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...When UK ministers invited a fresh round of applications to the £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund for economically struggling areas in 2022, Durham county council was optimistic....
...“We are overwhelmed in our building department; it is very difficult to find qualified employees,” says Schneiderman in Southampton....
...The US Department of Justice also wants answers and has opened an investigation into the collapse....
...Gwinnett County, the suburban Atlanta region where most of Georgia’s Korean population resides, has been hailed as the “Seoul of the South”....
...“It's a system that I know from the outside looks like chaos,” says Douglas Toole, head of the Vermilion County Health Department where Danville is located. “But there's a plan.”...
...So, I know John Lewis, the British department store chain, is going into building housing on its sites....
...Krebs reels off a list of US state institutions that have been hit: “The City of Atlanta, the City of Baltimore got popped twice, the Colorado Department of Transportation, the County of Mecklenburg, North...
...It is a scenario that the US state department has warned about the world over: an incumbent politician in a democracy with weak institutions tries to hold on to power by casting doubt on an election that...
...Department for Transport officials said Mr Oakervee had not finalised his report before the election was called. “No copy of this has been provided to the department,” said one....
...Mr Sheahan, a former mayor of Limerick city and county, says the plant was crucial to the predominantly rural economy....
...Look at the inside of Google’s Douglas County, Georgia, data centre: the bright colours of its piping pure Pompidou....
...For most of its history, Angola seemed to epitomise the worst of the US prison system, says James Le Blanc, Louisiana’s department of corrections secretary....
...And Fairfield County, where Greenwich and many hedge funds are located, is the most unequal region in the state....
...“There has not been a correction here — and there may not be.” In the headlong race to grow, the campuses of the tech titans are turning into sprawling empires....
...Many report being roughed up by police or accused of crimes while off-duty, or harassed while on duty, says Damon Jones, a 27-year veteran of the Westchester County department of correction and the New York...
...Correction: Harrods has said that in 2002 the tunnel was filled in and it was not possible to re-instate the link....
...Douglas Oakervee, special representative for China at the Institution of Civil Engineers, said the deal was a “major step in the collaboration between UK and Chinese companies”....
...Ames’s runways are now only used a few times a day by Nasa, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Air Force One, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department’s helicopters and Google staff....
...Jennifer Lo, a broker at Douglas Elliman, estimates that Chinese investors accounted for a quarter of buyers of homes worth $3m and above in Nassau County – home to some of the best high schools in the country...
...Remember, not even Mr Burns would eat the three-eyed fish from downriver. ——————————————- Douglas Coupland’s most recent novel is ‘Worst. Person....
...Correction: This piece was amended on October 27, removing the incorrect statement that Portland endures “one of the longest, coldest winters of any American city”. ——————————————- Details Where to stay...
...Niall Williams, History of the Rain (Bloomsbury) From the publisher’s blurb for the book: “Close to death in Ireland’s County Clare, Ruth Swain is hunting for her father, Virgil....
...In 2005 alone there were 130 new developments in the works, according to the New York City Department of Buildings....
...is on the families who are on the waiting list, who in a normal year would have received a voucher when the voucher became available, but in the current year are not receiving assistance at all,” said Douglas...
...On her bookshelves are bone bird and fish sculptures, mostly of Inuit origin, which she acquired in the 1970s when she conducted research at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County....
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