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The plaque marking the Chinese Massacre of 1871 is not easy to find. Embedded into the sidewalk on North Los Angeles Street in front of the Chinese American Museum downtown, it is one of several bronze markers the museum installed in 2001 to commemorate key moments of Chinese American history in L.A. English and Chinese text is piled into a square smaller than a pizza box, which requires you ...
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Just before a groundbreaking ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on Sept. 28, an airplane flew over the site towing a banner that said: “Stop Tearing Down Trees.” When I visited the site earlier this month, hefty slices of tree trunks, limbs and leafy branches covered a section of the park three quarters of a mile long between Stony Island Avenue and Cornell Drive. More than 100 trees ...
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Oct. 21—The Truck Yard, a popular Texas-based chain of entertainment, restaurant and bar destinations, is going to add its first location along the canal in Lower Bricktown. The venue, along with plans for two hotels and an apartment tower on the west end of Lower Bricktown, if built, will complete a development first pitched by Randy Hogan in 1997 when the area was a largely abandoned ...
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Tens of billions of dollars for U.S. environmental justice initiatives originally proposed in a $3.5 trillion domestic spending package now hang in the balance as Democrats decide how to trim the bill down to $2 trillion. Investments in a wide range of these projects were proposed in the Build Back Better plan, but Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona demanded ...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's oil and gas regulator on Thursday proposed that the state ban new oil drilling within 3,200 feet of schools, homes and hospitals to protect public health in what would be the nation's largest buffer zone between oil wells and communities. It's the latest effort by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration to wind down oil production in California, ...
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VENICE, Italy (AP) — After Venice suffered the second-worst flood in its history in November 2019, it was inundated with four more exceptional tides within six weeks, shocking Venetians and triggering fears about the worsening impact of climate change. The repeated invasion of brackish lagoon water into St. Mark’s Basilica this summer is a quiet reminder that the threat hasn't receded. "I can ...
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s richest man reached an agreement with Mexico City authorities Wednesday to rebuild or reinforce an elevated subway line that collapsed in May, killing 26 people. Telecom and construction magnate Carlos Slim said his Grupo Carso’s construction subsidiary would pay the cost of rebuilding the span that collapsed, and reinforcing other parts of the elevated line to meet ...
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ATLANTA (AP) — One of the world’s largest elevator towers will soon be opened to test elevators of the future as well as current ones high above the Atlanta suburbs. TK Elevator's 420-foot (128 meters) tower is set to become fully operational early next year, company executives said this week on a tour of the new research lab and elevator testing facility. “This is going to transform our ...
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Westhope, a Tulsa home designed in the late 1920s by acclaimed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, has a new owner. Local commercial real estate developer Stuart Price recently bought the unique block and glass home, 3704 S. Birmingham Ave., from Bat, LLC, an Arkansas limited liability company, for $2.5 million, Tulsa County land records show. Attempts to reach Bat, LLC, Manager Harry "Chuck" Erwin ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Scaling down his “build back better” plans, President Joe Biden on Tuesday described a more limited vision to Democratic lawmakers of a $2 trillion government-overhaul package with at least $500 billion to tackle climate change and money for middle-class priorities — child tax credits, paid family leave, health care and free pre-kindergarten. And he expects negotiations to ...
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