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Health
The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia
In Starr County, Texas, close to the state’s southern tip alongside the U.S.-Mexico border, escaping dementia can really feel inconceivable. The situation impacts about one in 5 adults on Medicare—greater than double the nationwide price. “All people has any individual of their household” with dementia, Gladys Maestre, a neuroepidemiologist who research growing old on the College of Texas at Rio…
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World
County side Kent confirms Zimbabwe A tour of England this year
English County facet Kent has confirmed {that a} Zimbabwe A facet might be England later this yr. “Kent Males’s Second Staff will face Zimbabwe A in a 50-over match this July, with free entry to The County Floor, Beckenham,” the membership stated on its website on Tuesday.. The match will happen on Tuesday 16 July from 11:00. Whereas that’s the…
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Opinion
Victims in juvenile rape cases aren’t getting justice in King County
As the daddy of a preteen daughter, I continually fear about how I will help to supply a secure and shiny future for her as she grows up. As an elected official, I’m additionally known as on to signify the area and make the perfect choices I can to maintain our youth secure. There are specific points that I encounter…
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Opinion
King County should help fund new site to shelter unhoused Native people
Over the previous 5 years the Chief Seattle Membership has partnered with King County to make non permanent residing quarters for Native folks out of modular properties stationed on a car parking zone in Sodo. It’s helped preserve dozens of individuals off the streets and has performed so in a culturally delicate approach. But, Eagle Village, which began in 2019…
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Opinion
Put the brakes on plan to close King County youth detention center
In July 2020 — as anti-police protests roiled the area within the aftermath of the George Floyd homicide — King County Govt Dow Constantine introduced his intention to shut safe detention for younger folks on the Decide Patricia H. Clark Kids & Household Justice Middle in Seattle’s Central Space no later than 2025. The concept, he mentioned, was to maneuver…
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Lifestyle
Christmas in Peddlers Village – Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Up to date 12/2023 with present data Annually for the vacations, I enterprise someplace a bit additional particular and take within the surprise of the season. Final Christmas we visited Berlin, Maryland – a candy little historic city on Maryland’s jap shore and a brief drive from Ocean Metropolis. This 12 months we needed one thing a bit nearer…
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Opinion
Restore balance to juvenile legal system in King County
On this there may be common settlement: Younger individuals who trigger hurt needs to be given each alternative to get on the proper path. The problem now earlier than the Metropolitan King County Council is whether or not packages designed to assist younger folks accused of crime and never in jail ought to take priority over the well-being of juveniles…
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Opinion
Small landlords are at the mercy of broken King County eviction court
Small rental homeowners want help from state and native legislators — accountability measures for brand spanking new landlord-tenant laws and eviction moratorium impacts are sorely missing. Particularly, the eviction system is severely backlogged and mismanaged, with King County offering probably the most egregious examples. Pre-COVID-19, the Seattle/King County space had one of the lowest eviction rates in the nation and an affordable…
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Politics
Six Killed In Head-On Collision During Human Smuggling Event In Texas Border County
By Bethany Blankley (The Middle Sq.) Six individuals had been killed Wednesday in a head-on collision ensuing from a human smuggling occasion in a Texas border county. Texas Division of Public Security Lt. Chris Olivarez made the announcement on social media and posted footage of the demolished vehicles, saying, “DPS is investigating a two-vehicle deadly crash on US 57 close…
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Opinion
King County gun violence prevention office is a much needed new tool
Lives ruined or taken by gun violence have drawn the eye of many within the public sector. Seattle’s mayor and police chief have made ending gun violence a part of their crime prevention technique. President Joe Biden this summer season introduced the creation of the Workplace for Gun Violence Prevention, partly in response to the lots of of lethal mass shootings…
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