• New ‘eBay for Government’ Helps Counties and States Auction Off Property, Reduce Waste

    Homepage of Municibid – screengrab Power tools, cars, heavy machinery, office supplies, schools supplies—even land, there’s all kinds of things on the virtual auction block of Municibid. This ‘eBay for government,’ is allowing state, county, and municipal governments to sell off valuable assets and supplies to reduce waste and invest back into the community. All…

  • Serious water pollution in England up 60%, government says

    Serious pollution incidents by water companies were up 60% last year, according to the latest data from the government. These are events considered by the Environment Agency to have a “serious or persistent” impact on the environment, and which result in the loss of aquatic life and risks to human health. Earlier on Friday, the…

  • SAS and UK spies named in Afghan data breach

    The identities of more than 100 British officials, including members of the special forces and MI6, were compromised in a data breach that also put thousands of Afghans at risk of reprisal, it can be reported. The latest fallout from the breach was kept secret by an injunction until Thursday, when the order was lifted…

  • Rare Wild Baby Horse Is Adopted by a Domestic Pony That Just Lost Her Own Foal

    Alice the pony and Marat the foal at the Minnesota Zoo – released A story of resilience and maternal instinct comes now from Minnesota, where a foal belonging to Asia’s last remaining wild horse species is thriving thanks to an unexpected hero: a domesticated horse named Alice. Having lost her own offspring, Alice decided to…

  • UK jobs market weakens as unemployment rate rises

    Mitchell Labiak and Oliver Smith Business reporters, BBC News Getty Images The UK jobs market has weakened as wage growth slows and the unemployment rate rises, official statistics show. The annual rate of pay growth in the three months between March and May slowed to 5%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Meanwhile, the…

  • Good News in History, July 17

    70 years ago today, Disneyland was dedicated and opened in Anaheim, California. It is the most visited theme park in world history with 757 million visits since it opened as of December 2021. In 2022, the park had approximately 16.9 million visits, making it the second most visited amusement park in the world that year,…

  • 'She has no fear' – Gaupset almost scores goal of the Euros

    Watch Norway’s Signe Gaupset confidently strike from near the halfway line, narrowly missing Italy keeper Laura Giuliani’s goal. Source link

  • Phillies Team Makes Hype Video That Wins Their Bat Boy Cancer Survivor a Trip to the All-Star Game

    Bat boys often blend into the background, becoming bit players in the operations of a major league baseball game. But the Philadelphia Phillies recently gave their bat boy, Adam Crognale, the star treatment, creating a hype video that helped get him elected to this year’s All-Star Game ball crew. Thanks in part to the video…

  • NHS Fife tribunal over nurse’s changing room row with trans doctor to resume

    PA Media Sandie Peggie complained about sharing changing facilities with a transgender doctor An employment tribunal involving a female nurse and a transgender doctor, which has become the latest front in the battle over gender policy, is resuming in Dundee. Sandie Peggie was suspended from her role as a nurse with NHS Fife last year…

  • There’s a Salt Marsh on the East Coast Where You Can See More Than 250 Species of Birds

    Belle Isle Marsh Reservation – credit NewtonCourt CC BY-SA 4.0. There are roughly 1,000 native bird species in the 50 States, and if you stand long enough on the walkways of Boston’s Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, you could see around one-fourth of them. This protected Mid-Atlantic salt marsh remnant has recorded an astonishing 271 species…