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Marcellus Sterling Collins, Sr. (born June 7, 1919 - December 7, 2018) continued the early 20th-century legacy of his parents, Richard A. and Leola Collins. His father and mother owned and operated Collins Grocery, the first grocery store in Westside Dania.

He was a valedictorian at Booker T. Washington High School in Miami. He graduated from Morehouse College, as an Economics major and graduated as valedictorian. He was the first recipient of the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship. He was a member of Morehouse College Club and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.

He married Anita Louis Sweet (1939-90). Together they raised seven children and remained married until her death.

They became the owners and managers of commercial and residential properties around South Florida. He and his brothers enlarged and renamed their parents’ original store as the Collins’ Brothers Food Center. They opened stores in Fort Lauderdale, Golden Heights, and Miami making them among the earliest African American entrepreneurs to establish a chain of supermarkets in multiple cities. He founded Victory Marketing Associates. He was one of the first registered securities agents with Investors Planning Corporation.

He founded the South Broward Federal Credit Union. He controlled the Gold Coast Investment Corporation as well as his interests in the Collins’ Brothers Food Center and Victory Marketing Associates.

He was President of the Optimist Club, Broward Civic Improvement Association, Negro Chamber of Commerce, and Attucks High School PTA. He was a founder of the Dania Housing Authority, co-founder and board member of Hollywood Memorial Hospital; Chairman/Trustee and donor of land for Mt. Zion AME Church, and Treasurer for Collins Elementary PTA (named in honor of his mother). He was a trustee for Provident Hospital and Booker T. Washington High School. He taught small business management, vocational, and adult education classes.

The Florida Board of County Commissioners and the Historical Commission recognized and proclaimed him as a “Modern pioneer in the growth and development of Broward County. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #omegapsiphi

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New Port Richey History and Currency

A quick turn off hectic US 19 rewards visitors with a delightful downtown in New Port Richey. Immediately, you are in the historic Palm District. On your right, only a block off the highway is the Stonehaven at Main Street complex, offering riverfront living. On the left is the Chamber of Commerce. Then there is the bridge over the Cotee River, and on your left is Sims Park and The Hacienda. Welcome to New Port Richey, a true walkable downtown. Continuing along Main Street are numerous small businesses and shops. Grand Avenue continues the retail and restaurant offerings, and more. As you begin to explore this City nestled along the banks of the Pithlachascotee (Cotee) River, you will learn why it was a real part of the Roaring 20s Florida. New Port Richey was a magnet for the rich and famous of the 1920s, including the silent screen star, Thomas Meighan, and the famous golfer, Gene Sarazen. It is a great place to explore still today. New Port Richey was to be the Hollywood of the East These stars of yesteryear pictured the area as the "Hollywood of the East." They built beautiful homes along the river and historic buildings in the downtown. One of the more famous buildings is the Hacienda Hotel, where movie stars would winter. It was designed by Thomas Reed Martin, opening in 1927. The Mission Revival architecture bones are there, but the hotel fell into disrepair over the years. It was sold several times and was converted to an ACLF in 1986, and then closed for several years. The Hacienda Hotel property was purchased for renovation. I was privileged to tour the property. where I happily discovered that most of its architectural embellishments have been kept in decent repair. I wonder whose coat of arms is displayed over the ornate plaster mantle above a fireplace. The Hacienda hotel lobby fireplace in 2022 after renovation. Image from The Hacienda Facebook page. The Hacienda's lobby fireplace was spared in its degradation over time, but who knew what could be done? Image by Diane Bedard. The Renovated Hacienda Hotel Adds an Opportunity to Stay and Play in New Port Richey On Oct. 24, 1996, the Hacienda Hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Many say the old hotel is haunted but I could not find any real "proof." There is a "secret" floor that can be accessed from outside, or from a door in the kitchen.  It's called the Bordello. Additionally, there is a tunnel (no longer accessible) that goes out to the river where liquor and "ladies" could be smuggled in during Prohibition. The Hacienda Hotel was built of "hollow tiles," an architectural process that was popular in the 1920s. The hollow tiles are covered with stucco and painted to give a Spanish style. The Hacienda's street entrance by Diane Bedard. This historic hotel with a full-service Mediterranean-style restaurant and bar, Sasha’s on the Park, is worth a visit to New Port Richey for an overnight stay, just to experience its spirit of opulence and comfort. Officially reopening on September 14, 2022, after a restoration that began in 2019 and, like all historic restorations, took much longer than originally anticipated. While previous attempts were made to bring this beautiful, boutique hotel back to life after many years of mispurpose and neglect, it took Jim Gunderson, hotelier and restorer of the Lakeside Inn in Mount Dora, Florida, and his team to complete the job. Throughout the halls of The Hacienda, guests can discover original accents and architecture from the 1920s, complemented by modern amenities in its 40 unique guest rooms. The completed project has revived a spirit of opulence and comfort that was part of New Port Richey’s heyday while allowing guests to plan overnight stays. Welcome to The Hacienda. Image by Diane Bedard The hotel first opened in 1927 as one of Florida’s original pink hotels and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was painted bright pink uniting its original color with modern palates – like the hotel it covers. The Hacienda, with its spacious grand lobby featuring comfortable seating groups, original chandeliers, and a restored and working original fireplace has been transformed into an updated version of 1920s New Port Richey. There is a lush courtyard with the 1927 fountain serenading guests with its bubbling and gushing notes and two second-floor open air balconies, respite with rockers and views of Sims Park or said courtyard. You can find out more and book a room at The Hacienda website here. Murals enhance Downtown New Port Richey's Charm There are murals on several of the downtown buildings which are fun to explore. My favorite is the one at the corner of Main and Bank Street, entitled, "A 1920's Day on the Pithlachascotee River," by Keith Goodson. It uses local people's faces on the 1920's characters. The Hacienda mural in downtown New Port Richey by Diane Bedard. There is a plaque on the mural that names all the participants which marries past and present. All the downtown murals are very good and worth a gander. Sims Park features great Festivals and Live Music throughout the Year In addition to the murals, the river and the historic buildings, New Port Richey's downtown area has Sims Park. Sims Park borders the Cotee river, the Hacienda Hotel and Main Street, reaching over to Orange Lake. Sims Park features a nice outdoor amphitheater, and several festivals are held there each year featuring live music, vendors, and activities for residents and visitors of New Port Richey. Greater New Port Richey Main Street started many of the festivals and is a great resource for downtown commerce opportunities. Historic Richey Suncoast Theatre A 1920s photo of the Thomas Meighan Theater courtesy of fivay.org The Richey Suncoast Theatre was built in 1925 at a cost of $60,000. It was originally named the Meighan Theatre after the silent film star, Thomas Meighan. Meighan's film, The New Klondike, was the premier screening. A pipe organ was installed in 1927. The Meighan theater was the center of a controversy about being open on Sundays in New Port Richey. A January 4, 1927 vote of the city's citizens kept the venue open Sundays, along with baseball games being ok, but not dancing. In 1930, a "sound system" was installed and sound movies made their debut. In 1934, the Great Depression hit, and the magnificent theater was closed. The Richey Suncoast Theater today. Image by Diane Bedard The Meighan Theatre becomes The Richey Suncoast Theater One of the many iterations of the Meighan Theater, probably taken in the 1940s -1950s, courtesy of fivay.org Like the Hacienda Hotel, this extravagant building would be bought, sold, managed, and changed hands many times over the ensuing years. In 1972, the theater was renamed The Richey Suncoast Theater, and community theater featuring live performances began. In 2007, a complete remodel was done on the theater's tired interior. Air conditioning vents, lighting, carpet, walls, and seating were upgraded. The exterior was repainted and the gold dome was regilded. It is beautiful and functional once again. Live theater is active there today and it is great fun to visit downtown and see a local production. You can find many of them on our Calendar. Downtown Dining is Alive in New Port Richey There are several nice restaurants and taverns in downtown New Port Richey, ranging from the home-style Greek food at Christina's Restaurant to sushi at Kazu's Sushi. You can find an up-to-date guide to the downtown New Port Richey restaurants here. There is pizza, fresh soups and salads, and a traditional tea room, The White Heron Tea and Gifts. The White Heron requires reservations for high tea but offers a quiet room for walk-ins to enjoy a pot of fresh-brewed flavor. Their retail shop is great also. Several bars and pubs serve food as well as beer, wine, and cocktails. An ice cream parlor, multiple bakeries, coffee shops, and a shaved ice store fill out an ever-changing mix. The White Heron Tea & Gifts attracts visitors from throughout the Nature Coast and Tampa Bay. Image courtesy of The White Heron Tea & Gifts. Recreation and Aquatic Center, Library, and Parks are all part of New Port Richey Sims Park, a favorite for events and concerts is right on the banks of the Pithlachascotee and runs behind the Hacienda. It houses a nice playground, including handicapped-accessible equipment, a bandshell, and boat launches. A great library is downtown and several blocks north of the library is a recreation and aquatic center with multiple pools, workout equipment, meeting rooms, and more. The New Port Richey Recreation Center pool. Image courtesy of the City of New Port Richey. Back to the beginning of this post. Take a turn off US 19 at Main Street and enjoy one of the Nature Coast's more famous cities: New Port Richey.  Then let us know what your favorite part is. A Video of New Port Richey by Anew Films https://vimeo.com/260830041 Read the full article

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More than a Quarter of U.S. Homeowners ‘House Poor’

Nationwide, 27.4% of homeowners are considered “house poor,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing costs. However, in some U.S. cities, far more Americans are living beyond their means, according to research from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Among the top five highest are:

Los Angeles (48.7%)

New York City (45.3%)

Miami (44.6%)

Hollywood, Florida (44.3%)

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Hallandela Beach Chamber of Commerce luncheon with our guests speaker State Representative Joe Geller. . . . #dedication #community #hallandalebeach #florida #chamberofcommerce #silergy #silviatodorov #growth #entrepreneur #networkmarketing #networking #business #businessopportunity #businesswoman #womenpower #mensfashion #meninbusiness #realstatedeveloper #realstatemiami #success #luxurylifestyle (at Terrazas at Hyde Hollywood)

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Sergei Millian, identified as an unwitting source for the Steele dossier, sought proximity to Trump’s world in 2016

Will TRUMP EVEN LAST 90 More days in office?

