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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Neighborhoods</title>
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		<title>Mo. communities to get $266M for wastewater and drinking water construction projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Blank</dc:creator>
		
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Mo. communities to get $266M for water projects

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Dozens of Missouri communities will be splitting $266 million for wastewater and drinking water improvements under a construction plan announced by Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday.
Nixon announced the plan while touring work sites in Springfield and Liberty in suburban Kansas City. The construction money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In tribute to Mister Rogers, Neighborhood of Make-Believe rebuilt, open to public for 2 days</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramit Plushnick-masti</dc:creator>
		
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Mister Rogers Neighborhood set rebuilt as tribute

PITTSBURGH — For just this weekend, a Pittsburgh neighborhood that&#8217;s lain dormant in boxes and under plastic coverings for nearly a decade is coming back to life.
Everyone important will be there in Mister Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood of Make-Believe: Daniel Striped Tiger, X the Owl, Henrietta Pussycat — even Mr. McFeely.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Louis aldermen approve NorthSide redevelopment plan to help crumbling neighborhoods</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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St. Louis aldermen approve redevelopment plan

ST. LOUIS — City leaders voted Friday to support a developer&#8217;s proposal to transform crumbling sections of north St. Louis by building new business centers and homes. The 15-year project has been touted as including green parks, green energy and more.
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen passed two related measures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developer proposes massive redevelopment for challenged St. Louis neighborhoods</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ST. LOUIS — In sections of the city many residents won&#8217;t venture into at night and where thieves steal bricks off vacant homes, developer Paul McKee Jr. sees an $8 billion future of green living, clean streets and thriving business.

Nervous locals see an outsider from the suburbs whose grand vision — one of the nation&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel seeks bids to build 486 apartments in east Jerusalem over US objections</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Teibel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM — Israel is pushing ahead a long-delayed plan to build hundreds of apartments in disputed east Jerusalem, staking claims to land the Palestinians claim for a future state and complicating already tense relations with the U.S., which has demanded a construction freeze.

The government has chosen developers to build 486 new apartments in the Jewish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renovation of Lebanon&#8217;s wrecked synagogue begins after delays from war and economic crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hussein Dakroub</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIRUT — Laborers have torn down the disintegrating roof, cleared the debris and erected scaffolding, showing Wednesday that the long delayed renovation of Lebanon&#8217;s oldest and most important synagogue has finally begun.

Beirut&#8217;s imposing Magen Abraham synagogue was badly damaged during Lebanon&#8217;s 1975-90 civil war and remained devastated long after the rest of the downtown was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel evicts 50 Palestinians from their east Jerusalem homes, Jewish settlers move in</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/israel-evicts-50-palestinians-from-their-east-jerusalem-homes-jewish-settlers-move-in-128347/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/israel-evicts-50-palestinians-from-their-east-jerusalem-homes-jewish-settlers-move-in-128347/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hubbard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM — Israeli police evicted two Palestinian families in east Jerusalem on Sunday, then allowed Jewish settlers to move into their homes, drawing criticism from Palestinians, the United Nations and the State Department.

Police arrived before dawn and cordoned off part of the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah before forcibly removing more than 50 people, said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atlanta, birthplace of housing projects, to tear down last one; poor could be lost in progress</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/atlanta-birthplace-of-housing-projects-to-tear-down-last-one-poor-could-be-lost-in-progress-122228/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/atlanta-birthplace-of-housing-projects-to-tear-down-last-one-poor-could-be-lost-in-progress-122228/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dionne Walker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — The nation&#8217;s bulldozer attack on crime and poverty will soon make Atlanta — home of the first public housing development — the first major city to eliminate all of its large housing projects.

Cities from Boston to Los Angeles are following its lead. For more than 15 years, housing officials across the country have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communities confront &#8216;ghostbox&#8217; buildings when big-box retailers leave</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/communities-confront-ghostbox-buildings-when-big-box-retailers-leave-100107/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/communities-confront-ghostbox-buildings-when-big-box-retailers-leave-100107/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Macpherson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BISMARCK, N.D. — Hundreds of anxious shoppers watched as city officials used power saws to cut 2-by-4s during Home Depot Inc.&#8217;s ribbon-cutting ceremony for its 102,700-square-foot building center in Bismarck. Less than three years later, the home improvement retailer shuttered the underperforming store, leaving a big orange empty eyesore on the outskirts of town.

