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Beaufort Housing Authority grapples with budget cuts
The Island Packet OnlineDorothyann Mullen is worried about what will happen to Beaufort's working poor, elderly and disabled as sequestration and federal budget cuts mean fewer residents will receive assistance through the Beaufort Housing Authority. "We'll have to find a...Tags: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Politics, Section 8 (housing), Rentals, Social Issues
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St. Cloud Times, Minn., Tom's Tips column
St. Cloud Times, Minn.It's going to be a huge week for area prep events, so the Mega Meet might as well be scheduled in it. Sauk Rapids is host to the huge annual track and field event beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Sauk Rapids Middle School. The meet brings together a...Tags: Baseball, Sports
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The red herring of human gene patents
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Louis D. Brandeis Just a few words and little thought separate yet another stronghold of the American economy from ruin....
Tags: Technology, U.S. Supreme Court, Erythropoietin, American Civil Liberties Union, Science
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HUD to close its Orlando and Tampa offices
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said Wednesday it will close its Orlando and Tampa field offices as part of a restructuring that will eliminate 16 of its 80 local offices nationwide. The Orlando closing will effect eight employees,...
Tags: Foreclosures, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Barack Obama, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Services and Shopping
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Patrick administration refuses to release brothers' records
Boston HeraldThe Patrick administration clamped down the lid yesterday on Herald requests for details of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's government benefits, citing the dead terror mastermind's right to privacy. Across the board, state agencies flatly refused to provide...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Federal Communications Commission, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Human Accomplishments, Sports
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Schumer urges HUD to raise LI rent rate
NewsdaySen. Charles Schumer is calling on the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to increase its fair-market rent rate for Long Island, saying superstorm Sandy and its effects have reduced rental stock, in turn driving up rents. The fallout...Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Hurricane Katrina (2005), Section 8 (housing), Rental Service, Long Island
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Chattanooga Housing Authority plans upset residents of Alton Park
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.Villages at Alton Park homeowners saw a public notice in the Chattanooga Times Free Press this month that stated the city had awarded Habitat for Humanity of Greater Chattanooga $387,000 to build seven homes in their community on Canary Circle....Tags: Homes, Freedom of the Press, Politics, Rentals, Interior Policy
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Newport News housing authority to undergo sequestration furloughs
NEWPORT NEWS — Starting in May, the Newport News Redevelopment and Housing Authority will be closed one day per month with its employees furloughed due to federal sequestration cutbacks. Karen Wilds, the authority's executive director, said the...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Unemployment, Finance, Employees
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Snead strikes out 8 as Hatton shuts out W. Morgan in softball
The Decatur Daily, Ala.Danya Snead struck out eight while holding the Rebels to four hits to earn the complete-game pitching victory as Hatton beat West Morgan 5-0 on Tuesday. Boston Claborn led the Class 2A No. 1 Hornets (34-9) at the plate, going 2-for-3 with three RBIs....Tags: Wars and Interventions, Baseball, Sports, Soccer, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Housing project preserves quality in time of tear-down
Jonathan Fine was walking through the old housing project looking for the right words. Georgian art deco fusion? Georgian eclectic with art deco thrown in? Colonial Revival? Whatever the right words are, they're not ones typically associated with...
Tags: Jens Jensen, Politics, Social Issues, Interior Policy, Arts and Culture
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Study explores why some families return to poor neighborhoods
When it was introduced in 1994, the federal housing experiment Moving to Opportunity was, to some, a means to rectify poverty. To others, it was a way for cities to dump their poorest residents on the suburbs. Many deemed it a failure, and officials...
Tags: Social Issues, Sociology, Public Housing, Loyola University Chicago, Politics
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Some Arlington Heights residents continue to fight affordable housing
For some Scarsdale neighborhood residents, low-income housing again sat at the heart of controversy over an Arlington Heights housing study. Community members spoke out against the final report of the "Homes for a Changing Region" project. Slamming...Tags: Section 8 (housing), Rentals, Personal Income, Poverty, Arlington Heights
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Mar 17, 2013
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Feb 22, 2013
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