Congressional Democrats plan to renew efforts to interview the Belarus-born businessman, who has largely disappeared from public view. By Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger February 7 at 5:00 AM Around the time of President Trump’s inauguration, two of his supporters met to toast the new administration at the Russia House, a Washington restaurant known among Russian diplomats and emigres for its vodka and caviar. The Dupont Circle spot was suggested by Sergei Millian, according to onetime Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who said he met with the Belarus-born businessman there. The get-together followed months of outreach Millian had made to the young aide — including offering him a lucrative consulting contract to work simultaneously for Trump and an unidentified Russian, which Papadopoulos said he rebuffed. FBI agents later pressed Papadopoulos about his relationship with Millian, Papadopoulos’s lawyers have said. The interactions between the two men — the extent of which have not been reported previously — show how Millian, a self-described real estate developer who served as an unwitting source of information for former British spy Christopher Steele, was in closer proximity to Trump’s world than previously known. As he was working to build a relationship with Papadopoulos in 2016, Millian also offered to serve as a conduit to the Trump campaign for a Belarusan author in Florida with connections to the Russian government, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post. The author, Mikhail Morgulis, who said he never ended up hearing from anyone in the campaign, later claimed that he rallied Russian Americans to back Trump. The new details deepen the persistent mystery surrounding Millian, two years after he was identified as one of the unnamed sources in a campaign dossier Steele compiled for Democrats about Trump’s ties to Russia. At the time, little was known about Millian’s connection to the New York developer, other than the fact that he said he had sold units at a Trump property in Florida years ago. Millian, who has denied being a source for the dossier, has largely disappeared from public view, despite efforts by congressional investigators to interview him — taking with him potential answers about the president’s links to Russia and some of the dossier’s still-unproved claims. The House and Senate intelligence committees have tried to interview Millian, according to people familiar with the panels’ work. Millian did not respond to the Senate committee, one person said. In a report issued last year, House Democrats said that Millian was unwilling to appear before their panel without being granted immunity and they called on Republicans to subpoena him. Now back in majority control, House Democrats said they plan to renew efforts to obtain his testimony. Meet Sergei Millian, a.k.a., 'Source D' Businessman Sergei Millian is said to be the man behind one of the most salacious claims in the dossier on President Trump's involvement with Russia (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) “Sergei Millian remains someone of deep interest to our investigation,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the new chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, citing Millian’s “opaque business and personal history” and interactions with Papadopoulos. It is unknown whether Millian has been interviewed by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment. Millian, whose social media posts in recent months have included images recycled from years-old events, did not respond to requests for comment. His exact role in Trump’s world remains elusive. Was he a business associate with an insider’s perspective on the candidate’s business adventures in Moscow? A self-promoting braggart spinning false tales? A Russian intelligence operative? Papadopoulos said he thinks Millian was working with the FBI to target the Trump campaign. But two people familiar with the FBI’s Russia investigation said that Millian was not working with the bureau during his interactions with Papadopoulos. An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment. An acquaintance of Millian who exchanges texts with him and thinks he has been unfairly targeted by the media says he thinks Millian lives in New York, but is not sure. “One time he sent me a photo. He was in Europe somewhere. He was on some bridge,” said Jeff Jetton, a Washington restaurateur and writer who befriended Millian shortly after his role in the dossier became public. “I don’t really question him about where he is. He doesn’t question me about where I am. I don’t really care.” A meeting at a horse track Millian, now 40, came to Steele’s attention after the firm Fusion GPS hired the former British intelligence officer in June 2016 to research Trump’s business history in Russia on behalf of Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Born in Belarus and given the name Siarhei Kukuts, Millian went to college in Minsk, where a Russian-language version of his biography that he posted online said he trained to be a military translator. He moved to Atlanta in the early 2000s, changed his name to Sergei Millian, and began working in real estate and professional translating, according to friends at the time and his biography. There, he founded a trade group called the Russian American Chamber of Commerce in the USA, which gave him a platform to interact with business and government leaders in the United States and Russia. It also boosted Millian’s profile. In 2011, he was invited to take part in a Russian government-backed effort to bring American entrepreneurs on visits to Moscow. The Post has previously reported that the FBI later investigated the trips as possible influence operations linked to Russian intelligence, although Millian was never implicated. In his organization’s literature and elsewhere, Millian boasted of a relationship with Trump, saying that he had been engaged to sell apartments to rich Russians in the Trump Hollywood condo building in Florida. On Facebook and in literature for his Russian chamber of commerce, he posted a photo of himself with Trump, snapped at a horse track in Miami in 2007 after he said “mutual associates” introduced them. It is unclear whether they met on any other occasion. But in April 2016, Millian gave the Russian state-operated news organization RIA Novosti an eyebrow-raising interview. He claimed that after meeting Trump in Miami he went to New York and met Trump’s “right-hand man” — his personal lawyer Michael Cohen — and then signed a contract to sell Trump units in Florida.

Michael Cohen, a former lawyer to President Trump, leaves federal court in New York on Aug. 21. (Kevin Hagen/Associated Press) “You can say that I was their exclusive broker,” he said, speaking in Russian. “Back then, in2007-2008, Russians by the dozens were buying apartments in Trump’s buildings in the USA.” Asked in the Russian interview how often he spoke to Trump or his associates, Millian responded: “The last time was several days ago.” In an interview in 2016 with ABC News, Millian claimed to have high-level contacts in the Russian government. He said he was “absolutely not” affiliated with Russian intelligence. Cohen has denied meeting Millian and extending him a contract to sell Trump-branded condos. He said in a 2017 interview with The Post that Millian was a fraud who had no substantive connection to Trump or his company, and that the Miami photo was no different from hundreds that Trump took with fans each year. “He is a total phony,” Cohen said at the time. “Anything coming out of this individual’s mouth is inaccurate and purely part of some deranged interest in having his name in the newspaper.” Last year, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about his efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the campaign, as well as to bank fraud and to campaign finance violations. As part of his plea deal, he agreed to provide information to Mueller. Cohen’s spokesman, Lanny Davis, declined to comment about Millian. The Post has previously reported that in his research reports, Steele described Millian — who was identified in one report as “Source D” and in another as “Source E” — as a “close associate of Trump” who had given a “compatriot” information in Source: Sergei Millian, identified as an unwitting source for the Steele dossier, sought proximity to Trump’s world in 2016 Read the full article

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Auburn: Gov. Kay Ivey stated South Korean auto substances manufacturer Shinhwa Neighborhood is investing $42 million in a facility and could per chance hold to peaceable manufacture 95 jobs in Auburn, the firm’s first manufacturing facility within the United States. Development is already underway. Section 1 of the project is anticipated to be performed by the summer season. Shinhwa will within the muse form driveshafts for autos built by Hyundai Motor Manufacturing’s plant in Sir Bernard Law, as effectively as for Kia Motor Manufacturing’s plant, staunch across the state line in West Point, Georgia. Alabama Division of Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield stated the firm is a “good addition” to the state’s community of “high-caliber auto suppliers.”

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Anchorage: Northern fur seals hold declined at the arena’s best most likely rookery in Alaska’s Pribilof Islands, nonetheless they’re thriving at an unlikely region. Numbers of fur seals continue to develop on Bogoslof Island, a little landmass at the tip of an active undersea volcano within the Aleutian Islands. The volcano two years within the past spewed ash into the path of jetliners. Hot mud, steam and sulfurous gases continue to spit up from vents on the island. Fur seals give birth and lift pups along the seaside of the island that’s best most likely about one-third the scale of Unique York City’s Central Park. Tom Gelatt of the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stated biologists in 2015 estimated there hold been 28,000 pups on the island. He stated the 2019 estimate likely could be better than 36,000 pups.

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Phoenix: The Arizona Game and Fish Division is investigating the poaching of a bull elk north of Heber in lifeless August and is inquiring for the final public’s support finding whoever killed the animal. The agency stated Tuesday the poacher left the bull elk’s meat to waste west of Forest Motorway 153 shut to Point and Javelina water catchments. Company officers stated in a press liberate they like about somebody has data in regards to the case since the poaching incident took place throughout a time when many hunters were scouting the predicament for upcoming hunts. Diversified recreationists are also believed to hold been within the predicament at the time of the crime, the agency stated. Hunting elk and different kinds of game in Arizona is regulated by the department. Hunters are required to map permits, that are little in number and enable them to hunt a little replacement of game. Hunting can happen best most likely in designated areas throughout designated classes. Most elk wanting takes space throughout the tumble season in Arizona, though there are about a areas designated throughout different events of the yr, in step with the Game and Fish web site. Anyone with data in regards to the poaching incident could per chance hold to peaceable call the department’s Operation Game Thief hotline at 800-352-0700 or consult with www.azgfd.gov and talk to case #19-003199. Callers can remain nameless upon inquire and could per chance be eligible for a reward of as a lot as $1,500 upon an arrest. The Arizona Elk Society and Arizona Deer Association are each offering a additional $2,500 reward upon the arrest and conviction of the poachers, in step with a press liberate from the department.

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Pine Bluff: The Saracen Casino Annex, the greatest tourism investment project in Arkansas, opened Tuesday morning. The annex is segment of the $350 million Saracen Casino Resort project owned and operated by the Oklahoma-based fully fully Quapaw Nation. The casino resort is anticipated to begin next June. About 10,000 company hold visited the 300-slot-machine annex since Friday’s shock “subtle opening.” Quapaw Nation officers stated they conception to make utilize of 1,100 of us completely at the Saracen Casino Resort. More than 200 are employed at the annex and a brand fresh nearby comfort retailer and fuel plan. Most hires came from Pine Bluff. The project is anticipated to feature 2,000 slot machines and 50 playing tables, along with a 300-room resort with a hearth safety and an emergency companies facility.

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Los Angeles: Residents had a likelihood to search a mini-air camouflage because the Royal Air Power Crimson Arrows aerobatic group excursions California. The group flew past the present Hollywood signal Wednesday afternoon and headed south to the Port of Prolonged Seashore to flit over the retired British ocean liner Queen Mary, which is now a vacationer enchantment and resort. On Tuesday, the Crimson Arrows’ jets flew over San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate bridge. This weekend, they are going to enroll within the U.S. Air Power Thunderbirds, the Canadian Forces Snowbirds and different performers at the Huge Pacific Airshow over the surf at Huntington Seashore.

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Colorado Springs: A falcon that has served because the mascot for the U.S. Air Power Academy for the past 23 years has died. KCNC-TV reported the passing of the falcon named Aurora develop into once announced by the academy on Wednesday. The academy stated in a disclose that the falcon develop into once the longest-serving reside mascot within the college’s 65-yr history. Aurora develop into once reported to hold recovered after struggling accidents to its wings in November 2018 throughout a prank abduction sooner than the annual football game against the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, Unique York. The Air Power Academy uses several falcons throughout dwelling video games and Aurora attended most twin carriageway video games to greet fans. The academy described her as a “feisty, interesting chicken who commanded respect.”

