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How to Spend $825 billion?

The Democrats on the Appropriations committee have released their plan to stimulate the economy by playing the combined roles of wet nurse and ... improvements to visitor facilities, road and trail restoration, preservation of buildings of cultural and historic importance, rehabilitation of abandoned mines and oil fields, and environmental cleanup [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:48:00

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Phoenix Sightseeing

When you visit the Phoenix metropolitan area be prepared to find an abundance of attractions and places to spend your time ... of restored Victorian buildings preserved as homage to the late 1800s prosperous period of the city’s history. The houses are now serving as shops, museums and restaurants, with the elegant Rosson [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:29:10


Porking The Economy

The more I learn about this “economic stimulus package”—and I think the quotation marks are needed—the more disgusted I get ... on it, and calling it a stimulus package. Here’s some of the things in it: $3.836 billion for rural water ... and trail restoration, preservation of buildings of cultural and historic importance [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:08:57


Democrats Reveal the 2009 BOHICA Stimulus Plan

They have been talking about the need for swift action on this bill, and when you see what is in it, ... are just some of the examples of what Obama considers "economic stimulus": $3.836 billion for rural water and waste grant ... facilities, road and trail restoration, preservation of buildings of cultural and historic importance [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:00:39


Award-Winning Heritage

The strange thing about heritage in Toronto is that we don't really appreciate what we've got until ... with a sizable complement of heritage buildings scattered throughout the city. The urge to preserve our built ... awareness among the general public—getting them to care about buildings and architectural [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 17:20:13


Hawaii's House of the Heavenly King

Yesterday, bana-bear and I visited the historic Ali'iolani Hale, listed as one of United States's sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation (per National Register of Historic Places ... judicial history which includes a restored historic courtroom.  The building also houses Hawai'i's [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 20:30:21


Sunday Walk: Richmond

Inspired by Erich Harvey’s collection of Flickr photographs of the Britannia heritage shipyard, ... shipyard is a preservation of the history of commercial boat building in Steveston, by Richmond. There are vast collections of maritime artifacts, photographs and documents, and continued restoration [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 01:02:31


New England town struggles to preserve fishing (AP)

GLOUCESTER, Mass. – When Arthur would probably be of little Sawyer was a teenager, fishing interest to tourists ... fishing last year with restoration money of Sawyer's youth will probably set aside by natural gas companies never return to this historic, building terminals in nearby centuries-old New England port [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:02:42



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