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Send us a text and chime in!The City of Kingman's Public Works Department will begin a grant-funded project to install 3500 new water meters in the Butler and New Kingman/Butler area. This infrastructure improvement will modernize the city's water system by enabling automated meter readings, enhancing accuracy, efficiency, and service reliability for residents. The project will start on Monday, November 10, 2025, at the alley between East Butler Avenue and East Neal Avenue near Patsy Drive, and will progress throughout the area over the next 206 days, with completion anticipated by May 30, 2026. Crews will begin pre-digging meter boxes starting next week and continuing through... For the written story, read here >> https://www.signalsaz.com/articles/kingman-to-install-3500-smart-water-meters/Check out the CAST11.com Website at: https://CAST11.com Follow the CAST11 Podcast Network on Facebook at: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network

In this episode of "Follow the Water," we highlight your local water provider, and if you live in Tehachapi proper, that's the City of Tehachapi's Water Department. Join us as Public Works Director Tyler Napier explains how the department maintains the city's water infrastructure, manages conservation efforts, and upholds its commitment to responsible water stewardship. You'll also hear from JR Aguirre, Water Division Supervisor, on the hands-on work that keeps our community's most essential resource moving. Narrated by Key Budge, Community Engagement Director. Written, produced, and edited by Mya Acosta, Community Engagement Specialist. Featuring interviews and insights from Tyler Napier and JR Aguirre of the City of Tehachapi's Public Works Department.

Sherri McMahon, the Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Administrator for the Public Works Department of Las Vegas, Nevada. Sherri McMahon explained that her role involves managing environmental programs for the City of Las Vegas, ensuring compliance with state and EPA regulations, and that the city faces unique environmental challenges due to stormwater runoff pollution, over 42 million annual visitors, and air quality concerns. Sherri McMahon highlighted the importance of education over penalties in enforcement, shared her extensive career path, and emphasized communication skills, particularly technical writing and public speaking, as crucial for environmental careers, while also discussing issues with "flushable" wipes and recommending Holsteins for burgers in Las Vegas. Give the episdoe a listen and remember to thank your local Public Works Professionals.

Kruser talks with Angela Poe from Lexington's Environmental Services and Public Works Department about the new program giving out grades on the city's recycling efforts and takes a look at the report on Tylenol effects concerning autism in unborn babies in our 3. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Angela Poe from Lexington's Environmental Services and Public Works Department joins Kruser to talk about the new program giving out grades on the city's recycling effortsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS Council Bill No. 2025-152: A Resolution Appointing Alexander Miller to the Human Relations Commission Council Bill No. 2025-153: A Resolution Relating to Participation by Elected Officials in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund and Recertifying Eligibility Council Bill No. 2025-154: An Ordinance Approving a Special Use Permit to Allow a Multifamily Residential Building in the SF1, Single Family Zoning District Council Bill No. 2025-155: A Resolution Approving an Agreement for Services with the Champaign Center Partnership Council Bill No. 2025-156: A Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Professional Services Agreement with Reifsteck Reid & Company Architects dba Reifsteck Wakefield Fanning & Company for the Champaign Police Department Roof Replacement Design Project Council Bill No. 2025-157: A Resolution Authorizing the Purchase of One Landscape Maintenance Utility Vehicle for the Public Works Department

Update on the Downtown Monmouth construction ahead of the Warren County Prime Beef Festival, Announcement of Life-Saving Awards presented to members of the Monmouth Fire Department, plus the monthly July reports for both the Fire Department and the Monmouth Police Department, Discussion of surplus property named by the Public Works Department, Discussion on implementing a municipal grocery retailers' occupation tax and municipal grocery service occupation tax in response to the state's decision to suspend its' one percent grocery tax, Discussion on the approval of granting a setback variance at 407 North 10th Street, Update on the response and success since the launch of SeeClickFix, and Discussion on electrical rates and the use of aggregation groups in the City of Monmouth.

Discussion on the Presentation of Longevity Certificate of Larry Myers with the Monmouth Police Department, plus the appointment by Mayor Rod Davies of Scott Weber as 2nd Ward Alderman, requests for the Hispanic Heritage Festival in September, the Warren County Prime Beef Festival 5K in September, and the Buchanan Center for the Arts Cemetery Walk in October, monthly reports with the Public Works Department, the Monmouth Fire Department, and the Monmouth Police Department, the appointment by Mayor Rod Davies of Mark Crain to the Zoning Board of Appeals, plus ordinances regarding a setback variance and the Monmouth Police Department, and the progress of the Downtown Monmouth construction, including the reopening of South Main Street, the move to Market Alley and 4th quadrant, and an anticipated completion date.

Ever wonder who's mowing the medians, clearing dump sites, or jumping into action when a storm hits Macon-Bibb? Meet Tim Wilder, head of the Public Works Department; a team that tackles the dirty jobs to keep the community clean, safe, and running strong. In this episode of Macon It, we dig into everything from blight removal to weed-eating wizardry, and how the department plays a crucial role in beautifying Bibb and responding to emergencies. It's the story of hard work, heavy lifting, and a whole lot of heart; straight from where the Wilder works are.

Floresville City Public Works Director David Inouye (second from left) and the public works department are honored by the Floresville City Council May 22, after a proclamation declaring May 18-25 as Public Works Week. “The health, safety, and comfort of this community depends greatly on the efforts and skills of the public works officials,” Councilman Frances Flores read from the proclamation.Article Link

Public Works Director Scott Sturtz and Streets Program Manager Joseph Hill join us this month to talk about the latest happenings in the Public Works Department and what citizens can expect for the future. For more information about the City of Norman, visit www.NormanOK.gov Questions or comments about the podcast can be emailed to PublicAffairs@NormanOK.gov Twitter - @cityofnormanok Instagram - @thecityofnorman Facebook YouTube