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Groton: The Pentagon stated the U.S.Oregon, the Navy’s most fresh assault submarine, could be christened Saturday at Customary Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton. U.S. Win. Greg Walden, an Oregon Republican, stated he will attend because the keynote speaker. He stated the submarine could be christened with water from Crater Lake and wine from Oregon. Oregon, a Virginia-class submarine, is the third U.S. Navy ship to honor the state. Virginia-class submarines are built to conduct anti-submarine struggle; anti-ground ship struggle; strike struggle; particular operation forces relief; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; irregular struggle; and mine struggle missions. The Pentagon stated they hold stealth, patience, mobility and firepower.

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Fenwick Island: Notify environmental officers could per chance soon rent public parkland to an offshore wind vitality firm in switch for hundreds and hundreds of bucks in fresh companies at Delaware’s southernmost seaside. The Division of Natural Sources and Environmental Adjust has signed an initial memorandum of conception with Ørsted, an offshore wind firm based fully fully in Denmark, to debate leasing as a lot as 1.5 acres at Fenwick Island Notify Park. Ørsted would utilize park property to form an interconnection facility that can join energy generated by the yet-to-be-built Skipjack Wind Farm to the electrical grid. In switch for leasing the final public land, the firm would fund enhancements at the park, with the state now suggesting better than a dozen initiatives price upward of $18 million. Those initiatives could per chance additionally comprise a two-stage parking garage, a pedestrian overpass that permits foot traffic to terrifying Coastal Motorway from the ocean aspect to the bayside, connections for a path or sidewalk machine, two extra bogs, an amphitheater and a brand fresh local Chamber of Commerce building that can condo the park’s company center, a little nature center and more.

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Washington: A museum dedicated to journalism and the First Modification is determined to shut its doorways shut to the Nationwide Mall by the dwell of the yr. WTOP-FM reported the Newseum announced its impending closure Tuesday, citing yearslong financial disorders. A firm disclose stated that despite better than 11 years of provider and with regards to 10 million company, continued operations hold proved to be unsustainable. The disclose stated the museum’s founder and predominant funder, the Freedom Forum, stays dedicated to its mission to champion the five freedoms guaranteed under the First Modification. It stated efforts to lengthen public awareness in regards to the importance of a free press are the most indispensable now better than ever. Company are welcome thru Dec. 31. Tickets purchased on-line comprise a 15% minimize tag, with costs now starting at about $12.

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Tallahassee: Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan stated Wednesday that he could be the majority investor within the nation’s best most likely 24-hour data community geared in direction of African American viewers, giving the community a deep pocket because it launches next month. The community has been within the works for years and an announcement about its launch develop into once made earlier this yr. But Khan’s backing provides it a huge boost. He declined to bid how mighty he would make investments within the muse nonetheless stated it's miles also passable to set up the community working for a in reality lengthy time. Khan is price an estimated $8 billion and made his fortune within the auto instruments commerce. As effectively because the Jaguars, he owns Fulham Soccer Membership of the English Soccer League, Four Seasons Resort Toronto and All Elite Wrestling. Prone Republican U.S. Win. J.C. Watts, who develop into once a neatly-known particular person quarterback at the University of Oklahoma within the 1980s, could be chairman of the fresh community. This is also on hand by technique of cable and satellite tv for pc viewers in 33 million households. The community has agreements with Charter Communications, Comcast and DISH and could per chance hold to peaceable be carried in well-known African American markets equivalent to Unique York, Atlanta, Unique Orleans, Chicago and Los Angeles. The community is to launch broadcasting in November and could per chance hold to peaceable be based fully fully in Tallahassee, Florida’s capital, with bureaus across the country, Watts stated.

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Adel: A hospital and nursing dwelling in south Georgia has moved staunch into a brand fresh $40 million facility. The Adel hospital began working from its fresh dwelling Tuesday. What had previously been Cook dinner Medical Center is now called Southwell Medical. The 20-bed hospital, 95-bed nursing dwelling and physicians’ offices are operated by Tift Regional Properly being Machine. Tift Regional Properly being Machine President Christopher Dorman advised WALB-TV that the fresh complex staunch off Interstate 75 develop into once renamed to support appeal to patients from past Cook dinner County. The fresh hospital doesn’t hold an emergency room nonetheless does hold a trudge-in hospital. The health machine borrowed about 70% of construction charges thru a U.S. Division of Agriculture rural pattern mortgage. Cook dinner County and Adel authorities agencies equipped the relaxation. The susceptible hospital’s fresh utilize stays undetermined.

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Wailuku: A put up-mortem examination of two pygmy killer whales that were stumbled on stranded on a Maui seaside urged they were battling an an infection. The Maui Files reported Wednesday that the adult males had infected lymph nodes when they stranded themselves at Sugar Seashore final month. The an infection develop into once also stumbled on in pygmy killer whales that stranded themselves at the the same seaside in August. An legitimate from the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stated the whales were afflicted in other locations and there will not be any indication of an environmental toxin at Sugar Seashore. The animals were euthanized after assessments indicated itsy-bitsy likelihood for survival at sea. Researchers stated irregular meals objects, at the side of excess plant enviornment cloth stumbled on within the animals, camouflage they were not feeding in most cases.

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Boise: A take hold of stated she is of the same opinion that gratifying public records requests can keep a enormous burden on governmental resources, nonetheless she expressed skepticism in regards to the replacement of exclusively redacted pages equipped to four Boise-predicament journalists by Ada County officers this yr. Fourth District Decide Deborah Bail made the comments throughout a listening to on a lawsuit between the Idaho Press Membership and Ada County Commissioners on Wednesday afternoon. Within the lawsuit the Idaho Press Membership and the four journalists contend county officers frequently violated the state’s Public Records Act by wrongly denying procure staunch of entry to to some documents, over-redacting others and in another case mishandling public data requests. In court Wednesday, Ada County Deputy Prosecuting Licensed educated James Dickinson stated the take hold of has the total evidence she needs within the procure of the unredacted documents. Dickinson stated one of the most important redacted documents require context to realize why they ought to be saved from liberate nonetheless stated he can’t discuss it in begin court lest he point to non-public protected data.

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Fairview Heights: Planned Parenthood has quietly been building a brand fresh abortion hospital in Illinois, staunch across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, as girls people fervent on the unsafe procedure forward for Missouri’s sole abortion hospital flock across the state line. The 18,000-sq.-foot in Fairview Heights, 12 miles east of St. Louis, will provide abortion companies, as effectively as family planning, when it opens in mid-October, Planned Parenthood officers stated at a data conference Wednesday. Planned Parenthood has been battling Missouri’s health department for months to test out and set up begin its St. Louis hospital. The state has refused to renew its license to form abortions, citing concerns that comprise “failed abortions” that required extra surgeries. Missouri’s Administrative Hearing Rate is deciding the destiny of the St. Louis hospital. All one of the best most likely procedure thru an annual inspection of the St. Louis hospital in March, Missouri health investigators cited tons of concerns, at the side of reports of failed abortions. Planned Parenthood stated it has already addressed these concerns and defended its hospital. It claims the state is using the licensing course of as an excuse to discontinuance abortions.

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South Bend: More than 2,200 models of preserved fetal stays stumbled on within the Illinois garage of a lifeless Indiana abortion doctor hold been returned to Indiana. Indiana Licensed educated Customary Curtis Hill stated Thursday that the fetal stays stumbled on final month at Dr. Ulrich Klopfer’s Will County, Illinois, dwelling were transferred Wednesday to the St. Joseph County coroner’s space of job for “safekeeping.” Hill stated at a data conference in South Bend that investigators obvious the stays came from abortions performed in Indiana in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Authorities are peaceable investigating the assign the abortions took place. Klopfer performed abortions at clinics in Fort Wayne, South Bend and Gary. Members of the family cleaning out Klopfer’s garage after his Sept. 3 death stumbled on the stays. Hill stated they are going to be “given the decency of a burial that they deserve.”

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Dubuque: The Iowa Division of Natural Sources stated it plans to salvage as many deer samples in northeastern Iowa because it can this wanting season to test for chronic losing disease after the first case in Dubuque County develop into once confirmed in January, the Telegraph Herald reported Thursday. Chris Ensminger, the natural world be taught fragment supervisor for the department, stated officers would favor to salvage not much less than 250 samples from an predicament by which the diseased deer develop into once killed and not much less than 250 samples from in other locations in Dubuque County. Samples also could be composed from surrounding jap Iowa counties. The disease attacks the brains of deer and elk and is always lethal. No human conditions hold been recorded, nonetheless the Facilities for Illness Adjust and Prevention advises of us to not eat meat from infected animals. The disease has change into an increasing form of prevalent in substances of the Midwest, at the side of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Nearly 400 of the 1,060 deer that tested certain for the disease in Wisconsin from April 2018 to the dwell of March were in Iowa County in southwest Wisconsin. Diversified conditions came from surrounding Crawford, Grant and Lafayette counties.

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Linwood: A conception to form a village of foster care homes in northeast Kansas has gotten the OK, though the project has been scaled down. The Kansas City Well-known particular person reported that the nonprofit Joy Meadows within the muse sought to manufacture a pattern with as a lot as 10 homes that can additionally condo enormous sibling models on a 23-acre property within the Linwood predicament. As another, the Leavenworth County Rate voted Wednesday to limit the first fragment of pattern to four whole homes, at the side of one which is positioned there. The nonprofit would be allowed so that it's good to well add three more in a future fragment, upon analysis from the county. Foster care advocates and the Kansas Division for Teenagers and Families voiced relief for the residential pattern. But the project confronted opposition from neighbors.

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Ludlow: Fire and police models are at the scene of a barge accident that space several boats adrift or sinking within the Ohio River. The barge hit the Ludlow Bromley Yacht Membership on Wednesday morning exhausting passable to partly submerge the marina’s bar and grill. Steve Hensley, Kenton County’s Director of Space of birth Security and Management, advised data outlets six boats were knocked free. Hensley stated there develop into once one particular person on the barge and one particular person on one among the boats, nonetheless neither develop into once injured. Officials stated the restaurant and patio of the yacht club were heavily damaged with some of it hooked as a lot as the barge that struck it. Ludlow Police Chief Scott Smith stated the Wing Guard is investigating and the barge operator develop into once being questioned.

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Gonzales: The federal authorities has sold out a complete flood-susceptible neighborhood in Louisiana, prompting all its residents to switch to bigger ground. Files outlets reported the U.S. Division of Agriculture’s Emergency Watershed Safety Program financed the buyouts on along Silverleaf Motorway in Gonzales, which develop into once carved out of a wetland within the 1980s and has frequently flooded since. Chief metropolis engineer Jackie Baumann stated the federal agency is having a search for for the homes at preflood market price, and Restore Louisiana is offering to form up shortfalls within the procuring tag for some residents, as lengthy as their next dwelling isn’t in a flood zone. The 2017 provide required all 41 residents to conform to the deal, and the final resident agreed final month, enabling the authorities to restore the wetland.

