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I do not feel safe in those corridors.” Richard Mulledy, the Stormwater Enterprise Manager said that the inherent danger of allowing camping in riparian areas near streams due to the potential for flash flooding is an imminent public safety issue, particularly with the approaching monsoon season. Council President Richard Skorman said, “The last thing I would want is for somebody to get hurt or killed because we did not act quickly to help remove people from the streams.” Tent and trash along Colorado Springs waterway Photo: City of Colorado Springs Chief of Staff Jeff Greene said, “This is a very, very serious issue. Property owners, citizens are very concerned about what’s happening to our waterways.” Councilman Bill Murray voiced concern that those displaced from the creeks will have no place to go if the ordinance goes into effect right away and asked for a 30-day delay in the implementation of the ordinance. “This is not a one step in the right direction, it’s hundred steps I think in the wrong direction,” Murray said. Knight responded, “This has been worked on since February. How many more days are you going to ask for till you’re ready to do this? My count from the work session to the implementation is almost two months.” Another area of substantial concern is water pollution. The Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment reports that water quality in streams through the city do not meet state health standards, including excessive levels of e-coli bacteria. Mulledy concedes that e-coli contamination comes from more than one source, including animal and human feces, but argued that the human element is a major contributor that can be controlled. He pointed out that the federal government prohibits camping in riparian areas near bodies of water. Distances vary but can be as much as 300 feet on Forest Service lands. Trash and debris were highlighted in Mulledy’s presentation. “There is a lot of trash. The level of stuff that we have makes it very difficult to remove the level of trash and debris that is there,” he said. Trash and abandoned property in stormwater drain Photo: City of Colorado Springs Mulledy mentioned the city’s Adopt a Waterway program. “We have 67 adopters, that’s 73 different creek segments that covers 62 miles in our city right now. We have about 270 miles, so we have a way to go, but that’s a pretty significant portion of our city. Last year volunteer cleanups in those sections removed about 45,000 pounds, that’s 22 tons of trash and debris.” “I think this ordinance will have a significant impact in reducing that trash and debris,” he continued. The ordinance passed on a 6-2 vote with Murray and Avila dissenting and Councilman Andy Pico excused. It becomes effective July 23. div class="wp_rp_content"... (ash, pollution and flash floods vie with homelessness in Colorado Springs creekside camping ban)
Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, Orville Schell, who said, "One has to admire the enterprise of someone willing to do this sort of research." The current online dialogue around the article is almost unanimously positive—minus some grousing that a 16-year-old article is being discussed at all. "This is an outragous stunt," Barton Gellman tweeted today. "I approve." "Many of the deficiencies in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence can be traced to the feeling of powerful people that the government's surveillance powers are unlikely to be turned against them," another tweet by Jameel Jaffer followed. "Today in why we have to save alt weeklies," Carter Sherman also tweeted with a link to the story. (Willamette Week)
NCAA investigation is one thing.Busted by the feds? Hard time. The hardest.“This is an issue of bribery and enterprise corruption and people violating federal law in a scheme that deals with agents and shoe companies and the like,” Jay Bilas said on ESPN. “We’re dealing essentially with an underground economy. This is not what you deal with day to day when you talk about recruiting being unethical.“This goes way beyond that to the point of illegality and people going to jail.”You better believe it’s more than the four that were caught. It’s scores, maybe. And, yes, we will find that out, because if you don’t think those arrested won’t sell out peers if a reduction of sentence is on the bargaining table, think again.“The picture painted by the charges brought today is not a pretty one,” U.S. attorney Joon Kim said when announcing the arrests Tuesday, before mentioning “coaches at some of the nation’s top programs soliciting and accepting cash bribes, managers and financial advisers circling (around) blue-chip prospects like coyotes, and employees of one of the world’s largest sportswear companies secretly funneling cash to the families of high school recruits.“All of them had the trust of the young players they coached and recruited young men who looked up to them and believed they had their best interests at heart.”Will this news get everyone back to playing by the same recruiting rules — no under-the-table money laundering to players?Going immediately forward? Yes, unless shady coaches are also the dumbest coaches on the planet.“The market for cheating will start to dry up — and that’s a positive,” Fraschilla said. “This feels like a dark day in some ways; from listening to the (U.S. Attorney’s press conference) it sounded like there may be more schools and coaches involved, but at the same time, it was a good day.“Anything that can be done to weed out cheating in college basketball is a positive.”And heaven-forbid the next high-profile player that flips a commitment – again, you can fill in the blanks regarding names and schools. How much was he paid? What’d his AAU coach get? What role, if any, did lucrative apparel contracts with major college athletics programs play in what Kim called the dark underbelly of college basketball?“For the defendants charged, the madness of college basketball went well beyond the Big Dance in March,” Kim said. “We hope these charges and arrests will help keep the sport clean and honest.”Now and forever.Iowa State columnist Randy Peterson has been with the Register for parts of five decades. Randy writes opinion and analysis of Iowa State football and basketball. You can reach Randy at rpeterson@dmreg.com or on Twitter at @RandyPete.Let's block ads! a href="https://blockad... (DesMoinesRegister.com)
This is not about safety. It’s about free enterprise. It’s about fair competition,” State Sen. Dan “Blade” Morrish, R-Jennings, argued during the legislative session.Arguing that the government regulators of private monopolies had created their own monopoly …The new rules approved by the PSC on Wednesday address a number of the changes legislators put in the new law.From now on, the PSC staff lawyers and experts will review applications, including financial documents, behind closed doors. Then they’ll make a recommendation on which the five elected commissioners can vote.If the existing companies want to challenge an application, they’ll have to make their presentation to PSC staff, rather than at an open hearing.The commissioners, however, kept the ancient term “public convenience and necessity,” which is the standard used to determine if a company gets a certificate to haul waste. The Legislature thought the phrase was archaic and lacked specific guidelines.Under the system in place before Wednesday’s vote, the PSC required applicants to show a need existed in a territory that’s not being served.The new PSC rule defines the term more generally. For instance, applicants must show a need for their service, such as more waste being created, but no longer have to worry about competitors in a particular territory.Interim PSC Commissioner Damon Baldone, R-Houma, said the new rule balances the free market competition with the need to protect the public.“Just because you own a truck doesn’t mean you should be hauling hazardous waste,” Baldone said. “But this is good start for companies that do have the resources to enter the marketplace.”#ndn-video-player-3.ndn_embedded .ndn_floatContainer { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; }... (The Advocate)
According to an executive summary of the operation at the Whitewater Fire camps, there was a "strong desire to recycle in the field" from the crews. Younger crews, especially, were found to have a stronger inclination to recycle while in the field. As younger Americans continue to highlight protecting the environment as a top priority, the waste industry will have to continue to emphasize environmental stewardship to keep consumer trust. ... (Waste Dive)
