Detroit council OKs modified plan creating black business area
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The City Council has passed a modified version of a plan to use public funds to create a black business district in the city, voting to eliminate a requirement that only blacks get loans.
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The tentative agreement between Chrysler and the U.A.W. appears headed for approval, after four union locals in the Detroit area voted in favor of the contract.
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The D.C. Council approved a measure late Tuesday night that dramatically restructures Mayor Anthony A. Williams's deal with baseball to build a stadium.
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By Nick Perry, The Seattle Times  Sep. 17--Seattle could become the new Detroit.   A once-proud hub of innovation left to languish as brilliant people, new  ideas and dazzling products bubble up elsewhere.
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The Washington, DC, City Council approved funds for a Major League Baseball stadium late Tuesday, but substantially altered the plan by requiring the mayor to find private financing for half the construction costs.
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By Sophia KazmiSTAFF  DUBLIN -- Plans for a new 935-unit residential development with a mix of housing types, parks and open space have been approved by the City Council for northeast Dublin.
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The City Council gave tentative approval Friday to an overhaul of an anti-illegal-immigration law considered to be one of the nation's toughest, hoping to put the measure on sounder legal footing.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 13--OCEAN SPRINGS -- Developers have changed their plan for a controversial apartment complex and will build townhouses instead.
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By Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio  Dec. 7--McDONALD -- Village council approved the third reading of an  ordinance that updates a solid-waste plan with the Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste  Management District.
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By Seth Freedland, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jan. 30--JAMES CITY -- The committee entrusted with creating new development rules for James City's rural land for the first time in two decades presented its proposal Monday night to about 100 people in Legacy Hall in New Town.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 7--BILOXI -- The Biloxi City Council chose a firm to devise a new post-Katrina comprehensive plan Tuesday and also discussed widening the time frame for homeowners to build back at lower elevations.
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WASHINGTON - The District of Columbia Council approved an amended financing plan for a ballpark for the Expos, adding provisions that major league baseball is likely to reject and could jeopardize the proposed move of the franchise.
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OneUnited Bank, a Boston company ranked as the nation's second-largest black-owned bank, is planning an expansion that could put up to five new branches in Boston neighborhoods before year's end and eventually dozens in other cities.
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Developer Prescott Realty Group announced that its Lake Highlands Town  Center project received both zoning and Tax Increment Financing (TIF)  approval from the Dallas City Council on Wednesday, June 13, 2007.
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A Chrysler LLC truck plant in the Detroit area on Wednesday voted to approve a proposed four-year contract, throwing the weight of a key plant behind the deal on a day of ratification voting expected to determine the fate of the controversial labor pact.
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A section of the street where the Motown sound originated has been renamed after the music label's legendary founder.
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By Ryan Lafontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--BAY ST. LOUIS -- The 10-year anniversary of when Charles Gray first pushed his idea of a historic preservation ordinance to the Bay City Council is this summer.