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Lubec: American fishermen are anticipated to procure a itsy-bitsy more fishing quota under phrases of an agreement with Canada. The countries are dwelling to fisheries for economically significant species that terrifying global boundaries, equivalent to cod and haddock. They reach an agreement yearly about how one can divide obtain on jap Georges Bank, a significant fishing predicament off Unique England and Canada. The Unique England Fishery Management Council stated the U.S.is scheduled to procure 29% of the 1.4 million-pound whole allowable obtain of cod on jap Georges Bank in 2020. It’s also space for 54% of the 66 million-pound whole allowable obtain of haddock within the predicament. The figures are enviornment to federal approval. They portray a 2.6 million-pound bump for haddock and in regards to the the same figure for cod in comparison to 2019.

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Baltimore: A 1,600-pound bull escaped from a truck into the streets of Baltimore for several hours. The Baltimore Sun reported that it took three tranquilizer photos and a crew of zoo officers to recapture the animal on Wednesday. The purebred Angus breeding bull broke out of a truck whereas it develop into once stopped at a red light. A crowd gathered and watched because the animal develop into once corralled. Baltimore Police spokeswoman Det. Nicole Monroe advised the newspaper that the “owner of the bull stated he doesn’t hold the most fundamental disposition.” The bull develop into once from Hedgeapple Farm in Buckeystown. Govt director Scott Barao stated the animal develop into once very expensive and thanked the police for not shooting it. He stated the bull is “extremely precious to us and we’re staunch happy to hold him alive.”

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Worcester: Notify natural world officers stated a moose that develop into once struck by two autos and had a damaged leg has been euthanized. Marion Larson, a spokeswoman for the state Division of Fisheries and Plant life and fauna, advised The Boston Globe that Worcester police were called about a bull moose that develop into once hit by a car Monday morning and Monday night time. The moose develop into once spotted in a pond Tuesday morning, and the state Environmental Police answered to the scene. Numerous boats were deployed so the moose did not advance Interstate 290, and to maneuver the animal staunch into a appropriate darting predicament. Larson stated the three ½-yr-susceptible moose would not hold survived its accidents. Any other moose spotted in a Worcester cemetery Monday develop into once tranquilized and freed at a state park.

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Combat Creek: A fourth Michigan resident has died from a uncommon mosquito-borne virus that has been recorded across the southern half of the state. WWMT-TV reported that 79-yr-susceptible Stan Zalner of Combat Creek died Wednesday after contracting jap equine encephalitis. Ronna Bagent advised the tv plan that her father develop into once hospitalized in September with severe flu-love symptoms sooner than doctors were ready to confirm the sickness thru blood assessments. 9 conditions hold been confirmed in six southern or southwestern Michigan counties. More than 30 animals – at the side of 18 horses – in better than a dozen counties also hold died from the disease. Notify health officers tell low-flying aircraft were anticipated to spray pesticides Wednesday in Calhoun and 10 different counties. The pesticides shatter adult mosquitoes on contact.

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St. Paul: A federal take hold of has rejected challenges by several environmental teams to a land swap the most indispensable for the deliberate PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. U.S. District Decide Joan Ericksen brushed apart the four court cases lifeless Monday, ruling that the teams lacked the the most indispensable ethical standing to block the land switch between PolyMet and the federal authorities. She stated the teams couldn’t keep that they'd been harmed. PolyMet traded 6,650 acres of federal land within the Superior Nationwide Forest at the mine predicament shut to Babbitt and Hoyt Lakes for a identical quantity of non-public land final yr. Numerous environmental teams sued to enviornment various aspects of the deal, pronouncing it undervalued the federal land and violated different rules, at the side of the Endangered Species Act. PolyMet disputed these claims and persuaded the take hold of to brush apart the court cases. Ericksen brushed apart the court cases with out prejudice, that formulation the teams could per chance additionally refile them at some later point. They could per chance per chance additionally additionally enchantment to the eighth U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals

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Hattiesburg: Now not much less than 22 troopers practicing at Champ Shelby were injured throughout a night time parachuting declare. U.S. Navy spokesman John Pennell advised WDAM-TV that not much less than 15 of us were handled by medics and one other seven were hospitalized. Workers Sgt. John Healy stated none of the accidents is belief about to be existence-threatening. Camp Shelby Cmdr. Col. Bobby Ginn stated the troopers belong to the 4th Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division stationed at the Joint Depraved Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. Pennell stated about 89 paratroopers were on the aircraft for the Wednesday night time declare. Ginn stated the troopers jumped from a C-130 aircraft and were blown off-course from their intended touchdown zone and staunch into a neighborhood of pine trees. Numerous were entangled within the trees and wanted to be rescued. Healy says about 650 troopers were serious in regards to the declare. About 3,000 troops from the Alaska terrifying are at monthlong practicing at Camp Shelby called “Operation Arctic Anvil.”

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Kansas City: A compromise has been reached after Kansas City-predicament defense attorneys complained that their underwire bras were atmosphere off penitentiary metal detectors, forcing them to obtain away their lingerie for screening within the event that they the most indispensable to fulfill with their purchasers face-to-face. KCUR reported that the resolution reached final month permits attorneys who space off off metal detectors at the Jackson County Jail to be wanded or patted down. Attorneys protested after the penitentiary rolled out a brand fresh security protocol in Would possibly also. Jail officers within the muse answered by offering to enable attorneys to hold noncontact visits, by which they talked to their purchasers by phones separated by glass, with out clearing metal detectors first. But attorneys continued to push for switch. Licensed educated Tracy Spradlin stated she is grateful the reveal develop into once resolved with out a lawsuit.

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Missoula: U.S. Senator Jon Tester of Montana has announced plans to form a increased veterans affairs hospital in Missoula. The Missoulian reported that Tester, Democrat, announced Tuesday a region develop into once chosen for a brand fresh neighborhood-based fully fully outpatient hospital. Officials stated the hospital could be three events increased than the most up-to-date hospital, which serves better than 6,000 veterans. This is in a position to per chance hold expanded predominant care, mental health and enviornment of skills companies. Tester stated the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act that handed in 2017 space apart about $7 million in federal funding for the project. The hospital is anticipated to begin in 2022. The most fresh hospital will continue to attend patients unless the fresh hospital opens.

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Lincoln: A bobcat that wandered staunch into a Lincoln building has been captured and launched back into the wild. Workers at the Division of Veterans Affairs campus in south Lincoln called the Nebraska Game and Parks Rate on Tuesday to account the animal had been spotted inner one among its buildings. Rate staffers space a cage trap and baited it with raw fish. The estimated 20-pound bobcat bit on the bait and develop into once caught. It develop into once freed begin air of metropolis Wednesday. Bobcats are typical in Nebraska and could per chance just additionally be stumbled on at the perimeter of Lincoln, infrequently coming inner to hunt. Sam Wilson with the associated rate stated bobcats are typical nonetheless not frequently considered.

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Reno: A firefighter suffered burns and a girl develop into once hospitalized after she jumped from a 2d-ground window at a motel that develop into once on fire staunch east of downtown Reno. Police closed segment of East Fourth Motorway for roughly three hours Tuesday afternoon sooner than firefighters knocked down the blaze at the Lucky Motel. Fire officers advised KRNV-TV the blaze destroyed two models at the weekly motel. One firefighter develop into once being handled for burns to his leg. The girl develop into once transported to a local hospital after she jumped from the window onto a car. She also suffered smoke inhalation. There develop into once no instant data on hand on their conditions Wednesday. The motive unhurried the fireside stays under investigation. The Reno Fire Division chaplain and motel owner were working to relocate displaced residents to a shut-by motel.

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Bedford: A young moose that got stuck in a swimming pool has been efficiently coaxed out. Unique Hampshire Fish and Game Division biologists and conservation officers were called to a Bedford dwelling Tuesday to support obtain away the young bull. He develop into once within the water for several hours. Officers stated he develop into once unable to procure himself out of the pool, so that they keep in a space of wooden steps. The department posted a video of the moose having a search for from aspect to aspect because the group held a rope and coaxed him out. He scampered away. Col. Kevin Jordan urged it needed to enact with it being moose breeding season. He advised television plan WMUR that “the youthful moose will wander lengthy distances struggling to search out a female.”

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Forked River: The state has created an oversight panel to speak the plot of dismantling the passe Oyster Creek nuclear plant. Gov. Phil Murphy stated this can form certain that that the “appropriate protocols” are in space throughout the plot. Oyster Creek is being decommissioned after it develop into once completely shuttered in September 2018. Its spent fuel is also being keep into stable storage. The panel’s formation develop into once announced Wednesday. It plans to fulfill not much less than twice a yr and could per chance hold to peaceable enable the final public to half their concerns. Its individuals comprise the state’s Environmental Safety Commissioner, state police superintendent, space of foundation security director and the president of the Board of Public Utilities. Oyster Creek is positioned about 60 miles east of Philadelphia. It produced passable electrical energy yearly to form about 600,000 frequent homes.

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Albuquerque: A huge range of of hot air balloons will take hold of off from the Unique Mexico desolate tract over nine days as segment of one among the arena’s best most likely gala's dedicated to the sport of ballooning. In its 48th yr, the annual Albuquerque Global Balloon Fiesta is scheduled to kick off Saturday with a mass ascension. More than 580 balloons are registered, 17 countries are represented and tens of hundreds of spectators from across the arena are anticipated to turn out for the hole weekend. Albuquerque has performed host to the fiesta since its inception in 1972. Troy Bradley, one among the ballooning world’s most prolific file-setters, stated, “There’s staunch nothing like it within the arena, to search that mighty coloration going into the sky.”

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Albany: Home dwelling owners wretchedness by file flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River hold unless the dwell of this month to impeach state funding. Folk living in Cayuga, Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Oswego, St. Lawrence and Wayne counties can apply for as a lot as $50,000 to offset damages sustained this yr to their predominant residences. The window for purposes opened Tuesday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s space of job stated $20 million is on hand thru the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Flood Relief and Recovery Program.

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Asheville: Notify health officers stated 116 of us hold been diagnosed with Legionnaire’s disease since a virus develop into once reported in September. The Asheville Citizen Times reported the N.C. Division of Properly being and Human Products and companies launched the figures Wednesday, at the side of that there develop into once one death. The department also stated 65% of these diagnosed wanted to be hospitalized. DHHS anticipated the replacement of confirmed conditions to continue to climb as diagnostic assessments are processed. Properly being officers aren’t certain if the sickness originated from final month’s Mountain Notify Unbiased. Legionnaires’ disease is bacterial pneumonia that develops when somebody breathes in mist or water that contains the bacteria into their lungs.

