The Real Housing Crisis
- May
- 19
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Patrick Macfarlane investigates properties infested, falling apart and plagued by poor maintenance.
Shoddy extension work, disregard for planning regulations, DIY electrics and slug infestations have caused students living out of college-owned accommodation to speak out against their living and study environments.
In some cases, landlords have ignored complaints of students or have attempted to placate them through [...]
SPACEISS Mission Puts First S. Korean Astronaut in Orbit
- April
- 13
Youngest Woman Ever in Space
A zipper broke Tuesday on the space suit of Sergei Volkov, 35, the commander of the Soyuz mission, but the suit passed a pressure test and he was cleared for flight.
The Soyuz spacecraft is scheduled to deliver Volkov, cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, 43, and Yi So-yeon, a 29-year-old South Korean bioengineer, to [...]
Five die as jet crashes into Farnborough homes
- April
- 8
Two former motor racing champions were the among the five occupants of a
private aircraft who died yesterday afternoon when it crashed into a housing
estate in a ball of fire.
David Leslie, 54, and Richard Lloyd, 63, were aboard the Cessna Citation when
it suffered engine failure minutes after taking off from Biggin Hill airport
in Kent. One of [...]
Andrew Nicoll on life in Broughty Ferry
- March
- 30
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People say it’s the posh part of Dundee, but it’s not. It’s a mixture of people and houses - some grand, some much less grand - side by side. Live Theater I have a doctor living on one side of me and a joiner on the other.
That’s how it is. It’s a community, with places [...]
2 plead guilty in Jeffco to human smuggling
- March
- 6
GOLDEN Two men accused of transporting 15 undocumented foreign nationals into the United States through Colorado have pleaded guilty to human smuggling.
Exal Sanchez-Figueroa, 25, and Luis Contreras-Ferreira, 25, entered the pleas this week in Jefferson County District Court.
Both men have been deported three times before. They are in custody at the [...]
No food no cash no freedom and no end to their love of Fidel Castro
- March
- 5
A clapped-out Russian Lada delivered us to a dilapidated building in the
Vedado district of central Havana. We slipped in through a side gate and
followed our guide up a narrow, ill-smelling stairwell. On the first landing
Vladimir, a youngish man with shaven head, ushered us quickly into his abode
and shut the door.
The dismal, cramped interior took our [...]
Historic marker for Janis Joplin’s childhood home
- January
- 21
Janis Joplin’s laugh still rings in the memory of a
childhood friend, The Associated Press reports. At a gathering to dedicate a historic marker in front of a Joplin childhood home, Monteel Copple recalled her laugh as they tried to keep their skirts in place while hanging upside down on the school’s monkey [...]
Cities of the Future, Part 2: If We Build Them, Will We Stay?
- January
- 19
Parking the Past
“The ‘city of the future’ will be found in the models of the past. Historically through time, man has sought to live in proximity to one another. The Romans and early American Incas and Aztecs existed in cities with high densities; impressive, really, given their technological construction limitations,” Arthur Neudek, an independent real [...]
Cities of the Future, Part 2: If We Build Them, Will We Stay?
- January
- 17
Parking the Past
“The ‘city of the future’ will be found in the models of the past. Historically through time, man has sought to live in proximity to one another. The Romans and early American Incas and Aztecs existed in cities with high densities; impressive, really, given their technological construction limitations,” Arthur Neudek, an independent real [...]
Subdivision in Watts attracts attention
- January
- 17
It’s an improbable place to find a home-building boom in the midst of Los Angeles’ sluggish housing market.
Yet only three blocks from the Imperial Courts public housing project, along a stretch of land once used as a neighborhood dump, 44 homes are rising in Watts within sight of its famous towers.
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New homes rise [...]
