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Modern cool, not cold
When it comes to family homes, modern architecture can be a tough sell. Often minimal and impossibly clutter-free, modern design also generates another common complaint: It’s too cold, too austere. But designer and builder Noah Walker recently...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Architecture
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05/06: New businesses
Occupational licenses issued recently by county and municipal governments in Central Florida; data collected by Market Force Corp. of Newtown Square, Pa. Orange Bryan's Construction and Remodeling, remodeling, 8029 Village Green Road, Orlando, 32818....
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Foods and Beverages, Realty, Arts and Culture, Personal Service
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Man dies after jumping in river with bricks
Tribune reporterA 19-year-old man was pronounced dead today after he apparently jumped into the Chicago River on the Near North Side weighted down with bricks tied around his waist, officials said. The man was seen by someone on the bridge on the 1100 block of West...Tags: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Police Department, Near North Side
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Audit: Broward schools paid $1 million for canceled project
Broward schools paid more than $1 million toward a construction project that had already been terminated by Superintendent Robert Runcie, according to a new audit report that found the payments were for work never completed. The $4.8 million project to...Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Pembroke Pines, House Building
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L.A. full of roads to ruin for cars
A drive along Angus Street in hilly Silver Lake requires navigating a gantlet of buckled concrete slabs and dirt-filled cracks. But on South Seabluff Drive in Playa Vista the ride is smooth, the pavement is black and you can smell the fresh asphalt....
Tags: Tom LaBonge, Government, Science and Technology, Transportation, Jan Perry
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Florida fights stucco-eating African snails
An epic battle is raging in South Florida: man against snail. The state is struggling to contain an invasion of the giant African land snail, a species that thrives in hot and wet tropical climates. These gooey and destructive mollusks grow up to 8.5...
Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Africa, Meningitis, Miami-Dade County
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Local man continues mission to make affordable storm shelters
adyer@ky3.comStorm Shelters save lives, but many people don’t have them because they are simply too expensive. After witnessing the damage from the Joplin tornado, Russel Gehrke made it his mission to provide storm shelters to Joplin tornado survivors that can't...Tags: Joplin Tornado (2011), FEMA, Gardens and Parks, Tornadoes, Travel
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Art or hazard? Flanagan students fight for tiles
It's called the Sistine Chapel of art at Flanagan High -- more than 70 classroom ceiling tiles are covered in watercolors, paints and hanging sculptures. But a city fire marshal deemed them a safety hazard and ordered they be removed immediately from...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Pembroke Pines, Miramar, Students
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No longer vacant, Baltimore home is where couple's heart is
Jamila Ward and Lionel Jennings had been house hunting on and off for two years when their agent pointed the couple in a new direction: a formerly condemned property in a revitalized area of Baltimore. Some city neighborhoods, just years ago marked by...
Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Fabian, Hospitals and Clinics, Arts and Culture, Architecture
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Make sure flooring work is on the level
Q: When our basement flooded, we had a contractor pull up the carpeting and install vinyl tiles. He prepared the concrete floor by scraping up the rug glue that remained, and used commercial adhesive to put down the new tiles. Some of the tiles do not...
Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Selby Area School District auctioning off items from old school building
Members of the public will have an opportunity to own a piece of Selby High School during a salvage auction. Selby Area School District officials are putting items from the old high school up for public bid to try to generate surplus revenue for...Tags: Auction Service
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New Washington County Public Schools administrative offices still in planning phases
julieg@herald-mail.comA sheet of paper with the words “Do not move” was taped to the U-shaped receptionist desk. A similar note was taped to a large white planter nearby that contained a pot of crusty old soil and dead plant material. A few yards away was a set...Tags: Allegheny Energy Inc., Technology, Renovation, Electricity Production and Distribution, Arts and Culture
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