% in Raman’s district compared to the previous year, she said at a press conference Friday.

#DistrictThermalNetworks - well worth investigating everywhere.
‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con

‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con
City plans to triple system of underground pipes that distribute chilled river water, reducing need for individual cooling units

#DistrictThermalNetworks - well worth investigating everywhere.
‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con

‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con
City plans to triple system of underground pipes that distribute chilled river water, reducing need for individual cooling units

I'm watching Elementary 1x02 "While You Were Sleeping" #Elementary

While You Were Sleeping
Sherlock uses his powers of deduction to consult on the murder of a young man who is shot upon entering his apartment. Meanwhile, Watson has dinner with…

Climate bills are coming in: 153 houses destroyed by climate-fueled wildfires in the village of Le Porge, not far from Bordeaux.

Diese ewige Diskussion ob man die Einkommen als Durchschnitt oder Median angeben soll... nervt. Es ist ein exponentielles System: Wer hat, dem wird gegeben. Nur wenige haben - Punkt! Beide Werte unterschätzen die Missverhältnisse.
edit: Auch die Preise für Statussymbole steigen exponentiell!

The DOJ withdraws subpoenas that would have forced three NYT reporters to testify about sources, after a federal judge criticized the DOJ for sloppy legal work (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/usmediatimesair-force-one-42429e4d4da8accc42b6c3…

Government withdraws subpoenas of 3 reporters for The New York Times
The government has withdrawn subpoenas that would have compelled three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources for articles about President Donald Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet. The withdrawals in U.S. District Court followed a remarkable back and forth between a visibly irritated Judge Arun Subramanian and government attorneys. They come at a time when the Trump administration is vigorously going after news organizations whose reporting and coverage it doesn’t lik…

The Central Oregon Irrigation District Diverts More Water Annually From the Deschutes River Than All Other Irrigation Districts Combined
Six irrigation districts together take more than 90% of the river in Bend from May to September.
COID is, by far, the most powerful.
It has rights to more than half of the volume of the river because when the state was carving up the Deschutes,
back in the early 1900s,
COID was near the front of the line with a plan to use th…

An Oregon Law Lets One Wealthy Region Turn the Desert Green. When Drought Hits, Farmers Pay the Price.
In the high desert of Central Oregon, the Deschutes River is a lifeline for farmers and landowners — but a century-old water law entitles just a few thousand people to more than half of its volume.

The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for states to use the federal government’s overhauled immigration database to purge noncitizens from voter rolls ahead of the midterms.
The unsigned decision sided with the Department of Homeland Security, which sought to revive the modified system
— which contained Social Security information and other individual data
— after U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered it shut down in June.
Three justices dissented from …

Supreme Court Allows States to Purge Voters Using an Updated Immigration Database
The high court ruled that states can again access to a modified version of the SAVE system to check for noncitizen voters despite critics’ privacy concerns.