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How climate change could make your home harder to insure

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:12 GMT

(NerdWallet) - Just about every part of the U.S. has felt the impact of climate change this summer, with drifting smoke from Canadian wildfires, flash flooding in the Northeast and dangerously high temperatures across the South. Extreme weather not only poses health risks but can also make it harder and more expensive to insure your home.Climate change and natural disasters“Climate change acts as an amplifier of hazards,” says Aris Papadopoulos, a resilience expert at Florida International University’s Extreme Events Institute. Climate change is making natural disasters both more frequent and more intense, he says. And that means more risk to your home.For example, a warmer atmosphere brings more evaporation, heavier rainfall and rising sea levels — all of which could increase your home’s chance of flooding.Meanwhile, in the Western U.S., wildfires are happening more often and burning longer, says Kimiko Barrett, a wildfire research and policy analyst at Headwaters Economics, a nonp...

Letters: Time to recalibrate to 32 hours a week

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:12 GMT

No mergerRegarding the end of Fairview Sanford merger talks: Thank goodness!Carol Peine Raleigh, St. PaulThe writer is a former Fairview employee Recalibrate our labor marketIn (“Does it really matter who gets in to Harvard?”, Aug. 3), columnist Allison Schrager implies and I agree that it matters less whether you went to school and graduated from Harvard or from Texas A&M than it does if you never had the chance to go to college at all. In either case, the college graduate has a pretty decent chance of financial success in their lives. At the other end of the economic spectrum, however, the chances for financial success are dismal, and that’s where the real problem with income inequality lies in America.The upper class has been growing, pulling members up from the middle class. Unfortunately, the lower class has also expanded, and is now around 30% of the population. This is where we have the greatest problem with income inequality in the U.S.Some of thos...

White Abarrio runs "race of his life" to take the Whitney Stakes

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:12 GMT

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- It's one of the most highly anticipated days on the Saratoga Race Course calendar: Whitney Day. Saturday marked the 96th running of the Grade One Whitney Stakes, and the race for four-year-olds and upward offered a mix of storylines.Beginning with the favorite of the six-horse field: Cody's Wish, the six-horse, which closed at 2-5 odds. Cody's Wish is the namesake of 17-year-old Cody Dorman, who was born with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, and is unable to walk or speak.Dorman and his family made the trip from Richmond, Kentucky to Saratoga to witness first-hand Cody's Wish put his grade one race win streak of four to the test.But Cody's Wish got out to an awkward start and the field took advantage, namely White Abarrio, the five, which was jockeyed by Irad Ortiz, Jr.White Abarrio pushed ahead of the three, Giant Game, at the top of the homestretch, and never looked back. He opened up a nearly six-length lead by the finish, pulling off a 10-1 upset for ...

Veteran Honors Fallen: Afghanistan Tribute

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:12 GMT

WENTZVILLE Mo -- Today is the 12-year anniversary of a helicopter being shot down in Afghanistan. It killed 31 soldiers, including a dog. An area Air Force veteran knew three of those men. This morning, he's paying tribute in his own special way.

Car set on fire with man inside in Green Meadows, LAPD investigating 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:12 GMT

A car with a man sleeping inside was set on fire early Sunday morning. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the arson occurred around 1:30 a.m. in the 400 block of East 102nd Street. The suspect, who has not been identified, walked up to the man's car as he was sleeping and threw a flammable liquid inside, causing the car to ignite, police said.Video footage from the scene shows the car completely engulfed in flames, and once firefighters were able to put out the blaze, all that was left of the vehicle were charred metal fragments. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the arson occurred around 1:30 a.m. in the 400 block of East 102nd Street in Los Angeles on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. (OnScene TV) According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the arson occurred around 1:30 a.m. in the 400 block of East 102nd Street in Los Angeles on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. (OnScene TV) According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the arson occurred around 1:30 a.m....

Scuffle breaks out between striking hotel workers, security guards in Santa Monica 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:12 GMT

A physical altercation between striking hotel workers and security guards broke out on Saturday in Santa Monica. Video shows several picketers falling to the ground, and another man was seen being yanked back across the picket line. A physical altercation between striking hotel workers and security guards breaks out in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. (Community Dept. of UNITE HERE Local 11) A physical altercation between striking hotel workers and security guards breaks out in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. (Community Dept. of UNITE HERE Local 11) A physical altercation between striking hotel workers and security guards breaks out in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. (Community Dept. of UNITE HERE Local 11) A physical altercation between striking hotel workers and security guards breaks out in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. (Community Dept. of UNITE HERE Local 11) The hotel workers were on stri...

Milpitas Planning Director Ned Thomas appointed acting city manager

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:12 GMT

The Milpitas City Council recently voted to appoint city planning director Ned Thomas as acting city manager. The council previously formed a subcommittee to oversee the selection of a new permanent city manager. The subcommittee is actively working to launch a competitive nationwide search, which is estimated to take three to four months to complete.Thomas has served as Milpitas planning director for since August 2018. His recent work includes updates to the Milpitas General Plan and Transit Area Specific Plan, as well as ongoing updates to the Midtown Specific Plan and Zoning Ordinance. Under his direction, the planning department has also received more than $3.5 million in state and local grants to fund long-range planning initiatives, establish a local on-demand transit service and create innovative online tools to help Milpitas residents navigate the development review process or locate a new business in Milpitas.Thomas has more than 25 years’ experience in local government and...

Milpitas police give local teens insight on what it takes to be a cop

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:12 GMT

The Milpitas Police Department hosted its first Summer Teen Academy since the pandemic last month, giving local youth insight into what it takes to be a police officer.The program, held July 24-26, also highlighted the daily duties of a SWAT operator, a detective and an administration supervisor for the 13- to 16-year-old participants.Milpitas Police Chief Jared Hernandez, Assistant Chief Frank Morales, Sgt. Peter Tachis and Officer Mostafa Asefi kicked off the first day with an introductory walking tour of the police department. The tour also covered internet safety and de-escalation techniques. Officers from the traffic unit talked about distracted drivers and the associated risks on the road.On the second day, the group headed outside to the parking lot with officers Andrew Adams and Rakia Falcon for a demonstration of the Matrice 300, the department’s industrial-grade mapping inspection drone. The theoretical demonstration quickly turned into a real-life tracking flight after po...

Latest Line: A good week for homeless solutions, a bad week for outrunning COVID infections

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:12 GMT

Santa Clara homelessA new study found modest financial efforts to prevent homelessness were successful in Santa Clara County. At-risk families receiving assistance were 81% less likely to become homeless within six months and 73% less likely within a year.    COVID-19The virus is on the rise in California and across the Bay Area, with reported positivity rates doubling from June to July. Even our most cautious public health officers, Santa Clara County’s Dr. Sara Cody among them, finally came down with it.   Pac 12The long-storied college football conference was on the brink of extinction this week amid a mass exodus and fizzling media deal. But could Cal and Stanford end up joining the stacked Big Ten? 

They said it: No bullies

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:12 GMT

“It is important for jurors to deliberate with each other in good faith and not to bully or antagonize other jurors.”— U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman warning the jury hours before declaring a mistrial Thursday in the case of Scott Shaw, San Jose State’s former head athletic trainer accused of sexually assaulting female athletes during treatment sessions.