DL Open Thread: Mon., Jan. 27, 2020
The Mixed Legacy Of Kobe Bryant. All of us were stunned by the news when we heard it at work yesterday. One of the most determined athletes in history. However, you just can’t whitewash this incident:
He was charged with felony sexual assault in 2003 stemming from an incident at a Colorado hotel in which Bryant was accused of raping a 19-year-old woman who worked at the property as a front-desk clerk. Prosecutors eventually dropped the case when the woman told them she was unwilling to testify. Bryant later issued an apology, saying he understood that the woman, unlike himself, did not view their encounter as consensual. A lawsuit the woman brought against Bryant was later settled out of court.
Bolton Book Confirms What We All Thought. Bolton’s every bit as much to blame as Trump’s Rethug enablers. His story is only available for a price.
Pompeo Melts Down On NPR. Trump Vows To Cut NPR Funding. Cause. Effect.
Developers Look To Destroy One Of The Last Inland Bays Forests. Let me just say this: Sussex County has been quick to approve projects that will lead to decades of problems. Let the same greedy assholes dig themselves out of the mess they’re making. In this case:
Kimble and his neighbors have been lamenting a proposed neighborhood called Old Mill Landing, which would bring 227 new homes along the creek that feeds Little Assawoman Bay in southern Delaware. The development would span over 180 acres along Old Mill Bridge Road just a few miles west of Fenwick Island State Park, in an area state officials consider environmentally sensitive and not ideal for development.
“I think one of the reasons this parcel is receiving so much attention is because it’s one of the last high-quality nearshore habitats to be developed in that area,” said Chris Bason, executive director at the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays. “It’s high quality because there’s this wonderful existing buffer of forest adjacent to these really nice tidal wetlands.”
Wetlands and forests are important buffers between waterways and developed areas, Bason said, because they can filter pollutants from runoff from nearby parking lots or over-fertilized lawns, store flood waters in the case of severe storms and provide valuable habitat for many beloved wildlife species, like the bald eagles that Kimble watches from his home.
At least Richard Collins will likely make a few more bucks over this.
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