Legislation that licenses three-wheeled motorcycles through the DMV becomes law thenewportbuzz.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenewportbuzz.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Frank Lombardo, owner of Mirror Mirror, says he won't be alone in opening his doors on June 3, the day the province's stay-at-home order came to an end.
Frank Lombardo is tired of politicians telling him, "We're in this together." He's among dozens of Thunder Bay, Ont., hair salon owners who wrote to the province pleading for it to allow personal services to reopen sooner than targeted.
But as the atmosphere swirled above, catastrophe brewed.
Late in the afternoon, a tornado rated as the most intense on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale, an EF5, cut a 6-mile-long (9.7-kilometer) gash through the densely populated Joplin metro area, home to more than 50,000 people.
Despite the city’s track record of following the latest building codes and residents receiving several warnings beforehand, the tornado with winds estimated at more than 200 miles (321 kilometers) per hour at times killed 161, injured over 1,000 and wrecked more than 8,000 buildings, including a major hospital and other critical facilities.
The high number of fatalities made it the deadliest single tornado in the U.S. since the National Weather Service (NWS) began official record-keeping in 1950. And the $2.8 billion in damages made it the costliest.
Opinion/Millar: Legislation to encourage forest conservation is long overdue
Scott Millar
Scott Millar is director of community assistance and conservation at Grow Smart Rhode Island.
What can provide Rhode Island with clean and safe air to breathe and water to drink, create jobs, fight climate change, moderate stifling hot temperatures, protect native wildlife, provide a multitude of recreational opportunities and add an invaluable sense of place to communities?
The answer is Rhode Island’s forests. Conserving them is essential to sustain our quality of life. That’s why we must act now to adopt the Forest Conservation Act to conserve what’s left of our forests before it’s too late.