Martha Barwinsky is the City Forester in the Public Works Department. Known in many circles as the Tree Lady, Martha and her team manage 300,000 trees in parks and on boulevards. In this episode, she covers the benefits of Winnipeg's tree canopy, tree health, tree inspections, and tree pests. Looking to the future, she focuses on the need to diversify our trees by species, ages, and lifecycles. Martha leaves us with helpful tips for planting trees on private property and directs us to treeswinnipeg.org and treesaregood.org as good resources. Interested in knowing what species of tree you pass during your neighbourhood walk? Take a look at the City's tree inventory on our Open Data platform. This podcast is recorded in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Ininew, and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. We acknowledge that our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.  What programs and services impact you the most? Email us at city-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions for future episodes. ------------------------Martha, de la Forêt urbaineMartha Barwinsky est la forestière de la Ville au Service des travaux publics. Martha, surnommée la « dame des arbres » dans plusieurs milieux, gère 300 000 arbres dans les parcs et sur les terre-pleins, épaulée par son équipe. Dans cet épisode, elle discute des bienfaits associés à la canopée de Winnipeg, de la santé des arbres, des inspections d'arbres et des insectes nuisibles. À l'avenir, elle souligne qu'il sera nécessaire de diversifier les arbres plantés en fonction de l'espèce, de l'âge et du cycle de vie. Pour conclure, Martha nous donne des conseils utiles concernant la plantation d'arbres sur les propriétés privées et nous recommande deux ressources précieuses : treeswinnipeg.org et treesaregood.org. Vous voulez vous renseigner sur les espèces d'arbres que vous voyez pendant que vous vous promenez dans votre quartier? Consultez l'inventaire des arbres de la Ville dans le portail des données ouvertes.Ce balado est enregistré sur le territoire visé par le Traité no 1, le berceau et territoire traditionnel des peuples anishinaabe, ininew et dakota, et les terres ancestrales nationales des Métis de la Rivière-Rouge. Nous reconnaissons que notre eau potable provient de la Première Nation Shoal Lake, no 40, qui est située sur le territoire visé par le Traité no 3. Quels programmes et services vous touchent le plus? Envoyez-nous un courriel à city-podcast@winnipeg.ca pour nous donner des suggestions pour les épisodes à venir.

Discussion on the Monmouth Police Department and Fire Department monthly reports, the sale of vacant properties in the City of Monmouth, the Public Works Department, including an engineering agreement for preliminary investigation of a combined sewer overflow plan, replacement of dead water meters, and the lead service line replacement project, the replacement of the HVAC system at City Hall, plus an engineering agreement for rehabilitation of the runway at the Monmouth Municipal Airport, joining the Prairie Hills Land Bank Authority, and surplus property with the Monmouth Fire Department and City Hall, plus the approval of a three-year employment contract extension for Fire Chief Casey Rexroat.

