In Denver, for instance, Susan Montoya had nearly an entire Kmart to herself Friday morning. Montoya half-heartedly flipped through a rack of girls' holiday party dresses and looked down the store's empty aisles.
At a luxury residential high-rise in downtown Miami, a $16 million robotic garage plagued with delays finally closed, leaving tenants paying $28 a day to park elsewhere. The police were called to keep order at the building, BrickellHouse.
During off-peak hours, the garage works fine, residents say. But when it’s time to go to work, impatient commuters complain of waits up to 30 minutes. Apologetic garage attendants offer free Starbucks to ease jangled nerves.
“I’ve already been late to several, important board meetings at work,” said Beatriz Guerrero, a marketing executive who moved into the tower at 1300 Brickell Bay Drive two months ago. “I’m worried about losing my job.”
Guerrero said she asked her landlord for a discount in her monthly rent. No dice, the landlord said.
The 374-unit building opened in November, and delays have gotten worse as more tenants move in.
The garage’s operator, New Jersey-based Boomerang, voluntarily declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August.
Boomerang said in court papers that one of its lenders, a company called Parking Source that is controlled by Hernandez, had stopped funding its operations. Boomerang is seeking at least $25 million in damages against Parking Source, and alleges that the company is trying to steal its employees and ruin its business.
The messy financial relationship between Hernandez and Boomerang has left Brickell House residents in the lurch.
[The release of the videos] will coincide with Congress’s final budget debate, and the videos have stoked growing Republican threats of a government shutdown unless Planned Parenthood is stripped of about $500 million it gets annually, mostly to care for low-income Medicaid patients. By law, public funds cannot pay for abortions.
[The release of the videos] will coincide with Congress’s final budget debate, and the videos have stoked growing Republican threats of a government shutdown unless Planned Parenthood is stripped of about $500 million it gets annually, mostly to care for low-income Medicaid patients. By law, public funds cannot pay for abortions.
[The release of the videos] will coincide with Congress’s final budget debate, and the videos have stoked growing Republican threats of a government shutdown unless Planned Parenthood is stripped of about $500 million it gets annually, mostly to care for low-income Medicaid patients. By law, public funds cannot pay for abortions.
[The release of the videos] will coincide with Congress’s final budget debate, and the videos have stoked growing Republican threats of a government shutdown unless Planned Parenthood is stripped of about $500 million it gets annually, mostly to care for low-income Medicaid patients. By law, public funds cannot pay for abortions.
And then there was the wisp of a story that Mr. Farmer [then New Jersey's attorney general] said was most disturbing of all: “That Muslims were dancing on the rooftops and in the streets of Jersey City and Paterson.”
Indeed, pockets of radical Islamists had set up in Jersey City in the past. The 1993 World Trade Center bombers rented a van and stored chemicals and fertilizers in that city.
Open jubilation at the mass death, Mr. Farmer said, might quickly be followed by rioting and more deaths. “If true, we would have had to mobilize the State Police and National Guard and locked the place down,” he said.
“We followed up on that report instantly because of its implications,” he added. “The word came back quickly from Jersey City, later from Paterson. False report. Never happened.”According to a 11/25/2015 Media Matters in America post, Serge Kovaleski covered the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and has recently added to the definitive debunking of the presidential candidate's smear.
[He] has subpoenaed scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and demanded that they turn over internal e-mails related to their research. Their findings contradicted earlier work showing that global warming had paused, and Smith, a climate change skeptic, has accused them of altering global temperature data and rushing to publish their research in the June issue of the journal Science.
Wilson likened a Trump nomination to a “hangover and then herpes” for the GOP.
"The handling of this restructure has been atrocious. The board can't treat the employees as well as the employees have treated me."
He said Tuesday that term limits will motivate lawmakers to work more quickly and ensure an infusion of fresh ideas.
The proposal wouldn't apply to Gov. Scott Walker or anyone in the Legislature at that time it's passed. Instead, it would start in 2020 and limit newly elected Senate and Assembly members to no more than 12 years in office, and restrict the governor and lieutenant governor to eight years.
Zack Stuller is a grower in Exeter. He says he hasn't received water from the Central Valley Water Project in two years.
He has spent $2,000 per acre-foot for water from distant agencies and $70,000 to dig a well for six-acres of lemons.
"For the amount of acres that's there, doesn't pencil. But, I'm not going down without a fight. I'm gonna keep my trees alive."
The public-private hybrid WEDC has struggled with high turnover in top positions, not recovered loans made to troubled companies, and gave out $126 million without a formal review.
Erpenbach and many officers contend the department could better hang on to its employees if it paid them more, gave them more training and treated them better. Starting officers make about $15 an hour, and the officers and administration have repeatedly clashed since 2011, when collective bargaining ended for most public workers under Walker's signature law, known as Act 10.
The new overtime policy comes as the department is facing severe staff shortages and routinely making officers work extra hours. The situation was so acute this summer that Columbia Correctional Institution paid officers from other institutions for mileage and hotel stays to help cover shifts at Columbia.
“When there’s less staff, and less experienced staff, that puts us in greater danger,” said Below. “They don’t have the experience dealing with inmates.”
Some describe CCI as a powder keg.Len Below retired after working for 33 years as a prison guard.
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In eastern Kentucky and other former Democratic bastions that have swung Republican in the past several decades, the people who most rely on the safety-net programs secured by Democrats are, by and large, not voting against their own interests by electing Republicans. Rather, they are not voting, period. They have, as voting data, surveys and my own reporting suggest, become profoundly disconnected from the political process.
A majority of Republicans — including 54 percent of self-described conservative Republicans — believe the world’s climate is changing and that mankind plays some role in the change, according to a new survey conducted by three prominent Republican pollsters.
Earlier this month, the blue-collar city that has been home to Polish Catholic immigrants and their descendents for more than a century became what demographers think is the first jurisdiction in the nation to elect a majority-Muslim council.
While the city’s Polish Catholic population has shrunk from 90 percent in 1970 to about 11 percent today, in part as the old residents have moved to more prosperous suburbs, Polish American culture still permeates the town.
