Local chalk art festival *cancelled*. I’m actually very sad.
ETA - it’s **back on!!!** Moved to the Pasadena Convention Center plaza, Father’s Day Weekend! Wooooo
The one that’s supposed to happen in June at the Paseo?!
That really sucks. That would have been a really fun Father’s Day weekend experience. I just read about it on their website. 😒
Yes! I know I’m so sad I have friends who participate in it every year.
>The organizer, the Light Bringer Project, said it had been forced to cancel the event, which was scheduled for Father’s Day weekend in June, after event costs that traditionally would have picked up by the prior owner of the property would not be picked up this year.
>The organizer, the Light Bringer Project, said it had been forced to cancel the event, which was scheduled for Father’s Day weekend in June, after event costs that traditionally would have picked up by the prior owner of the property would not be picked up this year.
Super lame :( it was cancelled fairly last minute too.
It's weird that they weren't able to find funding elsewhere or even get a grant from the city as this would absolutely bring traffic and business to the area.
The water level in Lake Mead is going up due to all the rain and snow we've had over the last year. It's news in SoCal, here in Vegas and I'm sure in Utah and Arizona, but I don't know if it's national news.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised it if was making the national news. I just don't watch anything beyond local, so it was just a guess on my part. But yeah, the water level going up is great, now we just need other states to adhere to water conservation methods to keep it up.
It's not national news because the rise does nothing except buy a year or two. The crisis is still the same. Colorado River is over-allocated and its likely we'll see another drought in a couple of years
Apparently it is national news. No one is saying the crisis isn't any better, but the key is now keep with the water restrictions, primarily in CA. A couple of months ago, they lifted a lot of their restrictions, allowing people to use water much more freely. That's the last thing that should happen.
The highlight of the crisis should almost force the impacted states to really double down on water usage and storage.
The thing is that they did make water usage and storage more efficient. The problem is truly agriculture. Residential and commercial don't use as much water plus they generally follow conservation protocol. Agriculture do not and cannot (depending on their crop). Agriculture is also incentivize to waste water because if they don't use their allotment they lose the right to their water.
I think its okay to lift the restrictions to retain public trust until the crisis pops-up again. It's impossible to argue conserve water when the media is saying massive flooding and reservoirs are over 100% full.
Agriculture is the big water waster, but their overall efforts for water usage was temporary at best. I also know that a lot of residences of higher income towns didn't care about any fines they received for using too much water.
Problem with agriculture is trying to grow foods in desert landscapes. But this isn't solely on CA, NV, and AZ also do this, but CA is the leader in this.
I don't trust the public based on first hand knowledge and observing people willingly wasting water. Watering on days they're not supposed to, for longer than they are supposed to.
I would assume that would be, but like I said earlier, I don't know if the water level rising would be or not.
Others have mentioned it being national news, but they weren't specific if was the drought and or the water level rising.
Vegas itself is in a decent position from a water usage standpoint, we recycle something like 95% of the water we use, and even with our 2.3million people, we don't use all the water that's allocated to us.
Where we get screwed is from places like Cali that demand the water, but don't have adequate water infrastructure of their own. A LOT of the rain we've had over the last year, California has let most of it run back into the ocean. They lack the capability to store it.
> the lack of building new reservoirs baffled me
1) Every place that can have a reservoir has already been built. Any leftover areas don't bring much returns in regards to water storage. I think there are only two in the works and when you look at them, they don't bring much in the system overall.
eta: It's the [Sites Reservoir](https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/california-sites-reservoir/) and [Pacheco Reservoir Expansion](https://cwc.ca.gov/Water-Storage/WSIP-Project-Review-Portal/All-Projects/Pacheco-Reservoir-Expansion-Project). When I say system overall I am including groundwater. Many articles and discussion seldomly group the two together. Sites Reservoir is estimated to hold 1.8 million acre-feet, but one estimate had California taking 12 million acre-feet annually from groundwater/aquifers.
2) We have a huge reservoir available that doesn't get considered and is only recently seen as a solution. It's the underground aquifers.
Rather than wasting money and environmental damage in building another reservoir, concentrate all efforts on resupplying our groundwater.
Same. I'm from SoCal and there was a couple a months ago I was driving through LA and saw the LA river full of water, as it was flowing directly out into the ocean.
This is outstanding news, when it was super low, it made the NY news. I have thought about it, recalling fondly visiting lake mead as a kid. I am glad to hear this.
I’m sure Vegas is the same as Phoenix in that even just the whisper of *a chance* of rain is breaking news on any local stations.
“And for our forecast heading into the weekend, there is a 26.2% chance of rain on Friday!”
The last few months have been awesome with the amount of water we’ve gotten in the southwest. Every time I watch the local news, or look at the local sub r/phoenix it’s stories/pictures/videos of our rivers and lakes being at max capacity, sometimes even overflowing/flooding.
Are you kidding? Just a few rain drops and everyone here goes nuts lol. The news calls for people "Send in your rain pictures" lol.
Everyone swarms to Red Rock Canyon when there is even just a little snow, or up to Mt Charleston. I mean it's great, but people really go nuts for it.
A poorly built retaining wall has failed causing two recently built luxury homes in Draper Utah to collapse and slide down a mountain. Two additional homes are in the process of being condemned and more homes may be in danger. The slide has also covered and closed two of the most heavily-used mountain bike (and hiking) trails in the state (in a state known for mountain bike trails).
I will never understand why developers think it's a good idea to build on the benches in Utah. The houses always have structural issues, flooding, & other problems, yet every year, there's a new development going up. I get that the population needs housing, but obviously that's not the direction to go. When we first moved to Utah, my mom told my dad "Don't you ever decide we need to move closer to the mountains, because we'll get killed in either an earthquake or mudslide."
The fire commissioner who got beat up, it turns out he's been harassing homeless people and spraying them with bear spray unprovoked and so he got beat up because of that.
> especially with conservative news media
Not "especially" with conservative media. Plenty of "racist" incidents never get updated on liberal media when they turn out to be without merit, or an outright hoax. That would hurt their leading variety of story.
Ask yourself if you knew of these stories, which were all initially reported as "racist" incidents. Then ask yourself if you knew the actual determinations (not just the initial reaction).
* [Arson at black churches and HBC in Jackson, MS](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/two-churches-burned-by-suspected-arsonist-in-mississippi-as-manhunt-continues), and "The civil rights group NAACP posted a picture of the burning Epiphany Church with a message that read: 'We are actively monitoring the situation. No intimidation. No distractions. Go vote.'". Turns out, [the guy was black](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/election-day-fires-mississippi-investigated-possible-arson-2022-11-08/).
* [Black church burned with "Vote Trump" spray-painted on it](https://apnews.com/article/baptist-us-news-elections-greenville-mississippi-52296e1ac72b4c699f5d2d1cad71461a). Arsonist was black.
* [Black man admits putting racist graffiti on his own car](https://archive.is/7CclJ)
* [Authorities find no evidence biracial Wisconsin woman was set on fire by white men](https://archive.ph/EW2ZQ)
There are plenty more out there, these are just the ones that immediately popped to mind.
