Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

This is one of my favorite places in the world: Acadia National Park in Maine. I took this picture along one of the park's many trails and I have named it "Walking Out of the Woods. — Lori Kaminski Part 1: Crisis It took the entire weekend, but they finally found me a bed. For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 28, 2024

A decade of cuts has reduced local authorities’ ability to deal with key long-term issues, from child protection to an ageing society Angela Rayner: Tories’ council fund is cynical pre-election sticking plaster Barnet council’s ‘Graph of Doom’ now looks prophetic ‘Stuck without it’: Woking elderly residents face losing key transport Once vanishingly rare, the prospect English local authorities might go bust now offers no surprise: four councils have in effect gone bankrupt in the past year; othe

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The Guardian

JANUARY 28, 2024

In 2011, no one believed councils would be left to swallow the rising cost of social care unaided. But after funding cuts of 40%, their plight looks increasingly bleak Angela Rayner: Tories’ council fund is cynical pre-election sticking plaster What are the cost pressures facing English councils? ‘Stuck without it’: Woking elderly residents face losing key transport In 2011, two senior council managers in north London put together a PowerPoint graph that they felt might help kick off a useful di

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