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  • Sales Period For Fireworks To Be Reduced

    Sales Period For Fireworks To Be Reduced

    Fireworks will only be allowed for a total of 20 hours during New Year’s celebrations, if a new bill from The Minister or Justice is approved, Stundin reports. The sale of fireworks will also be restricted to just three days each year:…

  • New Traffic Laws In 2020

    At the start of 2020, police will begin fining people who park backwards on the road. This is only one of the many changes that will come about in the new year. More new traffic laws will take effect at the start…

  • Give Trash Another Chance

    Give Trash Another Chance

    Everyone wants to recycle. Especially in 2016. It was your New Year’s resolution, remember? Sure you do. But, it can get confusing. “Where do the jam jars go?” “Is there a special thing for cork?” “What do I do with all these…

  • WHERE WERE WE? WHERE ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE HEADED?

    WHERE WERE WE? WHERE ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE HEADED?

    To mark the beginning of a new year, we posed two questions to dozens of Icelanders, old and new. Representatives of every single political party, ministers, mayors and machinists alike (as per usual, the governing parties mostly ignored our queries). We asked…

  • This Feels Relevant Now

    This Feels Relevant Now

    Hi. Happy New Year. Right now, at this very moment, you could certainly argue that shit is fucked up and bullshit. For all sorts of reasons. But, it feels sort of important that we don’t. That we retain hope. That we strive…