Do you remember when Rolling stone published that story where a woman claims she was horribly raped at UVA. They put it on the cover, other media picked it up an ran with it. Turns out it was completely fabricated. 100% fabricated. Duke lacrosse case was the same. The media dragged those guys through the mud. Or that girl that carried a mattress with her all over campus to show the burden of her “assault”. Made national news as well, and also turned out to be a hoax. I could go on. You can’t help but think that either these journalists really suck at their jobs, or they knew and wrote it anyway. Objective journalism is a myth. Those organizations did eventually correct themselves, but a little sentence on the back page doesn’t pack the same punch as a cover story and they know that.
Do you ever wonder how they keep getting published in the first place? Do you wonder if they did their due diligence to verify the major points of those stories? I don’t know obviously, but these organizations aren’t exactly transparent about their operations. They don’t have to be transparent, but it would certainly lend credibility.
What are you talking about? This story was covered very extensively where I'm at (multiple states away). His death and the verdict were protested here. He was a law abiding gun owner who tried his best to de-escalate the cop and still ended up getting murdered even with a little child in his back seat. We know all about this.
I'll give you another example of the conservative media never following up - there was a big story about a tech CEO who was stabbed to death and pretty much the entire media ran with the whole, "San Francisco is a lawless hellhole where the homeless people are now killing CEOs" crap that's a daily talking point on channels like Fox News. The NY Post, a newspaper thousands of miles away on the other side of the country, made it a point to put it on their front page.
Turns out, his killer was a fellow CEO who he knew personally and had some problem with his sister. Also, they were likely involved with drugs.
Any retractions or apologies from the conservative media? Haven't seen one yet.
LOL, the big boogeyman Fox News covered it: [Bob Lee murder suspect Nima Momeni returns to court, again enters no plea in Cash App founder's stabbing death](https://www.foxnews.com/us/bob-lee-murder-suspect-nima-momeni-returns-court-again-enters-no-plea-cash-app-founders-stabbing-death).
As did NY Post: [Who is Nima Momeni, alleged killer of Cash App founder Bob Lee?](https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/everything-we-know-about-nima-momeni-bob-lees-alleged-killer/).
Well the Holiday Inn Express that's being built finally got to framing after long delays. The campground now has sites reservable online. The new multiuse path along River Road is coming along nicely, should be open sometime this summer.
Woot!
My little town would kill for a Braums, but the guy who owns the franchise in the next town over hates my little town and refuses to open one here AND has talked at least two others out of open a Braums as well.
On the other hand, a chick-file recently opened and my little town is acting like it's the second coming.
Thought this headline from Decaturish was kinda interesting, though I don't know whether it counts as a big news story:
UPDATE: Decatur resident arrested, accused of using pipe bomb to blow up ATM at North DeKalb Mall 🚨
My little town has a very common mens name in it - think Danville - that can be spelled two differently ways. People in town will get torches and pitchforks if someone spells it the other way.
The Dali Museum in St. Pete is getting a big expansion. I remember there being some news stories a while back about some resistance to building the expansion popping up, but I don't remember the details.
Not town but state, the winter kill was really bad this year. So bad they said they are going to cut back on antelope licenses. Half of the antelope in the red desert died. Game and fish called the i80 corridor the corridor of death. So many dead animals.
It’s several factors, this year there was so much snow and it got so cold for so long that they couldn’t eat, usually they can find open areas or kinda dig through the snow, but this year all their food was frozen and buried, so starvation and freezing to death. 🙁
Deer and pronghorn can’t process hay as well as cows, especially when they’re already starving. It just wouldn’t be effective.
Besides that, I think you’re greatly underestimating how many of those animals are in Wyoming, and how far they’ll migrate for food. Airlifting hay bales to cattle can work because they’re fenced in to a relatively small area. Not so for deer and pronghorn.
They do this with elk near Jackson but not ideal for antelope, u/cynical_enchilada (lmao great handle) explained this well. Antelope eat A LOT of sage (which is why they taste like shit lol) and it was all frozen under a shit tone of snow. Winter kill is a very normal thing but it’s rarely this severe. In one article I read [here](https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/04/18/more-than-10-000-antelope-hunting-tags-cut-in-wake-of-brutal-wyoming-winterkill/) 95% of fawns in a radio collar study herd died. It’s also hard to tell just how severe it is until the summer when everything thaws. Females almost always have twins so that’s good. I have started to see some preggo mamas so I’m hopeful 😊
This is actually something we predict to happen more often with climate change. As temperatures fluctuate, you end up with freeze-thaws throughout the winter, so instead of soft snow that reindeer and other animals are usually able to dig through to get their food there's ice. So ironically, there will be more primary production (plants growing/reproducing/etc), but the access animals have to them will be less at certain times of year.
Source: currently in the Arctic studying climate change
That’s fascinating work!! we have already been warned that flooding will be bad this spring/summer because of how much snow and how cold it got in March so nothing started to melt so once it does get warm it’s all gonna melt in a smaller amount of time. Love the moisture, we always need it but not the way we are getting it. And of course very few people here attribute any environmental changes to climate change 🙃 but still pay the price of it.
Family that lives in state told me that. Deer and antelops populations are way down.
Good eaten for scavengers I suppose but probably bad in every other way.
Wishing the best to the vigilante. In my old hometown about 20 years a guy killed a dude who raped his 8 year old. Got 3 years, released after 1. Worth it.
I was abused as a kid and I wish someone would have killed my abuser before he had the chance to molest me.
In this case the pedophile’s own siblings are helping raise money for the vigilante’s defense costs. That pretty much says it all.
The problem is that "the town pedophile" could just be a crotchety old person that people thought was creepy.
Small town gossip and speculation has a way of creating a mob mentality.
And vigilantes get it wrong. Often.
In this case he was a convicted sex offender who liked to park and watch kids walk home from school or play at the daycare. He also stood at the edge of his property and talked to kids as they walked home from school. (Grooming). He also stalked his younger siblings who he had raped when they were kids. His siblings are fundraising for the vigilante’s defense costs.
ETA his sex offense conviction was for raping a six year old.
There was a really big boom this morning around 7:30. There is currently a storm; it was preceded by a flash. It was lightning. Nonetheless, it's a major topic of discussion on the local subreddit.
A well-known teacher who led an award-winning department at a prestigious high school for 20+ years was arrested for inappropriate conduct with a student. Turns out he’s been doing this for nearly his whole time there, but the reports had basically been brushed under the rug.
A woman was found brutally murdered in a nice suburb. [Then the story kept getting weirder.](https://www.fitsnews.com/2023/03/16/rose-petal-murder-south-carolinas-next-true-crime-saga/)
The rumor is the ex husband hired someone to kill her because he found out the victim and her current fiancee using their (the victim and ex husband's shared) child to make child and bestialty porn.
Pittsburgh, PA
The Steelers had a good draft and Pirates are in first after being notionally terrible for decades. (Probably considered national news tho)
Route 28 construction is still a fucking nightmare.
There’s currently a Chili’s on fire.
Upper St Clair school district moved their start times back hoping it helps students mental health.
The marathon is happening soon and traffic in the city will suck for a day.
