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California Today: Who Pays if You Fall Off an E-Scooter?

Good morning. (Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.) Depending on who you ask, they’re a scourge, invading the streets of decent cities around the country, or they’re a transportation revolution removing the “last mile” hurdle to using public transit and taking polluting cars off the road. E-scooters have caused […]

Gananoque Town Hall addition combines old and new

Attaching a modern building to a historic one can be tricky, but it’s a task the Town of Gananoque recently had to complete as part of its town hall expansion. At just over 2,000 square feet, the modern addition is everything the old building is not — now, Gananoque’s seat of municipal government has more […]

16th annual Caring for Kids Radiothon to see first $2M in donations doubled

Calgarians will once again be asked to lend a hand to those carrying out the work being done at the Alberta Children’s Hospital at the 16th annual Country 105 Caring for Kids Radiothon. This year, donations from the public won’t be all that’s collected — every dollar donated will be doubled, to a maximum of […]

State of the Union: Five takeaways from Trump's address

WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) – US President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union address in a divided Washington Tuesday (Feb 5) night. Here are five takeaways: 1. A DISCORDANT CALL FOR UNITY From the start, it was clear Trump wanted his speech to be remembered as a call for bipartisanship, a high-minded missive […]

Democrat Beto O'Rourke, on Oprah's big stage, mulls White House bid

NEW YORK (AFP) – Texas Democratic star Beto O’Rourke hinted Tuesday (Feb 5) that he will run for president in 2020, telling talk show queen Oprah Winfrey he will announce his decision in the coming weeks. He acknowledged that he had been considering a run at the White House during a taping for Winfrey’s “SuperSoul […]

Magnetic north pole leaves Canada, on fast new path

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The position of the Earth’s magnetic North Pole – used in navigation systems such as smartphones – is moving far faster than it has, sending scientists scrambling to put out a new model this week. The magnetic North is the point at which the planet’s magnetic field points vertically down. The World […]

Brooklyn Federal Jail Had Heat Failures Weeks Before Crisis, Employees Say

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] The heat at a troubled Brooklyn jail started to fail as early as mid-January, weeks before the problem erupted into a public crisis, staff members and current and former inmates testified on Tuesday at a hearing on the deteriorating […]

11 words the White House wants to hear after Trump's speech

WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The White House wants Americans to hear 11 words after President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday (Feb 5) evening: “visionary”, “unifying”, “common sense”, “hopeful”, “patriotic”, “inclusive”, “inspiring”, “clarifying”, “strong”, “optimistic” and “confident”. The descriptors appear in a “messaging preview” document the White House distributed to political allies ahead of […]