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1 day ago | 
triangleblogblog.com | John Rees
There are two important OWASA meetings this week related to parking and draft parking arrangements.
Monday, June 23, at 6 p.m. in the OWASA Community Room at 400 Jones Ferry Road in Carrboro. Discussion of community feedback from the May 19th meeting and to see possible parking solutions from OWASA.
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4 days ago | 
triangleblogblog.com | John Rees
Coming up on the Fourth of July is the Four on the Fourth. A Four mile road race through the streets of Carrboro. This year will be the 21st edition of the race. It’s hard to believe they have been doing it so long. I did not run the first race, but I am pretty close. This race is part of the “Le Tour de Carrboro” a series of races that also includes the “Gallop and Gorge” that I wrote about previously. Why participate?
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1 week ago | 
triangleblogblog.com | John Rees
The neighborhood listserves are full of conversations about our towns budgets and tax rates. On my listserv, some people look at what is being spent on transit and spotted what they felt was a soft target for savings. It is possible such commenters have not used the transit system, and cannot see themselves using it. I shared this response below and decided, since we are still in budget season, to share it here also. Some words of support to transit.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | John Rees
The chair of the right-wing Reform UK Party resigned from his role on Thursday after suggesting it was "dumb" of the party's newest MP to ask the prime minister if he would ban the burqa. Zia Yusuf, a party donor and millionaire businessman, said in a statement on X that he was resigning after less than a year in the job because he did not believe working to get a Reform government elected was a "good use" of his time.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Oscar Rickett |John Rees
Jeremy Corbyn has told Middle East Eye that the British government must decide whether it will support an inquiry into UK involvement in Israel’s war on Gaza, or “block our efforts to expose the truth”. On Wednesday, the former Labour leader presented in parliament his bill for an independent, Chilcot-style public inquiry into Britain’s support for Israeli military operations in Gaza.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | John Rees
A survey has revealed that 82 percent of Britain's Muslim Labour MPs, councillors and mayors believe Prime Minister Keir Starmer has handled Israel's war on Gaza "badly", a major new survey has found. The poll of over 220 elected Muslim representatives by the Labour Muslim Network (LMN) reveals that two-thirds do not believe Muslim representatives are treated equally to others in the Labour party. Most of them - 64 percent - believe Labour operates a "hierarchy of racism".
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Avi Shlaim |John Rees
Most people in Britain think that Keir Starmer has outlived any use he might have had as Labour leader, according to YouGov’s bimonthly poll of the prime minister’s popularity. Some 40 percent think he should resign as leader, and only 37 percent think he should stay on, according to the May survey. The same thing happened in January, with only a blip in between. In another YouGov poll, Starmer is disliked by 51 percent of the population and only popular with 22 percent.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | John Rees
A major survey has revealed that 82 percent of Britain's Muslim Labour MPs, councillors and mayors believe Prime Minister Keir Starmer has handled Israel's war on Gaza "badly". The poll of over 220 elected Muslim representatives by the Labour Muslim Network (LMN) reveals that two-thirds do not believe Muslim representatives are treated equally to others in the Labour party. Most of them - 64 percent - believe Labour operates a "hierarchy of racism".
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4 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | John Rees
A naval court in Greece has charged 17 members of the Greek coast guard over the deadly Pylos shipwreck in 2023. The Adriana fishing boat, which departed Libya for Italy, sank on 14 June 2023 in international waters within the Greek search-and-rescue zone near the town of Pylos. At least 82 bodies were recovered from the disaster, though up to 650 were feared dead. Hundreds of people, including women and children, were missing after being trapped below deck.
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1 month ago | 
triangleblogblog.com | John Rees
Railcare Health is having a big fund raising gala on June 14. I wrote about Railcare back in November and was really impressed with the organization and what they do. A quick reminder of who they are and what they do:Railcare Health is a student-founded mobile healthcare clinic servicing North Carolinians in rural portions of the state who have difficulty accessing these resources daily.
