Pittsburghs Regional Enterprise Tower was designed to unite the city and its surrounding 10-county area as a cooperative home for economic development. In the end, the partners refused to cooperate. The 31-story aluminum building at 425 Sixth Ave., Downtown, built by Alcoa Corp. in the 1950s and donated in 1998 to the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, faces foreclosure and a May sheriffs sale because a tenant exodus caused the commission to default on the mortgage, leaders said Friday. Its not a [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
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Traveling with less luggage
Between security hurtles and checked baggage fees, limiting luggage has become less of an extreme travel choice and more of a survival strategy. After living for six months out of one small backpack, I learned a thing or two about traveling light. Here are my top tips for traveling with less luggage. Storage: Choose luggage with extra storage compartments and pockets. Space bags allow excess air to be squeezed out, making for more efficient storage. Compression sacks work similarly for [...]
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The Hermit Kingdom Opens Up: Traveling to North Korea
Tweet Share this North Korea has never been the easiest place to visit and most news out of this secretive nation — sandwiched in between its estranged neighbor South Korea and uneasy ally China — is extreme propaganda. However, there are a subset of travelers who… Email Print article source
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Enterprise gives $25 million to WU scholarship fund
For the second time in less than a year, Washington University has scored a significant gift, with the latest one adding $25 million to a scholarship fund targeting needy students. On Friday, the university announced the gift by Jack Taylor on behalf of Clayton-based Enterprise Holdings, the parent of Enterprise Rent-A-Car. And while its not the largest chunk of free cash the university has ever received, it did match the highest grant given specifically for scholarships. The other $25 million [...]
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Newton School Budget Proposes Increase to Sports, Activity Fees
The Newton schools are considering imposing additional fees to close over a million dollars in fiscal 2012s $4.4 million budget gap. The proposed hike would close an estimated 24%, or $1.04 million, in that gap. #13; The fourth special budget meeting of the Newton School Committee on Monday night focused on non-instructional areas to the budget, including school fees and other administrative and operational areas of the school budget. The main area of discussion on Monday night centered around the [...]
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Temporary closure of Moline’s Ralph B Birks Recreation Trail & Parkway
–> Press release submitted by City of Moline Temporary Closure of Ralph B. Birks Recreational Trail and Ben Butterworth Memorial Parkway Due to flood preparations and dike construction along the Mississippi River, the Ralph B. Birks Recreation Trail will be closed from the i-wireless Center parking lot to 18th Street in Moline. Bicyclists and pedestrians should use an alternate route until the threat of flooding passes and dikes are removed. Other parts of the Ralph B. Birks Recreation Trail and [...]
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More recreation opportunities at Riverfront Park
Cottonwoods Riverfront Park will see some expansion of features both at the Little League fields and near the Verde River.Saturday, March 26, 2011 article source
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Food & Hobbies: Combining food and hobbies is a natural for foodie entertainment
The pros tell us it?s best for body and soul to eat when you eat, and do nothing else. Yes, there?s some wisdom in this. But food is for sharing, and hobbies are more fun with company. So why not double the fun by combining them? So we skied and ate soup, and then sat in the kitchen of Blueberry Hill Inn chit-chatting, till we tried another activity ? foodless, but fun: passenger in Tony Clark?s awesome snow-grooming vehicle, riding [...]
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DP World Reports Profits Up on Higher Shipping Volumes; Shipping and Logistics …
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Throwbacks to the past to drag us into the future
Angostura bitters and enterprise zones. Just the names make you nostalgic, don’t they? But which of these throwbacks to previous decades are now past their sell-by date? Both, it would seem, judging by the reform of tax reliefs announced in this week’s Budget. It was in the late 1970s that I first remember discovering the small crusty bottle wrapped in an oddly oversize label at the back of my Dad’s drinks cabinet, and wondering why anyone would want to put [...]
