When an Auckland school classroom went up in flames in December last year, exploding asbestos over neighbouring houses, five separate government agencies were involved. Yet stressed residents dealing with the aftermath on their homes say the response felt chaotic and uncoordinated; even local MPs who got involved couldn t get the information they wanted. Hundreds of thousands of buildings in New Zealand contain asbestos. Homes, schools, hospitals, offices, factories. It’s largely safe when contained, but potentially harmful when disturbed, particularly when that’s caused by fire, which can make the asbestos panels explode. Nikki Mandow wonders if the Ponsonby Intermediate School fire is a wake-up call for a future - potentially worse - asbestos disaster. And if so, is anyone listening?
Togiak moose hunt opened Friday January 15th |
Darryl Thompson has hunted moose for 60 years. He s the Togiak public works director, and he s been looking forward to the season opening on Jan. 8. There s a lot of moose in the region, so it s not usually a hard hunt to do, he said.
But Thompson said that conditions can be treacherous for hunters on snowgoes, so they usually hunt in groups. What we re worrying about is, we ve had so much rain and warm weather that ponds or lakes or rivers have a lot of water on top of the ice, so you got to be careful that you don t get stuck in overflow. Especially with the soft snow, he said.
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Darryl Thompson has hunted moose for 60 years. He’s the Togiak public works director, and he looks forward to the season opening on Friday.
“There’s a lot of moose in the region, so it’s not usually a hard hunt to do,” he said.
But Thompson said that conditions can be treacherous for hunters on snowgoes, so they usually hunt in groups.
“What we’re worrying about is, we’ve had so much rain and warm weather that ponds or lakes or rivers have a lot of water on top of the ice, so you got to be careful that you don’t get stuck in overflow. Especially with the soft snow,” he said.
Former Anchorage doctor sentenced to home imprisonment for his role in opioid conspiracy, fraud
Print article A former Anchorage doctor was sentenced Wednesday to spend a year under home imprisonment after he admitted to prescribing unnecessary opioids to patients, in part to fuel his own addiction. Both prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed Wednesday that now-68-year-old Michael Robertson showed genuine remorse and even relief almost immediately after the charges were filed. From 2015 until 2018, Robertson prescribed 30 patients a total of 465 prescriptions for an opioid called meperidine, commonly sold under the brand name Demerol, according to federal plea agreement signed in July 2019. Robertson would have the patients divert the pills back to him and, in exchange, he would write them prescriptions for opioids including fentanyl and oxycodone, the plea agreement said.
The Bechtel International Center patio. (Photo: LINDA A. CICERO/Stanford News Service)
on December 10, 2020
“It’s been a year since I’ve been home,” Burcu Gulsah Alici ’23 said. “This was the best opportunity I could get.”
Alici is from Turkey, but she spent her fall quarter on Stanford’s campus due to uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, just weeks into the seven-week winter break that began on Nov. 21, international students like Alici face the unique decision of whether to return to their home countries and risk spreading the coronavirus, or to spend the holiday season on campus, away from home and family.