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Hot water still sacrificed by Palm Beach County budget squeeze
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsPalm Beach County health officials have thrown cold water on concerns that spending cutbacks create unsanitary conditions in county government bathrooms. Most county government buildings no longer provide hot water in bathrooms, prompting questions... -
Laura Bush admires Clinton's 'grit'
The Swampby Katie Fretland In an interview in Ljubljana, Slovenia, ahead of President Bush's last U.S.-European Union summit, the first lady said she admired Sen. Hillary Clinton's "grit and strength" during the Democratic primaries. Laura Bush told ABC News'...Tags: Defense, Environmental Issues, Heavy Engineering, John McCain, Disasters
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President Bush promises flood aid
The Swampby Katie Fretland The federal government has sent 2 million liters of fresh drinking water to flood-damaged areas in Iowa and is setting up a task force to help residents secure long-term housing, President Bush said in an address today.......Tags: Iowa, California, Wildfires, Environmental Issues, Floods
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Pentagon, EPA at odds
The SwampBy Josh Mitchell and wire reports The Pentagon and the Environmental Protection Agency are mired in a dispute over the pace of environmental cleanups at Maryland's Fort Meade and Fort Detrick, where contamination from fuels and munitions for years seeped....Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Justice System, Environmental Issues
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Gore: Obama stimulus good for climate
The Swampby Frank James Former Vice President Al Gore was on Capitol Hill today delivering more of his inconvenient truths. He did an updated version of his documentary for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. That meant the last two unsuccessful......Tags: George H.W. Bush, Defense, Glaciers, Hurricane Damage, Renewable Energy
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How to boil water
Dining@LargeOwl Meat makes his triumphant return to the Dining@Large pantheon of guest posters with this Funtastic Thursday. However, I have to say that I always thought you put salt in the water you're about to boil pasta in for the......Tags: Foods and Beverages, Colorado, Bodies of Water, Pasta, Oceans
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Drought affecting lower Susquehanna
Maryland WeatherThe Susquehanna River Basin Commission has taken official note of the scarce rainfall and falling streamflow and water tables during the past three months in the lower part of the river's watershed, including northeast Maryland.The commission has convened...Tags: Weather, Chesapeake Bay, Havre de Grace, Environmental Issues, Water Restrictions
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Weekend rain helps, but not much
Maryland WeatherThis graph of the streamflow in the Little Patuxent River shows that the weekend's rain did help to boost the amount of water in the river. But the benefit did not last long, and water levels quickly began to fall......Tags: Weather, Water Restrictions
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Wettest April since 1983 recharges water table
Maryland WeatherThe abundant rain that began falling on March 28 (the day The Sun ran my story on the state's deepening drought) is beginning to have an impact on groundwater supplies across the state, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.USGS hydrologist......Tags: Weather, Thurgood Marshall, Water Restrictions, United States, Weather Reports
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"Today:" More Matt/Richard Phillips Quotes
The TV Zone(Maersk Line /AP) Yes, NBC released a few more soundbites this afternoon, and they're interesting - interesting in the sense that Richard Phillips does seem so calm and collected, and that his memories of the first high seas pirate......Tags: New Jersey, Defense, Easter, Armed Forces, United States
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At last: An explanation for high June/July tides
Maryland WeatherLots of Marylanders noticed it. A few sent me emails asking why the tides in Maryland during June and early July seemed so persistently high - from a few inches to a few feet at times, with some minor coastal......Tags: New Jersey, Florida, Ocean Tides, Weather, Bodies of Water
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Gloucester Planning Commission talks sea level rise tonight
Who's on Team Gloucester?The topic of sea level rise and how it affects long-range planning and development will be a key topic of tonight's Gloucester Planning Commission meeting. Skip Stiles, executive director of the Norfolk-based non-profit environmental group Wetlands Watch,...Tags: Mathews (Mathews, Virginia), Weather, Bodies of Water, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Oceans
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