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Mar 15, 2012	A Meter So Expensive, It Creates Parking Spots QUOTE: ...San Francisco is trying to shorten the hunt with an ambitious experiment that aims to make sure that there is always at least one empty parking spot available on every block that has meters. The program, which uses new technology and the law of supply and demand, raises the price of parking on the city’s most crowded blocks and lowers it on its emptiest blocks....acknowledged that the program was “complicated on the social equity level.”	New York Times
Dec 13, 2011	Inside Wukan: the Chinese village that fought back: Something extraordinary has happened in the Chinese village of Wukan. QUOTE: For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt....The plan appears to be to lay siege to Wukan and choke a rebellion which began three months ago when an angry mob, incensed at having the village’s land sold off, rampaged through the streets and overturned cars.	Daily Telegraph
Sep 19, 2011	In Small Towns, Gossip Moves to the Web, and Turns Vicious QUOTE: In rural America, where an older, poorer and more remote population has lagged the rest of the country in embracing the Internet, the growing use of social media is raising familiar concerns about bullying and privacy. But in small towns there are complications. The same Web sites created as places for candid talk about local news and politics are also hubs of unsubstantiated gossip, stirring widespread resentment in communities where ties run deep, memories run long and anonymity is something of a novel concept.	New York Times
Feb 05, 2011	A Dot on the Map, Until the Earth Started Shaking QUOTE: “They took advantage of people’s ignorance,” said Greg Hooten, the superintendent of the local water utility, who now worries about the effect of the drilling on the groundwater. Nonetheless, Mr. Hooten had signed an agreement for drilling on his property. “Who’s going to stop the gas and oil companies?” he asked.	New York Times
Dec 26, 2010	Conflict Over Squatters Divides Argentina QUOTE: a series of land invasions by thousands of people in the last few weeks that have pushed the capital to the brink of crisis. The ostensible cause, analysts said, is a shortage of low-income housing that has been exacerbated by high inflation and a boom in immigration. But scratch the surface and there are mind-twisting layers of maneuvering and intrigue that one resident called “Alice in Wonderland” politics, in which the president and the mayor of Buenos Aires are blaming each other.	New York Times
Jun 30, 2010	Black Landowners Fight to Reclaim Georgia Home QUOTE: n 1942, Harris Neck, a thriving community of black landowners who hunted, farmed and gathered oysters, was taken by the federal government to build an airstrip. Now, the elders — who remember barefoot childhoods spent climbing trees and waking to watch the Canada geese depart in formation — want to know why they cannot have it back.	New York Times
Apr 16, 2010	Put Vendors in Their Place QUOTE: An army of book sellers set up tables along Fifth Avenue, blocking the sidewalks, collecting no sales tax and paying no property tax, and in some instances selling stolen goods. My concern for a poet’s right to sell his poems by hand (the regulations wouldn’t limit artists who roam with their works) was never meant to encompass commercial vendors appropriating the public right of way for private business use.	New York Times
Aug 04, 2009	Evicted Palestinians stand their ground – on thin mattressesEvicted Palestinians stand their ground – on thin mattresses QUOTE: In all, 58 Palestinians were evicted in this predominantly Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, Sheikh Jarrah. Though they had received – and refused to obey – a court order in May to leave after losing a longstanding dispute over property rights, it was still a shock.	Christian Science Monitor
Aug 02, 2009	In Kansas, Proposed Monument to a Wartime Friendship Tests the Bond QUOTE: some of the American [Vietnam] veterans, who see the park as a place to remember American service members alone, say the compromise location [a memorial for South Vietnamese allies] is still too close, and they worry about what group (Iraqi allies?) might be the next to want to erect a statue so near.	New York Times
Jun 14, 2009	Blacks abandon San Francisco: No US city has seen a more rapid decline of its African-American population. QUOTE: While San Francisco's image has been defined by a history of tolerance and openness, some say today's reality is much different. They paint a picture of a racially and economically divided city where blacks are vanishing from the social and cultural fabric, priced out and marginalized by the urban redevelopment policies of the past half century.	Christian Science Monitor
Apr 23, 2009	On the Gowanus Canal, Fear of Superfund Stigma QUOTE: City [of New York] officials and many residents fear that the Superfund label, reserved for the worst contamination in the country and evoking health emergencies like the Love Canal debacle of the 1970s, could deter new development in Gowanus, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook.	New York Times