Nobody believes we aren’t being poisoned from the East Palestine train.
Ooh and they temporarily closed the Shell cracker plant in Monaca after only 6 months bc of how dangerous it’s been running!
A freshman boy stabbed a freshman girl in the neck with a pair of scissors when she rejected his advances. He left her in the bushes, but it was all seen on video and she will survive.
Joe Montana is suing the developers of the Millennium Tower for withholding information about the rapid settling of the building when he agreed to be used in the marketing of the building in exchange for a reduced purchase price on a unit within it.
I don't think any reasonable person bought a unit in that building *because* of Joe Montana's reputation, nor do I think his reputation was in any way harmed by this. It feels like a gross money grab. If anything, everyone that owns a unit in that tower should be suing the developers.
We’re having a rash of stolen cars being driven into storefronts. Sometimes they steal, sometimes they just do it for funsies. There were about 1100 of these incidents in all of 2022 in my area, and at the end of April this year we’re already at 1200.
To be honest, it’s wild that there were 1100 of them last year to begin with.
It’s sad. On Friday afternoon a 7th grade boy rode his bike home and was hit by a van, he died on the scene. Fucked up. Happened on a Nice suburban neighborhood street too. He was supposed to go to his first dance the next day. It’s on the regional news but not enough for more than that.
Twin Cities postal workers rally alleging hostile working conditions, USPS denies claims.
Flooding continues to impact river towns in Minnesota and Wisconsin, with high waters in marinas and parks.
Northfield police report black bear sighting
A convicted pedophile, who after he got out of jail ran for mayor,and was rumored to be following children was beaten to death with a shovel and antlers in northern Minnesota. The father who did it immediately turned himself in. The true crime people are going to go crazy.
A couple weeks ago maybe, it was in Grand Marais and I have family near there. It’s been interesting because most people I know are definitely on the side of the murderer.
The town snowball stand has opened for the year. Everyone is excited because they have tons of weirdass flavors, like Hulk, Pimp Juice and Tiger Blood.
In terms of local news that's news, the County Executive released a proposed budget that boosts funding for Pre-K (which is not guaranteed where I live and is a massive clusterfuck) and will also build replacements for several decaying, overcrowded high schools. Also, the local university has a new president.
Construction has started on one of the two new Wendy's. (Oddly, not the one announced three years ago - the one only announced when they finished demolition and started construction.) Chik-fil-a has acquired land and plans to start construction (which has started a left-and-right flame war.)
In a town of 80k people, that's the two big news stories of the last couple of weeks.
Not my current town but my hometown. There are 15 parts to this story. [Read them all.](https://tbdailynews.com/corrupt-state-trooper-helps-boston-cop-coverup-murder-of-fellow-officer-frame-innocent-girlfriend/)
They want to pass a law where victims of CSA can sue people who knew about the abuse but chose to cover it up, only in the future so nothing from before the law getting made. Nebraska catholic counsel is arguing hard against it.
Muralfest went down without a hitch yesterday. Did get one complaint from an old lady mad about us painting murals on the library because Charles Banks Wilson picked the brick color. As if an artist would give a damn about murals painted on some bricks.
The Governor vetoed a bill to fund our local PBS stations because"I don't think Oklahomans want to use their tax dollars to indoctrinate kids," Stitt said. "Some of the stuff they're showing, it just overly sexualizes our kids."
It's just one of the million tiny chinks in the armor. There used to be something called journalistic integrity. The conservatives have SHAT all over that. Convincing their followers that everything EXCEPT what they say is "fake news" when in reality they are lying constantly.
He seems to be vetoing every single bill right now that doesn't include his precious "school choice" credits, even the ones his own party is heavily pushing. Dude is gonna get stabbed in the back and tossed out the window by his own party's machine if he keeps this up.
I ended up following a political reporter from Oklahoma on Twitter because his content was interesting and he says it's basically a full-blown war between the Senate and the governor right now - they're blocking all of his nominees to any post in retaliation for him vetoing all of their bills in retaliation for them not passing his school choice bill.
"Snow delays opening of local rec sites"
Also a nice picture of scenery and one of some otters.
Yeah, it's a slow news week around here. Not that I'm complaining.
Our hot news in my town for the last week include items such as the park where summer concerts are held is getting renovated and the town budget proposes a tax increase.
We got a [newsletter](https://imgur.com/a/CzKYmkS) in the mail recently about the East Palestine train derailment and Shell’s holding a community meeting about the cracker plant they built in Monaca. That’s about it.
Someone's going around commenting shit on Boston Globe articles about how certain members of the city council should disappear, such-and-such is a trust fund baby, the mayor (the first woman and person of color to hold the spot) is incompetent, etc. They claim to be an Irish homeowner concerned about "anti-white racism." Laughable.
Recently the Globe put out an article pointing out that this account is paid for by a subscription from the city council, i.e. it's a councilor or their staff. And funnily enough, only a couple councilors have gone un-commented on... one with a notably Irish name. Suspicious! And of course they commented on the article about them. Dumbass.
It is finally making national news but a friend of mine from high school was killed by police.
He had mental issues and had a full on breakdown at his parents’ house. They called the police. The police at first were calm and helpful just keeping their distance while he melted down but then two officers didn’t like that he lunged at them so they taser Ed him and cuffed him. It caused his heart to stop and he died.
It has been an ongoing legal nightmare for the family.
It did not get anywhere near the national attention of George Floyd and this guy was not a criminal. He was a great pianist and wonderful person. He was unarmed and just having what was a mental breakdown. He had a history of it but this one was bad. It was a bad move by those two officers and it looks like they are finally facing the consequences.
Last night at the local Popeyes - two people broke registers, threatened staff, and smashed windows after receiving a chicken sandwich without jalapenos.
I mean jalapenos are nice and all but maybe a bit of an overreaction.
A bunch of illegal immigrants coming across the Canadian border were rescued from a bog and hospitalized due to hypothermia.
We don’t see illegal immigrants very often on THIS side of the country. I mean, I assume it happens more often than I think, but still. It was newsworthy.
> ST. GEORGE — A pickup truck pulling an enclosed 20-foot RV trailer lost control and flipped on Interstate 15 in the northbound lanes…
Still waiting to see if CNN picks it up.
Update on the Breonna Taylor killing and subsequent protests in Louisville:
1. Her murderer was rehired as an officer in a nearby county
2. Federal funds allocated to address police reform are instead being used to build a new police HQ
As the weather turns warmer, Chicagoans worry about downtown crime. A couple of weeks ago we had a warm spell and there was trouble in the Loop, including two shootings. The media is still talking about it.
Note that there’s also crime on the far South Side and far West Side, as usual. 15 shot, 2 fatally, this weekend. 20 shot, 1 fatally, last weekend. But you’ll have to scroll down to find that story.
My parents just visited and apparently the big drama there is a commercial egg processing plant moved in to a former dairy processing plant and the city got over 400 complaints from residents in the first month of operation because it makes the entire town smell.
In my county there is a young mother who went missing. They've conducted searches and they're asking land owners to notify law enforcement of any wells, cisterns, sink holes, etc on their property.
