Board Rejects Affordable Housing Proposal
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By Frank Juliano, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Feb. 9--MILFORD -- Members of the Planning and Zoning Board are waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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The so-called "living-wage" ordinance that would have required mega-retailers here to pay their workers higher wages was successfully turned back Wednesday as supporters on the City Council could not muster enough votes override Mayor Richard Daley's veto.
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Governor Mitt Romney's push to sell the state-owned John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in the Back Bay will be rejected today by a special state commission that includes Romney appointees, panel members said.
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By ELAINE D. BRISEO Journal Staff Writer  The Rio Rancho school board may have deviated from state standards after recently rejecting an advisory group's recommendation to offer an alternative to the district's abstinence- only curriculum.
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The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency board has rejected a $1 billion offer that would have allowed its biggest competitor to run the state&#39;s student-loan agency.
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Major League Baseball on Wednesday rejected as &quot;wholly unacceptable&quot; a stadium financing plan approved the day before by the Washington City Council, throwing into grave
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University of California regents yesterday resoundingly rejected a proposal that sought to add a &quot;multiracial&quot; category to UC&#39;s admissions application.
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By The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  May 29--Sacramento County's landmark affordable housing law is under attack, and the real threat isn't the court system, but a new majority on the Board of Supervisors.
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By CAREN BURMEISTER  A Beaches affordable housing coalition is criticizing a Mayport Road workforce housing project for not targeting income groups like the 800 families who lost their homes when their residences were sold and converted to condos.
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Â· Experts condemn plan to make tenants seek workÂ· No 10 takes detached view of minister's plans
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Aerospace components and fine chemicals maker GenCorp Inc. said Monday that its board unanimously rejected Steel Partners II LP&#39;s acquisition offer, citing an &quot;inadequate&quot; price.
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By SCOTT HARPER  BY SCOTT HARPER  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  RICHMOND - The State Water Control Board rejected two major development proposals Wednesday - one on the Peninsula, the other on the Eastern Shore - in decisions cheered by environmentalists and watermen.
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A Massachusetts Land Court judge yesterday rejected a request by the Glass Slipper strip club to stop a developer from tearing down the defunct and dilapidated Gaiety Theatre nearby.
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The so-called "living-wage" ordinance that would have required mega-retailers here to pay their workers higher wages was successfully turned back Wednesday as supporters on the City Council could not muster enough votes to override Mayor Richard Daley's veto.
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By Daniel Thigpen, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 17--STOCKTON -- County planners on Thursday rejected a proposal to turn nearly 400 acres of dairy farmland south of Manteca into space for new homes after opponents argued such a project would threaten existing dairies.
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U.S. private equity firm Apollo Management has made a 1-billion-pound ($1.95 billion) bid proposal to Countrywide , but one of the British property agency's key shareholders immediately rejected it as too low.
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Cook County Board President John Stroger&#39;s tardy 2005 budget won&#39;t include a property tax hike, but that&#39;s the only proposed tax hike now being excluded from consideration, his office said Tuesday.