Nov 29, 2008	Preservationists See Bulldozers Charging Through a Loophole QUOTE: The strategy has become wearyingly familiar to preservationists. A property owner — in this case Sylgar Properties, which was under contract to sell the site to Related — is notified by the landmarks commission that its building or the neighborhood is being considered for landmark status. The owner then rushes to obtain a demolition or stripping permit from the city’s Department of Buildings so that notable qualities can be removed, rendering the structure unworthy of protection.	New York Times
Oct 20, 2008	89-Year-Old Woman Accused Of Theft Over Football QUOTE: An 89-year-old Ohio woman faces a charge of petty theft because neighborhood children said she refused to give back their football.	WLWT
May 30, 2008	Nobel Laureates Unable to Win Release of Doctor QUOTE: Binayak Sen, who has worked with the poorest of the poor in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh, has been a vocal critic of the government's use of armed groups to push villagers out of mineral-rich forests to boost development. He was jailed in April 2007 on sedition charges, including allegedly being linked to Maoist rebels and smuggling a letter for an accused Maoist prisoner he had visited.	Washington Post
May 28, 2008	Square Feet: Major San Francisco Development Faces a Ballot Test QUOTE: Proposition F reflects worries that residents will be cut off from the jobs and wealth generated by the development, and that rising property values might force them out of their homes. The proposition expresses this fear most pointedly with a requirement that half of the housing built in the new Hunters Point-Bayview project be offered for sale to working families at below-market rates.	New York Times
May 18, 2008	Va. Snake Saga Rattles Residents, Ends in Ban QUOTE: "This isn't about snakes," said Koskinen, a father of three, who lives next door to the Snake House. "This is about protecting our children. That my neighbor has something from Mexico or Africa that could kill my child violates the social compact in a profound way."	Washington Post
Mar 01, 2008	A Town and a Baptist Pastor Vie Over ‘Eternity’ QUOTE: The battle between the city and the church appears to come down to two essential issues: is the message of eternity a commercial one, and is the roof sign a nuisance so grand that the government must intervene?	New York Times
Jan 18, 2008	With predator populations rising, more calls for control: Western states grapple with how to address an increasing threat to livestock from wolves and big cats. QUOTE: While there is no direct connection, collectively these issues reflect the tension between rural Westerners involved in ranching, farming, and logging, and those in growing urban and recreational areas where people are more likely to have a friendlier attitude toward wildlife.	Christian Science Monitor
Jan 15, 2008	Crackdown on L.I. Landlords Is Criticized as Harassment of Immigrants QUOTE: The new policy [a comprehensive rental law intended to stop the crowding of multiple families into single units] has become the latest controversy involving illegal immigrants in Suffolk County, where the county executive, Steve Levy, has won broad public approval and national attention for his aggressive campaign against illegal immigration.	New York Times
Jan 13, 2008	On the Lookout for Out-of-District Students QUOTE: Clifton is hardly the only district searching for students sneaking into its schools....And there are many ways to find students who don’t belong. Bounties, detectives, stakeouts with cameras, and hot lines that receive tips from anonymous callers are tools that some school districts use to combat the perennial problem of illegally enrolled students.	New York Times
Jan 10, 2008	Human Dignity Also Needs to Be Preserved QUOTE: HUD filed a complaint against the D.C. government, alleging that by denying the Lucases permission to install a ramp, the city is violating anti-discrimination laws. "I hope they would get off the position that historic preservation trumps fair housing or any law that protects the disabled,"...	Washington Post
Jan 01, 2008	Electronic Passports Raise Privacy Issues QUOTE: The [new passport] cards can be read wirelessly from 20 feet, offering convenience to travelers but raising security and privacy concerns about the possibility of data being intercepted.	Washington Post
Dec 30, 2007	Surge in Off-Roading Stirs Dust and Debate in West QUOTE: The federal government has been struggling to come up with plans to accommodate the growing numbers of off-highway vehicles — mostly with proposed maps directing them toward designated trails — but all-terrain-vehicle users have started formidable lobbying campaigns when favorite trails have been left off the maps.	New York Times
Dec 28, 2007	Art Attack: Public installations have been raising hackles ever since that pesky Parthenon went up in Greece. Next up: a controversial sculpture is set to rise from the ashes in Phoenix. QUOTE: public art...if you think people are arguing over how these artworks actually look or what they represent, think again. In most cases what puts people in a tizzy is location, funding, durability, safety, effect on property values, traffic patterns and other unsexy logistical issues, says Bob Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts...	Newsweek
Dec 07, 2007	Young Israelis Resist Challenges to Settlements QUOTE: The cat-and-mouse contest here lays bare a key dilemma of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute: Israel has pledged that it will permit no new settlements in the territory it has occupied since the 1967 war, no more expropriation of Palestinian land and dismantle unauthorized outposts — like this one — erected since March 2001, but it has never applied the muscle needed to do so.	New York Times