In the 1960s, a deep anxiety set in as one thing became seemingly clear: We were headed toward population catastrophe. Paul Ehrlich's “The Population Bomb” and “The Limits to Growth,” written by the Club of Rome, were just two publications warning of impending starvation due to simply too many humans on the earth.As the population ballooned year by year, it would simply be impossible to feed everyone. Demographers and environmentalists alike held their breath and braced for impact.Except that we didn't starve. On the contrary, we were better fed than ever.In his article in The New Atlantis, Charles C. Mann explains that agricultural innovation — from improved fertilization and irrigation to genetic modification — has brought global hunger to a record low.Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I chat with Mann about the agricultural history they didn't teach you in school.Mann is a science journalist who has worked as a correspondent for The Atlantic, Science, and Wired magazines, and whose work has been featured in many other major publications. He is also the author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, as well as The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World.In This Episode* Intro to the Agricultural Revolution (2:04)* Water infrastructure (13:11)* Feeding the masses (18:20)* Indigenous America (25:20)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. Intro to the Agricultural Revolution (2:04)I don't think that people realize that the fact that most people on earth, almost the average person on earth, can feed themselves is a novel phenomenon. It's something that basically wasn't true since as far back as we know.Pethokoukis: What got my attention was a couple of pieces that you've worked on for The New Atlantis magazine looking at the issue of how modern Americans take for granted the remarkable systems and infrastructure that provide us comfort, safety, and a sense of luxury that would've been utterly unimaginable even to the wealthiest people of a hundred years ago or 200 years ago.Let me start off by asking you: Does it matter that we do take that for granted and that we also kind of don't understand how our world works?Mann: I would say yes, very much. It matters because these systems undergird the prosperity that we have, the good fortune that we have to be alive now, but they're always one generation away from collapse. If they aren't maintained, upgraded and modernized, they'll fall apart. They just won't stand there. So we have to be aware of this. We have to keep our eye on the ball, otherwise we won't have these things.The second thing is that, if we don't know how our society works, as citizens, we're simply not going to make very good choices about what to do with that society. I feel like both sides in our current political divide are kind of taking their eye off the ball. It's important to have good roads, it's important to have clean water, it's important to have a functioning public health system, it's important to have an agricultural system that works. It doesn't really matter who you are. And if we don't keep these things going, life will be unnecessarily bad for a lot of people, and that's just crazy to do.Is this a more recent phenomenon? If I would've asked people 50 years ago, “Explain to me how our infrastructure functions, how we get water, how we get electricity,” would they have a better idea? Is it just because things are more complicated today that we have no idea how our food gets here or why when we turn the faucet, clean water comes out?The answer is “yes” in a sort of trivial sense, in that many more people were involved in producing food, a much greater percentage of the population was involved in producing food 50 years ago. The same thing was true for the people who were building infrastructure 50 years ago.But I also think it's generally true that people's parents saw the change and knew it. So that is very much the case and, in a sense, I think we're victims of our own success. These kinds of things have brought us so much prosperity that we can afford to do crazy things like become YouTube influencers, or podcasters, or freelance writers. You don't really have any connection with how the society goes because we're sort of surfing on this wave of luxury that our ancestors bequeathed to us.I don't know how much time you spend on social media, Charles — I'm sure I spend too much — but I certainly sense that many people today, younger people especially, don't have a sense of how someone lived 50 years ago, 100 years ago, and there was just a lot more physical suffering. And certainly, if you go back far enough, you could not take for granted that you would have tomatoes in your supermarket year round, that you would have water in the house and that water would be clean. What I found really interesting — you did a piece on food and a piece on water — in the food piece you note that, in the 1980s, that was a real turning point that the average person on earth had enough to eat all the time, and rather than becoming an issue of food production, it became an issue of distribution, of governance. I think most people would be surprised of that statistic even though it's 40 years old.I don't think that people realize that the fact that most people on earth, almost the average person on earth, can feed themselves is a novel phenomenon. It's something that basically wasn't true since as far back as we know. That's this enormous turning point, and there are many of these turning points. Obviously, the introduction of antibiotics for . . . public health, which is another one of these articles they're going to be working on . . .Just about 100 years ago today, when President Coolidge was [president], his son went to play tennis at the White House tennis courts, and because he was lazy, or it was fashionable, or something, he didn't put on socks. He got a blister on his toe, the toe got infected, and he died. 100 years ago, the president of the United States, who presumably had the best healthcare available to anybody in the world, was unable to save his beloved son when the son got a trivial blister that got infected. The change from that to now is mind boggling.You've written about the Agricultural Revolution and why the great fears 40 or 50 years ago of mass starvation didn't happen. I find that an endlessly interesting topic, both for its importance and for the fact it just seems to be so underappreciated to this day, even when it was sort of obvious to people who pay attention that something was happening, it still seemed not to penetrate the public consciousness. I wonder if you could just briefly talk to me about that revolution and how it happened.The question is, how did it go from “The Population Bomb” written in 1968, a huge bestseller, hugely influential, predicting that there is going to be hundreds of millions of people dying of mass starvation, followed by other equally impassioned, equally important warnings. There's one called “Famine, 1975!,” written a few years before, that predicted mass famines in 1975. There's “The Limits to Growth.” I went to college in the '70s and these were books that were on the curriculum, and they were regarded as contemporary classics, and they all proved to be wrong.The reason is that, although they were quite correct about the fact that the human race was reproducing at that time faster than ever before, they didn't realize two things: The first is that as societies get more affluent, and particularly as societies get more affluent and give women more opportunities, birth rates decline. So that this was obviously, if you looked at history, going to be a temporary phenomenon of whatever length it was be, but it was not going to be infinite.The second was there was this enormous effort spurred by this guy named Norman Borlaug, but with tons of other people involved, to take modern science and apply it to agriculture, and that included these sort of three waves of innovation. Now, most innovation is actually just doing older technologies better, which is a huge source of progress, and the first one was irrigation. Irrigation has been around since forever. It's almost always been done badly. It's almost always not been done systematically. People started doing it better. They still have a lot of problems with it, but it's way better, and now 40 percent, roughly, of the crops in the world that are produced are produced by irrigation.The second is the introduction of fertilizer. There's two German scientists, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, who essentially developed the ways of taking fertilizer and making lots and lots of it in factories. I could go into more detail if you want, but that's the essential thing. This had never been done before, and suddenly cheap industrial fertilizer became available all over the world, and Vaclav Smil . . . he's sort of an environmental scientist of every sort, in Manitoba has calculated that roughly 40 percent of the people on earth today would not be alive if it wasn't for that.And then the third was the development of much better, much higher-yielding seeds, and that was the part that Norman Borlaug had done. These packaged together of irrigation fertilizer and seeds yielded what's been called the Green Revolution, doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled grain yields across the world, particularly with wheat and rice. The result is the world we live in today. When I was growing up, when you were growing up, your parents may have said to you, as they did me, Oh, eat your vegetables, there are kids that are starving in Asia.” Right? That was what was told and that was the story that was told in books like “The Population Bomb,” and now Asia's our commercial rival. When you go to Bangkok, that was a place that was hungry and now it's gleaming skyscrapers and so forth. It's all based on this fact that people are able to feed themselves