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What the Flint Water Crisis Revealed About Trust The Flint water crisis was sparked in April 2014 when the city was under state receivership, and government officials decided to switch its water source as a cost-cutting measure. That fateful ... 05/2/2024 - 11:02 am | View Link
Biden pledges $3B to rid US water of lead. But for Flint, it's not that simple "Everyone in this country should be able to turn on the faucet and drink clean water," he said. Biden, who was vice president when the crisis in Flint started in 2014, committed to replacing the ... 05/2/2024 - 12:50 am | View Link
Biden pledges $3B more to rid US water of lead. But for Flint, it's not that simple The Flint Water Plant water tower in Flint, Michigan. Biden, who was vice president when the crisis in Flint started in 2014, committed to replacing the estimated 10 million lead services lines across ... 05/1/2024 - 8:50 pm | View Link
Former Snyder aide Rich Baird wants $2.8M in damages over Flint water criminal charges Richard Baird was one of several state officials criminally charged in the Flint water crisis. He faced four felony charges. All were dismissed. 05/1/2024 - 7:04 am | View Link
“Charlie Spies, the Republican National Committee’s chief counsel, was pushed out of his new role just two months after taking the job, amid a storm of controversy over conflicts involving other clients at the firm where he still works,“ the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Spies, a veteran election-law lawyer whom the R.
“On his first visit to Europe in five years, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, appears intent on seizing opportunities to loosen the continent’s bonds with the United States and forge a world freed of American dominance,” the New York Times reports..
“The Chinese leader has chosen three countries to visit — France, Serbia and Hungary — that each, to a greater or lesser degree, look askance at America’s postwar ordering of the world, see China as a necessary counterweight and are eager to bolster economic ties.”
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On the evening of August 8, hours after a wildfire ravaged West Maui, Maui County’s top emergency management official, Herman Andaya, texted his secretary to ask about the status of other fires across the island.
“Still burning,” she replied.
Gary Moore is one of the least talked about guitarists of his time, but man could he rock.
Still Got the Blues For You is in my mind his signature track.
Music Radar conducted an excellent interview with Moore and he discussed his music and guitar playing in general.
Moore also has some advice for the prolix guitar player, and we have surely all been one, coming down with acute case of fretboard diarrhoea and using too many notes in our solos.
Take a phrase, says Moore, and work on it, playing around with all the different permutations, accenting the first, second, or maybe the last notes, working on the dynamics – these are all ways of workshopping your phrasing and learning how to make more out of something simple and familiar.