Nov 27, 2007	New Orleans' musical traditions changing QUOTE: Hurricane Katrina altered many of New Orleans' most culturally rich neighborhoods and exasperated the plight of local musicians. Some living in low-income rental units returned to find unaffordable rents and new neighbors.	USA TODAY
Nov 24, 2007	Enemy Aircraft Sighted and, Above All Else, Heard QUOTE: The rise in private-jet travel is being driven in part by long check-in and security lines at major airports. Those waits make private flying attractive to wealthy travelers, while at the same time fractional-jet-ownership companies are making it possible for more corporations to send their executives off in style. The developments have stoked the anger of residents here, who say jet fumes endanger their health and jet noise threatens their sanity.	New York Times
Nov 13, 2007	In Farm Belt, Ethanol Plants Hit Resistance QUOTE: Some experts say the local protests reflect a new anti-ethanol mood spurred by a slow but steady drumbeat of negative attention on the industry. Across the Midwest, questions about ethanol have been raised by environmental advocates, livestock owners have complained about soaring prices for corn feed and farmers have fretted about how expensive some farmland has become.	New York Times
Nov 04, 2007	A Battle Rages in London Over a Mega-Mosque Plan QUOTE: This summer on the Web site of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, more than 250,000 critics of the proposed mosque supported a petition initiated by a backer of the conservative British National Party. Some of them said a large mosque had no right to exist in such a prominent place in a Christian country.	New York Times
Nov 04, 2007	Colorado Ranchers Angry Over Army Site Expansion: Plan to Take Land Spurs Debate On Patriotism, Property Rights QUOTE: Several dozen ranchers and members of 15 county commissions that voted to oppose the project find themselves pitted against the Pentagon and Colorado business interests in a struggle over property rights, personal heritage and the contested priorities of national security.	Washington Post
Nov 03, 2007	Texas Proceeding With Plan to Auction Nature Preserve QUOTE: The dispute pits the donors of the land, the Conservation Fund and the Richard King Mellon Foundation, against a pistol-packing commissioner adamant about preserving hunting and firearms rights on the property, even at the cost of denying the land to the National Park Service, although Texas ranks 44th in park land.	New York Times
Nov 02, 2007	Effort to Save Everglades Falters as Funds Drop QUOTE: The idea that the federal government could summon the will and money to restore the subtle, sodden grandeur of the so-called River of Grass is disappearing, too. Supporters say the effort would get sorely needed momentum from a long-delayed federal bill authorizing $23 billion in water infrastructure projects, including almost $2 billion for the Everglades.	New York Times
Oct 25, 2007	Firefighters Get Control as Questions Rise QUOTE: The fires of October 2007 have sharpened questions about the costs of protecting the increasing numbers of people who live in remote and highly flammable areas, reawakened old jealousies that simmer across Southern California and forced new examination of the tension between the need for local emergency services and the willingness to pay for them.	New York Times
Oct 21, 2007	A Court Decision Elbows a Village in Favor of Religious Rights QUOTE: Peyote or no peyote, land-use planning and zoning board decisions aren’t made for thrilling public debate — unless it’s your backyard that’s involved. But the path from the North American Church to the Orthodox day school does have an Alice in Wonderland quality. It has brought the federal government someplace it has almost never been — the realm of local land use, planning and zoning decisions.	New York Times
Oct 09, 2007	Arguments in Atlantic Yards Case QUOTE: The lawsuit, known as Goldstein v. Pataki, was filed in October 2006. It is one of the most significant eminent domain cases to be brought since the United States Supreme Court, in the Kelo v. City of New London decision in June 2005, held that public officials may transfer condemned property to another private interest if doing so would create a superior benefit to the public.	New York Times
Oct 03, 2007	Neighbor tenants tangle over tobacco QUOTE: As tens of thousands of apartments and condos go smoke-free, a new battle is opening in the nation's decades-long fight over tobacco. Smoking bans have spread from workplaces to restaurants, bars, parks, ATM lines, cars with kids and now private residences.	USA TODAY
Oct 01, 2007	Muslim sect resisted in Md. QUOTE: The controversy here is the latest involving Muslim efforts to build or expand mosques and community centers. Local opposition has stalled projects in Pompano Beach, Fla.; Louisville; and Rockaway, N.J. Opponents often cite traffic or loss of tax revenues but, says Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, anti-Muslim bias plays a role.	USA TODAY
