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Though the OMP paid market prices for the homes and businesses it acquired and assisted residents with relocation, the area's 28 remaining homeowners are refusing to move--and seething at the plan's champion, Chicago mayor Richard Daley. "The city's pitch was, We're going to take your...
Amid these legal skirmishes, neighborhood holdouts vow not to be strong-armed out of the community where they nurtured careers and families. "How can [Chicago] come in here and say, 'I'm taking your home?'" asks longtime resident Gail Flores. "This is America."
The worrisome news is that as the world economy grows, so does global meat consumption. The average person in the industrialized world eats more than 176 lb. of meat annually, compared with around 66 lb. consumed by the average resident of the developing world. As developing nations get richer, one...
Back to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 2 1/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. The trick is that Alaska's government spends money on its...
As if it couldn't support itself, Alaska also ranks No. 1, year after year, in money it sucks in from Washington. In 2005 (the most recent figures), according to the Tax Foundation, Alaska ranked 18th in federal taxes paid per resident ($5,434) but first in federal spending received...