through the combination of these three factors,That story, the story of mass-starvation that the Green Revolution irrigation prevented from coming true. I think a surprising number of people still think that story is relevant today, just as some people still think the population will be exploding when it seems clear it probably will not be exploding. It will rise, but then it's going to start coming down at some point this century. I think those messages just don't get through. Just like most people don't know Norm Borlaug, the Haber-Bosch process, which school kids should know. They don't know any of this. . . Borlaug won the Nobel Prize, right?Right. He won the Nobel Peace Prize. I'll tell you a funny story —I think he won it in the same year that “The Population Bomb” came out.It was just a couple years off. But you're right, the central point is right, and the funny thing is . . . I wrote another book a while back that talked about this and about the way environmentalists think about the world, and it's called the “Wizard and the Prophet” and Borlaug was the wizard of it. I thought, when I proposed it, that it would be easy. He was such an important guy, there'd be tons of biographies about him. And to this day, there isn't a real serious scholarly biography of the guy. This is a person who has done arguably more to change human life than any other person in the 20th century, certainly up in the top dozen or so. There's not a single serious biography of him.How can that be?It's because we're tremendously disconnected. It's a symptom of what I'm talking about. We're tremendously disconnected from these systems, and it's too bad because they're interesting! They're actually quite interesting to figure out: How do you get water to eight billion people? How do you get . . . It is a huge challenge, and some of the smartest people you've ever met are working on it every day, but they're working on it over here, and the public attention is over here.Water infrastructure (13:11). . . the lack of decent, clean, fresh water is the world's worst immediate environmental problem. I think people probably have some vague idea about agriculture, the Agricultural Revolution, how farming has changed, but I think, as you just referred to, the second half, water — utter mystery to people. Comes out of a pipe. The challenges of doing that in a rich country are hard. The challenges doing a country not so rich, also hard. Tell me what you find interesting about that topic.Well, whereas the story about agriculture is basically a good story: We've gotten better at it. We have a whole bunch of technical innovations that came in the 20th century and humankind is better off than ever before. With water, too, we are better off than ever before, but the maddening thing is we could be really well off because the technology is basically extremely old.There's a city, a very ancient city called Mohenjo-daro that I write about a bit in this article that was in essentially on the Pakistan-India border, 2600 BC. And they had a fully functioning water system that, in its basics, was no different than the water system that we have, or that London has, or that Paris has. So this is an ancient, ancient technology, yet we still have two billion people on the planet that don't have access to adequate water. In fact, even though we know how to do it, the lack of decent, clean, fresh water is the world's worst immediate environmental problem. And a small thing that makes me nuts is that climate change — which is real and important — gets a lot of attention, but there are people dying of not getting good water now.On top of it, even in rich countries like us, our water system is antiquated. The great bulk of it was built in the '40s, '50s, and '60s, and, like any kind of physical system, it ages, and every couple years, various engineering bodies, water bodies, the EPA, and so forth puts out a report saying, “Hey, we really have to fix the US water system and the numbers keep mounting up.” And Democrats, Republicans, they all ignore this.Who is working on the water issue in poorer countries?There you have a very ad hoc group of people. The answer is part of it's the Food and Agricultural Organization because most water in most countries is used for irrigation to grow food. You also have the World Health Organization, these kinds of bodies. You have NGOs working on it. What you don't have in those countries like our country is the government taking responsibility for coordinating something that's obviously in the national interest.So you have these things where, very periodically — a government like China has done this, Jordan has done this, Bolivia has done this, countries all over the world have done this — and they say, “Okay, we haven't been able to provide freshwater. Let's bring in a private company.” And the private company then invests all this money in infrastructure, which is expensive. Then, because it's a private company, it has to make that money back, and so it charges people for a lot of money for this, and the people are very unhappy because suddenly they're paying a quarter of their income for water, which is what I saw in Southwest China: water riots because people are paying so much for water.In other words, one of the things that government can do is sort of spread these costs over everybody, but instead they concentrate it on the users, Almost universally, these privatization efforts have led to tremendous political unhappiness because the government has essentially shifted responsibility for coordinating and doing these things and imposed a cost on a narrow minority of the users.Are we finally getting on top of the old water infrastructure in this country? It seems like during the Biden administration they had a big infrastructure bill. Do you happen to know if we are finally getting that system upgraded?Listen, I will be the only person who probably ever interviews you who's actually had to fix a water main as a summer job. I spent [it at] my local Public Works Department where we'd have to fix water mains, and this was a number of years ago, and even a number of years ago, those pipes were really, really old. It didn't take much for them to get a main break.I'm one of those weird people who is bothered by this. All I can tell you is we have a lot of aging infrastructure. The last estimate that I've seen came before this sort of sudden jerky rise of construction costs, which, if you're at all involved in building, is basically all the people in the construction industry talk about. At that point, the estimate was that it was $1.2 trillion to fix the infrastructure that we have in the United States. I am sure it is higher now. I am delighted that the Biden people passed this infrastructure — would've been great if they passed permitting reform and a couple of other things to make it easier to spend the money, but okay. I would like to believe that the Trump people would take up the baton and go on this.Feeding the masses (18:20)I do worry that the kind of regulations, and rules, and ideas that we put into place to try and make agriculture more like this picture that we have in our head will end up inadvertently causing suffering for the people who are struggling.We're still going to have another two billion people, maybe, on this earth. Are we going to be able to feed them all?Yeah, I think that there's no question. The question is what we're going to be able to feed them? Are we going to be able to feed them all, filet mignon and truffled . . . whatever they put truffle oil on, and all that? Not so sure about that.All organic vegetables.At the moment, that seems really implausible, and there's a sort of fundamental argument going on here. There's a lot of people, again, both right and left, who are sort of freaked out by the scale that modern agriculture operates on. You fly over the middle-west and you see all those circles of center-pivot irrigation, they plowed under, in the beginning of the 20th century, 100 million acres of prairie to produce all that. And it's done with enormous amounts of capital, and it was done also partly by moving people out so that you could have this enormous stuff. The result is it creates a system that . . . doesn't match many people's vision of the friendly family farmer that they grew up with. It's a giant industrial process and people are freaked out by the scale. They don't trust these entities, the Cargills and the ADMs, and all these huge companies that they see as not having their interests at heart.It's very understandable. I live in a small town, we have a farm down there, and Jeremy runs it, and I'm very happy to see Jeremy. There's no Jeremy at Archer Daniels Midland. So the result is that there's a big revulsion against that, and people want to downsize the scale, and they point to very real environmental problems that big agriculture has, and they say that that is reason for this. The great problem is that in every single study that I am aware of, the sort of small, local farms don't produce as much food per acre or per hectare as the big, soulless industrial processes. So if you're concerned about feeding everybody, that's something you have to really weigh in your head, or heavy in your heart.That sort of notion of what a farm should look like and what good food is, that kind of almost romantic notion really, to me, plays into the sort of anti-growth or the degrowth people who seemed to be saying that farms could only be this one thing — probably they don't even remember those farms anymore — that I saw in a storybook. It's like a family farm, everything's grown local, not a very industrial process, but you're talking about a very different world. Maybe that's a world they want, but I don't know if that's a world you want if you're a poor person in this world.No, and like I said, I love going to the small farm next to us and talking to Jeremy and he says, “Oh look, we've just got these tomatoes,” it's