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  City graduation rates, Harlem’s green building, Ralph Rapson dies, Next American City vs. Big Oil?

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Apr 1st, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, news, detroit, building, energy, architecture, green, oil, minneapolis, harlem, forbes, austin, whole foods, toyota, ralph rapson | 0

  New reports shows 50 of the largest cities in the U.S. have high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent. Philadelphia City Council rethinks urban planning strategy. David & Joyce Dinkins Gardens, built in Harlem, features green standards and Next American City chosen as one of the panelists to grill big oil companies at new congressional hearing? Today’s headlines.

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  Philly Presidential Debate, Chinese Super-Cities, Carl Rowe Interview, Alphono Jackon Blues, MORE

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Mar 25th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, news, obama, building, clinton, energy, green, sustainability, atlanta, architects, democrats, china, art, economics, michael nutter, carl rowe, alphonso jackson, chinese, music, austin | 0

  Philadelphia Daily News reports: “Mayor (Michael) Nutter said yesterday that he wants to get presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to Philadelphia for a public discussion of urban issues before the April 22 Democratic primary ... Nutter said that issues affecting American cities haven’t gotten enough attention in the campaign. ‘Health care is very important,’ Nutter said. ‘The war is very, very important. But if you live at 56th and Master, you’re not as focused on what al Qaeda is doing.” MORE

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  National parks 5-0, the Sesquipedalian spark of the Right, jailbirds, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Feb 28th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: meredith aska mcbride, democrats, police, austin, agribusiness, incarceration rate, park service, farm bill, the scourge of liberalism, one percent, sxsw, william f. buckley, jr. | 0

  Dems work to keep subsidies for agribusiness

  The negotiators agreed Tuesday to find $10 billion in extra money in a last-ditch effort to save the farm bill, once seen as an opportunity to reform commodity programs and divert scarce funds to conservation, nutrition, organic research and California fruit and vegetable growers who are locked out of the Depression-era programs. The money is needed to appease these interests while still maintaining the commodity subsidies. Yet in proposals…

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