L.A. City Council backs huge trash fee hikes for residents
The Los Angeles City Council moved on Friday to dramatically hike garbage fees to collect money and close the $1 billion budget deficit. In a 10-1 vote, the council ordered city counsels to draft an ordinance that would increase the fees for around 740,000 clients, with councillors claiming the city has been subsidizing the costs […]
L.A. looks to increase trash fees in each of the next five years
Faced with a budget shortage of around $100 million, Los Angeles elected officials are back to a proven formula to weather a challenging financial era. On Wednesday, two city council committees focused on public works, the other focused on environmental issues — approved plans to raise garbage pickup fees over the next five years, with […]
USA’s Matthew Tkachuk Responds To Canadian Trash Talk In Classiest Way Ever, And We’re Totally Winning This Thing
united states of america! united states of america! united states of america! Let’s take the money home! Tensions between the US and Canada grow as we approach the NHL 4 Nations Face-off Championship. And you know there’s a lot of it, given that the first game literally brought us a fight in just nine seconds. […]
Sacramento Community Wakes Up To ‘A Sea Of Trash’ From Illegal Garbage Dumping
CBS News reports that a Sacramento-area home security camera captured a dump truck littering the road early Tuesday morning, leaving residents stunned. The dump truck strewn across Edmonton and Iberico roadways south of Natomas around 6:15 a.m., according to reports. Exit. The dumping occurred despite the presence of a landfill just a few miles away. […]
Trash Heap Collapse Kills At Least 24 People In Kampala, Uganda, Authorities Say
At least 24 people were killed when a rubbish dump collapsed in Uganda's capital, Kampala, and rescue teams continued to search the site on Monday, city officials said, The Associated Press reported. At least four children were among those killed in the Kitige landfill collapse, police told reporters. According to To the outlet. According to […]
‘Makes Me Go Crazy’: Army’s Largest Base Tries To Handle Crippling Trash Build-Up
After images of piled-up waste surfaced, the Army's largest base was struggling to manage the large amount of trash it said had accumulated due to “unforeseen equipment issues,” according to a statement late Tuesday. It is said that there is. Officials at Fort Liberty in North Carolina said they are implementing a “phased approach” to […]
Global Elites Trash Elon Musk’s X At Davos
Global elites in the education sector criticized billionaire Elon Musk and his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos on Monday. Professor of History of Science, Harvard University with Naomi Oreskes Swiss University President Luciana Vaccaro shared their mutual dislike of X in the mask during an event […]
Kansas City Chiefs Drop The Corniest Playoff ‘Hype’ Video Of All-Time And Deserve To Lose For This Straight Up Trash
No, I'm not just saying this because I'm a Miami Dolphins fan. At this point, we're just days away from the NFL playoffs, which will likely see the Super Bowl LVIII contenders trying to get the fans excited for their departure to Las Vegas. Well, unless you're the Kansas City Chiefs. Next, I'm going to […]
Copper Area News Publishers providing news coverage for Eastern Pinal and Southern Gila Counties | Some Oracle residents forced to find new trash service
To Mira Besic For decades, Arizona’s Copper Corridor has suffered from a growing epidemic problem, land abandonment, and, not to mention, the dumping of wildcats into the desert surrounding the area. Garbage removal and the provision of safe and appropriate waste disposal sites are among the most important tools needed to keep communities safe and […]
Trash Talkers speak for a clean Santa Cruz County – Santa Cruz Sentinel
Youth volunteers from the Watsonville Church of Latter-day Saints are helping remove sandbags, tarps and debris left over from flooding in the Interlaken area. (Contribution – Sally Christine Rogers) SANTA CRUZ — Trash talk, commonly confined to athletes trying to sabotage their opponents, is now redefined in Santa Cruz County as a way to bring […]
