Blog Levelling-up from the ground up Helping neighbourhoods thrive means giving communities ownership of the buildings and spaces around them By Rose Grayston 20 September 2021 Depending on where you live in England, there can be huge differences...

Trip Notes Slept > 8-hours last night. Took off from Las Vegas, New Mexico yesterday morning and headed to Holbrook, Arizona.. If you are ever near Los Vegas NV, you might want to stay in The Plaza hotel, a blast from the past, still done up with a nineteen century interior. Bourbon was good as well as the food. Rooms comfy and styled in a similar motif as the rest of the hotel. Allan Affeldt started the restoration (more to come) of The...

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 I think I put the Economics Explained video about how the Netherlands had the highest wealth inequality in the world, although its income enequality was one of the lowest. It didn't seem to make sense, but when I thought about it I saw that it was possible how the gap in wages between the top and lowest earners could be small, say between CEOs and waiters, but company owners could still earn terrific wealth, like the way rock stars could, or authors of some of the world's biggest selling...

Isreal covid rates explained.Why the vaccines are effective, and still are effective. You need to take age and the amount of people vaccinated into consideration. Anti-Vaxxers on social media are trying to say the vaccines don't work, or worst still, may even be a leading cause of death. As usual, these people don't care for science or research, just the headlines will do. There is 90% vaccination rate in Israel among older people. The vaccines are 90% to 95 % effective, but there are still...

Why don’t they put the bus driver jobs in a job guarantee and then people will just show up to do that?  Or just include munnie for the school bus driving in the $3.5T infrastructure bill then people will magically show up?  Massachusetts’ governor has activated the state's National Guard to help bus students to school. Districts across the U.S. are struggling to hire enough bus drivers, complicating a school year already beset by the ongoing pandemic. https://t.co/bAwnekrySc— The Associated...

Bannon REALLY trying to fire up the MAGA base for a govt shutdown then eventually a default on debt ceiling….

The universal human need for mental control disrupts our quality of life.Mankind needs an off switch because this could promote healing, but our minds evolved to be constantly aware of danger, so the harder you try to banish negative thoughts, the more they come back, and in chronic situations, it can kill you. The system can go wrong, but the way to healing is through hobbies and things to do. The inability to escape from unpleasant thoughts has a major impact on many people’s quality of...

CPI Rose 0.3% in August on Higher Prices for Food, Energy, New Vehicles, Furniture and Appliances; Commenter and Blogger RJS at MarketWatch 666 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Consumer Price Index: All Items for the United States [USACPIALLMINMEI], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USACPIALLMINMEI, September 19, 2021. The consumer price index rose 0.3% in...