great, but I have to pay for that privilege. And it is a privilege because Jeremy is barely making it and charging twice as much as the supermarket. There's no economies of scale for him. He still has to buy all the equipment, but he's putting it over 20 acres instead of 2000 acres. In addition, it's because it's this hyper-diverse farm — which is wonderful; they get to see the strawberries, and the tomatoes, and all the different things — it means he has to hire much more labor than it would be if he was just specializing in one thing. So his costs are inevitably much, much higher, and, therefore, I have to pay a lot more to keep him going. That's fine for me; I'm a middle-class person, I like food, this can be my hobby going there.I'd hate to have somebody tell me it's bad, but it's not a system that is geared for people who are struggling. There are just a ton of people all over the world who are struggling. They're better off than they were 100 years ago, but they're still struggling. I do worry that the kind of regulations, and rules, and ideas that we put into place to try and make agriculture more like this picture that we have in our head will end up inadvertently causing suffering for the people who are struggling.To make sure everybody can get fed in the future, do we need a lot more innovation?Innovation is always good. I would say that we do, and the kinds of innovation we need are not often what people imagine. For example, it's pretty clear that parts of the world are getting drier, and therefore irrigation is getting more difficult. The American Southwest is a primary candidate, and you go to the Safford Valley, which I did a few years ago — the Safford Valley is in southeast Arizona and it's hotter than hell there. I went there and it's 106 degrees and there's water from the Colorado River, 800 miles away, being channeled there, and they're growing Pima cotton. Pima cotton is this very good fine cotton that they use to make fancy clothes, and it's a great cash crop for farmers, but growing it involves channeling water from the Colorado 800 miles, and then they grow it by what's called flood irrigation, which is where you just fill the field with an inch of water. I was there actually to see an archeologist who's a water engineer, and I said to him, “Gee, it's hot! How much that water is evaporated?” And he said, “Oh, all of it.”So we need to think about that kind of thing if the Colorado is going to run out of water, which it is now. There's ways you can do it, you can possibly genetically modify cotton to use less water. You could drip irrigation, which is a much more efficient form of irrigation, it's readily available, but it's expensive. So you could try to help farmers do that. I think if you cut the soft costs, which is called the regulatory costs of farming, you might be able to pay for it in that way. That would be one type of innovation. Another type of thing you could do is to do a different kind of farming which is called civil pastoral systems, where you grow tree crops and then you grow cattle underneath, and that uses dramatically less water. It's being done in Sonora, just across the border and the tree crops — trees are basically wild. People don't breed them because it takes so long, but we now have the tools to breed them, and so you could make highly productive trees with cattle underneath and have a system that produces a lot of calories or a lot of good stuff. That's all the different kinds of innovation that we could do. Just some of the different kinds of innovation we could do and all would help.Indigenous America (25:20)Part of the reason I wrote these things is that I realized it's really interesting and I didn't learn anything about it in school.Great articles in The New Atlantis, big fan of “Wizard and the Prophet,” but I'm going to take one minute and ask you about your great books talking about the story of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. If I just want to travel in the United States and I'm interested in finding out more about Native Americans in the United States, where would you tell me to go?One of my favorite places just it's so amazing, is Chaco Canyon, and that's in the Four Corners area — that whole Four Corners area is quite incredible — and Chaco Canyon is a sign that native people could build amazing stuff, and native people could be crazy, in my opinion. It's in the middle of nowhere, it has no water, and for reasons that are probably spiritual and religious, they built an enormous number of essentially castles in this canyon, and they're incredible.The biggest one, Pueblo Bonito as it's called now, it's like 800 rooms. They're just enormous. And you can go there, and you can see these places, and you can just walk around, and it is incredible. You drive up a little bit to Mesa Verde and there's hundreds of these incredible cliff dwellings. What seems to have happened — I'm going to put this really informally and kind of jokingly to you, not the way that an archeologist would talk about it or I would write about it, but what looks like it happened is that the Chaco Canyon is this big canyon, and on the good side that gets the southern exposure is all these big houses. And then the minions and the hoi polloi lived on the other side, and it looks like, around 800, 900, they just got really tired of serving the kings and they had something like a democratic revolution, and they just left, most of them, and founded the Pueblos, which is these intensely democratic self-governing bodies that are kind of like what Thomas Jefferson thought the United States should be.Then it's like all the doctors, and the lawyers, and the MBAs, and the rich guys went up to Mesa Verde and they started off their own little kingdoms and they all fought with each other. So you have these crazy cliff dwellings where it's impossible to get in and there's hundreds of people living in these niches in these cliffs, and then that blew up too. So you could see history, democracy, and really great architecture all in one place.If someone asked me for my advice about changing the curriculum in school, one, people would leave school knowing who the heroes of progress and heroes of the Agricultural Revolution were. And I think they'd also know a lot more about pre-Columbian history of the Americas. I think they should know about it but I also think it's just super interesting, though of course you've brought it to life in a beautiful way.Thank you very much, and I couldn't agree with you more. Part of the reason I wrote these things is that I realized it's really interesting and I didn't learn anything about it in school.On sale everywhere The Conservative Futurist: How To Create the Sci-Fi World We Were PromisedFaster, Please! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. 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President Ramaphosa sticks to his guns in lotteries corruption probe; Public Works Department asks State Attorney for assistance in evicting former MPs from Parliamentary Village. Lester Kiewit speaks to Barbara October of GroundUp News.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris Baker is the Senior Active Transportation Planner in the Public Works Department. From the first bylaws establishing bike paths in 1898 to the micro-mobility of today, we cover a lot of ground in this episode. It's important for the City of Winnipeg to evolve and provide transportation choices for people of all ages and abilities. People, bikes, and vehicles can co-exist and Chris highlights the river trail as a great example of a multi-use path. And as a winter city, Winnipeg continues to expand its network of bike lanes to keep winter cyclists in their lane. He also speaks about the neighbourhood greenways. These are streets with low traffic speeds and volumes where vehicles and bikes share the road equally. If you haven't been biking for a while, these are great spaces to get you back in the saddle. This podcast is recorded in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Ininew, and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. We acknowledge that our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.  What programs and services impact you the most? Email us at city-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions for future episodes. ------------------------------Chris, du Transport actifChris Baker est le planificateur principal du transport actif au Service des travaux publics. Des premiers règlements municipaux ayant établi des pistes cyclables en 1898 à la micromobilité d'aujourd'hui, les sujets abordés lors de cet épisode sont vastes. Il est important que la Ville de Winnipeg évolue et qu'elle offre des possibilités de transport pour les personnes de tous les âges et de toutes les capacités. Les gens, les vélos et les véhicules peuvent coexister; comme le fait remarquer Chris, le sentier fluvial est un excellent exemple de piste polyvalente. En tant que ville hivernale, Winnipeg continue de développer son réseau de pistes cyclables pour favoriser les déplacements des cyclistes pendant l'hiver. Il parle aussi des couloirs verts de quartier. Il s'agit de rues où la circulation est faible et la vitesse de conduite est basse, ce qui permet aux véhicules et aux vélos de se partager la route de façon équitable. Si ça fait longtemps que vous n'avez pas fait de vélo, ces rues sont l'endroit idéal où se remettre en selle.Ce balado est enregistré sur le territoire visé par le Traité no 1, le berceau et territoire traditionnel des peuples anishinaabe, ininew et dakota, et les terres ancestrales nationales des Métis de la Rivière-Rouge. Nous reconnaissons que notre eau potable provient de la Première Nation Shoal Lake, no 40, qui est située sur le territoire visé par le Traité no 3. Quels programmes et services vous touchent le plus? Envoyez-nous un courriel à city-podcast@winnipeg.ca pour nous donner des suggestions pour les épisodes à venir.