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Bismarck: A pipeline spill has launched produced water staunch into a little creek and a stock pond in western North Dakota. The North Dakota Division of Environmental Quality develop into once notified of the spill, which took place Tuesday in Dunn County. The pipeline is segment of a gathering machine operated by Marathon Oil. The spill took place about 1.5 miles northeast of Manning. Authorities don’t know what prompted the leak. An estimated 21,000 gallons of produced water were launched, impacting the creek and stock pond within pastureland. The creek discharges into the Knife River, nonetheless no impacts hold been detected within the river. Produced water is a derivative of oil and fuel pattern. Notify inspectors are checking the positioning and could per chance hold to peaceable continue to video show the investigation and remediation.

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Oxford: An investigation into alleged hazing by a fraternity at Miami University has ended in misdemeanor charges of hazing and assault against better than a dozen fraternity individuals. A pupil reported in March that individuals of the Delta Tau Delta chapter at the college in Oxford hazed him throughout initiation. The pupil stated he develop into once beaten with a spiked hobble, kicked and compelled to drink a whole bunch alcohol. The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-Files reported Oxford police confirmed that a Butler County gargantuan jury’s most fresh indictments of the 18 men stemmed from an investigation into hazing. Miami suspended the fraternity in August for 10 to 15 years after its investigation obvious violations of the college’s Code of Student Behavior. Delta Tau Delta’s nationwide headquarters revoked the chapter’s structure in June.

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Oklahoma City: Just a few of the 44 death row inmates housed at the Oklahoma Notify Penal complex in McAlester will soon be moved from the penitentiary’s most-security H-Unit to 1 other unit to present them more advantages and procure staunch of entry to to the exterior, the state’s fresh prisons boss stated. In a letter launched by the agency on Thursday, the Division of Corrections’ Length in-between Govt Director Scott Crow advised officers with the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma that the agency plans to switch “qualifying inmates” to its much less restrictive A-Unit by the dwell of October. The ACLU had threatened ethical circulate over what it stated are doable constitutional violations of the rights of death row inmates, mostly by confining them to their cells for 23 hours per day. Crow stated the agency also plans to launch “contact” visitation for one of the most important moved death row inmates, who are allowed best most likely noncontact visits unhurried Plexiglas and over a phone.

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Bend: The City Council has agreed to debate whether to impose a ban on feeding deer and elk that wander metropolis streets. KTVZ-TV reported councilmember Chris Piper, who with Bruce Abernethy proposed brooding about this form of ban Wednesday, stated the plans were introduced to him and different councilmembers by neighborhood associations. Piper stated dozens of collisions animated autos and deer were reported within the metropolis final yr. Piper stated cities at the side of Sunriver and Sisters hold considered certain results from identical natural world feeding regulations. There is a identical ban on feeding geese in Bend that can per chance per chance end result in a $372 pleasing. Although that ban is remoted to Replicate Pond, the doable deer and elk feeding ban would be citywide.

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Pittsburgh: Any other alligator has develop into up in Pittsburgh, the seventh this yr. George DeSavage advised WTAE-TV he and his girlfriend spotted it along the Allegheny River because the sun develop into once atmosphere on Tuesday. He stated he grabbed it and it “went procure of limp and soundless.” He stated it gave the impression like it develop into once handled by somebody. Police took it to Humane Animal Rescue, which named the gator Gus. The refuge shared photos on its Fb page. The refuge believes the reptile develop into once a pet. It’s not unlawful to hold an alligator in Pennsylvania.

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Windfall: The state’s high school students scored vastly lower on the SAT than the nationwide averages. The Windfall Journal reported Thursday that the state’s Class of 2019 scored a median of 483 substances on the English portion of the standardized college entrance examination; the nationwide realistic develop into once 531. On the mathematics fragment of the test, Rhode Islanders scored a median of 474; the nationwide realistic develop into once 528. The numbers also confirmed a enviornment of interest between white students and students of coloration, with white students scoring about 70 substances better in English and math. The Rhode Island Division of Training stated SAT scores were flat statewide. Notify Training Commissioner Angélica Infante-Inexperienced called on district leaders to create circulate plans to lengthen test participation and overall scores.

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Greenwood: A one who space a hearth at a Walmart to divert attention as he stole a case of beer has been sentenced to the most of 15 years in penitentiary. Solicitor David Stumbo stated 34-yr-susceptible Russell Geddings pleaded responsible Tuesday to 3rd-stage arson – the the same day his trial develop into once space to launch. Stumbo stated Geddings space a dresses rack on fire at a Greenwood Walmart on Dec. 5 then stole the beer within the chaos. Stumbo stated in a disclose no one develop into once injured, nonetheless $1.2 million price of injure develop into once done to the retailer and merchandise. Stumbo stated Geddings deserved the most sentence for placing so many contributors at likelihood to take hold of beer. Geddings’ attorneys did not solution an e-mail from a reporter searching for disclose.

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Sioux Falls: A Delta industrial airplane made an emergency touchdown in Sioux Falls on Thursday morning for a passenger who had a medical emergency, officers stated. The Delta flight, scheduled round 7: 30 a.m. from Chicago to Seattle, develop into once diverted when a 63-yr-susceptible male passenger began to skills emergency medical symptoms, stated Dan Letellier, govt director for the Sioux Falls Regional Airport. The flight develop into once over Pierre when its pilots diverted to Sioux Falls, he stated. The airplane landed round 8: 30 a.m. and the passenger develop into once transported to a local hospital, Letellier stated. The passenger develop into once alert and unsleeping, nonetheless Letellier didn’t disclose any extra on the man’s condition. “In step with our region within the country, there are hundreds of flights that hotfoot overhead yearly,” Letellier stated. “We procure not much less than one or two medical diversions a month. It’s a topic of the assign we slot within the country.”

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Collierville: Dozens gathered Tuesday to welcome dwelling fallen soldier Maj. Trevor Joseph. The 33-yr-susceptible died Sept. 26 in an aviation accident at Fort Polk, Louisiana. He's survived by his partner, Erin. “Trevor develop into once one of the best most likely particular particular individual that develop into once genuinely staunch so humble,” family stated in a text. “He would be so embarrassed by all this mettlesome attention, nonetheless this is precisely what he deserves.” Funeral preparations are pending. Joseph, a soldier from the Joint Readiness Practising Center and Fort Polk’s 1st Battalion, fifth Aviation Regiment, develop into once killed throughout a JRTC rotation in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter within the practicing predicament, in step with a Fb put up from JRTC and Fort Polk. Three different 1st Battalion, fifth Aviation Regiment troopers were injured. The motive unhurried the accident is under investigation.

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El Paso: A truck driver from California develop into once killed Wednesday when his semi crashed into an overpass relief column on Interstate 10 in downtown El Paso. The lethal wreck closed westbound lanes for several hours Wednesday morning. Harjot Singh Goraya, 32, of Riverside, California, develop into once riding when he veered off the twin carriageway and crashed staunch into a relief column almost in an instant sooner than 1 a.m. by the Mesa Motorway exit ramp. Traffic Police stated that the twin carriageway develop into once wet from an earlier rainstorm nonetheless that the Particular Traffic Investigations Unit has yet to make a selection how the motive force misplaced set up watch over. The wreck closed all westbound lanes early Wednesday. Drivers were advised to search out replacement routes into downtown or West El Paso, at the side of Paisano Power, Montana Avenue and Trans Mountain Motorway. Traffic develop into once directed off the twin carriageway at the downtown exit, police stated.

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Salt Lake City: The state Division of Properly being has confirmed the state’s first human death from West Nile virus this yer. Authorities stated Saturday that a central Utah resident not much less than 65 years susceptible died from the disease carried by mosquitoes within the future between Sept. 21 and Sept. 28. Files in regards to the sufferer at the side of name and gender haven't been launched. Utah health officers hold confirmed 19 human conditions West Nile virus this yr. The total is bigger than final yr, when 11 residents contracted the virus and one particular person died. Notify health officers hold stated a wet spring this yr created more standing water habitats for mosquitoes, attracting species that can per chance per chance transmit West Nile virus to Utah. Symptoms comprise complications, joint misfortune and a high fever.

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Bennington: Residents of a metropolis along the route of the Appalachian Path hold taken the first steps in direction of filing an utility to change into a designated Appalachian Path Neighborhood. Native and county officers in Bennington met with state counterparts and neighborhood organizers lately to debate plans to utilize for the designation. Officials stated the label as an Appalachian Path Neighborhood will carry better publicity and boost local commerce. The Appalachian Path stretches about 2,200 miles, thru 14 states and 40 communities. More than 100 miles of the path runs thru Vermont and a portion of it's miles staunch east of Bennington. The Bennington Banner reported that as well to publicity, the switch could per chance additionally carry stakeholders together to toughen the path machine within the community for hikers.

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Richmond: A most neatly-liked nature center will soon be closing temporarily for a $2.3 million renovation. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Maymont’s Robins Nature & Customer Center will shut Nov. 1 and begin in March. The guts homes fish, turtles, otters and different animals stumbled on within the James River and Chesapeake Bay. It attracts roughly 45,000 of us yearly. The animals could per chance hold upgraded habitats with lights and heating programs and could per chance hold to peaceable be more considered to company when the center reopens.

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Spokane: A lifeless chilly snap final frosty weather has minimize the production of Washington apricots in half. The Washington Notify Fruit Rate stated the state in most cases produces 5,000 tons of apricots a yr. But The Spokesman-Evaluation reported that the yield this yr is best most likely about 2,500 tons. Washington produces about 20% of the nation’s apricots. The price stated frost in February, when apricot trees had bloomed, wretchedness production. Apricots produced in Washington are shipped across the country.

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Charleston: Federal officers stated drought conditions in West Virginia are worsening as unusually high warmth continues to beat down on the plan. The U.S. Drought Monitor arrangement launched Thursday confirmed enormous swaths of southern West Virginia in a severe drought, a designation that entails the likely lack of vegetation and water shortages. The arrangement also classified your complete northern segment of the state as abnormally dry. Officials stated with regards to 50% of the state’s population is now in a drought. The Nationwide Climate Service marked final month as one among warmest and driest Septembers on file in multiple West Virginia cities. Lower than 1 trudge of rain develop into once recorded within the month. Temperatures measured on Oct. 1 also surpassed file highs for the month in five cities.

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Madison: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue stated throughout a discontinuance in Wisconsin that he doesn’t know if the family dairy farm can live to declare the tale because the commerce strikes in direction of a factory farm mannequin. Perdue advised reporters Tuesday following an appearance at the World Dairy Expo that it’s getting more difficult for farmers to procure by on milking smaller herds. Perdue’s consult with comes as Wisconsin dairy farmers are wrestling with a range of problems, at the side of declining milk costs, rising suicide charges, the transition to increased farms with tons of or hundreds of animals and global commerce wars. Wisconsin, which touts itself as The US’s Dairyland on its license plates, has misplaced 551 dairy farms in 2019 after dropping 638 in 2018 and 465 in 2017, in step with data from the state Division of Agriculture, Replace and User Safety. The Legislature’s finance committee voted unanimously final month to exhaust a additional $200,000 to support struggling farmers deal with depression and mental health problems.

