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The tale of 'Elevate Chicago' and foreclosure blight in the neighborhoods	19.5.2013	Chicago Tribune: Opinion
The tale of 'Elevate Chicago' and foreclosure blight in the neighborhoods
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Police: Progress in Mother’s Day shooting probe	14.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Kevin Mcgill and Michael Kunzelman The Associated Press Published May 13, 2013 06:25PM MDT New Orleans • New Orleans police hope a $10,000 reward and blurry surveillance camera images will lead to arrests in a Mother’s Day shooting that wounded 19 people and showed again how far the city has to go to shake a persistent culture of violence that belies the city’s festive image. Angry residents said gun violence — which has flared at two other city celebrations this year — goes hand-in-hand with the city’s other deeply rooted problems such as poverty and urban blight. The investigators ... ...
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Feds: 500 fewer firefighters to face West's heightened risk this summer	14.5.2013	MSNBC
Feds: 500 fewer firefighters to face West's heightened risk this summer
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Shootings of 19 show New Orleans' violence problem	14.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Shootings of 19 show New Orleans' violence problem
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Shootings of 19 show New Orleans' violence problem	14.5.2013	Twincities.com: News
NEW ORLEANS—New Orleans police hope a $10,000 reward and blurry surveillance camera images will lead to arrests in a Mother's Day shooting that wounded 19 people and showed again how far the city has to go to shake a persistent culture of violence that belies the city's festive image.
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New Orleans police: Progress in Mother’s Day shooting probe	13.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Chevel Johnson The Associated Press Published May 13, 2013 11:39AM MDT NEW ORLEANS • New Orleans police hope a $10,000 reward and blurry surveillance camera images will lead to arrests in a Mother’s Day shooting that wounded 19 people and showed again how far the city has to go to shake a persistent culture of violence that belies the city’s festive image. Angry residents said gun violence — which has flared at two other city celebrations this year — goes hand-in-hand with the city’s other deeply rooted problems such as poverty and urban blight. The investigators t... ...
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From blight to boom: The 400 block of Nicollet Mall to be transformed	12.5.2013	Star Tribune: Business
Once the home of Powers Department Store, and then mostly surface parking, the block will become the home of luxury apartments and a corporate campus.
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Racist taunts greet appointment of Italy's 1st black gov't minister, highlighting race problem	1.5.2013	Star Tribune: World

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Italy race problems seen with black gov't minister	1.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
It was hailed as a giant step forward for racial integration in a country that has long been ill at ease with its growing immigrant classes. But Cecile Kyenge's appointment as Italy's first black Cabinet minister has instead exposed the nation's ugly race problem, a blight that flares regularly on the soccer pitch with racist taunts and in the diatribes of xenophobic politicians - but has now raised its head at the center of political life.
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Italy race problems seen with black gov't minister	1.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
It was hailed as a giant step forward for racial integration in a country that has long been ill at ease with its growing immigrant classes. But Cecile Kyenge's appointment as Italy's first black Cabinet minister has instead exposed the nation's ugly race problem, a blight that flares regularly on the soccer pitch with racist taunts and in the diatribes of xenophobic politicians - but has now raised its head at the center of political life.
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Editorial: President Obama and the Hunger Strike at Guantánamo	1.5.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Editorial: President Obama and the Hunger Strike at Guantánamo
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Minneapolis Gateway redevelopment planted seeds of revival	20.4.2013	MinnPost
The Gateway redevelopment gave us the elegant Northwestern National Life Insurance Building (now ING, 20 Washington Ave. S.) whose graceful columns continue to anchor the Nicollet Mall. In "North Loop building boom may finally heal Gateway scars," MinnPost writer John Reinan looks back at Minneapolis' Gateway, the mid-20th century urban-renewal project that every urbanist loves to hate. Reinan maintains that Gateway “sapped the vitality of downtown for 50 years.” But Reinan’s valid criticisms of an admittedly flawed program paint a black and white picture that needs more nuanced shades of gray. As Gateway got under way in the late 1950s, downtown’s vitality was being sapped, not by the on-coming bulldozers on Washington Avenue, but by the suburban boom that threatened to turn downtown into an economic wasteland. The threat to downtown was compounded by the squalid bars and flophouses in the lower loop that cast a blighting influence over the city’s struggling retail core just a few ...
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Civil Blight in Old Blighty	15.4.2013	American Spectator
The United Kingdom, not so very united these days, is much further down the left-wing rabbit hole than America. But this has hardly made the beneficiaries of all of this compassionate government’s services very attractive. In fact, the more the political left in the UK coddles potential voters with every form of welfare known to man, with every attempt at providing security the political class and the professoriate can dream up, the more petulant, childlike, and uncivil much of the population becomes. Many of these malcontents are spending this week banging their spoons on their high chairs. Not speaking ill of the recently dead, especially someone of considerable achievement and dignity, is basic civility. But a considerable fraction of the population of Old Blighty has let basic civility go the way of the bowler hat and smoky pubs. The bile so many Britons have released on Margaret Thatcher since her death last week (too many stories, too many abominations, to site them all here) is a ...
Organic apples, pears to be antibiotic-free	12.4.2013	Seattle Times: Local
The organic apples you buy in the grocery store will soon be free of a widely used antibiotic.
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Detroit resident chronicles his city's desolation	5.4.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Detroit resident chronicles his city's desolation
Detroit resident chronicles his city's desolation	5.4.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Tony Majka has been chronicling Detroit's blight epidemic in a unique and popular way.
City Room: Renovations and Hope on a Block Once Marked by Blight	5.4.2013	NY Times: NY Region
Side Street: The transformation of five buildings on Kelly Street in the South Bronx is almost impossible to believe.
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Opinionator: Tonight, Tonight, Its World Is Full of Blight	30.3.2013	NY Times: Editorials
A certain revered late-night talk show has had a rollercoaster history.
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Ireland to test superpotato that resists fungus, attracts critics	23.3.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
A potato with resistance to the blight that starved millions in Ireland — and still wipes out crops worldwide — fights the fungus with genes taken from resistant potato varieties. But it’s already getting resistance from those opposed to all GMO foods.
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Neighbors protest solar farm plan	17.3.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Neighbors protest solar farm plan
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