| Corrections and clarifications
The sales price of a property was misstated Sunday in the Done Deals column of the Real Estate section. The property at 2527 W. Michigan St., sold for $55,500, not $555,000. Metro MLS, the multiple listing service, provided incorrect information. *** An article Monday in the Sports section about the Daytona 500 incorrectly stated that NASCAR drivers Dale Jarrett and David Reutimann did not compete in the race last year. 2/10/08 An article Saturday misstated when the state's Emergency Operations Center opened to coordinate the response to last week's big snowstorm. It opened at 8 p.m. Tuesday, not 8 p.m. Wednesday. 2/8/08 An article Friday about Milwaukee Common Council candidate Sam McGovern-Rowen misstated where he earned his bachelor's degree.
Vive la Downtown! Business grants available to instill a touch of ...
Whether it's flowers spilling into the street from a florist shop or sipping coffee at an outdoor cafe, the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership wants to bring a bit of Paris to the city of steel. Through a $1 million grant from the Colcom Foundation, the partnership is offering matching funds to Downtown restaurants, retailers and businesses as incentive to perk up their facades and sidewalks. The Paris to Pittsburgh program is one of two initiatives being launched by the partnership this year in a bid to add vibrancy to the heart of the Golden Triangle. It also is offering property owners loans to convert vacant or under-used upper floors into apartments in the hope of providing more affordable options for people who want to live Downtown. One of the goals of the Paris to Pittsburgh program is to make store and restaurant fronts more transparent, with large window or garage door-like openings that will allow patrons to move freely between the indoor and outdoor spaces.
In The Valley Of Elah
It's a fictionalised version of the story of Richard Davis, who was murdered with awful brutality near Fort Benning, Georgia, in 2003. Before I amplify my praise, let me raise some doubts about the Hollywood peace train now getting up steam. A lot of films are now questioning the Iraq war - sort of. As usual, they are following American public opinion, rather than leading it. It's true that this is happening more quickly than it did after Vietnam; it's also true that the war in Iraq, depending on your source, is not yet won or lost, so none of these films is really prepared to call it an unjust, immoral or a pointless war - whatever the American opinion polls say. That's hardly surprising but I don't think any film so far has even given a sense that most of the suffering is in Iraq, rather than the US.
Demo contest's x-factor: GOP
Retired engineer Hector Garcia usually votes for Republicans in presidential contests. He didn't this year. Walking away from an early voting machine at Christus Spohn Hospital Shoreline on Tuesday, he said he chose Sen. Barack Obama. The reason? He doesn't much like Obama's rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the Republican nomination seems sewed up. Much of the focus in the Democratic primary is on voter turnout in urban Harris and Dallas counties, where Obama is expected to do well, and Hispanic South Texas, where Clinton is expected to do well. But there is another, less-explored constituency that could also alter the landscape: Republicans. With a widespread feeling that there is little to vote for in their own party during the primary, there is anecdotal evidence that many will flock to the Democratic primary because in Texas, voters can go to the polls in any party's primary.
The shaves and the shave-nots
I threw out a call for guys with facial hair to come to an event at a Boulder restaurant," he says. "I thought we would get like 15 people. We got more than 100." The guys hung out and talked about their beards, and competed in a beard contest. .
|
