Month: July 2020

Comprehensive Guides Planning Considerations Houses of Worship & Schools Pre-Disaster Recovery Other Resources News Accomplished properly, planning provides a methodical way to engage the whole community in thinking through the lifecycle of a potential crisis, determining required capabilities and establishing a framework for roles and responsibilities. It shapes how a community envisions and shares a desired outcome, selects effective ways to achieve it and communicates expected results. A shared planning community increases the likelihood of integration and synchronization, makes planning cycles more efficient and effective and makes plan maintenance easier. We have resources to guide the way. FEMA Releases Local Elected and Appointed Officials Guide ...

Haz cliq aquí para leer la versión en español. Banner photo from recent NACLA photo essay "Venezuelan Women Confront State Violence" by Francisco Sánchez. Professor Keymer Ávila is a researcher at the Institute of Criminal Sciences at the Central University of Venezuela and a professor of Criminology at the same university. He is one of the foremost scholars and critics of institutional violence and criminal justice policies in Venezuela. In this excerpt of a longer interview, originally published on July 6 and 7 at No Borders News, Venezuelan Workers Solidarity members Elvira Blanco and Alejandro Quryat asked him about the nexus between racism and state violence in the Latin American country. Elvira Blanco and Alejandro Quryat: In the present, under Nicolás Maduro’s regime, how do po...

Haz cliq aquí para leer la versión en español. Banner photo from recent NACLA photo essay "Venezuelan Women Confront State Violence" by Francisco Sánchez. Professor Keymer Ávila is a researcher at the Institute of Criminal Sciences at the Central University of Venezuela and a professor of Criminology at the same university. He is one of the foremost scholars and critics of institutional violence and criminal justice policies in Venezuela. In this excerpt of a longer interview, originally published on July 6 and 7 at No Borders News, Venezuelan Workers Solidarity members Elvira Blanco and Alejandro Quryat asked him about the nexus between racism and state violence in the Latin American country. Elvira Blanco and Alejandro Quryat: In the present, under Nicolás Maduro’s regime, how do po...

Espanol Italian Restaurant cooked up Basque-style cuisine from its original downtown location through the Great Depression and World War II, and has stood at its current spot in East Sacramento for more than half a century, with more than a decade-long stint in Old Sacramento in between. Now, financially ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, Sacramento’s oldest continuously operated eatery will shut down next month and it’s very unlikely to reopen its doors at 5723 Folsom Blvd., co-owner Perry Luigi told The Sacramento Bee by phone Friday morning. “We’re just out of funds,” he said. “We’re a cold-weather, group party restaurant. I don’t see (reopening) happening this year.” Luigi, who owns the restaurant with his sister Paula Serrano, says the lease on the aging building is up ...

Espanol Italian Restaurant cooked up Basque-style cuisine from its original downtown location through the Great Depression and World War II, and has stood at its current spot in East Sacramento for more than half a century, with more than a decade-long stint in Old Sacramento in between. Now, financially ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, Sacramento’s oldest continuously operated eatery will shut down next month and it’s very unlikely to reopen its doors at 5723 Folsom Blvd., co-owner Perry Luigi told The Sacramento Bee by phone Friday morning. “We’re just out of funds,” he said. “We’re a cold-weather, group party restaurant. I don’t see (reopening) happening this year.” Luigi, who owns the restaurant with his sister Paula Serrano, says the lease on the aging building is up ...

Espanol Italian Restaurant cooked up Basque-style cuisine from its original downtown location through the Great Depression and World War II, and has stood at its current spot in East Sacramento for more than half a century, with more than a decade-long stint in Old Sacramento in between. Now, financially ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, Sacramento’s oldest continuously operated eatery will shut down next month and it’s very unlikely to reopen its doors at 5723 Folsom Blvd., co-owner Perry Luigi told The Sacramento Bee by phone Friday morning. “We’re just out of funds,” he said. “We’re a cold-weather, group party restaurant. I don’t see (reopening) happening this year.” Luigi, who owns the restaurant with his sister Paula Serrano, says the lease on the aging building is up ...