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Jackson: Hunters hold killed more mountain goats in Gigantic Teton Nationwide Park than anticipated. The Nationwide Park Service began allowing hunters to pursue mountain goats this yr to rid the park of the nonnative species. Biologists warned the mountain goats could per chance additionally spread disease to native bighorn sheep. Some 100 to 150 mountain goats inhabit the park and nearby areas. Forty-eight hunters won a lottery for licenses to shatter goats within the park. Wyoming natural world managers belief the hunters would obtain no better than 15 mountain goats over the 21/2-month season. Hunters lately surpassed that number, with six weeks left. The Jackson Hole Files & Handbook reported some hunters killed mountain goats best most likely to search the animals tumble off cliffs and out of reach.

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New Port Richey

New Port Richey History and Currency A quick turn off hectic US 19 rewards visitors with a delightful downtown in New Port Richey. Immediately, you are in the historic Palm District. On your right, only a block off the highway is the Stonehaven at Main Street complex, offering riverfront living. On the left is the Chamber of Commerce. Then there is the bridge over the Cotee River, and on your left is Sims Park and The Hacienda. Welcome to New Port Richey, a true walkable downtown. Continuing along Main Street are numerous small businesses and shops. Grand Avenue continues the retail and restaurant offerings, and more. As you begin to explore this City nestled along the banks of the Pithlachascotee (Cotee) River, you will learn why it was a real part of the Roaring 20s Florida. New Port Richey was a magnet for the rich and famous of the 1920s, including the silent screen star, Thomas Meighan, and the famous golfer, Gene Sarazen. It is a great place to explore still today. New Port Richey was to be the Hollywood of the East These stars of yesteryear pictured the area as the "Hollywood of the East." They built beautiful homes along the river and historic buildings in the downtown. One of the more famous buildings is the Hacienda Hotel, where movie stars would winter. It was designed by Thomas Reed Martin, opening in 1927. The Mission Revival architecture bones are there, but the hotel fell into disrepair over the years. It was sold several times and was converted to an ACLF in 1986, and then closed for several years. The Hacienda Hotel property was purchased for renovation. I was privileged to tour the property. where I happily discovered that most of its architectural embellishments have been kept in decent repair. I wonder whose coat of arms is displayed over the ornate plaster mantle above a fireplace. The Hacienda hotel lobby fireplace in 2022 after renovation. Image from The Hacienda Facebook page. The Hacienda's lobby fireplace was spared in its degradation over time, but who knew what could be done? Image by Diane Bedard. The Renovated Hacienda Hotel Adds an Opportunity to Stay and Play in New Port Richey On Oct. 24, 1996, the Hacienda Hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Many say the old hotel is haunted but I could not find any real "proof." There is a "secret" floor that can be accessed from outside, or from a door in the kitchen.  It's called the Bordello. Additionally, there is a tunnel (no longer accessible) that goes out to the river where liquor and "ladies" could be smuggled in during Prohibition. The Hacienda Hotel was built of "hollow tiles," an architectural process that was popular in the 1920s. The hollow tiles are covered with stucco and painted to give a Spanish style. The Hacienda's street entrance by Diane Bedard. This historic hotel with a full-service Mediterranean-style restaurant and bar, Sasha’s on the Park, is worth a visit to New Port Richey for an overnight stay, just to experience its spirit of opulence and comfort. Officially reopening on September 14, 2022, after a restoration that began in 2019 and, like all historic restorations, took much longer than originally anticipated. While previous attempts were made to bring this beautiful, boutique hotel back to life after many years of mispurpose and neglect, it took Jim Gunderson, hotelier and restorer of the Lakeside Inn in Mount Dora, Florida, and his team to complete the job. Throughout the halls of The Hacienda, guests can discover original accents and architecture from the 1920s, complemented by modern amenities in its 40 unique guest rooms. The completed project has revived a spirit of opulence and comfort that was part of New Port Richey’s heyday while allowing guests to plan overnight stays. Welcome to The Hacienda. Image by Diane Bedard The hotel first opened in 1927 as one of Florida’s original pink hotels and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was painted bright pink uniting its original color with modern palates – like the hotel it covers. The Hacienda, with its spacious grand lobby featuring comfortable seating groups, original chandeliers, and a restored and working original fireplace has been transformed into an updated version of 1920s New Port Richey. There is a lush courtyard with the 1927 fountain serenading guests with its bubbling and gushing notes and two second-floor open air balconies, respite with rockers and views of Sims Park or said courtyard. You can find out more and book a room at The Hacienda website here. Murals enhance Downtown New Port Richey's Charm There are murals on several of the downtown buildings which are fun to explore. My favorite is the one at the corner of Main and Bank Street, entitled, "A 1920's Day on the Pithlachascotee River," by Keith Goodson. It uses local people's faces on the 1920's characters. The Hacienda mural in downtown New Port Richey by Diane Bedard. There is a plaque on the mural that names all the participants which marries past and present. All the downtown murals are very good and worth a gander. Sims Park features great Festivals and Live Music throughout the Year In addition to the murals, the river and the historic buildings, New Port Richey's downtown area has Sims Park. Sims Park borders the Cotee river, the Hacienda Hotel and Main Street, reaching over to Orange Lake. Sims Park features a nice outdoor amphitheater, and several festivals are held there each year featuring live music, vendors, and activities for residents and visitors of New Port Richey. Greater New Port Richey Main Street started many of the festivals and is a great resource for downtown commerce opportunities. Historic Richey Suncoast Theatre A 1920s photo of the Thomas Meighan Theater courtesy of fivay.org The Richey Suncoast Theatre was built in 1925 at a cost of $60,000. It was originally named the Meighan Theatre after the silent film star, Thomas Meighan. Meighan's film, The New Klondike, was the premier screening. A pipe organ was installed in 1927. The Meighan theater was the center of a controversy about being open on Sundays in New Port Richey. A January 4, 1927 vote of the city's citizens kept the venue open Sundays, along with baseball games being ok, but not dancing. In 1930, a "sound system" was installed and sound movies made their debut. In 1934, the Great Depression hit, and the magnificent theater was closed. The Richey Suncoast Theater today. Image by Diane Bedard The Meighan Theatre becomes The Richey Suncoast Theater One of the many iterations of the Meighan Theater, probably taken in the 1940s -1950s, courtesy of fivay.org Like the Hacienda Hotel, this extravagant building would be bought, sold, managed and change hands many times over the ensuing years. In 1972, the theater was renamed The Richey Suncoast Theater and community theater featuring live performances began. In 2007, a complete remodel was done on the theater's tired interior. Air conditioning vents, lighting, carpet, walls, and seating were upgraded. The exterior was repainted and the gold dome regilded. It is beautiful and functional once again. Live theater is active there today and it is great fun to visit downtown and see a local production. Downtown Dining is Alive in New Port Richey There several nice restaurants and taverns in downtown New Port Richey, ranging from the home-style Greek food at Christina's Restaurant to sushi at Kazu's Sushi. You can find an up-to-date guide of the downtown New Port Richey restaurants here. There is pizza, fresh soups and salads, and a traditional tea room, The White Heron Tea and Gifts. The White Heron requires reservations for high tea, but offers a quiet room for walk-ins to enjoy a pot of fresh-brewed flavor. Several bars and pubs serve food as well as beer, wine, and cocktails. An ice cream parlor, bakery, coffee shop, and shaved ice store fill out an ever-changing mix. The White Heron Tea & Gifts attracts visitors from throughout the Nature Coast and Tampa Bay. Image courtesy of The White Heron Tea & Gifts. Recreation and Aquatic Center, Library and Parks are all part of New Port Richey Sims Park, a favorite for events and concerts is right on the banks of the Pithlachascotee and runs behind the Hacienda. It houses a nice playground, including handicapped-accessible equipment, a bandshell, and boat launches. A great library is downtown and several blocks north of the library is a recreation and aquatic center with multiple pools, workout equipment, meeting rooms and more. The New Port Richey Recreation Center pool. Image courtesy of the City of New Port Richey. Back to the beginning of this post. Take a turn off US 19 at Main Street and enjoy one of the Nature Coast's more famous cities: New Port Richey.  Then let us know what your favorite part is. A Video of New Port Richey by Anew Films https://vimeo.com/260830041 Read the full article

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Take a Sneak Peek Inside the World's First Guitar-Shaped Hotel

Have you seen it? It towers over Hollywood at 35 stories high and glistens in the sun -- it's the world's first guitar-shaped hotel.

The out-of-this-world hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock won't be opening for a couple of months, but the public is getting an inside look at what they can expect during a stay at this unique spot.

Hard Rock Tops Off Guitar-Shaped Hotel in South Florida

"It's just going to put Hollywood on the map," said Anne Hotte, CEO of the Greater Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. "It is our opportunity to be known to the whole world for something absolutely magnificent."

When visitors first step into the lobby, they first thing they see is the oculus, a giant water fountain display with sights and sounds. The biggest suites in the guitar are as large as 4,000 square feet -- some of them just steps away from the pool.

And the pool complex, when completed, will hold 3 million gallons of water.

The 13-acre beach club includes a restaurant, VIP pools and high-end cabanas.

Officials say the expansion will also create more than 2,000 new jobs.

"I'm talking disposable income," Hotte said. "They will have disposable income, they will be shopping in our local businesses, and I think that it will enhance overall the quality of life in Hollywood."

Maroon 5 will be kicking off the new expansion's opening on Oct. 24. Visitors can start booking rooms as early as July 24.

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What’s Hot South Florida Mar. 29 – Apr. 3

Friday, March 29

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA) is thrilled to welcome back Rachelle Coba as part of its monthly “Jazz at MOCA” series. With riffs that can bring down the house and a voice that awakens the hearts, Coba sweeps away her audiences with her own high-powered brand of blues; from soul, to country, to uptown, onto the stage. Her take on the blues is unexpectedly honest and mesmerizing.  After years of performing in festivals like Chicago Bluesfest and opening for renowned artists including Dr. John, The Cate Brothers and Candye Kane, Coba has crafted her own style and formed The Rachelle Coba Band. With an exciting new trio, Coba has relocated back to South Florida and is playing to steadily growing audiences in the US and abroad. The public is invited to enjoy the jazz rhythms of the Rachelle Coba, rain or shine! The museum will be closed for installation of its upcoming exhibition.” This event is free and open to the public, but for more info go to: mocanomi.org.  

