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DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee is asking the Office of the Inspector General to look into a $400 million contract awarded to a North Dakota company for a border wall in Arizona. In a letter dated Wednesday, Congressman Bennie Thompson raised concern about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decision to award the contract for the wall to Fisher ...
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If your memories of ‘90s Philadelphia are hazy or nonexistent, it may be hard to appreciate why the 10-year property tax abatement was once considered a progressive tax policy. So, let’s go back to 1997, the year that City Council passed an early version of the abatement: Thousands were fleeing Philadelphia for the suburbs. A dozen downtown skyscrapers stood empty, including the burned-out ...
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Work is set to begin this month on a 1.5 million-square-foot office tower alongside Union Station, after the developers landed a $476 million construction loan. BMO Tower will be under construction once demolition of a parking garage is completed on the site at 320 S. Canal St., said John O’Donnell, CEO of Riverside Investment & Development. The loan is from BMO Harris Bank, Bank of America ...
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Barriers erected outside of Parliament emphasise the gap between the elected and the electorate - a gap which the architectural and urban design sought to “eradicate,” The Chamber of Architects said as it weighed in on current developments. In a statement on Wednesday, the chamber said that while it appreciated the need to ensure the security and safety of all citizens, it was “disturbed” by the ...
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Since leaders first started talking about tackling the problem of climate change, the world has spewed more heat-trapping gases, gotten hotter and suffered hundreds of extreme weather disasters. Fires have burned, ice has melted and seas have grown. The first United Nations diplomatic conference to tackle climate change was in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Here’s what’s happened to Earth since: — ...
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People will be burned to death in their homes unless the next government accelerates action to fix hundreds of unsafe apartment blocks, survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster have warned party leaders. In a stark election intervention, people who escaped the west London blaze and bereaved family and friends told Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson of their “deep and grave concern ...
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