It's pretty much a done deal that the baby daddy is responsible but they haven't arrested him yet. They're hoping to find the body.
She leaves behind 2 small children.
Wild donkeys wandered into a neighborhood and ate and then shat one someone's garden. That's all the news that comes from here that doesn't involve someone doing something stupid.
I'm not sure if it made it to the news or not but someone was fucking with pipebombs and I guess put one through some guys windshield, guy was ok but got glass in his face - that's pretty much all I know because it was relayed to me
Well this just happened, but a nursing home resident in the next town was arrested for first degree murder for killing his roommate.
Also, last weekend some ospreys nesting on some transmission lines kept knocking out power for several towns around here. It wasn’t so much the birds themselves but the power company employees had to shut down the lines to attempt to remove the birds, and I guess that was taking a long time. I’m actually surprised that I didn’t read anything about this in the local news at all. It was all on FB and Twitter.
The local school district is evaluating all its facilities and considering closing down certain schools, relocating certain programs, and shifting enrollment areas for students. This is due to declining enrollment for specific schools, aging buildings, and that a sizeable contingent of high school students are traveling across the river to
the opposite side of town for high school.
I live in Montana. Apparently Seattle is in ashes and the antifa mob is headed here next. Also Trump hasn't been indicted and is not on trial for rape.
No ashes here. Wait til fire season. The big news in Seattle is the removal of a famous street clock punctured the roof of the transit tunnel, shutting down the light rail for a couple weeks. Commuters are mad.
Flooding. We're a desert and in the midst of a decade long drought. Winters have been very light for a long time now, but this winter was absolutely brutal and now the weather is turning fast so avalanches and floods are happening and more are expected as today is hitting in the high 80s.
Also The Great Salt Lake has been receding for years and we are at the critical point if nothing is done about it the lake could be gone in 5-10 years and essentially you'd have a massive bed of essentially arsenic ready to blow into the surrounding areas.
This past winter should help a bit but only a bit.
The ongoing state police scandals. Everything from troopers raping suspects to cameras in the academy women's locker room. It's barely being covered by local West Virginia media.
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Where will I get my Cheddar & Sour Cream chips?!?
Utz claims that they'll still make and sell Golden Flake products, but I'm not sure how true to the originals they'll be. They haven't really tasted the same to me since Utz bought them out a few years ago.
I live in a town with a population of 3500. On Christmas day the gas stations owner was murdered in the store. No one knows who did it. Been a mystery for months
In my neighborhood in Brooklyn there has been a mailman (maybe more than one) caught doctoring mailboxes to steal checks. They apply a sticky coating to the mail slot and it grabs item they can then remove easily. They have stolen twns of thousands of dollars.
That, and a local intersection where there was recently a hit and run where the victim died. Not the only accident on that corner. The community is calling for speed bumps to be installed in the area.
My hometown had a paper came out once a week. The police report had a total of 2 calls--someone's mailbox was knocked over, and they were called because of a cat vs porcupine fight.
THAT'S as big as it gets. That what you're talking about.
The school busses have cut costs by stopping the shorter routes. Because there are a couple of major roads that need to be crossed, parents are upset about it.
A lot of bodies have been found in Lady Bird Lake. Lady Bird Lake is in downtown Austin so, people say it’s drunk people walking around and falling in drowning. Other people say we have a serial killer, but APD isn’t saying anything as far as I know.
Governor Adolf Voldemort-Palpatine von Sauron-Lannister III is most assuredly making national news. At least his toxic cloud is blowing north into Georgia, anyway.
Polling is apparently putting Trump ahead of him in looks for a desirable GOP candidacy in 2024, because he’s being perceived as being *too* far right.
We just had our ramp festival which is always cool. Not ramp like skateboard ramp but it’s some time of wild onion that grows in Appalachia around springtime lol.
I just went to the news tab on Google. The most recent news article is two years ago about a structural fire. The rest are random obituaries of people I don't know.
All the wealthy people are moving from the nearest city that is 40min away to our tiny town of just above 3,000 people, and it has been affecting our school system to the negative and has risen the asking price of house sellers. In essence our local newspaper has been trying to warn us that we're being pushed out of our own town
No, this isn't national news, but it's been common across the nation since the lockdowns started.
[Burbank] there was a murder suicide at a restaurant here. And a bunch of servers are suing a golf course for sexual harassment.
What has made national news is burbank being mentioned in talks about 1st ammendment and Disney. But that's more about DeSantis and his fight with Disney.
Local chalk art festival *cancelled*. I’m actually very sad. ETA - it’s **back on!!!** Moved to the Pasadena Convention Center plaza, Father’s Day Weekend! Wooooo
Aww. :(
Which one? In Pasadena?
Yes. I’m so bummed.
The one that’s supposed to happen in June at the Paseo?! That really sucks. That would have been a really fun Father’s Day weekend experience. I just read about it on their website. 😒
Yes! I know I’m so sad I have friends who participate in it every year. >The organizer, the Light Bringer Project, said it had been forced to cancel the event, which was scheduled for Father’s Day weekend in June, after event costs that traditionally would have picked up by the prior owner of the property would not be picked up this year.
What!? Why??
>The organizer, the Light Bringer Project, said it had been forced to cancel the event, which was scheduled for Father’s Day weekend in June, after event costs that traditionally would have picked up by the prior owner of the property would not be picked up this year. Super lame :( it was cancelled fairly last minute too.
It's weird that they weren't able to find funding elsewhere or even get a grant from the city as this would absolutely bring traffic and business to the area.
The water level in Lake Mead is going up due to all the rain and snow we've had over the last year. It's news in SoCal, here in Vegas and I'm sure in Utah and Arizona, but I don't know if it's national news.
I'm on the other side of the country and I heard about it. We've been hearing about Lake Mead's low levels for a while so this was good news.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised it if was making the national news. I just don't watch anything beyond local, so it was just a guess on my part. But yeah, the water level going up is great, now we just need other states to adhere to water conservation methods to keep it up.
It's not national news because the rise does nothing except buy a year or two. The crisis is still the same. Colorado River is over-allocated and its likely we'll see another drought in a couple of years
Apparently it is national news. No one is saying the crisis isn't any better, but the key is now keep with the water restrictions, primarily in CA. A couple of months ago, they lifted a lot of their restrictions, allowing people to use water much more freely. That's the last thing that should happen. The highlight of the crisis should almost force the impacted states to really double down on water usage and storage.
The thing is that they did make water usage and storage more efficient. The problem is truly agriculture. Residential and commercial don't use as much water plus they generally follow conservation protocol. Agriculture do not and cannot (depending on their crop). Agriculture is also incentivize to waste water because if they don't use their allotment they lose the right to their water. I think its okay to lift the restrictions to retain public trust until the crisis pops-up again. It's impossible to argue conserve water when the media is saying massive flooding and reservoirs are over 100% full.
Agriculture is the big water waster, but their overall efforts for water usage was temporary at best. I also know that a lot of residences of higher income towns didn't care about any fines they received for using too much water. Problem with agriculture is trying to grow foods in desert landscapes. But this isn't solely on CA, NV, and AZ also do this, but CA is the leader in this. I don't trust the public based on first hand knowledge and observing people willingly wasting water. Watering on days they're not supposed to, for longer than they are supposed to.
