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A Preliminary Assessment of the Proposal to Reopen the Idaho-Maryland Mine

A Preliminary Assessment of the Proposal to Reopen the Idaho-Maryland Mine

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[1] Project application documents may be viewed at https://www.mynevadacounty.com/2882/Application-Documents—Rise-Grass-Valley . Unless noted, see Idaho-Maryland Mine Project Description, Nov 2019; https://www.mynevadacounty.com/DocumentCenter/View/31023/Applicants-Project-Description [2] Noise and Vibration Analysis, Table 9, https://www.mynevadacounty.com/DocumentCenter/View/30467/Noise-and-Vibration-Study-Report [3]Air Quality and greenhouse Gas Emissions Analysis Technical Report for the Idaho-Maryland Mine Project, Feb 2020, pgs 73-74, https://www.mynevadacounty.com/DocumentCenter/View/33583/Air-Quality-and-GHG-Report—ADDED-392020 [4] Average energy usage per CA residence…

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Racist Bullying in My Small Town Made National News. Here’s What We Can Learn From How the Town Responded

Racist Bullying in My Small Town Made National News. Here’s What We Can Learn From How the Town Responded

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by Claudia Moscovici Claudia Moscovici is Romanian-American writer and art critic, originally from Bucharest, Romania. She lives with her husband in Saline Michigan. Reprinted from the History News Network, by permission of the author. Editor’s Note: Claudia Moscovici’s account of a racial incident in her home town of Saline, Michigan, a town comparable in…

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The Party’s Over: Bernie’s Last Dance With The Dems

The Party’s Over: Bernie’s Last Dance With The Dems

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by Jim Kavanagh Reprinted with permission from The Polemicist (Twitter: @ThePolemicist_ ) Friday , January 31, 2020 The Good I wrote six articles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) about the Bernie Sanders campaign during the 2016 primary. As everyone keeps saying, Bernie is a paragon of consistency, so my understanding of him stands unchanged. The political situation in…

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Sometimes We Can Make Our Own Hope

Sometimes We Can Make Our Own Hope

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Running for Office in the Age of Donald Trump and Climate Change  By Frida Berrigan “YES!” he yelled, thrusting his fist in the air. “We get to live in the mayor’s house!” My son’s reaction when I told his two sisters and him that I was running for mayor of our town became the laugh…

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