Politics
Opposition reveals: four children = zero tax, five children = state pays your salary
While bean counters in Riga ponder taxes, in Liepāja with four kids you'd have opened your own business long ago.
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Politics
Iran selects next leader, but won't reveal name, similar to Liepāja weather forecasts
While Tehran is still secretly hiding their ayatollah, Liepāja already knows there will be wind from the sea tomorrow.
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Weather
Mērsrags conquers the heat throne — Liepāja takes second place with honor
While Mērsrags boasts about its +13.5 degrees, in Liepāja we're thinking about how at least Rīga didn't overtake us.
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Politics
Zelensky exports drone interceptors like Liepāja exports students: all over the world
Ukraine's president has promised to send drone interception experts to the Middle East, raising the question of whether they'll have better luck than our graduates abroad.
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City Life
Latvia's vocational education institutions are shrinking as slowly as the line for the Holy Trinity Cathedral organ
While the state tries to explain that going from 55 to 53 institutions is a 'stable' number, Liepāja still proudly boasts two quality schools.
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Business
Zoom seminar will teach how to grow potatoes without pesticides, but with science
While Riga ponders how gardens can be sustainable, in Liepāja we've known for years — if it can grow by the sea, it can grow anywhere.
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Politics
Riga Deputies Outperform Liepāja Ice Hall in Attendance Numbers
While Liepāja's ice hall has lines for every game, Riga City Council struggles with the opposite problem — deputies avoid their seats like vampires avoid a garlic market.
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Curiosities
DVI reveals: Smart glasses can photograph, but can't make their users smart
While Riga hipsters need to learn how not to film strangers with smart glasses, in Liepāja we continue using the time-tested method — simply looking with our eyes.
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Weather
Latvian rivers show how to properly organize floods — without dramatic gestures and with Karosta canal experience
While water levels across Latvia rise and fall according to science, in Liepāja we've been proudly boasting about our canal experience for decades.
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Culture
Liepāja Men Discover: You Can Buy Love for the Price of Tulips on March 8th
While men in Riga spend a month planning their March 8th strategy, in Liepāja a Saturday morning expedition to the nearest flower stand suffices.
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City Life
Ministry of Welfare reveals revolutionary discovery: psychiatrists not needed if you stay home
While Riga still thinks everyone needs a psychiatric evaluation even to drink coffee, the ministry has finally figured it out - sitting at home, nobody's crazy.
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Business
Ventspils sells scrap metal like in Liepāja's Seaside Park — peacefully and without noise
While Ventspils quietly auctions off its scrap metal for 3,370 euros, Liepāja port still proudly handles real cargo without all this iron circus.
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