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Not In My Back Yard" seems to be the new battle cry of residents from areas that are being considered for a new sewage treatment plant after the breakdown of the Mishref station. Municipal Council member Farz Al-Mutairi yesterday called on Prime Minister...
Tags: Mishref Kuwaitis, Farz Al-Mutairi, Ardiya, Rabiya, prime minister, sewage plant, negative effects, Kuwait, Jalīb aš-Šuyūẖ, Kuwait City, Al-Mutairi, Arab people, Mishref, Environment
Proposition 11 was ahead, 55 percent to 45 percent, with about 10 percent of precincts tallied. The measure, championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, would create a 14-member citizens commission to draw legislative and Board of Equalization seats every...
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The five workers are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees and have been without a contract for close to two years...Notice was given Thursday morning, and the workers will down tools at 10 a.m. Bill McKinnon. "This particular one, with five...
Tags: strike, sewage plant, sewage
Bush by naming a sewage plant after him before his second term in office ends. A ballot measure aimed at changing the name of the city's newest sewage plant to "Bush" qualified on Thursday after organizers submitted 7,168 signatures to the local Department...
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A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush's years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot. The measure certified Thursday would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George...
Tags: sewage plant, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, San Francisco, measure seeking, commemorate president, measure certified, oceanside water, city sewage, control plant
The self-proclaimed Presidential Memorial Committee of San Francisco, a group of citizens in San Francisco, have taken upon themselves an effort to rename a sewage plant in honor of President George W. Bush. The group is accumulating the necessary signatures...
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The New York Times followed the Chronicle story today, prompting a reporter at the White House press daily briefing to ask about the effort -- which will likely be on the November ballot. Here's the rather amusing exchange between that reporter and White...
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When US President George W Bush leaves office in January he may well have another monument to his achievements: a San Francisco sewage plant. That's the idea behind a ballot initiative that's likely to be put before San Francisco voters in the November...
Tags: bush, sewage, George W. Bush, sewage plant, San Francisco Republican Party
Environmental scientists are beginning to use an unsavory new tool -- raw sewage -- to paint an accurate portrait of drug abuse in communities. Like one big, citywide urinalysis, tests at municipal sewage plants in many areas of the United States and...
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Admittedly, they're hard to miss. Someone in the group is usually toting a large American flag, and another is often carrying a boom box blaring patriotic music...They're the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco, but don't let the serious...
Tags: president, san francisco, sewage plant, sewage, Bush