In the 17 cases the city attorney has charged, arrest reports show that they almost universally involve suspected fentanyl or meth use, and include descriptions such as one in an officer’s report that mentions “lighters, foil, and pipes, tubular objects that they were holding near the foil....
Wigan’s Borough Engineer had already urged the creation of a direct works department in 1923, reasoning that ‘no private tenderer was in a position to do the work better than it could be done by the Corporation’.
In 1871, after 30,000 East Londoners had protested about fences erected by Earl Cowley to restrict access to forest land, the Corporation of the City of London became its unlikely saviour, bringing suit against 16 of the lords of the manors to defend its grazing rights. (The Corporation had...
The pH remained relatively stable throughout the study due to the near-neutral values of the influent and the ability of plant roots and microorganisms to maintain an acid–base balance. Consequently, the presence of vegetation slightly altered the pH values. The slight pH variations observed ...