Hurricane season starts at the end of this week (Tropical Storm Alberto notwithstanding). But as people in the Southeast and Caribbean prepare for a few months of keeping one eye on The Weather Channel, today’s big story is about last year’s Hurricane Maria.
A new Harvard report published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that it’s likely the total death count in Puerto Rico from the storm last year was more than 4,000, based on interviewing people on the island about who was killed. Not a typo. Hurricane Katrina, often thought of as the modern bellwether for hurricane devastation, killed about 1,800.
Takes cold showers, eats the same thing, and goes phone-free for a couple hours in the evening. Inc.
LedeTree will be at the Cannabis World Congress and Expo this week in New York, taking a look at some of the companies trying to make it in this emerging industry that is quickly booming as more and more states make it legal.
The state legislature in New York has 13 working days left in its session, so it looks unlikely that the state will make any substantive changes to the law here, despite lots of talk. Lawmakers are awaiting a report from the state Department of Health on the issue – and are looking for whether it will endorse or advise against the legalization of non-medical marijuana.
Check out our coverage of the New York cannabis industry, and the conference about the industry as a whole.