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3 weeks ago | 
policymagazine.ca | Colin Robertson |Robert Kaplan
|In Featured Review, Policy SpecialWaste Land: A World in Permanent CrisisBy Robert D. KaplanPenguin Random House/January 2025Reviewed by Colin RobertsonApril 1, 2025We find ourselves, writes Robert Kaplan in Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis, in an “exceedingly fragile phase” of technological and political transition, with no assurance of a happy ending. Our world is more anxious, more claustrophobic, more interconnected than ever before.
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1 month ago | 
lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Wallace Baine |Robert Kaplan
A recent report from personal injury law firm Jacoby & Meyers revealed new insights into the frequency, severity and geography of vehicle crashes at intersections in the city of Santa Cruz. According to the report, Santa Cruz’s intersection crash rate is 41.89%, which is 12.73% higher than the average of all other studied California cities. Additionally, 2.7% of those crashes resulted in deaths, making Santa Cruz’s fatality rate 15.38% higher than average.
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1 month ago | 
lookout.co | Wallace Baine |Robert Kaplan |Christopher Neely
The City of Santa Cruz will host an online community meeting on March 26 to discuss a proposed 100% affordable housing development at 525 Water St. The top five floors of the six-story, mixed-use development at the corner of Market Street would hold approximately 94 affordable housing units. The ground floor would offer around 5,000 square feet of commercial tenant space.
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1 month ago | 
lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Wallace Baine |Robert Kaplan
On Tuesday, the Watsonville City Council meeting honored Police Officer Moises Lopez for saving a man from a burning home. Lopez had been with the Watsonville Police Department for under a year when he arrived at a house fire on Jan. 26 and found an unconscious 62-year-old man lying face down on the kitchen floor. Lopez ran into the smoke-filled home without hesitation, grabbed the man and began pulling him to safety.
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1 month ago | 
lookout.co | Wallace Baine |Lookout Santa Cruz |Robert Kaplan
Here they are, nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead. It’s the shamrock-&-corned beef B9:➤ Up in Scotts Valley, they consider Alfred Hitchcock one of their own, which makes sense considering that Hitchcock and his wife, Alma, owned a 200-acre estate in the mountains north of town known as “Heart o’ the Mountains” and spent their leisure time there for more than 30 years.
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1 month ago | 
lookout.co | Wallace Baine |Lookout Santa Cruz |Robert Kaplan
Hi friends,Would the world be a better place (or not) if we had an ethnically oriented celebration as prominent (and cartoonishly oversimplified) as St. Patrick’s Day every month? Discuss, over a few green-tinted beers. Cheers to the Irish!Now, on with the show. Big news from up on campus: The UC Santa Cruz Quarry Amphitheater is welcoming the immortal funk legend George Clinton and his band Parliament/Funkadelic for a big show April 26.
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1 month ago | 
lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Wallace Baine |Robert Kaplan
This post is updated throughout the day to reflect the latest incidents. It was last updated at 4:31 p.m.. Here’s what’s happening on the roads this evening…▼︎ new incidents ▼︎ long-term incidentsA lane on South Highway 1 at Soquel Drive is closed for landscape work. The closure is expected to end by 11:59 p.m. on March 31. These have been going on for a while, but are still worth keeping in mind.
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1 month ago | 
lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Wallace Baine |Robert Kaplan
Good morning! It’s Mar. 13 — here’s what’s going on in your community today…Today will be clouds and sun with showers around, cool; breezy this afternoon; there can be a rumble of thunder. There is a 89% chance of rain. The high will be 55 with a low of 44. Allergy sufferers beware: there are high amounts of mold in the air. Showers now, changing to cloudy at 11 am.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
manager-magazin.de | Robert Kaplan |Karthik Ramanna
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
newstatesman.com | Robert Kaplan
The world stands on a precipice, and the trends are not good. It was the United States whose economic wherewithal rescued Western civilisation in the Second World War and the Cold War. But whereas in 1945 the US accounted for half of all global manufacturing, it now accounts for roughly 16 per cent. America’s gross national debt stands at $36trn, and that debt is $1trn annually. Neither Democrats nor Republicans seem to have even a modicum of the self-discipline required to arrest those movements.