The building, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama meets social innovators, pledges government&#8217;s support for efforts to improve communities</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obama-meets-social-innovators-pledges-governments-support-for-efforts-to-improve-communities-95995/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday promised that the White House will do its part to support grassroots organizations that are successful in their efforts to improve communities.

&#8220;Solutions to America&#8217;s challenges are being developed every day at the grassroots. And government shouldn&#8217;t be supplanting those efforts, it should be supporting those efforts,&#8221; Obama told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cities seek to stem rising tide of vacant properties caught up in nation&#8217;s housing downturn</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/cities-seek-to-stem-rising-tide-of-vacant-properties-caught-up-in-nations-housing-downturn-91091/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Schreiner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOUISVILLE, Ky. — David Brown Kinloch could have lived elsewhere, but he chose to move into an abandoned home in a distressed Louisville neighborhood that others were leaving in droves.

In the 25 years since, Brown Kinloch has seen the Phoenix Hill neighborhood transformed from unsightly rows of vacant homes where crime flourished into a model [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michelle Obama says government programs cannot rebuild communities, volunteers are key</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/michelle-obama-says-government-programs-cannot-rebuild-communities-volunteers-are-key-83186/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday that struggling communities shouldn&#8217;t look to government alone for help.

Obama told a luncheon of Washington-area service and philanthropy groups that their members&#8217; work is key to making a difference in neighborhoods and schools. She said leaders should take advantage of a recently signed public service law to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luxurious Las Vegas community not isolated from real estate meltdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Hennessey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS — It was a symbol of Las Vegas largesse during the good times. Now it&#8217;s an emblem of recession blues.

With a manmade lake in the desert, an Italian-style village beyond the suburban sprawl and neighborhoods fit for diva Celine Dion, the Lake Las Vegas resort development flouted good sense and modesty in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP IMPACT: Housing crisis focuses on Sunbelt, but plenty of empty homes in America&#8217;s Rust Belt</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ap-impact-housing-crisis-focuses-on-sunbelt-but-plenty-of-empty-homes-in-americas-rust-belt-51594/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 23:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Bass</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CINCINNATI — Meet the forgotten housing crisis.

While most attention has focused on the wave of foreclosures sweeping mostly middle-class, suburban Sunbelt neighborhoods from California to Florida, the nation&#8217;s emptiest neighborhoods have remained concentrated in the same place for nearly a generation: the mostly minority, poor, urban neighborhoods of the American Rust Belt.
An analysis by The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing crisis focuses on Sunbelt, but plenty of empty homes piling up in America&#8217;s Rust Belt</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/housing-crisis-focuses-on-sunbelt-but-plenty-of-empty-homes-piling-up-in-americas-rust-belt-51543/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 22:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Bass</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CINCINNATI — Meet the forgotten housing crisis.

While most attention has focused on the wave of foreclosures sweeping mostly middle-class, suburban Sunbelt neighborhoods from California to Florida, the nation&#8217;s emptiest neighborhoods have remained concentrated in the same place for nearly a generation: the mostly minority, poor, urban neighborhoods of the American Rust Belt.
An analysis by The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Blues Brother&#8217; actor on mission to help New Orleans&#8217; neighborhood rebuild after Katrina</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/blues-brother-actor-on-mission-to-help-new-orleans-neighborhood-rebuild-after-katrina-33947/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS — Add Dan Aykroyd&#8217;s name to the list of celebrities helping New Orleans rebuild neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

The actor on Wednesday toured an area where developers plan to build homes for police officers, firefighters and other &#8220;first responders&#8221; on 21 storm-battered properties in the Gentilly neighborhood. Aykroyd has lent his time and [...]]]></description>
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