Saturday, March 30

The Pub starts “The Good Times Saturday Brunch” starring Maryel Epps singing jazz, and gospel from 2-3:30pm.  

Compass Community Center presents the 28th annual Pride of the Palm Beaches today and tomorrow from 12-6pm (don’t forget the annual parade at 11am on Sunday). Tickets are $8 in advance (Compassglcc.com) and $10 at the gate.

The Harvey Milk Foundation and the Pride Center at Equality Park presents the fifth annual Diversity Honors at the Seminole Hardrock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood. This event honors those who are transforming lives by living authentically and advancing inclusiveness. For more information, see the feature in this week’s magazine or go to DiversityHonors.org.

Magic City Casino presents their annual Ultimate Miami Drag Queen at 9pm. The night will feature special appearances by Rupaul’s Drag Race’s Shangela and Miss Vangie as well as current winner Tiffany Fantasia and the 2017 winner Athena Dion. Tickets are just $25 (VIP Tables are available) at theultimatemiami.com.

The Miami Gay Men’s Chorus proudly presents Boys on Broadway featuring songs from their favorite shows – Guys and Dolls (sans the dolls), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, West Side Story, South Pacific, Cabaret and many more – that have been sung by men or groups of men…with a twist or two here and there. The show takes place at 8pm at Coral Gables Congregational Church located at 3010 De Soto Boulevard. Tickets are $25 for adults (in advance at MGMChorus.org). Children 12 and under enter for free.

The Manor Complex presents “The Manor World” in the ballroom starring International DJ/Producer Dani Toro and performing live, Nalaya, the voice of Ibiza. Noche Latina Saturdays, in the Ivy Dance room and Patio, celebrates the Latin Pop Divas with performances by Viva Mirage and Lana Novva Lannude. The night will also star DJ Cubano Miik and sexy Latin Go-Go Papi’s. Doors open at 11pm to 4am, and feature NO COVER before midnight (FL Res) and only $7 for members after midnight and $10 for non-members (18-20 – $12 all night).

Sunday, March 31

The Pub presents Lady Fancy’s Gospel Jubilee, which is a church of a different kind and features good old fashioned Southern Gospel music at 7 pm.

The annual Japanese Spring Festival returns today from 10am to 4 pm to the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, located at 2000 Convention Center Drive. Admission is free with registration at bit.ly/MBBGarden. The Japanese Spring Festival invites guests to experience Japanese culture firsthand through interactive and immersive encounters including thundering performances of Taiko drumming by Fushu Daiko, Ikebana floral design workshops, traditional Japanese tea ceremonies, hands-on origami lessons and more. Guests will also have the opportunity to shop for unique artisan items in a Japan-inspired marketplace. For more information visit mbgarden.org.    

Tuesday, April 2

The Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (MDGLCC) invites you to kick-off the Miami Beach Pride celebration by attending our Spotlight Mega-Mixer. Mingle and network with over 200 Chamber members, guests, visitors, and the community at large. The event will take place from 6 to 9pm at the Oasis Patio of the Shelborne South Beach, and features food bites, open bar (courtesy of Bacardi), and music. Admission also includes participation in a drawing for great prizes provided by Chamber members including VIP tickets to Miami Beach Pride and the opportunity to be on the Chamber’s float in the Pride Parade along Ocean Drive on April 7th! Admission is: Pre-Paid Online = $10 (Chamber members) and$20 (Others), and at the door = $15 (Chamber members), and $25 (Others). Portion of the proceeds to benefit Miami Beach Pride.  

Wednesday, April 3

A new art museum, called the George Daniell Museum (1205 Washington Avenue in Miami Beach), will open in South Beach today in conjunction with Miami Beach Pride events.  It will feature the full collection of prominent American photographer and artist George Daniell, a gay man who worked for Time, Life and Esquire Magazines, and who captured the images of many celebrities (Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Lena Horne, Georgia O’Keefe, etc).   Many of the photographs also feature his more personal photographs, which bring a homoerotic sensibility to his work.  This is the first time the entirety of his collection will be available for public view. The grand opening celebration is open to the public at 6pm. The grand opening will feature music by DJ’s Andres Aguirre and Mayra Jaimes, an open bar, food and access to the museum galleries. The event is free to attend. In addition to the new museum, there will be a George Daniell pop-up shop that will offer first access to limited edition photography prints and books by the artist.  

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Forget what you thought you knew about hand sanitizers…it’s time to upgrade that old-fashioned sanitizer that leaves your hands feeling sticky, dry and smelling like a doctor’s office. Meet the multifunctional and deliciously-scented Touchland Power Mist moisturizing hand sanitizer. Packaged in a sleek, modern container perfectly sized for your pocket, Power Mist’s pulverizer spray system ensures that the fast-evaporating sanitizer formula is evenly distributed across your hands to kill 99.99% of harmful, illness causing germs, while the naturally hydrating ingredients keep your skin feeling soft and moisturized all day long. Available in 8 scents: neutral, aloe vera, citrus, watermelon, mint, forest berry, lavender & vanilla cinnamon for only $11.95. For more information, or to purchase go to: Touchland.com.

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24 Cannabis Predictions for 2019 That Will Come True

Leafly Reports:

History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. And next year, legalization is going to rhyme with normalization, modernization, and Zkittlez, among other trends. Read on for 24 predictions that will most definitely happen in cannabis in 2019, or we owe you a bowl.

Cannabis Strains & Products Predictions

More Dessert!

The “dessert” strain craze of scrumptious, high-THC strains like Wedding Cake, Sundae Driver, and Cookies will continue strong in 2019. Look for new second and third- generation crosses of Purple Punch, Zkittlez, Gelato and more.

Lounge Expansion

California’s first licensed cannabis consumption lounges will move beyond the Bay Area. Look for them first in West Hollywood.

Increased Pesticide Awareness

As the feds relax their posture in the post-Sessions era, states will be able to focus on creating more workable systems for consumers instead of prioritizing federal concerns. They’ll realize pesticide levels are too dang high and will step up regulations. Industry will complain that standards are more stringent than food products.

Canada Gets Lit

Canada’s cannabis products and markets will get better. After a rocky start where the few open retailers could push sub-par product, competition in 2019 will drive quality back up.

Eco-Awareness

A bona fide anti-packaging waste movement will emerge in 2019 to counter the increasingly huge cannabis waste stream created by over-regulation.

Price Normalization

We’ll see California prices come down down down. Oregon will stay cratered. Washington will drop slightly. Price points will continue to evolve into greater price spectrums. Top-shelf will hit new heights. The bottom will go even lower.

Modality Modernization

Raw, crude cannabis flower as a product category will continue to lose ground to highly manufactured products like Dosist vape pens and Utopia low-dose edibles. You’ll see the explosion of molecule and effect-driven marketing (THC-V, CBG, THC-A, delta-8-THC. For “Sleep,” “Bliss,” “Relax,” “Passion.”)

Federal and State Cannabis Legalization Predictions

Incremental US Legalization

Sorry, no federal cannabis legalization in 2019. It’s going to take 30+ adult-use states for federal legalization, which will feel like a foregone conclusion when it finally arrives. But Congress will allow more states to chart their own course next year. The medical cannabis shield law Rohrabacher-Farr will be renewed, and maybe expanded to cover the Treasury Department (which will allow expanded banking services), not just the Department of Justice. A Rohrabacher-Farr-type shield bill—most likely some version of the States Act—for adult use will be seriously debated, but fail to pass either chamber.

Re-Scheduling Shenanigans

Cannabis the plant will remain a federally illegal Schedule 1 substance, deemed as dangerous as heroin, while THC the molecule derived from whole plant cannabis could be down-scheduled like dronabinol (synthetic THC), which is already in Schedule 3.

East Coast Catchup

New Jersey will legalize via the state legislature. New York will consider legalization, but the bill will get hung up on the fears of a powerful Democratic committee member, and not pass in 2019.

Windy City Blows Smoke

Illinois will advance new reforms but fall short of full legalization. Machine politics will block a solution this year. The mucky mucks have to fight over the pie another year before they eat it.

Razing Arizona

Arizona legalization advocates will fight over two separate ballot measures. Neither will make the ballot.

New Research Farms

The first new federally licensed research cannabis farms beyond the one in Mississippi will be granted licenses.

Cannabis Criminal Justice Predictions

Border Crisis and New Clarity

A high-profile border case will force the United States and Canada to amend their antiquated and harmful cannabis border policies.

More Trafficking Blame-Shifting

More US Attorneys will try to score political points by holding individual states responsible for inter-state marijuana trafficking in the US. Legal cannabis industry officials and regulators will team up to quash the illicit market like never before.

Equity’s Time Has Come

We’ll see the advanced spread of equity programs to new legalization statesas well as beyond the cannabis sector. New York politicians will take the lead on this, and influence others (New Jersey) to do the same.

Cannabis Business Predictions

More Corporate Giants Enter

More alcohol and tobacco multi-national corporations will buy stakes in cannabis companies using Canadian companies as a global investment vehicle.

Conglomerates Gonna Conglomerate

Stores like MedMen and Have a Heart will expand into newly legal states and capture bigger shares of new licenses, either directly or through acquisitions and/or licensing/management arrangements. The consolidation has just begun.

More Censorship

Expect increasing restrictions on advertising in legal states. Both conservatives and progressives love throttling cannabis free speech, for different reasons. Conservatives dislike cannabis commerce, while progressives never met a nanny state regulation they didn’t like.

LaLaLand

The world’s biggest cannabis city, Los Angeles, will continue to be a mess from a regulatory standpoint.

Technocracy Fail

In the world’s biggest cannabis state, California, track-and-trace will be delayed and plagued with problems, creating only the appearance of a traceable system.

Florida, Man

The massive legal medical cannabis state of Florida will emerge as a medical marijuana “superstate,” thanks to its population and industry rules.

Cannabis Science Predictions

More CBD Use

The FDA-approved CBD tincture Epidiolex will be used off-label in new studies that verify CBD-derived whole plant botanical efficacy for Parkinson’s and other conditions.

Drugged Driving Breakthrough

New breath, blood, and saliva plus simulator studies will hone in on drugged driving limits for the first time.

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Apple to build new Austin hub, expand in other tech hotbeds

AUSTIN, Texas — Apple plans to build a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, that will create at least 5,000 jobs ranging from engineers to call-centre agents while adding more lustre to a Southwestern city that has already become a bustling tech hub.

The decision, announced Thursday, comes 11 months after Apple CEO Tim Cook disclosed plans to open a major office outside California on the heels of a massive tax cut on overseas profits, which prompted the company to bring about $250 billion back to the U.S.

The company said it will also open offices in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California, each employing at least 1,000 workers over the next three years. Apple also pledged to add hundreds of jobs each in New York; Pittsburgh; Boston; Boulder, Colorado; and Portland, Oregon.