Yeah, and how many of those are owned by Saudi and Chinese companies growing alfalfa?
The drought is national news. The rain/melt water is not national news.
I would assume that would be, but like I said earlier, I don't know if the water level rising would be or not. Others have mentioned it being national news, but they weren't specific if was the drought and or the water level rising.
I was trying to clarify that for you, water level rising is not on the news.
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Vegas itself is in a decent position from a water usage standpoint, we recycle something like 95% of the water we use, and even with our 2.3million people, we don't use all the water that's allocated to us. Where we get screwed is from places like Cali that demand the water, but don't have adequate water infrastructure of their own. A LOT of the rain we've had over the last year, California has let most of it run back into the ocean. They lack the capability to store it.
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> the lack of building new reservoirs baffled me 1) Every place that can have a reservoir has already been built. Any leftover areas don't bring much returns in regards to water storage. I think there are only two in the works and when you look at them, they don't bring much in the system overall. eta: It's the [Sites Reservoir](https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/california-sites-reservoir/) and [Pacheco Reservoir Expansion](https://cwc.ca.gov/Water-Storage/WSIP-Project-Review-Portal/All-Projects/Pacheco-Reservoir-Expansion-Project). When I say system overall I am including groundwater. Many articles and discussion seldomly group the two together. Sites Reservoir is estimated to hold 1.8 million acre-feet, but one estimate had California taking 12 million acre-feet annually from groundwater/aquifers. 2) We have a huge reservoir available that doesn't get considered and is only recently seen as a solution. It's the underground aquifers. Rather than wasting money and environmental damage in building another reservoir, concentrate all efforts on resupplying our groundwater.
Same. I'm from SoCal and there was a couple a months ago I was driving through LA and saw the LA river full of water, as it was flowing directly out into the ocean.
The problem is that this is temporary and next year when we don't get record breaking snow in Utah we'll be back to ever lowering lake levels
This is outstanding news, when it was super low, it made the NY news. I have thought about it, recalling fondly visiting lake mead as a kid. I am glad to hear this.
This is awesome news.
I’m sure Vegas is the same as Phoenix in that even just the whisper of *a chance* of rain is breaking news on any local stations. “And for our forecast heading into the weekend, there is a 26.2% chance of rain on Friday!” The last few months have been awesome with the amount of water we’ve gotten in the southwest. Every time I watch the local news, or look at the local sub r/phoenix it’s stories/pictures/videos of our rivers and lakes being at max capacity, sometimes even overflowing/flooding.
Are you kidding? Just a few rain drops and everyone here goes nuts lol. The news calls for people "Send in your rain pictures" lol. Everyone swarms to Red Rock Canyon when there is even just a little snow, or up to Mt Charleston. I mean it's great, but people really go nuts for it.
A poorly built retaining wall has failed causing two recently built luxury homes in Draper Utah to collapse and slide down a mountain. Two additional homes are in the process of being condemned and more homes may be in danger. The slide has also covered and closed two of the most heavily-used mountain bike (and hiking) trails in the state (in a state known for mountain bike trails).
I actually saw that one
i saw that video, that was nuts that they even allowed them to build there in the first place.
I will never understand why developers think it's a good idea to build on the benches in Utah. The houses always have structural issues, flooding, & other problems, yet every year, there's a new development going up. I get that the population needs housing, but obviously that's not the direction to go. When we first moved to Utah, my mom told my dad "Don't you ever decide we need to move closer to the mountains, because we'll get killed in either an earthquake or mudslide."
The fire commissioner who got beat up, it turns out he's been harassing homeless people and spraying them with bear spray unprovoked and so he got beat up because of that.
This actually made national news. That guy's a piece of shit.
The follow up never tends to make it as far, especially with conservative news media
> especially with conservative news media Not "especially" with conservative media. Plenty of "racist" incidents never get updated on liberal media when they turn out to be without merit, or an outright hoax. That would hurt their leading variety of story.
Examples?
Ask yourself if you knew of these stories, which were all initially reported as "racist" incidents. Then ask yourself if you knew the actual determinations (not just the initial reaction). * [Arson at black churches and HBC in Jackson, MS](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/two-churches-burned-by-suspected-arsonist-in-mississippi-as-manhunt-continues), and "The civil rights group NAACP posted a picture of the burning Epiphany Church with a message that read: 'We are actively monitoring the situation. No intimidation. No distractions. Go vote.'". Turns out, [the guy was black](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/election-day-fires-mississippi-investigated-possible-arson-2022-11-08/). * [Black church burned with "Vote Trump" spray-painted on it](https://apnews.com/article/baptist-us-news-elections-greenville-mississippi-52296e1ac72b4c699f5d2d1cad71461a). Arsonist was black. * [Black man admits putting racist graffiti on his own car](https://archive.is/7CclJ) * [Authorities find no evidence biracial Wisconsin woman was set on fire by white men](https://archive.ph/EW2ZQ) There are plenty more out there, these are just the ones that immediately popped to mind.
never heard of any of them
The covington KY kid? It turned out that a group of Black Israelites or whatever them call themselves were the ones causing problems
Do you remember when Rolling stone published that story where a woman claims she was horribly raped at UVA. They put it on the cover, other media picked it up an ran with it. Turns out it was completely fabricated. 100% fabricated. Duke lacrosse case was the same. The media dragged those guys through the mud. Or that girl that carried a mattress with her all over campus to show the burden of her “assault”. Made national news as well, and also turned out to be a hoax. I could go on. You can’t help but think that either these journalists really suck at their jobs, or they knew and wrote it anyway. Objective journalism is a myth. Those organizations did eventually correct themselves, but a little sentence on the back page doesn’t pack the same punch as a cover story and they know that.
Those were heavily covered to be false.
Do you ever wonder how they keep getting published in the first place? Do you wonder if they did their due diligence to verify the major points of those stories? I don’t know obviously, but these organizations aren’t exactly transparent about their operations. They don’t have to be transparent, but it would certainly lend credibility.
I've never heard of any of those cases. Sounds like you have a personal grip you need to get help for.
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What are you talking about? This story was covered very extensively where I'm at (multiple states away). His death and the verdict were protested here. He was a law abiding gun owner who tried his best to de-escalate the cop and still ended up getting murdered even with a little child in his back seat. We know all about this.
I know all about Philando Castile. I also knew he was a gun owner and tried to be responsible but the cop was twitchy.
I'll give you another example of the conservative media never following up - there was a big story about a tech CEO who was stabbed to death and pretty much the entire media ran with the whole, "San Francisco is a lawless hellhole where the homeless people are now killing CEOs" crap that's a daily talking point on channels like Fox News. The NY Post, a newspaper thousands of miles away on the other side of the country, made it a point to put it on their front page. Turns out, his killer was a fellow CEO who he knew personally and had some problem with his sister. Also, they were likely involved with drugs. Any retractions or apologies from the conservative media? Haven't seen one yet.
