Mar. 14—ST. LOUIS — City officials looking for ways to raise the money needed to finish a long-delayed convention center expansion can cross another idea off their lists. Officials were considering a plan to raise some $45 million by imposing a $2-per-night fee on every hotel stay in the city. But the plan ran aground this week when officials realized that it would contradict state law. "My ...
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DENVER (AP) — A major storm dumped heavy snow in Colorado on Thursday – forcing flight cancellations and shutting down a highway that connects Denver to Colorado ski resorts for much of the day, stranding some people in their cars for hours. The storm comes as other parts of the country face severe weather. Massive chunks of hail pelted parts of Kansas and Missouri on Wednesday night, with ...
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America's first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is officially open, a long-awaited moment that helps pave the way for a succession of large wind farms. Danish wind energy developer Ørsted and the utility Eversource built a 12-turbine wind farm called South Fork Wind 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Montauk Point, New York. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul went to Long Island Thursday to announce ...
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey, known as much for its beaches and blueberries as for the chemical plants and refineries that line some of its major highways, is considering asking voters a fundamental question: Should the state guarantee its citizens the right to a clean environment? A bill making its way through the state Legislature would put a question on the November general election ...
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A critical Rhode Island bridge that was partially shut down over safety concerns in December will need to be demolished and replaced, Gov. Dan McKee said Thursday. An independent review of the Washington Bridge — which carries Interstate 195 over the Seekonk River from Providence to East Providence and serves as a key gateway to Providence — found additional structural deficiencies requiring ...
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VALLE DE BRAVO, Mexico (AP) — Once a glittering weekend getaway for wealthy residents of Mexico City, Valle de Bravo has been reduced to a shrinking, increasingly polluted patch of mud flats and water by a combination of drought, water transfers to the capital, bad planning and lawlessness. Residents said Thursday that Valle — as the reservoir has been known since the 1940s — is being drained ...
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A new plan to rebuild Baltimore's storied but deteriorating Pimlico Race Course and transfer the track to state control is making a late charge down the stretch of Maryland's legislative session. The measure, released Thursday with less than a month to go in the session, would use $400 million in state bonds to rebuild the home of the second jewel of horse racing's Triple ...
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It’s a classic case of supply and demand for data centers in Dallas-Fort Worth – and across the U.S.. The country had a comfortable balance before the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past few years, the quiet real estate space that supports data storage across sectors has seen supply dwindle to a few percentage points, just holes in existing inventory. There’s more than 5.6 million square feet of ...
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SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield Water and Sewer Commission voted this morning to adopt a union-backed labor deal for construction of the $325 million West Parish Water Treatment Plant. The 2-to-1 vote, guaranteeing hundreds of union jobs on the project, came only after commissioners were assured by staff that not only was it possible to add the project labor agreement now, after contracts for ...
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Gov. Josh Shapiro is pitching a two-part energy and climate change plan that would include a state-level cap-and-trade system for power plant pollution, precluding the legal battle over a regional emissions-control system his predecessor tried to join. Shapiro’s proposals – rolled out during an appearance with climate advocates and union officials in Scranton – would create a ...
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