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Sex, Coffee and Seattle
Evan Miller | Tue, May 27th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Seattle | Tags: news, seattle, evan miller, the new argument, money, video, police, florida, laws, protests, employment, coffee, starbucks, friday, caffeine, oregon | 1
It is an unfortunate truth that sex sells only because we buy it. With the women from the HBO hit series “Sex and the City” knowing this truth all too well, the relationship between sex and cities across the country has caused many to ask where to draw the line. The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports.
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Immigrants Face Discrimination, Abusive Fair Housing Policy In Nebraska
Brentin Mock | Mon, May 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: legislation, taxpayers, laws, protests, hispanic, illegal immigrants, fair housing, jon bruning, landlord, nebraska, discrimination, immigration, brentin mock | 1
Immigration and its alleged illegal status is posing legal challenges for states and cities all over the country. For Nebraska, a state experiencing just a moderate level of Hispanic immigration inflow, Attorney General Jon Bruning has drawn the line on who he’ll protect and who he won’t. For him, immigrants simply aren’t financially worth protecting.
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Headlines
More Olympic news, Stories from D.C., Florida HUD goes Local, Golf Sprawl, MORE
Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Apr 7th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, building, headlines, downtown, cnn, chicago, china, police, protests, paris, sprawl, suburb, olympics, bob king, upenn, golf, university of penn, washington post | 0
Tibetan protesters continue their focus on China’s olympic march, UPenn students win student urban design competition, Florida HUD returns to local control, Hispanics contribute $60 billion to the telecommunications industry ... this and more in today’s headlines.
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Activists, homeless advocates protest New Orleans housing complex
Hayley Richardson | Wed, Dec 19th, 2007 | Category: Report | Tags: hayley richardson, new orleans, protests, b.w. cooper, architecture reflects immigrant population, post bloomberg nyc | 1
“Activists, including affordable housing and homeless advocate Jamie “Bork” Loughner, have chained themselves to bulldozers this morning at the B.W. Cooper housing complex in New Orleans. The government this week started demolishing buildings at the B.W. Cooper complex, which has 1000 buildings and is located across the highway from the Superdome. The city this week delayed demolition at three other complexes, but started demolishing B.W. Cooper over the objections of…
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