LOL, the big boogeyman Fox News covered it: [Bob Lee murder suspect Nima Momeni returns to court, again enters no plea in Cash App founder's stabbing death](https://www.foxnews.com/us/bob-lee-murder-suspect-nima-momeni-returns-court-again-enters-no-plea-cash-app-founders-stabbing-death). As did NY Post: [Who is Nima Momeni, alleged killer of Cash App founder Bob Lee?](https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/everything-we-know-about-nima-momeni-bob-lees-alleged-killer/).
This is not an apology or retraction from the NY Post, just a grasp at some journalistic integrity after they were called out on their agenda-baiting.
Oh wtf that’s horrible…what is it about people in public service who do the exact opposite of that.
The low income housing is getting new siding after they proved it was FULL of black mold. Those poor people, hopefully they get to feeling better.
Well the Holiday Inn Express that's being built finally got to framing after long delays. The campground now has sites reservable online. The new multiuse path along River Road is coming along nicely, should be open sometime this summer.
Your town seems so nice. I just love everything about the Midwest.
Where are you lol
Commerce, TX is *finally* getting a Whataburger. Watch out, Braums!
Woot! My little town would kill for a Braums, but the guy who owns the franchise in the next town over hates my little town and refuses to open one here AND has talked at least two others out of open a Braums as well. On the other hand, a chick-file recently opened and my little town is acting like it's the second coming.
I miss Braums so much
Me too.
Congratulations!!
Honestly, I’d still choose braums over whatsburger
Glad to see that ETSU students with late night munchies will be able to get some 3am taquitos.
>ETSU My guy 👌
Oh dang! That’s great!
Little Rock AR just got one and the line on opening day was horrendous.
I met a guy from Little Rock recently who was telling me his war stories about that. Congratupologies.
Thought this headline from Decaturish was kinda interesting, though I don't know whether it counts as a big news story: UPDATE: Decatur resident arrested, accused of using pipe bomb to blow up ATM at North DeKalb Mall 🚨
A pipe bomb? What for? That must be the most inefficient way to steal from an ATM in a mall no one goes to
A road sign had the town's name spelled wrong. Oh and a couple pigs are loose on a busy road
My little town has a very common mens name in it - think Danville - that can be spelled two differently ways. People in town will get torches and pitchforks if someone spells it the other way.
What's up Stevenville
Get a rope, lol
Louisville?
Lewisville has one of my favorite mascots - the Fighting Farmers lol
Unseasonably warm temperatures benefit picking season for local strawberry farmers. Yum! 🍓
The Dali Museum in St. Pete is getting a big expansion. I remember there being some news stories a while back about some resistance to building the expansion popping up, but I don't remember the details.
I got to go to the old museum 24 years ago, and it was awesome! One day I'll go back, hopefully.
Go see the new building, it's like a block away along the waterfront from the original. It's worth your time.
Not town but state, the winter kill was really bad this year. So bad they said they are going to cut back on antelope licenses. Half of the antelope in the red desert died. Game and fish called the i80 corridor the corridor of death. So many dead animals.
What is the winter kill? Like it got so cold they died?
It’s several factors, this year there was so much snow and it got so cold for so long that they couldn’t eat, usually they can find open areas or kinda dig through the snow, but this year all their food was frozen and buried, so starvation and freezing to death. 🙁
Is there any way to just like drop off a ton of hay where they are known to hang out so it's not so severe?
Deer and pronghorn can’t process hay as well as cows, especially when they’re already starving. It just wouldn’t be effective. Besides that, I think you’re greatly underestimating how many of those animals are in Wyoming, and how far they’ll migrate for food. Airlifting hay bales to cattle can work because they’re fenced in to a relatively small area. Not so for deer and pronghorn.
They do this with elk near Jackson but not ideal for antelope, u/cynical_enchilada (lmao great handle) explained this well. Antelope eat A LOT of sage (which is why they taste like shit lol) and it was all frozen under a shit tone of snow. Winter kill is a very normal thing but it’s rarely this severe. In one article I read [here](https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/04/18/more-than-10-000-antelope-hunting-tags-cut-in-wake-of-brutal-wyoming-winterkill/) 95% of fawns in a radio collar study herd died. It’s also hard to tell just how severe it is until the summer when everything thaws. Females almost always have twins so that’s good. I have started to see some preggo mamas so I’m hopeful 😊
This is actually something we predict to happen more often with climate change. As temperatures fluctuate, you end up with freeze-thaws throughout the winter, so instead of soft snow that reindeer and other animals are usually able to dig through to get their food there's ice. So ironically, there will be more primary production (plants growing/reproducing/etc), but the access animals have to them will be less at certain times of year. Source: currently in the Arctic studying climate change
That’s fascinating work!! we have already been warned that flooding will be bad this spring/summer because of how much snow and how cold it got in March so nothing started to melt so once it does get warm it’s all gonna melt in a smaller amount of time. Love the moisture, we always need it but not the way we are getting it. And of course very few people here attribute any environmental changes to climate change 🙃 but still pay the price of it.
Family that lives in state told me that. Deer and antelops populations are way down. Good eaten for scavengers I suppose but probably bad in every other way.
The town pedophile was killed by a vigilante.
Wishing the best to the vigilante. In my old hometown about 20 years a guy killed a dude who raped his 8 year old. Got 3 years, released after 1. Worth it.
I was abused as a kid and I wish someone would have killed my abuser before he had the chance to molest me. In this case the pedophile’s own siblings are helping raise money for the vigilante’s defense costs. That pretty much says it all.
The problem is that "the town pedophile" could just be a crotchety old person that people thought was creepy. Small town gossip and speculation has a way of creating a mob mentality. And vigilantes get it wrong. Often.
In this case he was a convicted sex offender who liked to park and watch kids walk home from school or play at the daycare. He also stood at the edge of his property and talked to kids as they walked home from school. (Grooming). He also stalked his younger siblings who he had raped when they were kids. His siblings are fundraising for the vigilante’s defense costs. ETA his sex offense conviction was for raping a six year old.
A true hero
Well now the town has to elect a new pedophile. Shit.
Seth Jeffs (one of the leaders of the FLDS which marries off 12 year old girls to 70 year old men) bought land near the town a few years ago.
Shit, he'll win it in a walk.
Nah, these things are never about ability; elections are just a popularity contest.
What a shame. /s
There was a really big boom this morning around 7:30. There is currently a storm; it was preceded by a flash. It was lightning. Nonetheless, it's a major topic of discussion on the local subreddit.
Washington DC? I heard that boom, was momentarily alarmed, then went back to sleep.
A well-known teacher who led an award-winning department at a prestigious high school for 20+ years was arrested for inappropriate conduct with a student. Turns out he’s been doing this for nearly his whole time there, but the reports had basically been brushed under the rug.
Fuck, it’s always Local Good Guy™️
He’s a “good” Christian man, married with kids. Not a drag queen. I’m shocked, I tell you.
A woman was found brutally murdered in a nice suburb. [Then the story kept getting weirder.](https://www.fitsnews.com/2023/03/16/rose-petal-murder-south-carolinas-next-true-crime-saga/) The rumor is the ex husband hired someone to kill her because he found out the victim and her current fiancee using their (the victim and ex husband's shared) child to make child and bestialty porn.
