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• Pedestrians Mostly Ignore Powell Street’s Temporarily-Widened Sidewalks in Union Square

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 481
  I don’t know, are the sidewalks of Powell Street so crowded with holiday shoppers that they appreciated the option of walking in the street for part of two blocks this past weekend? Not that I could tell. The trouble with the execution of this idea is that peds needed to enter and exit the pedestrian ”passing ...
  12 hours ago

• Southborough gets teeny tiny reimbursement for December 2008 ice storm

  
  My Southborough — Authority: 142
  Last week the state handed out $5.5 million to communities affected by last December’s massive ice storm. Southborough came through the storm relatively unscathed , so you probably won’t be shocked to hear we didn’t get a very big piece of the reimbursement pie. How much did we get? $258. Let’s not spend ...
  15 hours ago

• Boxer’s opponents capitalize on ‘ma’am’ exchange (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - The widely played video clip of U.S. Sen.
  17 hours ago

• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
  18 hours ago

• The Dubai problems slowly start to emerge….

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 540
  Japan’s non-financial firms had some 7.5 billion dollars in uncollected bills from the Dubai government and its affiliated firms as of the end of October, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday.The data, excluding bank loans, was derived from a total of 18 projects worth about 15 billion dollars and ...
  2 days ago

• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
  3 days ago

• A Signal for Congress to Get Moving on Climate Change

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 533
  Yesterday saw an important step in the U.S. Senate toward meaningful U.S. climate legislation – and one in Oslo to endorse the role of forests in fighting climate change. Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) held a press conference to discuss the legislative framework for ...
  3 days ago

• Investigation at Public Works...but no details permitted

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 570
  Once again, an example of the Harper government in action that calls into question their commitment to some basic democratic principles such as transparency and access to information: "Public Works reveals wrongdoing after probe." We learn, because the government finally deigned to tell us, the following, but dont ...
  3 days ago

• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
  4 days ago

• Lawmakers move ahead with cost-cutting ideas

  
  Des Moines Register — Authority: 714
  Shrink the number of managers in state government, merge some state agencies, use a master contract for state purchases - those are some of the recommendations a group of state lawmakers approved today.
  4 days ago

• JohnsonDiversey exec sees CO2 reductions good for businesses

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but theyll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com on Thursday. Despite the inevitable short-term pain, Chidichimo said ...
  4 days ago

• No answers, but CMU promises to solve high water bills

  
  DavidsonNews.net — Authority: 438
  strong>By ALEX GREGORDavidsonNews.netCORNELIUS - Residents of Davidson, Cornelius, and other parts of north Mecklenburg County gathered at Cornelius Town Hall Wednesday in hopes that representatives of Charlotte Mecklenburg Utilities (CMU) could answer questions about unusually high water bills and erratic water ...
  4 days ago

• The Crushed Cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Littering NOPA – Ironic or Not?

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 481
  Gritty Divisidero Street in the North of Panhandle Area (NoPA)  part of the western Western Addition  has a bunch of crushed aluminum beer cans strewn about these days.  Is that a sign that the area needs more attention from the Redevelopment Department or, alternatively, is it a sign that things are on the ...
  4 days ago

• Bright & Early: Cuddly As A Cactus Edition

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 429
  Good morning, Nashville. It’s the holiday season and the sound of Christmas music fills the air downtown thanks to those giant speaker-boxes on every street corner. The extra dose of holiday flavor makes just about everyone a little more cheerful–everyone, that is, except for the state workers in the Rachel ...
  4 days ago

• Editorial: A Good Fight

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  President Obama’s proposed package to reduce unemployment could work, but only if it gets sufficient money from Congress.
  5 days ago

• Update: The 311 Experiment

  
  Transit Miami — Authority: 468
  We have a little bit of good news to report; the pedestrian crosswalk signals at the South Miami Avenue and SE 13 th Avenue intersection are working again after nearly a week since they stopped working. Nevertheless things appeared to take a turn for the worse around lunch time today at this intersection. I went ...
  5 days ago

• Tree-lighting at City Hall

  
  Pasadena PIO — Authority: 120
  Heres what I love most about our Christmas tree-lighting event every year at Pasadena City Hall: Ours is not an uber fancy-schmancy department store type of tree. Instead, ours is traditional and folksy. The entire ceremony warms everyones hearts. Last night dozens of people gathered in the grand entrance for the ...
  5 days ago

• Americans Want Government to Spend for Jobs, Send Bill to Rich (Bloomberg)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  Bloomberg – Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) — Americans want their government to create jobs through spending on public works, investments in alternative Here is the original: (Bloomberg)"> (Bloomberg)">Americans Want Government to Spend for Jobs, Send Bill to Rich (Bloomberg)
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• Snow patrol

  
  DGreport.com — Authority: 135
  Public Works Director Nan Newlon gave a timely report on the village’s snow removal effort at Tuesday’s village council workshop meeting. Residents can expect the same level of service as in previous years, Newlon said, with public works crews attacking the 170 miles of village streets on a triage basis. ...
  5 days ago

• Bridge Views

  
  Tales Of Two Cities — Authority: 135
  HoCoMoJo prepared this video for the Bridge Columbia effort. I particularly like John Slaters description of the “ cage .”
  5 days ago

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