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On Tuesday, I arrived at home, met as I walked into my kitchen by my seventh-grade daughter. With a wry smile, she handed me a letter we received that day.
The letter began simply with, "WHAT PART OF 'NO' DON'T THEY UNDERSTAND?"
I could have stopped reading immediately.
I knew it was the latest letter distributed by Donald Nix, and it would contain misleading statements regarding the Harrisburg School District bond issue on Tuesday.
As I read through his letter, the half-truths started almost immediately. One of his first statements reads, "This is the same plan with a few soccer and softball fields eliminated." Wrong!
The athletic facility as now proposed is a football/soccer field and running track. Additional cost-cutting measures include eliminating the proposed remodel of the existing middle school and a new bus barn.
Some days, Leah Farley sits on her front deck in Kansas City, Kan., and watches the cars trickle by. She gets a kick out of people's reaction when they notice the bizarre edifice behind her, the rectangular structure she calls home. "I think most people who live around here have pretty much gotten used to it," she said. "But sometimes, people stop and stare." They squint, incredulous. They roll down their windows, trying to get a better look. And sometimes, she said, "They almost wreck their cars." Farley lives in an award-winning, modular house designed and built by graduate students at the University of Kansas. The home — nestled amid older homes at 534 Riverview Ave. in Strawberry Hill — is an architectural marvel that, as Farley put it, "sticks out like a sore thumb." It also has attracted national recognition.
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Tulane University president Dr. Scott Cowen's recent homecoming to Cleveland was a bittersweet remembrance of before and after Hurricane Katrina.
Speaking at the State Theatre as part of the Town Hall of Cleveland series on Mon., Nov. 13, Cowen described the devastation Tulane and the city of New Orleans experienced last year. He also said he is “fortunate" to be part of the rebuilding effort. Cowen, dean of Case Weatherhead School of Business for 14 years prior to assuming his Tulane post in 1998, credited “Cleveland's rebuilding efforts in the 1970s for preparing me for the challenges I've had to face."In the months prior to the cataclysm, Tulane had enjoyed an unprecedented level of success. The school had received a record number of applications from prospective students, a record level of research grants, and a designation from US News & World Report as one of the “hottest schools in the US."Then came “a monster of a storm." Cowen and four other top officials were ensconced at the uptown campus as mandated by the school's emergency evacuation plan.
Depending on one's credit, it is usually easy enough to find financing for a conventional house. But what about a yurt? Yurts, circular structures still built by the Mongols, occupy a tiny, but growing, niche in residential architecture, a segment in which owners take satisfaction in the knowledge that no one within miles lives in a house like theirs. .
Oakland-based WorldHeart Corp. has received a notice from the Nasdaq Stock Market indicating that, based on the company's Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended Sept. 30, the company's stockholders' equity does not comply with the minimum $10 million stockholders' equity requirement for continued listing on Nasdaq. Nasdaq is reviewing the company's eligibility for continued listing. The company, on or before Dec. 5, as requested by Nasdaq, intends to provide a specific plan to comply with listing requirements. Energy The first phase of a 1-megawatt solar power system mounted on a parking garage in Gwangju, South Korea, has been completed by PowerLight Corp., the Berkeley-based company said Tuesday. The system will be owned and operated by Korea's Solar & Park Co., and a local utility has signed a 15-year contract to buy the unit's power, the announcement said.
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