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Galveston Island State Park reopens for summer after major makeover – CultureMap Houston
new park headquarters building, two new restrooms, new roads, 95 new campsites, two new changing areas and rinse-off showers, 20 new shade shelters in the day-use area, and a seasonal equestrian day-use area, according to a press release. The park boasts more than five miles of hiking trails, a newly remodeled nature center on the bayside, two observation towers, two boardwalks, three kayak launch locations on the bayside, a new vendor area, and three new group-use pavilions on the beachside.
Law/Assange
Assange Should Put the Pentagon and the CIA on Trial – CounterPunch.org
Military
Don’t Draft Our Daughters—or Anyone Else | The Heritage Foundation
Last year, Congress considered a very bad and ill-considered idea. With no debate and no real scrutiny, there was an effort to add to the annual National Defense Authorization Act a provision to require young women to register for military conscription. The provision was dropped. Proponents will quietly try to add it again this year.
Economics
Mint officials cancel 2022 Morgan and Peace dollar production (coinworld.com)
The Mint has canceled plans to strike and release 2022 Morgan and Peace dollars. Production plans for the dollars were scrapped because the Mint is unable to secure sufficient quantities of .999 fine silver planchets.The Mint intends to resume production and sales of the Morgan and Peace dollars in calender year 2023. This pause is directly related to the global lock down’s impact upon the availability of silver blanks from the Mint’s suppliers.
Tom Power, president of Sunshine Minting Inc., said that there is no shortage of silver in the market to eventually be fabricated into blanks for the U.S. Mint and other government mints. The refineries are shipped the necessary raw silver metal, to then be fabricated into the necessary blanks from which finished silver products are made. Power says supply chain issues, production capacity and shipping logistics are contributory factors affecting blanking problems. The rising spot price of the precious metal is also affecting the supply chain, with shipments having to be insured at much higher values, Powers says, noting there are also limitations on shipping quantities.Powers says the U.S. Mint has some limitations on its capability to produce certain quantities of specific products because of press capacity and manpower, which has been an issue since March 12, 2020, when restrictions pushed many logistical processes off-kilter.
Mexico’s central bank hikes its prime lending rate to 7.75% – ABC News (go.com)
Decline and near fall of Italy’s Monte dei Paschi, the world’s oldest bank (msn.com)
In Canada, hot inflation opens rare attack on central bank (msn.com)
Irish Plan to lockdown for shortages
return of ‘work from home’ plan to save fuel in event of crisis caused by Ukraine war
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/return-of-work-from-home-plan-to-save-fuel-in-event-of-crisis-caused-by-ukraine-war-41724210.html
Australia Electricity
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61821423