This week, the City Manager talks about the snow removal efforts of the Public Works Department, upcoming events and explains what you see on your tax bill.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wichita Public Works Director Gary Janzen joins us with a look at what has been a very business weekend for the Public Works Department.

Monique Bruns is a stellar representative of the Public Works Department on Day 8 of the 12 Days of Shreveport. Her passion for service and appreciation for the community are a shining example of the department's values in action.SN: There will Be NO CHANGE in the Garbage Collection Schedule December 23-27.

Phillip Lilley, Clinton's Public Works Director, has intentionally worked to influence the culture within the City of Clinton's Public Works Department. He talks on how building leaders internally have had a direct impact on the efficiency of the department. He shows that it's more than fixing pipes or laying asphalt. It works around trust and taking pride in your work. As always, thanks to Ty Garvey, Drew Mellon and the rest of Don Quixote's Horse for allowing their music to set the local tone for these podcasts.

Mike Chmielewski talks with Tracey Maes of the Public Works Department about her 7th season of holiday lighting and decorations.

1. Henry (US) – The Ghost of a Friend 2. Dan (Bothel, Washington) - Continuation 3. Victoria (Atlanta, Georgia) – Visit from Panchi 4. Timothy (Jacksonville, Florida) - Dinner Bell Time Warp 5. The Mist at the Tower Green - Lex Wahl 6.  Ghosts Haunt Drifts in California Mine (1920) 7. Franklin B (US) - More Stories from Public Works Department 8. Bill (Ontario, Canada) – Picture in Salem 9. Bob (US) – The Tapping Ghost and a Ghost in the Dark 10. Ghost Averse to Modern Houses (Greensburg, Pennsylvania) - 1920 11. Tyler (Durham, North Carolina) - The Haunted Governor's Mansion 12.  Laura (San Francisco, California) - The Haunted Apartment

This is the Catchup on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.Today is the 24th of September and here are the headlines.Shortly after the High Court dismissed his plea, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today called the alleged Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) scam case a “sham”, and “revenge politics of the BJP and JDS”. This comes after the high court dismissed a petition filed by Siddaramaiah against an approval granted by Governor Thawarchand Gehlot to three private individuals to file cases of corruption against him over a MUDA land grant to his wife. Siddaramaiah asserted and I quote, “This is a fight against the revenge politics of Narendra Modi-led BJP government. Our judicial struggle against this revenge politics of BJP and JDS will continue. I have faith in the court."The Supreme Court today dismissed the Punjab government's appeal challenging a Punjab and Haryana High Court order quashing its decision to expand the definition of ‘NRI quota' for undergraduate medical admissions to include relatives of non-resident Indians. The apex court was hearing appeals challenging the high court's September 10 order quashing the notification issued by the Punjab government on August 20. The notification expanded the NRI quota to include even distant relatives “such as uncles, aunts, grandparents, and cousins” of NRIs for admissions under the 15 per cent quota for this group in admissions in medical colleges.Actor-legislator M Mukesh was formally arrested today on rape charges but released on bail later on the back of an anticipatory bail he secured from an Ernakulam court earlier this month. The development came hours after the Kerala High Court denied anticipatory bail to fellow actor and former Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) general secretary Siddique on similar allegations. In her complaint, a former woman actor in the Malayalam film industry had alleged that Mukesh, a two-time Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLA from Kollam Assembly constituency, had raped her in 2010 at his flat in Kochi promising a membership in the actors' association AMMA.Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has instructed authorities to initiate a ‘Dust-free Delhi' drive within 7-10 days to combat air pollution ahead of the winter season. Key agencies, including the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the Public Works Department, and the Delhi Jal Board, have been tasked with addressing road dust, a major contributor to air pollution, particularly due to dried-up mud and silt following a lack of rainfall. MCD, IFCD and DJB are required to coordinate and move out the silt or mud for disposal.Harini Amarasuriya was officially sworn in as Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister today, marking a historic moment as she became the first woman to hold the office since Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 2000. The ceremony took place in the capital, Colombo, where the 54-year-old leader of the National People's Power (NPP) took her oath of office administered by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Dissanayake also appointed a new cabinet of four members, including himself. In her new role, Amarasuriya has been assigned several crucial portfolios that include Justice, Education, Labour, Industries, Science and Technology, Health, and Investment.This was the Catch Up on 3 Things by The Indian Express.

Welcome back to KentNow! This week we are welcoming Kent kids back to school!  Josh and Tracy talk to Erik Preston and Derek Hawkes from our Public Works Department to get the latest update on the Reith Road roundabout project. If you want to learn more about our public works projects, click here!  The team has some fun facts about school lunches, crayons and pencils.  Are you team Pumpkin Spice? Share your thoughts at Communications@kentwa.gov   

It's been almost four months since City Fire Chief Pierre Brewton returned home to Spartanburg to lead the department where he first honed his skills as a firefighter. Returning after serving for four years as Fire Chief for the City of Albemarle, NC, Chief Brewton began his career with the City of Spartanburg in 1988, assigned to garbage collection in the Public Works Department. In 1994, he successfully transitioned to the Spartanburg Fire Department, rising through the ranks to eventually serve as Assistant Fire Chief, the highest-ranking minority member in Spartanburg Fire Department history.  Chief Brewton was born and raised in the Highland community in Spartanburg and is a proud graduate of Spartanburg High School, Limestone University, and Spartanburg Community College. He is credentialed through the Center for Public Safety Excellence as a Chief Fire Officer and Chief Training Officer and is a graduate of Texas A&M's Fire Service Chief Executive Fire Officer Program and the International Association of Fire Chiefs Fire Service Executive Development Institute. Today on the podcast, we're talking with Chief Brewton about his experiences growing up and living in Spartanburg, his plans for the fire department he leads, and his reflections on the future of community he is dedicated to serving.

More than thirty laptops were seized for additional investigation, and four senior DPWI managers were placed on precautionary suspension. MyBroadband Editor Jan Vermeulen discusses this tale with host Ray White.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How is June almost over? Welcome back to Episode 13 of KentNow!  This week, the KentNow team talks to Lucie Wu, Transportation Planning Technician in our Public Works Department. Lucie breaks down some of the transportation services available to residents in Kent.  It's budget season, so we talk to Finance Director Paula Painter and Budget Manager Michelle Ferguson about the City of Kent budget and how the process works. As always, we break down other things happening with the Kent City Council with the council recap.  So many wonderful things to do in Kent this Summer, we go thru all the events for the next 2 weeks, and wrap things up with Maas's "Did you know?" Have a happy and safe 4th of July! 

Welcome back to Episode 12!  This week Josh, Kyle and Tracy bring back Tony Donati from the city's Public Works Department! He's bringing water conservation knowledge to the garden and drops some helpful hints on how you can cash in on some rebates!  The team talks about our Kent Parks 4th of July Splash event at Lake Meridian, another Green Kent event coming up and rounding 3rd base with Kent Cornucopia Days in July!  We would love your feedback, so drop us a line at Communications@kentwa.gov  

Recent University of Missouri Master of Music in Percussion Performance graduate Miles Bohlman stops by to talk about his various grad program recitals (04:45), his Graduate Assistantship with the Mizzou New Music Ensemble and finishing the degree (21:15), growing up in the Chicago (IL) suburbs, his musical family, playing soccer goalie growing up, and his marching band activities (39:30), going to Illinois State for his undergrad (58:15), his high school band and percussion job out of undergrad, teaching during COVID restrictions, and keeping up his percussion chops through playing with British-style Brass Bands (01:10:10), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions, including segments on making curry, when he worked for his city's Public Works Department, Nicholas Cage movies, Barbara Kingsolver, and his Chicago Sports Team Fandom (01:23:40).Finishing with a Rave on Kelefa Sanneh's 2021 book Major Labels (01:50:10).Miles Bohlman links:Miles Bohlman's TCP pageMizzou New Music EnsemblePrevious Podcast Guests Mentioned:Megan Arns in 2017Julia Gaines in 2016Nathan Daughtrey in 2021Other Links:David CollierBenjamin Stiers“Velocities” - Joseph Schwantner“Asventuras” - Alexej Gerassimez“Spider Walk” - Marta Ptaszynska“Azul” - Nathan Daughtrey“Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra” - Alvin LucierNine French-American Rudimental Solos - Joseph TompkinsTwelve Studies for Snare Drum - Jacques Delecluse“Rebonds B” - Iannis XenakisThe Golden Ratio“Valseana” - Sergio Assad“Jobiniana No. 1” - Sergio Assad“Marking Time” - Chris P. ThompsonAlarm Will Sound“Insomnia” - Cody Holmes33 “God” - Bon Iver“Sculpture in Wood” - Rudiger PawassarEric HollenbeckJosé G. Martinez“Ionisation” - Edgard VareseJake HarpsterPhantom RegimentSarah WhitlockCavaliers DCIDan MooreSymphony No. 3 - Thomas TrachselIn C - Terry Riley"“Crown of Thorns” - David Maslanka“Consider the Birds” - Ryan GeorgeFountain City Brass BandNorth American Brass Band Association“Shofukan” - Snarky PuppyThe Princess Bride trailerThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent trailerMandy trailerPaddington trailerPaddington 2 trailerPursuit of Happyness trailerBarbara Kingsolver“hemenway” - Tiny HabitsCaleb WilliamsDerrick Rose“meditation for water, wind & metal” - Elizabeth A. BakerAbout Time trailerRaves:Major Labels - Kelefa Sanneh

