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Faulty School Projections Prove Costly To Taxpayers
Courant Staff WriterPortland's combination middle-high school was built big — so big that the district is considering renting out space in the building. Based in part on the town's projections that the school's population would balloon to 1,070 by 2008, state...Tags: State Budgets, Stamford, Groton, Accounting and Auditing, Land Price
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Jobs For Day Laborers Are Dwindling
McClatchy NewspapersHere, he waits — sometimes up to eight hours — in hopes that a passing pickup truck or van en route to a job site will stop and offer him work, even for a fraction of what he earned only a year ago. Day laborers such as Javier once powered...Tags: Demographics, Vehicles, Road Transportation, Immigration, Orange Bowl
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Job Worries In Congress Invade Gas Tax Holiday Dream
Associated PressThe political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere. Despite calls from the presidential campaign trail for a...Tags: Political Candidates, Road Transportation, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Barack Obama, Commuting
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South Hampton Roads roundup
A low-profile Norfolk police waterborne patrol that protected nine city-owned lakes and reservoirs in Suffolk and Isle of Wight County ended this month in a money-saving move. Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries conservation police...Tags: Timothy M. Kaine, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Isle of Wight County, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Court Administration
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Leasing becomes tough sell
Sun ReporterAs businesses have delayed or halted expansion plans, office landlords are going to great lengths to get commercial brokers to at least visit their buildings, even without tenants in tow. Brokers who represent potential tenants are being paid cash just...Tags: Rental Service, CACI International Incorporated, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), White Marsh, Crossroads
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Building slump saves $15 mil on two schools
The Virginia GazetteAn imploding construction climate helped trim the fourth middle and ninth elementary schools by $14.7 million. Construction cuts due to a softening economy have been helped by value engineering savings and less-fancy materials than once envisioned....Tags: Academic Progress, Prices, Technology, Construction and Property, Contracts
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Bad news for builders - construction costs continue to climb
Sentinel Staff WriterConstruction costs are still soaring, and that's bad news for the Orlando area, one of the leading commercial construction markets in the country this year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday that producer prices surged in June for the sixth...Tags: Construction and Property, House Building
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Anne Arundel Education Notes
The Anne Arundel County Board of Education has elected Enrique M. Melendez as president and Edward P. "Ned" Carey as vice president for the 2008-2009 school year. The meeting Wednesday was the first of the new board, which was expanded from eight to...Tags: George Washington University, Health Treatments, Benjamin L. Cardin, Illnesses, Labor Legislation
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Standing strong for those long gone
Sun ReporterAlmost two centuries ago, Irish immigrants who fled the poverty of their native island for the promise of the New World would do almost anything to put food on the table, but thousands who turned up in Maryland got more than they bargained for. Recruited...Tags: Railway Transportation, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Land Resources, Transportation, Local Authority
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Pay Hikes For East Hartford, Tolland School Superintendents
School superintendents in East Hartford and Tolland received raises. Police in Manchester grappled with youth gangs. In Storrs, people stopped by smell a really stinky flower. Here's a round-up of some of the stories Courant reporters covered in...Tags: Road Transportation, Punishment, Juvenile Delinquency, Academic Progress, Prisons
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