Seattle City Council candidates square off on key issues
Seattle Times
How to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct, fix the "Mercer mess" and create more affordable in-city housing were the hot issues Tuesday evening as candidates for Seattle City Council squared off at the city's main library. In a forum sponsored...
City regulator toughens guidelines for finance hiring
Financial Times
The City regulator on Wednesday warned the 5,000 largest UK financial services companies that it plans to be much more involved in the selection of their top corporate officials and to ask tougher questions of potential candidates. In a let...
City to feed jobless tech training with meter money
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago will spend $20 million in proceeds from the parking meter lease to create its very own "Tech Corps" -- by offering technology training and temporary city jobs to 10,500 laid-off professionals. "There are a lot of people unemployed o...
Three seek two at-large seats on city schools board
Pueblo Chieftain
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Merit raises for workers weighed by City Council
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Even if the City Council approves money for employee raises next year, it’s not guaranteed every employee will get one. In discussing whether to approve 1.5 percent pay increases for 2010, several council members questioned the city’s polic...
The Eternal City: 48 Hours in Rome
ABC News
The sights, sounds and smells that Rome offers visitors could satisfy for a lifetime, and while 48 hours will not do justice to the eternal city, ABC News has compiled a taste of things to do if you are only going to be there for a couple o...
Hong Kong Home Beats Record; Tsang Warns of Bubble (Update1)
Bloomberg
Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Henderson Land Development Co. said it sold a duplex apartment in Hong Kong for a record price, hours after city Chief Executive Donald Tsang signaled the government may release more land to deflate a property bubble....
Fall City of Lights tournaments
Beacon News
The city of Aurora's Youth Services department in partnership with the Fox Valley Park District and many of Aurora's middle schools concluded its fall tournament series Oct. 8. More than 1,400 students participated. The Round Robin Football...
Chef's mission: saving a city's food culture
Chicago Tribune
NEW ORLEANS — - Chef John Besh opened his fifth restaurant a month ago and has his sixth opening in as many days. He's touring the country with a just-published 5-pound, 200-recipe, $45 paean to the region's foodways called "My New Orleans:...
Benefits for Atwater City Council members outpace similar elected ...
Merced Sun-Star
ATWATER -- There may be a recession on, but the five best-paid city council members in the county -- Atwater's -- haul home a hefty harvest of benefits. They each receive at least $1,500 a month -- in some cases higher -- in stipends and sa...
Wichita City Council votes to hire downtown developer
Wichita Eagle
Downtown development philosophies clashed in the Wichita City Council chambers on Tuesday. Some argued that special tax incentives for downtown are unfair to those who develop elsewhere in the city. Others said the city's core is pivotal fo...
Wichita City Council delays decision on Sports Hall of Fame building
Wichita Eagle
With two late-arriving offers in hand, the Wichita City Council on Tuesday put off for a week a decision on the fate of the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame building at 238 N. Mead. City Manager Robert Layton said offers from Wichita commercial d...
New York City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden Is the 2009
MSN Money
NEW YORK, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Extraordinary accomplishments in urban planning are being recognized by this year's Urban Land Institute (ULI) J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development. Amanda M. Burden, chair of ...
City issues $31.47 million in COPs for USOC deal
Colorado Springs Gazette
More than 18 months after agreeing to a $53 million incentive deal to keep the U.S. Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs, a city agency on Tuesday completed a key financing element that will allow the long-delayed agreement to go forward. ...
