Four days reporting on the devastating Perth Hills bushfire
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ABC journalist Evelyn Manfield interviewing Bullsbrook resident Sharleen Hall for the 7:00pm news from Muchea.
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A massive bushfire in the middle of a COVID-19 lockdown.
The WA Premier described it as facing disasters on two fronts while the satirical social media page, The Betoota Advocate, called it Perth s condensed version of 2020.
Both were pretty spot on.
It s hard to believe that what we thought could be the biggest story of the year 2 million West Australians locked down, hoping the highly transmissible UK COVID-19 strain hadn t spread beyond one person didn t even lead the nightly news.
Shuttle buses full of people stopped Monday at Mount Olivet Baptist Church on Adams Street as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan for “fairness and equity” in vaccine distribution. The church’s congregation is predominantly black. The church’s pastor, the Rev. Rickey Harvey, said the appointment-only pop-up event came together with just three days notice. “We got this call Friday, today is Monday; we had no idea that the outpour would be the way it is,” Harvey said. “The energy, the enthusiasm, the people have just responded wonderfully.” click to enlarge PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE Harvey said they planned to give out between 250 and 300 doses to essential workers and people over 65.
Out of the way, little people â big energy project coming through
Updated December 19, 2020, 2:30 a.m.
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From Weymouth to East Boston to Minnesota, fossil fuel projects carry the day
Having spent many mornings, at the crack of dawn, standing with the good citizens that make up the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, or FRRACS, holding signs of protest on the bridge above the Weymouth compressor plant site, I was glad to see an investigative piece by Boston Globe Spotlight fellow Mike Stanton (âBrute lesson in power politics,â Page A1, Dec. 13). Sadly, we are seeing parallel investments in hazardous fossil fuel infrastructure as close as East Boston, another community that will bear the brunt of the hunger for and profits from gas, all the way to Minnesota, where the same company that FRRACS is fighting is building Pipeline 3.