How wildfires became ripe areas for right-wing conspiracy theories [Los Angeles Times]
When Lilli Heart fled California’s deadliest wildfire in 2018, she was stuck in traffic for two hours outside the town of Paradise with her two cats in a car that was running low on gas.
As the septuagenarian sat behind the wheel on Neal Road waiting helplessly while the Camp fire destroyed her two-bedroom house she saw a huge, dark cloud in the sky. She saw firetrucks. She saw the fear in the eyes of others trying to escape.
“All I saw was a bunch of really, really scared people trying to get the hell out of there,” said Heart, 74.
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Just a few minutes before an annual caravan was set to roll out into the streets to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Reno, Donald Gallimore Sr. was all smiles.
“We normally have about 40 cars, but we have that many already and we still have 15 minutes to go,” said Gallimore, the third vice-president of the Reno-Sparks branch of the NAACP. “We’ve got a very nice turnout so far.”
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I think it’s safe to say that The Pinnacle@Duxton is probably Singapore’s most well-known HDB project.
It has made headlines for many reasons, one of which is its superbly central location in Tanjong Pagar along Cantonment Road.
It was also Singapore’s very first 50-storey public housing and also features 2 Sky Bridges that offers a panoramic view of the city – unheard of in the public housing market when it was first announced.
Moreover, the HDB even launched an international architectural design competition and received over 200 submissions which eventually led to the design that we see today.
Now 10 years on (time flies, doesn’t it), The Pinnacle@Duxton has drawn both praise and criticism since its announcement.
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