AP Exclusive: Early PG&E blackouts forewarned later problems
The nation's largest utility says it didn't foresee problems from massive blackouts meant to prevent California wildfires after earlier ones went well. But an @AP review has uncovered failures by Pacific Gas & Electric and a repeated pattern of mistakes.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The state senators grilling the CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. were upset — like millions of other Californians, some spent days in the dark when the nation’s largest...

The Great NFL Heist: How Fox Paid for and Changed Football Forever

An oral history of the most important deal in sports TV history, when Rupert Murdoch and Fox stole the NFL and John Madden out from under the Big Three networks, created the modern pregame show, invented a new way to see football, and launched a television empire

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The Limits Of The City - Murray Bookchin

Topics Urbanism, Utopia, Social Ecology

Collection opensource

Language English

Essay on the evolution of urbanism that attempts to rescue a progressive tradition of city life from the current pathway of sprawling megacities.

Cities that are budding outward lack significant vertical growth, but because they are in their infancy, in terms of urban development, could benefit most from policies designed to encourage more sustainable growth.

Most urban growth, researchers have found, is defined by expansion at margins. Cities aren't getting taller, they're getting wider, fueled by suburban sprawl, not skyscrapers.

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Cities are expanding outward, not upward -- an unsustainable pattern

Most urban growth, researchers have found, is defined by expansion at margins. Cities aren't getting taller, they're getting wider, fueled by suburban sprawl, not skyscrapers.

Thousands of people have gathered after Friday prayers outside the Jama Masjid in Old Delhi, one India's largest mosques, to protest a citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim.

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Children climb on the back of a three-wheeled motorcycle driven by a man dressed as Santa Claus distributing gifts in a run-down neighbourhood of the Iraqi shrine city of Najaf, on December 19, 2019

Tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing bombardment in Syria's Idlib region, the UN said, as fighting flares in the jihadist bastion fuelling an already dire humanitarian situation.

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British film actor Idris Elba received Sierra Leone citizenship and a diplomatic passport on his first visit to his father's native country.

Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio conferred the passport during an emotional private ceremony at his colonial-era residence in the capital Freetown.

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A ride in a horse-drawn carriage is a classic excursion for tourists and locals in Istanbul, but its days may be numbered as authorities announce a three-month ban over mounting alarm about the welfare of the horses.
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Toxic smoke shrouds Sydney amid a heatwave which has seen an area the size of Belgium ablaze.

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The colossal task of fighting New South Wales' unprecedented bushfires falls largely to a band of doctors farmers and factory workers who at 70,000-strong are the world's largest volunteer fire service.
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