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What the Housing Shortage Is Doing to American Environmentalism

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Environmentalism has never been a stable ideology, and its adherents have never been a monolithic group. But, in Minneapolis, the green community has fractured as a wide array of self-described environmentalists find that they don’t agree on very much anymore.

Back in 2018, Minneapolis generated national headlines for being the first major American city to eliminate single-family zoning. Under a plan called Minneapolis 2040, the city legalized duplexes and triplexes in all residential neighborhoods. The plan led to a frenzy

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Why is there a housing shortage in the UK? Builders blame planning but have dished out £16bn to shareholders

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Britain’s woeful undersupply of housing at an affordable price can be partially blamed on shareholder handouts paid by the country’s biggest housebuilders, a new report claims.

Research published by Sheffield Hallam University found the eight largest UK housebuilders have paid £16billion in dividends over the last 18 years, with investors handed the equivalent of £22,000 per new home built in 2022 alone.

The researchers say dividends paid between 2016 and 2021 alone exceed the £8.8billion the Government spent on its

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Revealed: How TikTok scammers are selling dangerous fake weight-loss drugs to desperate patients hit by diabetes medication shortage – amid growing calls for watchdog to approve breakthrough jab

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Online scammers are using platforms such as TikTok to sell dangerous fake weight-loss drugs to desperate diabetes patients hit by a medication shortage, as England’s prescription watchdog faces further pressure to approve a breakthrough jab.

In trials, a third of type 2 diabetics on the new drug, tirzepatide, shed more than 20 per cent of their body weight after just over a year and saw their blood sugars brought in check. The average person with obesity weighing 16.5 st (105

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A D.C. Suburb Finds a Creative Answer to America’s Housing Shortage

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The Laureate is one of those apartment buildings that developers love to build and anti-gentrification types love to hate. Marketed as “inspired living,” it sits outside Washington, D.C., across the street from a Starbucks and a short walk from the Metro’s red line. The boxy frame and clean lines mark it as a haven for young professionals, and it is part of an effort by Montgomery County, Md., to turn a former industrial area with a bus yard into a

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NADA, National Urban League team up to tackle tech shortage

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Justin Dodd, who once managed industrial sanitation crews at food processing plants, now works as an apprentice technician at Banner Chevrolet in New Orleans. Dodd said Banner was his first choice, because the dealership services every vehicle make and model.

He is not surprised that he loves the work. “My grandfather loved automotive things,” Dodd said. “It’s in my blood if it’s cars.”

The structure of the program is ideal, he added, because it has milestones and allows him to

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Hospitals on alert over chemo drugs shortage | UK | News

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The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England sent out an alert warning to hospital drug buyers to order unlicensed imports of cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin “to meet the needs of patients”.

Cisplatin is used to treat testicular, ovarian, bladder, head and neck, lung and cervical cancer, carboplatin for ovarian cancer, and oxaliplatin for bowel, stomach, pancreatic, and oesophageal cancer.

The alert said the resupply of licensed drugs was not expected until September at the earliest.

It added

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Iranians Blame Power Grid and Gas Shortage for Shutdown Amid Heat

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When the government in Iran ordered the nation to shut down for two days starting on Wednesday to conserve energy and protect public health because of “unprecedented” broiling summer heat, Iranians and experts alike quickly discerned another, unspoken reason for the enforced holiday.

Iran simply does not have enough natural gas, or a strong enough power grid, to keep all the lights on despite sitting on the second-largest reserves of natural gas in the world.

And, as skeptical residents pointed

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Military recruiting shortage gums up Germany’s ‘Zeitenwende’ plans – EURACTIV.com

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Despite significant efforts, the number of applicants to join the German military has continued to dwindle this year, with the German defence minister stressing recruitment must be as high a priority as material procurement for the Bundeswehr.

Germany’s “Zeitenwende” – the country’s efforts to restore its ailing military following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – has hit a number of stumbling blocks already, but the latest obstacle to boosting the capacity of the Bundeswehr, or armed forces,

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UK GP body advertises £316k jobs in Canada… despite complaining about crippling staffing shortage

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Britain’s biggest GP body is advertising lucrative jobs abroad which pay up to three times more than the NHS, MailOnline can reveal.

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) — which represents 50,000-plus members — posts hundreds of roles on its vacancies site.

One job in British Columbia, Canada, famed for its picturesque scenery, comes with a whopping £316,000 salary.  

Another pledges a £23,000 relocation package on top of a similar pay package, and brags about being close to an

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NHS is sending POLICE officers to heart attack callouts due to paramedic shortage

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In his first public acknowledgement of the crisis facing the health service since taking office last month, Steve Barclay said ministers face a ‘real sprint’ to prepare the NHS for the months ahead

The NHS is staring down the barrel of one of its worst winters on record with a triple whammy of Covid, flu and the cost of living crisis set to batter understaffed hospitals, the new Health Secretary has warned as it emerged police officers are being sent

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