Jacqueline Rhoades joins Inside Arvada to talk about all things transportation in Arvada!Jacqueline is the Public Works Director who oversees an expansive department that includes engineering, inspections, streets and traffic operations, mobility planning, facilities and much more. In this episode, we dive into a variety of topics related to the City's transportation including:Updates on the Ralston Road and W 72nd Avenue widening projects, including the pause in construction coming on W 72nd Watch the 4/12/24 W 72nd community meeting recordingThe annual Pavement Program and some of the challenges the program faces in maintaining our roadsConnecting Arvada, the City's first comprehensive transportation system planPlus, Jacqueline helps explain some of the complexities related to construction that often lead to construction fatigue, funding and managing projects, and how we work with other organizations who provide services in Arvada. Other news and events:Upcoming City Council workshops:May 6: Updates on parks maintenance practices and naming a new parkMay 13: Waste hauling rates and fees adjustment recommendationsOlde Town Transit Hub top level closed until end of JuneTake the sustainability surveyFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, and X and learn about upcoming celebrations:Drinking Water Week (May 5 - 11)National Public Works Week (May 19 - 25)Visit us at ArvadaCO.gov/Podcast or email us at podcast@arvada.org.

A woman named Melanie who loses her wedding ring at the North Greenville Recycling Center gets it back with the help of the Public Works Department.Secondly, a photography company called A Gold Photo increases adoptions and fundraising for over 50 shelters through a project called Second Shot, aiming to connect pets and people.The third story is about seven California condors, a critically endangered species, released into the wild after being hatched and raised at the Oregon Zoo.Moving on, the Kahakura Red Admiral Butterfly wins New Zealand's Bug of the Year title, based on a public vote involving 17,000 bug lovers.The final story involves a dad mistakenly buying a 6-meter long dinosaur for his son which had to be delivered by crane, creating an unexpected giant surprise.

The big topic coming out of Monday's Kewanee City Council Meeting was the decision to table a vote over whether or not to outsource trash collection in the City of Kewanee to a private company. The company was not present at the meeting to answer questions regarding a potential contract. This led to the proposal being tabled until representatives appeared at the meeting. Mayor Gary Moore joined Wake Up Tri-Counties to discuss why the City of Kewanee is considering contracting for trash collection service to a private company. The Mayor also addressed concerns regarding current sanitation department employees. According to the Mayor, any deal that would contract out the trash collection service would also guarantee that current sanitation workers would be transferred to new jobs within the Public Works Department. The Mayor also addressed concerns about the Transfer Station and stated that the Transfer Station would remain open and operational.

Greg Garrett, Key Budge, and Mya Acosta discuss the lastest developments from the February 5, 2024 Tehachapi City Council Meeting. From the approval of new pickleball courts to recognizing the Public Works Department for 1,000 days of no lost time incidents, there was plenty of interesting topics from the meeting. To learn more and to find council agendas, visit our website: www.liveuptehachapi.com  

Outlaw Johnny Finger, better known as The Rumpo Kid (Sid James), rides into the frontier town of Stodge City, and immediately guns down three complete strangers, orders alcohol at the saloon—horrifying Judge Burke (Kenneth Williams), the teetotal Mayor of Stodge City—and kills the town's sheriff, Albert Earp (Jon Pertwee). Rumpo then takes over the saloon, courting its former owner, the sharp-shooting Belle (Joan Sims), and turns the town into a base for thieves and cattle-rustlers. In Washington DC, English "sanitation engineer first class" Marshal P. Knutt (Jim Dale) arrives in America in the hope of revolutionizing the American sewerage system. He accidentally walks into the office of the Commissioner, thinking it to be the Public Works Department, and is mistaken for a US Peace Marshal, and is promptly sent out to Stodge City. The Rumpo Kid hears of the new Marshal, and tries all he can to kill the him without being caught, including sending out a pack of Indians, led by their Chief Big Heap (Charles Hawtrey), and attempting to hang the Marshal after framing him for cattle rustling. Knutt is saved by the prowess of Annie Oakley (Angela Douglas), who has arrived in Stodge to avenge Earp's death and has taken a liking to Knutt. Eventually, Knutt runs Rumpo out of town, but once Rumpo discovers that Knutt is really a sanitary engineer and not the Peace Marshal he believed, he swears revenge, returning to Stodge City for a showdown at high noon. Knutt conceals himself from Rumpo's gang in drainage tunnels beneath the main street, emerging momentarily from manholes to pick them off one by one. He does not kill or capture Rumpo, who escapes town with the aid of Belle.

The Public Works Department in Haverhill, Mass. spoke about their flood preparations for the upcoming storm, WBZ NewsRadio's Shari Small reports.

The next CDL information session is on December 19th from 5 to 7 pm. We willbe at UROC (University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-engagementCenter) located at 2001 Plymouth Avenue North in Minneapolis.

A look inside our Public Works Department's preparation for winter weather, food distribution for the Rotary Club's Twelve Days of Christmas program, and the Letters to Santa program.

Dustin is the City Administrator for the City of Ellsworth in Kansas. Dustin is in the process of rejuvenating a Public Works Department within Ellsworth and he is the right person for the job. We chat about all things Workforce Development and culture. We also cover "Ctitizenship Academy" a concept that is new to me and how it can help bridge the knowledge gap with the City and its constituents. Give the show a listen and remember to thank your local Public Works professionals.

