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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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

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

Tuesday PM Linkage

· A sad scene at this South San Francisco foreclosure rally. ... restoration earns the city this year's Governor's Historic Preservation Award. SF Examiner [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 01:05:02

Landmark shield urged for St. Boniface

Architect Scott Rappe, chair of EVA's Planning, Preservation & Development Committee, Chair, sent this statement on Jan. 15 to 27th Ward Ald ... the preservation, restoration and reuse of St. Boniface Church and rectory and the reconstruction if the dismantled school facade and requests that the City of Chicago recognize their historical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 03:03:29

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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