Archives » February 22nd, 2008

Chicago pitches Navy Pier to USOC

Crain’s Chicago Business reported yesterday that Mayor Richard Daley’s administration has proposed building a home for the United States Olympic Committee on the city’s Navy Pier on Lake Michigan close to Chicago’s downtown.
The news comes as the USOC is meeting this morning in Atlanta, where it is expected to review […]

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Unsafe buildings under scrutiny

The El Paso County Board of Commissioners is considering an ordinance that would require the removal of unsafe buildings from unincorporated areas of the county.
Any building or structure would be deemed unsafe under the ordinance if it:

presents a substantial danger or hazard to public health or safety
is materially dilapidated and unused […]

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Fewer mortgage lenders online

It was bound to happen. In light of contracting trends in the credit industry mortgage lenders are “disappearing from the ranks of the biggest Internet advertisers,” Mortgage Daily.com reported this week.

At the same time, spending by some mortgage lead generators and their parent companies remained strong.
Nielsen Online’s Top 10 Advertisers by […]

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Yo-ho-ho and fewer bottles of rum

A bill that would lower a boat operator’s allowable blood alcohol content to 0.08 from 0.1 unanimously passed out of the Senate Transportation Committee yesterday.
The new restrictions would apply to all vessels—including, presumably, a one-person rubber raft.
SB 159 sponsors said that the bill would “reduce incidences of dangerous activity” on Colorado […]

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