"Save the Pine Bush came into being on February 6, 1978. It snowed that day. It snowed so much that the offices of the New York State government closed down and stayed closed the next day. This is the only time in the 20 years that I have lived in Albany that the State closed its offices due to the weather. I was able to ski to work in downtown Albany."
"On that day, the Albany City Planning Board had scheduled a public hearing on four developments in the Pine Bush: the Dunes, Pinehurst, Pine Circle, and a development by Charles TouheyIt snowed that day. However, the City did not cancel its public hearing. Even though there was six inches of snow on one of the main roads, Washington Avenue, the City still held its hearing."
"Epidemiologists at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health say they've identified the largest cluster of advanced black lung disease ever reported, a cluster that was first uncovered by NPR 14 months ago. In a research letter published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, NIOSH confirms 416 cases of progressive massive fibrosis or complicated black lung in three clinics in central Appalachia from 2013 to 2017. "This is the largest cluster of progressive massive fibrosis ever reported in the scientific literature," says Scott Laney, a NIOSH epidemiologist involved in the study. "We've gone from having nearly eradicated PMF in the mid-1990s to the highest concentration of cases that anyone has ever seen," he said.
"President Trump, apparently inspired by the Bastille Day parade he witnessed last summer during a trip to Paris, has ordered the Pentagon to look into staging something similar — but naturally bigger and better — for Washington, D.C., the White House confirmed Tuesday. A U.S. official has confirmed the request to NPR. On Tuesday evening, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders shared in a statement that "President Trump is incredibly supportive of America's great service members who risk their lives every day to keep our country safe." She added, "He has asked the Department of Defense to explore a celebration at which all Americans can show their appreciation."
I didn't own a smartphone until 2014, when with work it became more essential to check emails for work. With my dumb phone, I would have to walk down to the library if I wanted to read an email. I guess I could use the minimal web browser in my dumb phone, but for most bigger things I had to go to the library. But by 2014, with StraightTalk you could get a Smartphone for under $45 a month if you bought time in 3 or 6 month blocks, and the phones were cheap, so I switched on over to a Smartphone. Not having an Internet at home (much less in the wilderness), having a smartphone really is a nice thing.
"The Mallinckrodt pharmaceutical factory is the largest employer in Hobart, New York. It was also the source of millions of generic oxycodone pills that federal investigators say fueled the narcotics epidemic. A rural community grapples with the supply-side of the United States' problem with pills."