Rounding out the year with jingle bells and tinsel! Happy Holidays everyone! In this episode: You'll hear about Josh's love for tinsel and flocking. Shepard Pie and why everyone loves it.  Heather Martin from our Public Works Department talks about Fats, Oils and Grease and why they could cause thousands in damage! Chef and cookbook author Christina Arokiasamy and her Taste of Kent series coming up in 2024 Food Blogger Erika Diama and her latest visit to Kent  How you can get more involved with the city by applying for our Boards and Commissions. Kent City Council voted unanimously to adopt Mayor Ralph's 2024 Mid-Biennium Budget Adjustment proposal. Carpinito Bros have a long history here in Kent with the last "Did you know" of 2023 We would love your suggestions on topics or what you want in this pod! Please email us at Communications@kentwa.gov   THANK YOU!

Police made a major bust of a fencing operation that sold items stolen from Victoria's Secret and other major retailers - which still had their price tags - on a San Francisco street corner.On October 7, 2023, the San Francisco Police Department, in collaboration with retail loss prevention partners, cracked down on a suspected stolen merchandise operation, resulting in the recovery of approximately $17,880 worth of stolen goods and the arrest of three individuals.Police said the vendors had a permit issued by the city Public Works Department allowing them to set up shop.The operation took place in the 1800 block of Mission Street at an open-air market where street vendors have taken to selling merchandise that is oftentimes stolen in retail thefts.Support the show

Mayor Inman returns to the studio to talk about City of Macomb business including the Community Development Block Grant;  updates on the renovations and upgrades occurring in the Public Works Department, namely the Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Water Treatment Plant, as well updates on the road resurfacing projects.  Mayor Inman also discusses the success of the Downtown Block Party that took place on August 25th, and looks forward to the upcoming Community Walkthrough with the WIU students. To stay up to date on events happening in Macomb, visit the City of Macomb and Downtown Macomb Facebook pages.

Host Jen Miller speaks with Avon Lake High School Band Director Joshua Brunger. Upcoming events happening in Avon Lake: August 4, 4:30 PM: ApplicationDeadline for the Public Works Department's Full-Time Laborer Position August 4, 7:30 PM: Friday Flicks at Weiss Field - The Muppets August 4 & 5, 5:00 PM: St. Joseph Parish's "Lake Breeze Festival" August 5, 7:00 PM: Shoremen Brass Classic at Avon Lake Memorial Stadium August 8, 6:30 AM:-7:30 PM: 2023 Special Election August 8, 6:00 PM: Civil Service Examination for the Public Works Department's Full-Time Laborer Position at The Old Firehouse Community Center August 8, 7:00 PM: Environmentally Speaking: Coexisting with Nature at the Avon Lake Public Library August 9, 6:30 PM: Meet & Greet with Superintendent Joelle Magyar at Avon Lake High School August 10, 4:00 PM: CLE MARKET & Avon Lake Summer Concert Series - The Bridge Live at Veterans' Memorial Park August 12, 9:30 PM: Perseid Metior Shower Star Party at Walker Road Park August 13, 6:00 PM: Avon Lake Summer Concert Series - Nomad Soul at Miller Road Park For information about these and future events/meetings in Avon Lake, please visit www.AvonLake.org/Events.

We get a chance to talk to Don Marsh and Tyler Napier from our Public Works Department and talk to them about the day to day operations that keep Tehachapi running. They share insight into how much work they oversee and how it is managed. We talk about planning, maintenance and executing that plan. The goal is to give you better insight on how our city is taken care of, including the things you see and don't see. Send your thoughts, questions and suggestions to Media@TehachapiCityHall.com. 

Michael Thompson, PE has been on quite a journey at Plymouth, MN, since taking over as the public works director in 2017.  Listen to learn how he has reshaped the department and the lessons he has learned.  Further Resources: Plymouth Public Works Weekly Update Newsletter April 26, 2023            https://drive.google.com/file/d/10zwSatA9IQ1kZDpcXVmcpKMWkaqOz9kQ/view?usp=drive_link  Plymouth Public Works Department Organizational Chart (As of December 2022)            https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tYhVwBxH_O6YgMEzOoe7qcYqqsQ9QFzG/view?usp=drive_link APWA Minnesota Chapter Leadership Academy            https://www.apwa-mn.org/events-education/education-training/leadership-academy City of Plymouth, MN            https://www.plymouthmn.gov/departments/public-works City Engineers Association of Minnesota (CEAM)https://www.ceam.org/ 

DOE officers investigate a report of a sinking boat. Cayman is set to host the Caribbean Customs Law Enforcement Council's 45th conference this June A team from the Ministry of Financial Services and Commerce and the New Cayman Islands Government representative to Asia wrap up an engagement trip to Hong Kong and Singapore. Skilled apprentices will be showing off their skills next week at the 2nd Annual Construction Skills Competition hosted by the Public Works Department. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rcnews/message

In this episode of the Infrastructure Hot Seat podcast, host Chad Smelter sits down with Jonathan Gano, the Public Works Director for the City of Des Moines, Iowa. Gano shares his journey from serving in the United States Army to working his way up the ranks in the Public Works Department of the City of Springfield, Missouri, and eventually landing his current position in Des Moines. He discusses the challenges he faced along the way, the importance of mentorship and leadership development, and how he is addressing labor shortages and climate change in his current role. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-infrastructure/message

First Aired April 15, 2023Earth Day is April 22, 2023, but Battle Creek has declared the entire week of April 17 Earth Week. Residents are able to volunteer to help clean up city parks and the Battle Creek Linear Park Trail.Bessie Stears, environmental program coordinator with the city's Public Works Department, shares some details in this episode of Community Matters.Episode ResourcesBattle Creek's Earth Week Cleanup Registration and WaiverBattle Creek's Earth Week Cleanup MapABOUT COMMUNITY MATTERSFormer WBCK Morning Show host Richard Piet (2014-2017) returns to host Community Matters, an interview program focused on community leaders and newsmakers in and around Battle Creek. Community Matters is heard Saturdays, 8-8:30 AM Eastern on WBCK-FM (95.3) and anytime at battlecreekpodcast.com.Community Matters is sponsored by Lakeview Ford Lincoln.Battlecreekpodcast.com and The Richard Piet Show are Livemic Communications podcasts. Livemic Communications helps businesses, organizations and entrepreneurs create customized, purposeful podcast content.

According to the Public Works Department, the city is missing about 1,600 miles of sidewalk — a length of concrete that could stretch from here to Winnipeg, Canada.

Brian Boyce, the superintendent with the Cole Co. Public Works Department, discusses the intricacies of roadkill removal! Mahomes v Brady stats and we meet Steve Spellman.