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Apr 25 2024
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City Park changes planning process after outcry over Grow Dat Youth Farm, new road
City Park officials have decided to extend the master planning process to gather more community feedback as tensions brew over two major projects proposed for the beloved city green space. The fourth public input meeting, scheduled for May 20, has been postponed, the City Park Conservancy said Tuesday. Whether plans for $200 million worth of park improvements will be completed as expected by
The Times-PicayuneApr 20 2024
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Gen Z want segregated gyms
In 1887, Massachusetts became the first state in the U.S. to enact law to separate public restrooms by sex—and now, 137 years later, more than half of Gen Zers back gender segregation in gyms, a poll has found. The topic of gender separation in public spaces is still rife with debate. Just last month, gym chain Planet Fitness faced calls for a boycott after terminating a customer's membership
NewsweekApr 25 2024
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A New Arts Campus Blooms on Detroit’s East Side
This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and feel. Since the city filed for bankruptcy in 2013, Detroit has experienced a significant revitalization, with a growing art scene centered largely in its downtown. Now in the East Village, a quiet neighborhood about a 15-minute drive from the skyscrapers built in
New York Times (News)May 10 2023
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Kevin McCarthy Blocks Rashida Tlaib Event By Booking the Space for Himself
A Michigan Democrat is pushing ahead with a planned event marking “Nakba” Day—or “the catastrophe,” which commemorates the displacement of Palestinians during Israel s founding in 1948–despite a move by Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to block the event by reserving the space for himself instead. Rep. Rashida Tlaib—the only Palestinian lawmaker in the House, who has been vocal in her criticism of the
Daily BeastApr 24 2024
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Harry Dunn Fought Rioters on Jan. 6. Now He Wants to Go to Congress
H arry Dunn stands in the living room of a waterfront home in Annapolis, Maryland, in a black campaign T-shirt and a silver chain. His forehead glistens with sweat as he paces the bright space, all eyes in the room on him. The image people have seared into their minds of Dunn is him in a crisp, dark Capitol Police uniform, gold badge over his heart, giving an emotional testimony in front of
RollingStone.comApr 25 2024
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‘Midtown’ project promised to transform Bayside. Instead, it became the face of Portland’s homelessness crisis.
It was supposed to usher in a new, brighter era for Portland’s Bayside neighborhood. More than a decade ago, a Florida development company announced sweeping plans to turn 3.25 acres in the beleaguered Bayside – once the site of junkyards and industrial uses – into a lively neighborhood with 800 market-rate apartments in four 165-foot towers, 100,000 square feet of retail space and ample
Portland Press HeraldApr 25 2024
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After City Hall showdown, Portland leaders advance mayor’s scaled-back homeless camping ban
Portland leaders moved Wednesday to replace the city’s outright ban on daytime homeless camping with a scaled-back version, months after a legal challenge halted enforcement of the more restrictive measure. The decision came at the end of a nearly four-hour City Council meeting during which Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Rene Gonzalez, who is running to succeed him, offered dueling
The OregonianApr 24 2024
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Redondo Beach may restrict camping near supportive housing for homeless
Redondo Beach may soon restrict camping, or pitching tents, outside of permanent supportive housing for those who are homeless, expanding an ordinance that already prohibits camping at the city’s Pallet Shelters and in most public spaces. The City Council this week discussed making the move, but will wait until the U.S. Supreme Court decides what times and places it would be constitutional to
The Daily BreezeApr 24 2024
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6 star-spangled presidential libraries to visit
At a presidential library, there are zero books to check out. These facilities are actually museums, archives and event spaces filled with documents, photographs, videos and artifacts from presidents past. The National Archives and Records Administration oversees 15 of these libraries, each one designed to be immersive and illuminating, giving the public a fuller look at the lives of
The Week - NewsApr 25 2024
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End Of An Era As Café Selmarie In Lincoln Square Nears Final Day
LINCOLN SQUARE — It’s the end of an era at Giddings Plaza in Lincoln Square. For decades, the idyllic European-esque square has been anchored by two things: a picturesque fountain and Café Selmarie, 4729 N. Lincoln Ave. Birgit Kobayashi, who founded Café Selmarie with late co-founder Jeanne Uzdawinis 40 years ago, announced in September that she planned to retire and close the popular
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