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☆ Interior Said to Reject Industrial Road Through Alaskan Wilderness
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Lisa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Biden administration is expected to deny permission for a mining company to build a 211-mile industrial road through fragile Alaskan wilderness, handing a victory to environmentalists in an election year when the president wants to underscore his credentials as a climate leader and conservationist. A formal denial of the project would come later this year, they said. The road was essential to reach what is estimated to be a $7.5 billion copper deposit buried under ecologically sensitive land. There are currently no mines in the area and no requests for permits have been filed with the government; the road was a first step. Blocking the industrial road would be an enormous victory for opponents who have argued for years that it would threaten wildlife as well as Alaska Native tribes that rely on hunting and fishing.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Interior Department Locations: Ambler, Alaska

☆ The collapse of the I-95 bridge in Philadelphia should've taken months to repair. Here's how the city fixed it in 12 days.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( John Kell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

In June, the collapse of the I-95 bridge in Philadelphia brought one of the city's busiest thoroughfares to a standstill. But in Philadelphia, I-95 reopened just 12 days later, restoring order on one of the busiest thoroughfares in the area. That quick work, Belmonte said, was one of many key decisions that got the reconstruction project moving rapidly. Meanwhile, congestion immediately spiked on the roadways near the I-95 collapse as emergency crews rushed to set up detours. Bartash said her travel time to Bucks County doubled to two and a half hours during the I-95 bridge reconstruction.

Persons: Josh Shapiro, Shapiro, Lou Belmonte, Belmonte, Billy Kyle, guardrails, PennDOT, Inrix, Bob Pishue, Laura Ahramjian, Ahramjian, Stephanie Bartash, Bartash, Jo Bradley, Bradley, It's Organizations: Morning, Pennsylvania, Infrastructure Investment, Jobs, Pennsylvania Department, Transportation, Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation, Buckley, Co, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Pocono, NASCAR, Kittelson, Associates, Bucks, Philadelphia Phillies Locations: Philadelphia, Atlanta, Mississippi, Minnesota, Philadelphia County, Vine, Pennsylvania, Jersey Shore, Delaware, New Jersey, Ambler , Pennsylvania

☆ The Book That Changed Robert Rubin’s Thinking About Poverty
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In addition to the subject’s fascinating life — among much else, she was Virginia Woolf’s muse and longtime lover — I always enjoy books about that era. What’s the most interesting thing you learned from a book recently? I recently finished a book called “1215: The Year of Magna Carta,” by Danny Danziger and John Gillingham. Our political system and government. You’ll find more recent examples of the genre — especially those by David Baldacci and Daniel Silva — on my shelves, too.

Persons: Victoria Glendinning, ”, Vita, —, Danny Danziger, John Gillingham, I’d, Roger Lowenstein, who’s, Federal Reserve —, haven’t, Chris Whipple’s, Coffin, Dimitrios, Eric Ambler, Helen MacInnes, You’ll, David Baldacci, Daniel Silva — Organizations: Bloomsbury Group, Magna Carta, Wall Street, The Times, Federal Reserve, Scottish Locations: Vita Sackville, West, England, Virginia, Scottish American

[1/3] The 76th Cannes Film Festival - Photocall for the film "How to Have Sex" in competition for the category Un Certain Regard - Cannes, France, May 19, 2023. However, there was a slight hiccup: Molly Manning Walker was not in the room when the award for her debut feature was announced. The first Sudanese film to be included in the Cannes official selection, "Goodbye Julia," took the freedom award. Director Mohamed Kordofani thanked the Sudanese people for their support as well as for not giving up. "Un Certain Regard" is a competition focused on arthouse films that runs parallel to the main competition, the Palme d'Or, which will be announced on Saturday.

☆ I designed the hat Beyoncé wore in the Renaissance tour promo. Now I'm working up to 15 hours a day to meet my Etsy waitlist of 6,000.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Jenny Powers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Now Misbin works 12 to 15 hours a day to keep up with the waitlist of 6,000 for the disco-ball hat. On February 1, I sold 70 disco-ball hats at an increased price of $350 each. I'm a hat decorator first and foremost, and I'm not willing to sacrifice the quality of my product to sell more of them. Thanks to their help, I've cut about an hour off the process of making a disco-ball hat, so at five hours per hat, I can usually make around 15 a week. At the end of the day, I didn't create the disco-ball hat.

A voter casts their ballot in the Pennsylvania primary elections at Congregation Beth Or in Ambler, Pennsylvania, U.S. May 17, 2022. The alleged security breach came to light last month when Fulton County sued election equipment maker Dominion Voting Systems, citing purported security flaws discovered in Speckin's analysis of six hard drives from the machines. In a Pennsylvania Supreme Court filing on Tuesday, lawyers for the Secretary of the Commonwealth had asked the court to hold Fulton County officials, including Republican Commissioners Stuart Ulsh and Randy Bunch, in civil contempt for the breach. The lawyers said county officials "openly thumbed their noses at a clear and direct order of this Court" by allowing Speckin, a Michigan-based company, access to the machines. Stefanie Lambert, a Detroit-based attorney representing the county, did not immediately respond to a query about the special master appointment.

A voter casts their ballot in the Pennsylvania primary elections at Congregation Beth Or in Ambler, Pennsylvania, U.S. May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/File PhotoOct 21 (Reuters) - A rural Pennsylvania county violated a court order when it allowed a forensics company to examine voting equipment in July, marking the county's second security breach of the machines, the state's top election official alleged in a court filing. The latest alleged breach came to light last month when Fulton County filed a lawsuit against election equipment maker Dominion Voting Systems, citing purported issues discovered in an examination of the equipment by Speckin Forensics LLC. She pointed to alleged security flaws highlighted in Speckin's report, and noted that the county has sued Dominion and no longer uses its machines. Petitioners have now twice breached the security of this voting system by turning its components over to unauthorized third parties," lawyers for the state wrote in the filing.

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