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With No Champagne or Celine, Vegas Casino Opens and Closes in 1 Day
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS -- The last time a casino opened around here, the champagne flowed freely, the women wore jewels, "Nightline" taped a segment and Brandon Flowers jammed in the lobby bar. This time, a guy named Walter Jones unlocked the door, then headed back to his car because the 6 a.m. desert air can be nippy and the fellow responsible for turning on the lights and heat hadn't shown up yet. A few hours into Jones' shift on Wednesday, nobody had shown up to play any of the 16 video poker slot machines inside the 20-by-20 tent erected on a plain of asphalt at the corner directly across from the ...
'Cabbagegate': Man Fined $5K for Home Garden
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- His neighbors call it "Cabbagegate." And it cost Steve Miller a lot of green. The Clarkston, Ga., man was fined $5,200 for growing too many vegetables in his backyard. Miller had been growing legumes for 15 years, selling them at local farmers markets and giving them away to friends, before he was cited by the Dekalb County Code Enforcement office for the first time last September. It's illegal to garden at such a level in the zone where he lives. Miller tried to challenge the penalty, but a reprieve was slow in coming, and the fight's not over. "Time went on, but no answers, ...
Opinion: Zoning Grinches Block Homeless Program
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 21) – Pastor Dottie Escobedo-Frank thought she was leading her CrossRoads United Methodist flock down the righteous path by providing food and prayer for the homeless every Saturday morning on the lawn of her downtown Phoenix church. After all, as the pastor points out, providing for those with less is a basic Christian-taught duty rooted in the story of Jesus' own wanderings. "It's our church belief to provide for the homeless," she said. "It's really about their not being able to find any place for the baby Jesus." But in July, six months after the church invited a nonprofit ...
Zoning the Flock: Are Megachurches the New Walmart?
By Bridget Macdonald - Politics DailyEnvironmental activists and community groups have rallied against a proposed construction project in Maryland's rural Piedmont region, but their opponent is not a typical developer. Silver Spring-based Global Mission Church plans to build a 138,000-square-foot facility in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains to provide a new home for its growing congregation. "That's the size of a Target or a Nordstrom's," said Dolores Milmoe of the Audubon Naturalist Society, which has joined the grassroots resistance. The church would occupy a clearing on a hilltop overlooking the Sugarloaf Mountain ...
Palin, a Portrait in Corruption
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAs Sarah Palin retreats to the press isolation of one of John McCain's 8 residences to cram for her Thursday debate (yes, that means another 6 days without a news conference), we're learning more about the kind of politician this woman showed herself to be in Alaska. As the Associated Press details in an article today, her tenure as mayor was marked by noted examples of corruption:When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign off on a special zoning exception--and did so without keeping a promise to remove a potential fire hazard.She gladly ...
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