The convention will also feature speeches from Premier Scott Moe and Opposition leader Ryan Meili. The government has in the past used it as an opportunity to float pre budget trial balloons. Municipalities will also debate four resolutions, including one calling for staggered elections, which would see residents elect half of their local council once every two years.

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However, the arrival of Mr Ahmadinejad saw a fundamental shift in the parameters under which the RG had been allowed to operate. In a move that now can be better understood as a collaborative takeover of the strategic segments of the economy, Mr Khamenei approved and encouraged the rapid expansion of the activities in which the RG and its business apparatus moved from the periphery to the core. In the case of oil and gas, the RG actually became the single most important entity actor.

“We had a long queue of requests before the pandemic started,” Smith said. “Because staff were working from home, they couldn come in and contact the collections.” She said other government departments can answer access to information requests because they mostly digital. The backlog is a result of both the lack of human resources required to process the requests and the increasing interest in government records, Smith said.

It does suck though and the best option is to defer to next year or a different race they run. I decided to take last year off and I glad because one of the races I would have done cost $300 or so and I have needed to also get a membership at a pool for another $300 so I have been out at least $300 just for a race to get canceled. On top of that, that particular race is never coming back, so being given deferral options for races that are literally hundreds or even thousands of miles away and having a week or so to decide was really off putting and I didn even have any skin in the game.

Convinced that even low exposure to DDT could cause cancer in humans, newly formed environmental groups rallied for a ban. Department of Agriculture announced a plan to phase out all but essential uses. In June 1972, after seven months of testimony, EPA head William Ruckelshaus who had never attended a single day’s session in the months of EPA hearings, and who admittedly had not even read the transcript of the hearings declared that DDT was a “potential human carcinogen” and banned it for virtually all uses..