Deborah Simpson is waiting to learn if she is going to be homeless.
For 13 years, the 69-year-old resident has lived at the same Bensalem mobile home park, but the death of her boyfriend three years ago left her struggling to pay the bills.
Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which buried her.
She owes her landlord at least $2,000 rent and utilities, according to court records. Her only income is Social Security, which is a little more than $1,100 a month.
In March, the landlord filed paperwork to start the eviction process. But the magisterial court judge assigned to the case continued the hearing until next month because of a federal moratorium on evictions.
2. Make decisions amidst uncertainty
“We are in the fourth industrial revolution, a time marked by the interconnection of physical, biological and digital worlds. As these worlds integrate, intelligent ecosystems form and give rise to ‘big bang disruptions,’ thus transforming entire systems, creating and destroying entire product lines, markets and ecosystems overnight,” said Jenai Marinkovic, vChief Technology and Security Officer with Tiro Security, and a member of the ISACA Emerging Trends Working Group.
“In the near-normal where disruptions such as the pandemic accelerated the adoption of diverse emergent technologies, predicated by rapid changes in business strategies, the managers of tomorrow need to become more comfortable with decision making in conditions of extreme uncertainty. IT managers who become ‘design thinkers’ are able to leverage design concepts such as empathy, ideation, and prototyping to identify and employ the alternative ideas and solutions
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Share: Rows of conifers grow in a greenhouse at the Webster Forest Nursery, operated by the Washington Department of Natural Resources. Washington produces about 8 million seedlings a year for reforestation on state and private lands, but many other states have closed nurseries or cut production in recent years, leaving small forest owners without a crucial supply of trees. (Alex Brown/Stateline/The Pew Charitable Trusts/TNS)
When wildfires ripped through Oregon last Labor Day, they burned huge swaths of forest, including 63,000 acres of smaller, private lands.
Oregon state law requires forest owners to replant their land within two years of a wildfire, but many haven’t been able to: They used to rely heavily on state-run tree nurseries, but Oregon closed its nursery more than a decade ago.
As state nurseries shut down, forest owners seeking seedlings are left to ask: ’What do we do now’?
Updated Apr 12, 2021;
Posted Apr 12, 2021
Rows of conifers grow in a greenhouse at the Webster Forest Nursery, operated by the Washington Department of Natural Resources. (Alex Brown/Stateline/The Pew Charitable Trusts/TNS)TNS
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When wildfires ripped through Oregon last Labor Day, they burned huge swaths of forest, including 63,000 acres of smaller, private lands.
Oregon state law requires forest owners to replant their land within two years of a wildfire, but many haven’t been able to: They used to rely heavily on state-run tree nurseries, but Oregon closed its nursery more than a decade ago.