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Apr 03 2024
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Phoenix aims to fast track homeless shelter, but residents remain fiercely opposed
To fast track the construction of a new homeless shelter in southwest Phoenix before summer, city officials are side-stepping a potential appeal by residents who oppose it. The city is going directly to the Board of Adjustment, the appellate body, to seek approval. The maneuver sets up a contentious zoning case that will be heard April 4 at noon. Phoenix's Office of Homeless Solutions plans to
AZ CentralMar 18 2024
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City Council rejects parking lot sale
LANSING, mich. (WLNS) – The Lansing Housing Commission was banking on the city’s agreement to sell a parking lot to the Boji Group to begin planning in earnest for a phase two housing development in downtown Lansing. But a majority of City Council gave the sale a thumbs down Monday night. LHC is already working on phase one of creating new affordable housing opportunities in downtown – at the
WLNSFeb 14 2023
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Buffalo Workers Launch Drive To Become 1st Tesla Union
A group of workers at Tesla's Buffalo, New York plant announced a campaign Tuesday to form the first union at Elon Musk's electric car company. The group, calling itself Tesla Workers United, established a website where workers could fill in union e-cards, a first step in gathering signatures to potentially qualify for holding a union election. The initiative comes as workers and unions target
Barron'sMar 22 2024
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39-year-old get 10 years in federal prison for armed robbery at dollar store
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A 39-year-old Indianapolis man was sentenced last week to 10 years and one month in federal prison for an armed robbery in August at a dollar store, according to prosecutors and online court records. Authorities were unable to provide a jail booking photo of Devron Coleman but provided images from surveillance footage showing him during an armed robbery on Aug. 30 at a
Wish TVMar 22 2024
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SLU janitors, maintenance and grounds workers march to demand better pay, job security
ST. LOUIS — After their shift ended at 3:30 p.m., St. Louis University groundskeepers joined about two dozen other union members in front of Busch Student Center Thursday to demand a contract with better pay and job protection. Custodial, ground and maintenance crew workers represented by Service Employees International Union Local 1 chanted and waved as they marched through campus to the
St. Louis Post-DispatchApr 04 2024
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Cambridge hospital cat Henry comforts girl with brain tumour
A cat that made a hospital its second home has proved a great comfort to a teenager recovering from brain surgery.
Amber O'Gorman, 17, was diagnosed with a tumour in March and has been treated at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
"A nurse told me about Henry, the famous ginger cat that hangs out at the hospital, and I made it my mission to find him," she said.
"It was
BBC NewsApr 03 2024
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Light a campfire and a joint: Muskegon dispensary opens cannabis campsite
MUSKEGON, MI -- A cannabis-friendly campsite is coming to Muskegon this summer, just in time for festival season. The Grassy Knoll Recreational Dispensary, located at 2125 Lemuel St, is using the fives acres adjacent to their building to set up a smoker oasis in its wooded hilltop. The dispensary sits on a grassy knoll -- hence the name -- above Business Route U.S. 31 and Seaway Drive, away
MLive.comMar 22 2024
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Region 9 girls golf: Walker’s 66 lifts Crimson to 1-stroke win
ST. GEORGE — Led by Kate Walker’s sizzling 5-under-par score of 66, the Crimson Cliffs girls golf team won its second straight Region 9 match on Thursday. Playing at Southgate Golf Club in St. George, all seven teams posted improved scores from the previous week. Snow Canyon, Dixie and Desert Hills all dropped 50 strokes or more off ast week’s team score. Crimson Cliffs posted a team score of
St George NewsMar 26 2024
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Open for leading-edge science: New Brown wet labs open at Point 225 in Providence
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The incubators and centrifuges are plugged in. Refrigerators are humming. Beakers, scales and microscopes have been unpacked. And 31,000 square feet of new Brown University life sciences lab space in the Point 225 building in Providence is ready for use. Over the past year, Brown and Wexford Science & Technology have transformed the sixth floor of 225
Brown UniversityMar 26 2024
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One Dead After Double Shooting In Philadelphia Monday: Police
PHILADELPHIA — A man died and another man is recovering after they were shot late Monday afternoon in Philadelphia, police said. The shooting occurred at about 4:50 p.m. at the Arrott Transportation Center at 1500 Arrott St. One man was shot once in the chest and was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital at 5:17 p.m. Another man was shot once in his back and twice in his left leg. He
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