Community workshop focuses on fixing schools’ woes

Community workshop focuses on fixing schools’ woes
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Our buildings are in desperate need of help,” said Violet Whitman, a teacher at Eaton Middle School. Alternative and career education surfaced on several lists. Civic leaders, city workers and religious leaders pushed for more specialized programs

Library buildings, books, in flux
Coloradoan - The city of Fort Collins soon won t have much use for its books and mortar, but it s still not sure whether to give the property to the district that will. Voters in November approved a new library district that will replace the city as the area

Main Street corridor is ready to blossom
Kansas City Star - the city recently approved a revised tax-increment financing plan that will supply $3.5 million for improvements, and last week, a compromise was reached to allow tax incentives to subsidize the renovation of five grand-but-tired apartment buildings

Edmonton looks at selling names of buildings (1 p.m.)
Edmonton Journal - The new southwest recreation centre may have a corporate name as city hall gets more aggressive in selling the names of new buildings. City council s community relations committee Monday endorsed a new policy to allow administrators to go looking

Making progress
Opelika-Auburn News - Both are slated to be completed in the next few weeks, just slightly behind schedule, according to Auburn City Schools Administrative Assistant for Operations and Services Todd Freeman. New multipurpose buildings and kitchens are up and running at

Horse Trade in U.S. Congress May Give Washington Its First Vote
Bloomberg - Lawmakers broke an impasse over whether to grant a vote in Congress to the heavily Democratic city by proposing an additional seat for reliably Republican Utah. The legislation would cap decades of efforts to give citizens of the U.S. capital a