Poll: Residents OK With Park Protests
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Democrats, who outnumber Republicans 5-to-1 among registered voters here, want their city to welcome not only Republican convention delegates but also the protesters who plan to demonstrate against the GOP. A sizable local contingent plans to join the marchers.
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By Jannette Pippin, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Sep. 11--BEAUFORT -- A proposed ordinance to preserve water quality in Carteret County's Down East communities won't get the endorsement of a citizens group that has fought for greater protection against development.
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Thousands of protesters have gathered in Union Square park on the edge of the city's Greenwich Village neighborhood.
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Citizens' groups, residents and some  Washington, D.C., councilmen on Tuesday protested Mayor Anthony  Williams' proposed $440 million baseball stadium plan, calling  it a "giveaway" to Major League Baseball.
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NEW YORK -- Hundreds of thousands of antiwar protesters, abortion rights supporters, labor rights activists and anarchists are preparing to unfurl banners, march through the streets and rally in the parks, loosening a ...
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The public believes the effects of global warming are not as bad as some experts claim, a poll suggests.
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By Matthew Leblanc, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Mar. 12--A local Libertarian group wants to change city law to protect private landowners from efforts by the city to seize their property for economic development.
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The Bloomington Police Department is beefing up its corps of civilian volunteers who enforce handicapped-parking regulations - something we advocated on this Opinion page a year ago.  We are glad to see Bloomington taking this action and hope many people sign on to help.
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By MARGARET MOFFETT BANKS Staff Writer  GREENSBORO __ Residents of a trailer park on McConnell Road can remain in their neighborhood. For now, at least.
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Some 300 Galapagos Islands rangers peacefully occupied park research stations Monday to protest the reported firing of the park director and his probable replacement.
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By DANA BARTHOLOMEW  LAKE VIEW TERRACE -- For decades, neighbors shut their windows to the hideous smell, dust and noise from the Lopez Canyon Landfill.  Now city officials are asking community members to help plan a park on the former 400-acre dump.
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By Hurst Laviana, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  May 31--By nearly a 2-to-1 margin, the majority of Sedgwick County residents think a revote should be held to determine whether to build a downtown arena in Wichita, an automated telephone poll of 500 adults showed Wednesday.
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By R.A. Dyer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 19--AUSTIN -- Even as controversy mounted over the possible sale of Eagle Mountain Lake parkland to developers, state officials were taking steps to auction off two more tracts, including land adjacent to a popular park in Austin.
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An anti-war group suggested Thursday that protesters could still gather in Central Park on the eve of the Republican National Convention, despite a judge's ruling that it may not stage a rally there.
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LOS ANGELES ï¿½ South Los Angeles area residents and their allies are expected to rally Monday afternoon, Nov. 15, to protest the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisorsï¿½ proposal to close the Martin Luther
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The National Park Service has agreed to give thousands of anti-war demonstrators a prime spot along President Bush's inaugural parade route that will allow them to protest during the procession.
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By Karen Cimino, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 25--Local teens don't want adults to tell city and county officials what they need and want. They want to do it themselves, and in their own words.