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...scruffy museums, is lined with designer shops, sushi bars and restaurants. Companies from LG Philips (LCD screens) to Google (service support) have poured $5 billion into the local economy in the past five years, creating 200,000 jobs in a city of just 650,000. The mayor's office reviewed 560 investment projects last year alone. Since 2002, unemployment dropped from 14% to under 5%. Mayor Rafal Dutkiewicz credits low production costs, a good location near the autobahns to Western Europe and a deep pool of educated young workers: local universities graduate 24,000 students each year. To achieve similar...
...hills near the Ukrainian border, some 45% of the 6,500 inhabitants voted for the PIS in the last election; Tusk's party got only 10%. The region is poor: Radecznica's sole employer is a state mental institution. The town lacks paved roads and even a sewage system. Mayor Gabryel Gabka, 58, has applied for European Union money to build one. "But even if we get it, there may not be the people here to do the job," he says. As for Tusk's "liberal" agenda, says Lucjan Bednarz, a local PIS activist: "Only youngsters...
...first time the Committee has considered the issue. The possibility of such a program was discussed ten years ago. “We were very intrigued with the idea, and we discussed it back and forth in Cambridge for a while, and then interest dissipated,” said Mayor E. Denise Simmons, who was a member of the School Committee at the time. Yesterday’s roundtable was “just an investigation,” though, according to Fowler-Finn. “Right now, this is being done from the top down...
Several historic Harvard buildings, including Adams House, Quincy House, and The Harvard Crimson, may no longer be located on Plympton St. if a former mayor of Cambridge succeeds in his plan to rename the street...
...statistics--that youth violence is dropping, that schools are getting safer, that fewer than 1% of teen gun-related deaths occur in schools--it's because many of us float our children off to school in a bubble, grateful to live in a wholesome town--"We are America," Santee Mayor Randy Voepel declared--and unwilling to admit that the danger could follow us no matter where...