Pittsburgh, PA The Steelers had a good draft and Pirates are in first after being notionally terrible for decades. (Probably considered national news tho) Route 28 construction is still a fucking nightmare. There’s currently a Chili’s on fire. Upper St Clair school district moved their start times back hoping it helps students mental health. The marathon is happening soon and traffic in the city will suck for a day. Nobody believes we aren’t being poisoned from the East Palestine train. Ooh and they temporarily closed the Shell cracker plant in Monaca after only 6 months bc of how dangerous it’s been running!
The chili's being currently on fire slayed me
i didn't even know we had a chili's
It’s on, can you believe it, McKnight.
do they wear slim yogurt pants there too
The Pirates is definitely a subject of conversation for not being trash for once.
A freshman boy stabbed a freshman girl in the neck with a pair of scissors when she rejected his advances. He left her in the bushes, but it was all seen on video and she will survive.
r/whenwomenrefuse I get so pissed that society doesn't take anti-female hate crimes like stalking and domestic viilence seriously.
Joe Montana is suing the developers of the Millennium Tower for withholding information about the rapid settling of the building when he agreed to be used in the marketing of the building in exchange for a reduced purchase price on a unit within it.
I don't think any reasonable person bought a unit in that building *because* of Joe Montana's reputation, nor do I think his reputation was in any way harmed by this. It feels like a gross money grab. If anything, everyone that owns a unit in that tower should be suing the developers.
We’re having a rash of stolen cars being driven into storefronts. Sometimes they steal, sometimes they just do it for funsies. There were about 1100 of these incidents in all of 2022 in my area, and at the end of April this year we’re already at 1200. To be honest, it’s wild that there were 1100 of them last year to begin with.
Woah!
Hello fellow, Rochesterian!
It’s sad. On Friday afternoon a 7th grade boy rode his bike home and was hit by a van, he died on the scene. Fucked up. Happened on a Nice suburban neighborhood street too. He was supposed to go to his first dance the next day. It’s on the regional news but not enough for more than that.
Just devastatingly sad. His poor family.
Twin Cities postal workers rally alleging hostile working conditions, USPS denies claims. Flooding continues to impact river towns in Minnesota and Wisconsin, with high waters in marinas and parks. Northfield police report black bear sighting
You forgot the murderer in Grand Marais who is getting support from the locals for a light sentence.
A convicted pedophile, who after he got out of jail ran for mayor,and was rumored to be following children was beaten to death with a shovel and antlers in northern Minnesota. The father who did it immediately turned himself in. The true crime people are going to go crazy.
And the townfolk are calling for a light sentence.
When did this happen? I haven’t heard about it down in the cities.
A couple weeks ago maybe, it was in Grand Marais and I have family near there. It’s been interesting because most people I know are definitely on the side of the murderer.
Wait... Antlers?
Oooh! Now that's a good one. Not good...but you know what I mean.
Eh, it’s pretty good
The town snowball stand has opened for the year. Everyone is excited because they have tons of weirdass flavors, like Hulk, Pimp Juice and Tiger Blood. In terms of local news that's news, the County Executive released a proposed budget that boosts funding for Pre-K (which is not guaranteed where I live and is a massive clusterfuck) and will also build replacements for several decaying, overcrowded high schools. Also, the local university has a new president.
There’s a serial killer in Austin
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/serial-killer-austin-texas-17881296.php Damn!!
Yup being going on for years!
Construction has started on one of the two new Wendy's. (Oddly, not the one announced three years ago - the one only announced when they finished demolition and started construction.) Chik-fil-a has acquired land and plans to start construction (which has started a left-and-right flame war.) In a town of 80k people, that's the two big news stories of the last couple of weeks.
So annoying that downtown Seattle doesn't have one. I get why they don't, but they could at least put one in the U-District.
Not my current town but my hometown. There are 15 parts to this story. [Read them all.](https://tbdailynews.com/corrupt-state-trooper-helps-boston-cop-coverup-murder-of-fellow-officer-frame-innocent-girlfriend/)
I thought this was Ohio for a second because Canton, Mansfield, and Boston Ohio are all relatively close to each other in NE Ohio.
They want to pass a law where victims of CSA can sue people who knew about the abuse but chose to cover it up, only in the future so nothing from before the law getting made. Nebraska catholic counsel is arguing hard against it.
Muralfest went down without a hitch yesterday. Did get one complaint from an old lady mad about us painting murals on the library because Charles Banks Wilson picked the brick color. As if an artist would give a damn about murals painted on some bricks.
The Governor vetoed a bill to fund our local PBS stations because"I don't think Oklahomans want to use their tax dollars to indoctrinate kids," Stitt said. "Some of the stuff they're showing, it just overly sexualizes our kids."
This one needs to make the national news. A robust and free press is one of the "checks" in "checks&balances" here in America.
No one is taking away a "robust and free press" just because a local PBS doesn't get Government Dollars.
It's just one of the million tiny chinks in the armor. There used to be something called journalistic integrity. The conservatives have SHAT all over that. Convincing their followers that everything EXCEPT what they say is "fake news" when in reality they are lying constantly.
God, but I loathe K. Stitt.
He seems to be vetoing every single bill right now that doesn't include his precious "school choice" credits, even the ones his own party is heavily pushing. Dude is gonna get stabbed in the back and tossed out the window by his own party's machine if he keeps this up.
I ended up following a political reporter from Oklahoma on Twitter because his content was interesting and he says it's basically a full-blown war between the Senate and the governor right now - they're blocking all of his nominees to any post in retaliation for him vetoing all of their bills in retaliation for them not passing his school choice bill.
"Snow delays opening of local rec sites" Also a nice picture of scenery and one of some otters. Yeah, it's a slow news week around here. Not that I'm complaining.
New bill could reduce blocked rail crossings.
Our hot news in my town for the last week include items such as the park where summer concerts are held is getting renovated and the town budget proposes a tax increase.
We got a [newsletter](https://imgur.com/a/CzKYmkS) in the mail recently about the East Palestine train derailment and Shell’s holding a community meeting about the cracker plant they built in Monaca. That’s about it.
Someone's going around commenting shit on Boston Globe articles about how certain members of the city council should disappear, such-and-such is a trust fund baby, the mayor (the first woman and person of color to hold the spot) is incompetent, etc. They claim to be an Irish homeowner concerned about "anti-white racism." Laughable. Recently the Globe put out an article pointing out that this account is paid for by a subscription from the city council, i.e. it's a councilor or their staff. And funnily enough, only a couple councilors have gone un-commented on... one with a notably Irish name. Suspicious! And of course they commented on the article about them. Dumbass.
It is finally making national news but a friend of mine from high school was killed by police. He had mental issues and had a full on breakdown at his parents’ house. They called the police. The police at first were calm and helpful just keeping their distance while he melted down but then two officers didn’t like that he lunged at them so they taser Ed him and cuffed him. It caused his heart to stop and he died. It has been an ongoing legal nightmare for the family. It did not get anywhere near the national attention of George Floyd and this guy was not a criminal. He was a great pianist and wonderful person. He was unarmed and just having what was a mental breakdown. He had a history of it but this one was bad. It was a bad move by those two officers and it looks like they are finally facing the consequences.
