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Cubans Flee Their Homes As Hurricane Ike Moves Across The Island - Miami Herald
more than 700,000 cubans were evacuated from vulnerable and low-lying homes sunday as authorities there frantically prepared for a daunting historic event: the island's second powerful hurricane in eight days. the picture for cuba could hardly be ...
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Island Gets Its First Big Fall Storm
thousands of homes lost power on vancouver island yesterday in winds and rains that kept hydro crews hopping.
www.canada.com

Work To Start Soon On £2m Road To Industrial Estate
work looks set to start soon on a £2m road to a new industrial estate. families on barrow island have been worried that the planned new road to the waterfront business park will never happen and that traffic to the site would carry on rumbling past their homes along ramsden dock road.
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Graffiti Vandals Target Staten island Homes In Charleston - Staten Island Advance
a group of graffiti vandals turned a charleston homeowner's fence into a crude political billboard last night, spraying it with web site names and oblique references to conspiracy theories. "it's terrible," said mary ellen van uiter, who owns the ...
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Readers Choose Prettiest Blocks On Long Island - Newsday
long island 's fanciest blocks - nominated by newsday readers by e-mail - are places where neighbors pay meticulous attention to detail, from immaculate landscapes to the perfect wreath on the door. loving care, time and some cash have gone into all ...
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A Lesson From Vermont On Medicaid
rhode island is trying to follow vermont into a more flexible system that might keep more people out of nursing homes. but the system has its drawbacks.
www.projo.com

U.s. Apartment Vacancies Reach 6.1 Percent As Rent Growth Slows
oct. 6 (bloomberg) -- the vacancy rate for u.s. rental apartment buildings rose to 6.1 percent in the third quarter as a dropoff in mortgage lending and stagnant wages deterred people from buying homes, reis inc. reported.
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Snooping Around: Homes Around £300,000 (5 Pictures) - Guardian Unlimited
property of the week: easdale island, argyll. there are no roads on this, the smallest inhabited hebridean island. these two former slate miners’ cottages have been linked and renovated with wooden floors and a slate fireplace. there's only one ...
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Hurricane Ike: Survivors Forced Out Of Homes So Clean Up Can Begin - Daily Telegraph
; http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1488655367/bctid1801177367 http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1139053637 the massive storm has been blamed for the deaths of 48 people since hitting the us gulf coast over the weekend. it ...
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Chellie Pingree: Maine Island Living Shapes Longtime Politician's Views
north haven, maine — chellie pingree's political life has taken her from augusta to the nation’s capital, but it is this island in penobscot bay that is the source of her convictions and inspiration.
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Alabama Voices: Losing Our Shield
we are trying hard to impress on everyone in the nation the value of dauphin island as a barrier against sea swells in protecting the whole mobile and baldwin county shorelines around mobile bay and the mississippi sound, from bayou la batre to the chickasaw shipyard/industrial area, alabama state docks properties, theodore industrial complex, including all of mobile's industry, and including ...
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Beach Homes May Have To Be Removed, State Says - Houston Chronicle
galveston — hurricane ike eroded so much beach in some areas here that beach-front homes along the gulf of mexico may have to be removed to comply with state law, land commissioner jerry patterson said today. during a news conference with city ...
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Texas May Seize Homes On Beaches - Baltimore Sun
galveston, texas - hundreds of people whose beachfront homes were wrecked by hurricane ike may be barred from rebuilding under a little-noticed texas law. and even those whose houses were spared could end up seeing them condemned by the state. and it ...
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New Crop Of Galveston Condos Predict Possible Spike From Ike
despite the overall devastation on galveston island, two of the city’s newest high-rise condominium towers fared well during hurricane ike, a fact that could have them fully occupied sooner than expected.
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Counties Cut Off At Coast
no direct access is open between brazoria county and galveston island via the bridge at san luis pass.
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Beach Erosion From Ike May Make Homes Illegal - Los Angeles Times
galveston, texas -- even people whose coastal houses were spared by hurricane ike could see them condemned under a little-known texas law, and hundreds whose beachfront homes were wrecked could be barred from rebuilding there. now here's the ...
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Roughly 75 Percent Of Galveston's Homes Are Uninhabitable - Abc News
for the first time since hurricane ike blew away much of the city, residents of galveston began streaming home today. residents are warned that the city is still not safe. but the city is in such bad shape, those hurrying back home were given an ...
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Housing Market Shows More Signs Of Weakness
building permits plunge 13.5 per cent in august, largely because of slump in multi-family homes
www.reportonbusiness.com

Crane Island Battle Goes To Courtroom
almost two years after the nassau county commission rezoned a portion of crane island to allow for greater development, a suit challenging that decision is going to trial.
www.jacksonville.com

Block Island Building Permits For New Homes At A Two-decade Low - Block Island Times
so far in 2008 block island has seen fewer construction permits issued for new homes than in any time in the last 20 years according to building official mark tillson. as of tuesday, tillson had issued just two building permits for single-family ...
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