Sep 28, 2007	Zone 1 in place for California's no-fishing plan: It is trying to protect its world-famous bounty of fish with marine protected areas. QUOTE: Waterfront boating operators say scenic tours and sport fishing could become too expensive or go extinct. And some local officials say the "quaint fishing village" look could fade into yesteryear, replaced by communities of modern condos. But leading environmental groups say the new plan is the only way to sustain California's marine resources and world-famous bounty of rockfish, squid, tuna, jack mackerel, and hake.	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 13, 2007	Diet-conscious Los Angeles eyes moratorium on fast-food outlets: Diet-conscious Los Angeles eyes moratorium on fast-food outlets QUOTE: Others say [a moratorium on new fast-food outlets] is a well-meaning but misguided attempt by government to control social behavior, doomed to failure, like prohibition in the 1920s. "You can't regulate the supply side of a behavioral problem and expect results," says Dennis Lombardi, executive vice president of Foodservice Strategies, a consulting firm for the restaurant industry.	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 05, 2007	Neighbors hope to pull plug on digital billboards QUOTE: Digital billboards are the latest trend in outdoor advertising, say billboard companies. They are taking hold in cities across the country, even as sign companies, federal regulators and opponents debate the legal status of the technology that makes them possible.	USA TODAY
Sep 04, 2007	Appeals Court Finds Ugly Implications in City's Anti-Truck Law: Class, Not Aesthetics, May Be Real Issue, Judges Suggest in Overturning Code QUOTE: The central question in the ticket case has become: Are the city ordinances targeting pickup trucks, or are they, more sinisterly, trying to exclude the people who drive them?	Washington Post
Aug 24, 2007	As an energy-saver, the clothesline makes a comeback: A 'Right to Dry' movement is growing, with some states introducing legislation to override clothesline bans. QUOTE: a national clothesline – or "Right to Dry" – movement escalates. In fact, Vermont is the latest state to introduce a bill that would override clothesline bans, which are often instituted by community associations loath to air laundry even when it's clean.	Christian Science Monitor
Aug 24, 2007	Sprawl exceeds reach of hydrants QUOTE: Nearly a fourth of U.S. families face the same protection inadequacies as the Webers because they live in extended suburban or rural locations with no hydrants, says Lori Moore-Merrell, an operations analyst with the International Association of Fire Fighters. The lack of fire hydrants is a growing problem as more homes are built outside urban and suburban infrastructure, she says.	USA TODAY
Jul 23, 2007	In Alaska, a Road Marked With Controversy QUOTE: proponents say isolated native Alaskans...could die for lack of emergency medical care if federal officials do not allow the road to be built .... But environmentalists say the road would wreak havoc with the heart of one of the most fertile wildlife breeding and feeding sites in the nation...	Washington Post
Jul 19, 2007	After a Brutal Attack, Many Hope for Change but Few Expect It QUOTE: The people of Dunbar Village are petrified, furious and doubtful that even such a savage crime will bring about change. West Palm Beach — “a city of unsurpassed beauty,” its Web site says — has eagerly permitted luxury condominiums and revitalized neighborhoods for the rich and middle class. But the north side, where steady violence has pushed up the city’s crime rate, continues to languish.	New York Times
Jun 28, 2007	Tree-Cutting Proposal Near C& O Canal Spurs Debate QUOTE: A developer wants to cut down a swath of trees where he is building a home overlooking the C&O Canal in Potomac, arguing that the Americans with Disabilities Act gives him the right because his two young children are allergic to nuts on the trees.	Washington Post
Jun 27, 2007	When armed citizens patrol the streets: A citizen patrol group in New Haven, Conn., says it's doing what police won't, but critics question its tactics. QUOTE: as budget woes and other priorities cause some localities to cut back neighborhood police patrols, advocates say that stepped-up citizen policing is an understandable response...	Christian Science Monitor
Jun 19, 2007	Wal-Mart fight heats up in California: While cities challenge expansion plans, the retail giant touts benefits QUOTE: [Wal-Marts are] harder to find in California, and municipal leaders across the state want to keep it that way .... [but] For its part, Wal-Mart says it's been unfairly vilified.	Christian Science Monitor
Jun 15, 2007	Lawmakers Cashing In on Real Estate, Financial Reports Reveal QUOTE: Open-government and ethics watchdogs say that Mollohan and Hastert are part of a growing circle on Capitol Hill that is engaging in land deals as a path to wealth, and they argue that such transactions have the potential to benefit from legislators' political connections and official actions.	Washington Post
May 21, 2007	In Suburbs, Locked Into a High-Tech Lure: Fiber-Optic Service Disappoints Many, but Contracts Span Decades QUOTE: Seven years ago, the neighborhood's homeowners association, set up by the developer Van Metre Homes, inked an exclusive deal with OpenBand, a small Dulles firm, to provide Internet, cable and phone service to all 1,100 homes. Residents say they are now locked into an expensive, decades-long contract for second-rate services.	Washington Post

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