Loetschental Aid Effort Takes Shape as Blatten Families Wait in Wiler
The first need is a bed that is not a gym mat. The second is a sentence about going home that nobody will yet write.
May 2025
16 posts in the May 2025 file.
Friday, 30 May 2025
Thursday, 29 May 2025
Lonza Backs Up Behind the Debris as Blatten Becomes a Lake Shore
The mountain had already taken the houses. The river started to take the map.
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Blatten Buried as Birch Glacier Collapse Sends Rock Into the Lonza
The village was emptied in time. The houses were not.
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Birch Glacier Accelerates as Blatten Stays Empty
The village was already gone. The ice started to run.
Friday, 23 May 2025
Health Cost File Sits in Recess While Premiums Keep Arriving
The sitting ended in March. The invoices did not. Recess is a parliamentary word, not a household one.
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
WHO Pledging Night in Geneva Underscores a Thin Core Budget
The assembly's second political session was about money. The speeches were about health. Both can be true in the same room.
Monday, 19 May 2025
Blatten Evacuation Widens as the Slope Above the Village Keeps Moving
The village was told to go. The mountain was not asked.
World Health Assembly Opens in Geneva Under a Tight Budget Cloud
The Palais and the WHO campus filled with delegations. The quiet question in the corridors was who still pays.
Sunday, 18 May 2025
Rockfall Above Blatten Pushes First Residents Out of the Village
The noise came off the mountain before the order came off the printer.
Friday, 16 May 2025
Valais Issues Fresh Slope Warnings After Rockfalls Above the Loetschental
The warnings came as gravel, then as maps. People in the valley have learned to read both.
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
Milk Producers Say May Prices Still Lag Feed and Labour
The litre in the shop has a story. The litre at the farm gate has a shorter, greyer one.
Monday, 12 May 2025
SBB Tweaks Spring Diagram After Easter Overcrowding Complaints
The complaint box after Easter had a theme: standing in a corridor with a suitcase.
Thursday, 8 May 2025
Zurich Issues a Thin Month of Housing Permits as Sites Stay Slow
The cranes are visible. The permits behind them are not arriving fast enough to change the lists.
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
Aargau Metal Wage Talks Stick on Inflation That Has Already Fallen
Inflation is lower. The household invoice is not. That mismatch is the bargaining table.
Thursday, 1 May 2025
Geneva Labour Day Column Puts Rents Ahead of Pay Claims
The banners still said wages. On the Right Bank the speeches kept returning to the lease.
Labour Day Marches Focus on Rents as Much as Pay
The banners still said wages. The speeches kept returning to the lease.