Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Last spring I moderated a panel at GOOD's offices here in L.A. about public transportation and the community. As discussions about public transit and Los Angeles often do, it got pretty heated towards the end as the panelists and a few members of the audience argued about what was most responsible for preventing the construction of a major subway line running from downtown to the Pacific Ocean: ...
Continue here: Putting Urban Planning In the Hands of the People (GOOD)
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Railway minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday gave a city a belated gift of a non-stop train to Delhi and also promised to develop Ajni as a model station.
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Belatedly, didi gifts a train to Nagpur (The Times of India)
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Despite the state not getting much from the railway budget, people here have a reason to be happy. Cuttack railway station is among those that will be developed into model stations.
More here: No new trains but Cuttack happy (The Times of India)
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Wagon and coach makers are sensing new busines opportunities from Railway minister Mamata Banerjee's plan to start projects under private-public-partnership (PPP) model.
Continue here: Cos smell biz in wagon plan (The Times of India)
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
WASHINGTON: US police said they are following some "good" tips in the case of the shooting death of Gurjeet Singh, an Indian American gas station clerk in Gary, Indiana and hope to arrest the suspects.
Continue here: US police have 'good' clues about Gurjeet's murder (The Times of India)
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
The west end of Columbia Park has the river, mature trees, great views and easy access. And it cou
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Public offers ideas on Columbia Park's future (Tri-City Herald)
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Set up in 2003, Iimpact's, an NGO created by IIM-A's 1978 batch, has 9,000 girls in 275 centres across Rajasthan, UP, Karnataka, Jharkand and Haryana.
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B-school makes impact on these girls' lives (The Times of India)
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has won first-place honors in the 2009 Mayors’ Climate Protection Awards, a program sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Hickenlooper wins Conference of Mayors award for FasTracks (Denver Business Journal)
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
NOTE TO READERS: The following stories about Mumbai, India, are the fourth installment in "A Tale of Five Cities," a series about the challenge of reaching an increasingly urban world with the Gospel.
More here: Mumbai: Seeking truth in India's 'City of Gold' (BPNews.net)
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
For the past two elections, the urban voter has gone with the national consensus, and consistently away from the BJP.
More here: Urban voter goes centrist, gives BJP cold shoulder (The Times of India)
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