“They are just picking America’s most established superstar cities and tech hubs,” said Richard Florida, an urban development expert at the University of Toronto.

Apple’s scattershot expansion reflects the increasing competition for engineers in Silicon Valley, which has long been the world’s high-tech capital. The bidding for programmers is driving salaries higher, which in turn is catapulting the average prices of homes in many parts of the San Francisco Bay Area above $1 million. Many high-tech workers are thus choosing to live elsewhere, causing major tech employers such as Apple, Amazon and Google to look in new places for the employees they need to pursue their future ambitions.

“Talent, creativity and tomorrow’s breakthrough ideas aren’t limited by region or ZIP code,” Cook said in a statement.

Cities around the country offered financial incentives in an attempt to land Apple’s new campus, but Cook avoided a high-profile competition that pitted them against one another, as Amazon had before deciding to build huge new offices in New York and Virginia.

Amazon could receive up to $2.8 billion in incentives in New York, depending on how many it ultimately hires there, and up to $750 million in Virginia. Apple will receive up to $25 million from a jobs-creation fund in Texas in addition to property-tax rebates, which still need approval. The figure is expected to be a small fraction of what Amazon received.

The government incentives offered to Apple seem “more in the line of normal business site selection” compared with Amazon’s public “shakedown,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Center.

“There’s a growing backlash in the country against the entire process of subsides and relocation inducements,” Muro said. “That said, the Apple numbers for a very significant increase in jobs are much less eye-popping than the Amazon numbers.”

The spots where Amazon and Apple decided to expand were obvious choices, based on an analysis released earlier this year by CBRE Research. Washington, D.C., ranked as the third best place in North America for tech talent, behind Silicon Valley and Seattle. New York ranked fifth and Austin sixth. No. 4 was outside the U.S.: Toronto.

The new Austin campus, with about 3 million square feet (nearly 280,000 square meters) of office space, will be about a mile from another large office that Apple opened five years ago. Apple currently employs about 6,200 workers in Austin, making it the company’s largest hub outside Silicon Valley even before the expansion.

The new jobs are expected to mirror the same mix Apple already has at its Cupertino, California, headquarters, ranging from jobs in technology and research that pay well over $100,000 to lower-paying positions in customer call centres. Austin Chamber of Commerce Board Chairman Phil Wilson described jobs that Apple will be adding as “mid-skill” and “good-paying.”

Virtually all of the jobs in Seattle and San Diego will be in technology — a field where six-figure paychecks plus stock options are standard. The jobs in Culver City, about eight miles from Hollywood, will also be in digital music and video, two areas Apple is expanding in to boost its subscription entertainment offerings.

While much of the $250 billion overseas profits has been earmarked for buying back company stock and paying higher shareholder dividends, Apple pledged in January to finance more than $30 billion in capital expenditures in the U.S. over the next five years. It also committed to creating more than 20,000 more U.S. jobs during that same time frame. After adding 6,000 jobs, Apple said it now has 90,000 U.S. workers and is on track to fulfil its expansion pledge on schedule.

Where U.S. companies open new facilities or plants has had the potential for public and political backlash.

That potential intensified under the Trump administration, which has pushed companies to keep more of their operations in the U.S.

While Cook has steered mostly clear of President Donald Trump’s ire, Apple received some pushback three months ago. Apple sent a letter to the U.S. trade representative warning that the burgeoning trade war with China and rising tariffs could force higher prices for U.S. consumers. Trump in a tweet told Apple to start making its products in the U.S., and not China. Apple uses plants in China and elsewhere to produce components and assemble its products.

Cities have been eager to bring in more tech employers because their hires often make six-figure salaries. That can ripple through the economy, with new employees filling restaurants and theatres, buying property and paying taxes.

But an influx of affluent tech workers can also drive up rent and home prices, making it more difficult for those in lower-paying jobs to make ends meet.

“When tech companies invest in a place and try to hire thousands of workers, it is of course good news for tech workers who are already there and want to be there,” said Jed Kolko, chief economist for employment website Indeed.com. “But it can put a strain on the housing market and transportation.”

Austin might not feel the stress as much as some other places, Kolko said, because it already has been building more housing in anticipation of more tech employment.

Austin’s tech industries accounted for nearly 140,000 local jobs, or 14 per cent of Austin’s total employment, about twice the national average, according to the city’s chamber of commerce.

Apple opened its first office in Austin a quarter century ago, and Dell’s headquarters are in nearby Round Rock. Google, Facebook and IBM are among the other notable tech companies with satellite offices in Austin.

Austin landed another coup in July when the U.S. Army announced plans for a “Futures Command” centre to train soldiers and develop technology to combat threats from places like China and Russia.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hailed Apple’s new campus as a milestone development that “truly elevates Austin as one of the premier technology hubs in the entire world.”

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This story has been corrected to reflect that Apple’s new campus is expected to span 3 million square feet instead of 5,000 square feet and correct the spelling of the first name of Indeed’s chief economist to Jed instead of Jeb as stated in an earlier version.

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Liedtke reported from San Ramon, California, and O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island.

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Apple to build new Austin hub, expand in other tech hotbeds

AUSTIN, Texas — Apple plans to build a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, that will create at least 5,000 jobs ranging from engineers to call-centre agents while adding more lustre to a Southwestern city that has already become a bustling tech hub.

The decision, announced Thursday, comes 11 months after Apple CEO Tim Cook disclosed plans to open a major office outside California on the heels of a massive tax cut on overseas profits, which prompted the company to bring about $250 billion back to the U.S.

The company said it will also open offices in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California, each employing at least 1,000 workers over the next three years. Apple also pledged to add hundreds of jobs each in New York; Pittsburgh; Boston; Boulder, Colorado; and Portland, Oregon.

“They are just picking America’s most established superstar cities and tech hubs,” said Richard Florida, an urban development expert at the University of Toronto.

Apple’s scattershot expansion reflects the increasing competition for engineers in Silicon Valley, which has long been the world’s high-tech capital. The bidding for programmers is driving salaries higher, which in turn is catapulting the average prices of homes in many parts of the San Francisco Bay Area above $1 million. Many high-tech workers are thus choosing to live elsewhere, causing major tech employers such as Apple, Amazon and Google to look in new places for the employees they need to pursue their future ambitions.

“Talent, creativity and tomorrow’s breakthrough ideas aren’t limited by region or ZIP code,” Cook said in a statement.

Cities around the country offered financial incentives in an attempt to land Apple’s new campus, but Cook avoided a high-profile competition that pitted them against one another, as Amazon had before deciding to build huge new offices in New York and Virginia.

Amazon could receive up to $2.8 billion in incentives in New York, depending on how many it ultimately hires there, and up to $750 million in Virginia. Apple will receive up to $25 million from a jobs-creation fund in Texas in addition to property-tax rebates, which still need approval. The figure is expected to be a small fraction of what Amazon received.

The government incentives offered to Apple seem “more in the line of normal business site selection” compared with Amazon’s public “shakedown,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Center.

“There’s a growing backlash in the country against the entire process of subsides and relocation inducements,” Muro said. “That said, the Apple numbers for a very significant increase in jobs are much less eye-popping than the Amazon numbers.”

The spots where Amazon and Apple decided to expand were obvious choices, based on an analysis released earlier this year by CBRE Research. Washington, D.C., ranked as the third best place in North America for tech talent, behind Silicon Valley and Seattle. New York ranked fifth and Austin sixth. No. 4 was outside the U.S.: Toronto.

The new Austin campus, with about 3 million square feet (nearly 280,000 square meters) of office space, will be about a mile from another large office that Apple opened five years ago. Apple currently employs about 6,200 workers in Austin, making it the company’s largest hub outside Silicon Valley even before the expansion.

The new jobs are expected to mirror the same mix Apple already has at its Cupertino, California, headquarters, ranging from jobs in technology and research that pay well over $100,000 to lower-paying positions in customer call centres. Austin Chamber of Commerce Board Chairman Phil Wilson described jobs that Apple will be adding as “mid-skill” and “good-paying.”

Virtually all of the jobs in Seattle and San Diego will be in technology — a field where six-figure paychecks plus stock options are standard. The jobs in Culver City, about eight miles from Hollywood, will also be in digital music and video, two areas Apple is expanding in to boost its subscription entertainment offerings.

While much of the $250 billion overseas profits has been earmarked for buying back company stock and paying higher shareholder dividends, Apple pledged in January to finance more than $30 billion in capital expenditures in the U.S. over the next five years. It also committed to creating more than 20,000 more U.S. jobs during that same time frame. After adding 6,000 jobs, Apple said it now has 90,000 U.S. workers and is on track to fulfil its expansion pledge on schedule.

Where U.S. companies open new facilities or plants has had the potential for public and political backlash.

That potential intensified under the Trump administration, which has pushed companies to keep more of their operations in the U.S.

While Cook has steered mostly clear of President Donald Trump’s ire, Apple received some pushback three months ago. Apple sent a letter to the U.S. trade representative warning that the burgeoning trade war with China and rising tariffs could force higher prices for U.S. consumers. Trump in a tweet told Apple to start making its products in the U.S., and not China. Apple uses plants in China and elsewhere to produce components and assemble its products.

Cities have been eager to bring in more tech employers because their hires often make six-figure salaries. That can ripple through the economy, with new employees filling restaurants and theatres, buying property and paying taxes.

But an influx of affluent tech workers can also drive up rent and home prices, making it more difficult for those in lower-paying jobs to make ends meet.

“When tech companies invest in a place and try to hire thousands of workers, it is of course good news for tech workers who are already there and want to be there,” said Jed Kolko, chief economist for employment website Indeed.com. “But it can put a strain on the housing market and transportation.”

Austin might not feel the stress as much as some other places, Kolko said, because it already has been building more housing in anticipation of more tech employment.

Austin’s tech industries accounted for nearly 140,000 local jobs, or 14 per cent of Austin’s total employment, about twice the national average, according to the city’s chamber of commerce.

Apple opened its first office in Austin a quarter century ago, and Dell’s headquarters are in nearby Round Rock. Google, Facebook and IBM are among the other notable tech companies with satellite offices in Austin.

Austin landed another coup in July when the U.S. Army announced plans for a “Futures Command” centre to train soldiers and develop technology to combat threats from places like China and Russia.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hailed Apple’s new campus as a milestone development that “truly elevates Austin as one of the premier technology hubs in the entire world.”

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This story has been corrected to reflect that Apple’s new campus is expected to span 3 million square feet instead of 5,000 square feet and correct the spelling of the first name of Indeed’s chief economist to Jed instead of Jeb as stated in an earlier version.

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Liedtke reported from San Ramon, California, and O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island.

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