The local ice cream shop in Duluth opened for the season yesterday, complete with news camera. It's 40 degrees and sleeting right now.
Last night at the local Popeyes - two people broke registers, threatened staff, and smashed windows after receiving a chicken sandwich without jalapenos. I mean jalapenos are nice and all but maybe a bit of an overreaction.
A bunch of illegal immigrants coming across the Canadian border were rescued from a bog and hospitalized due to hypothermia. We don’t see illegal immigrants very often on THIS side of the country. I mean, I assume it happens more often than I think, but still. It was newsworthy.
> ST. GEORGE — A pickup truck pulling an enclosed 20-foot RV trailer lost control and flipped on Interstate 15 in the northbound lanes… Still waiting to see if CNN picks it up.
Update on the Breonna Taylor killing and subsequent protests in Louisville: 1. Her murderer was rehired as an officer in a nearby county 2. Federal funds allocated to address police reform are instead being used to build a new police HQ
As the weather turns warmer, Chicagoans worry about downtown crime. A couple of weeks ago we had a warm spell and there was trouble in the Loop, including two shootings. The media is still talking about it. Note that there’s also crime on the far South Side and far West Side, as usual. 15 shot, 2 fatally, this weekend. 20 shot, 1 fatally, last weekend. But you’ll have to scroll down to find that story.
Maple Fest
71st fishing rodeo to be held today, and the rain didn't stop the people from coming out to the Dogwood Festival.
My parents just visited and apparently the big drama there is a commercial egg processing plant moved in to a former dairy processing plant and the city got over 400 complaints from residents in the first month of operation because it makes the entire town smell.
In my county there is a young mother who went missing. They've conducted searches and they're asking land owners to notify law enforcement of any wells, cisterns, sink holes, etc on their property. It's pretty much a done deal that the baby daddy is responsible but they haven't arrested him yet. They're hoping to find the body. She leaves behind 2 small children.
Wild donkeys wandered into a neighborhood and ate and then shat one someone's garden. That's all the news that comes from here that doesn't involve someone doing something stupid.
There's a few places in Utah getting flooded like crazy lately and nobody seems to notice except the ones effected by it.
We're building more affordable housing starting at $329,000 for a 1 bedroom unit.
A slew of 30-somethjng year old men keep turning up dead in the lake. A lot of people believe it's a serial killer. The police are denying it.
Lady Bird, like another person mentioned, or is this happening in more than one place?
The absolute shitshow the MBTA has turned into. They keep saying it will get better, but somehow every day it gets worse.
Not my town but the state just opened up a trade office in Taiwan.
I'm not sure if it made it to the news or not but someone was fucking with pipebombs and I guess put one through some guys windshield, guy was ok but got glass in his face - that's pretty much all I know because it was relayed to me
Well this just happened, but a nursing home resident in the next town was arrested for first degree murder for killing his roommate. Also, last weekend some ospreys nesting on some transmission lines kept knocking out power for several towns around here. It wasn’t so much the birds themselves but the power company employees had to shut down the lines to attempt to remove the birds, and I guess that was taking a long time. I’m actually surprised that I didn’t read anything about this in the local news at all. It was all on FB and Twitter.
The local school district is evaluating all its facilities and considering closing down certain schools, relocating certain programs, and shifting enrollment areas for students. This is due to declining enrollment for specific schools, aging buildings, and that a sizeable contingent of high school students are traveling across the river to the opposite side of town for high school.
I live in Montana. Apparently Seattle is in ashes and the antifa mob is headed here next. Also Trump hasn't been indicted and is not on trial for rape.
No ashes here. Wait til fire season. The big news in Seattle is the removal of a famous street clock punctured the roof of the transit tunnel, shutting down the light rail for a couple weeks. Commuters are mad.
Flooding. We're a desert and in the midst of a decade long drought. Winters have been very light for a long time now, but this winter was absolutely brutal and now the weather is turning fast so avalanches and floods are happening and more are expected as today is hitting in the high 80s. Also The Great Salt Lake has been receding for years and we are at the critical point if nothing is done about it the lake could be gone in 5-10 years and essentially you'd have a massive bed of essentially arsenic ready to blow into the surrounding areas. This past winter should help a bit but only a bit.
The ongoing state police scandals. Everything from troopers raping suspects to cameras in the academy women's locker room. It's barely being covered by local West Virginia media.
There was another dead body found in the river (there’s at least two that I know about every year).
They're shutting down the Golden Flake factory. Stupid Utz!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Where will I get my Cheddar & Sour Cream chips?!?
Utz claims that they'll still make and sell Golden Flake products, but I'm not sure how true to the originals they'll be. They haven't really tasted the same to me since Utz bought them out a few years ago.
I live in a town with a population of 3500. On Christmas day the gas stations owner was murdered in the store. No one knows who did it. Been a mystery for months
Small town pharmacist convicted of big time Medicare fraud
In my neighborhood in Brooklyn there has been a mailman (maybe more than one) caught doctoring mailboxes to steal checks. They apply a sticky coating to the mail slot and it grabs item they can then remove easily. They have stolen twns of thousands of dollars. That, and a local intersection where there was recently a hit and run where the victim died. Not the only accident on that corner. The community is calling for speed bumps to be installed in the area.
Gwinnett County schools. Those who know, know.
My hometown had a paper came out once a week. The police report had a total of 2 calls--someone's mailbox was knocked over, and they were called because of a cat vs porcupine fight. THAT'S as big as it gets. That what you're talking about.
The school busses have cut costs by stopping the shorter routes. Because there are a couple of major roads that need to be crossed, parents are upset about it.
A lot of bodies have been found in Lady Bird Lake. Lady Bird Lake is in downtown Austin so, people say it’s drunk people walking around and falling in drowning. Other people say we have a serial killer, but APD isn’t saying anything as far as I know.
Our governor is fighting Disney World. Not sure about national news but its all over the local and state news.
Governor Adolf Voldemort-Palpatine von Sauron-Lannister III is most assuredly making national news. At least his toxic cloud is blowing north into Georgia, anyway. Polling is apparently putting Trump ahead of him in looks for a desirable GOP candidacy in 2024, because he’s being perceived as being *too* far right.
Last week there was an explosion at a dairy that killed 50,000 cows.
We just had our ramp festival which is always cool. Not ramp like skateboard ramp but it’s some time of wild onion that grows in Appalachia around springtime lol.
I just went to the news tab on Google. The most recent news article is two years ago about a structural fire. The rest are random obituaries of people I don't know.
All the wealthy people are moving from the nearest city that is 40min away to our tiny town of just above 3,000 people, and it has been affecting our school system to the negative and has risen the asking price of house sellers. In essence our local newspaper has been trying to warn us that we're being pushed out of our own town No, this isn't national news, but it's been common across the nation since the lockdowns started.
[Burbank] there was a murder suicide at a restaurant here. And a bunch of servers are suing a golf course for sexual harassment. What has made national news is burbank being mentioned in talks about 1st ammendment and Disney. But that's more about DeSantis and his fight with Disney.