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COLUMBUS, Ohio â March 31, 2021 â U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Ohio Rural Development Acting State Director Beth Huhn announced that USDA is investing $266 million to build and improve critical community facilities to benefit nearly 3 million rural residents in 16 states and Puerto Rico. This funding includes $156 million to support health-care-related improvements and emergency response services that will benefit nearly 1 million rural residents in nine states and Puerto Rico.
âThe Biden-Harris administration has made restoring the economy a top-priority and USDA is playing a critical role,â Huhn said. âRural America needs safe, modern community infrastructure to help residents and businesses achieve greater prosperity. These investments are important upgrades for these communities to enhance their quality of life to build back better and stronger.â
Jane Ammeson
Times correspondent
When Rebecca Graff, a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago in need of a dissertation, was told by a professor that the view before them, from the schoolâs Ida Noyes Hall, was âa hundred years ago the center of the world,â she saw more than the bucolic splendor of Jackson Park hugging the Lake Michigan shoreline.
Instead, her sights went to what lay beneath â evidence of the 1893 Worldâs Columbian Exposition, an unexcavated but huge part of Chicagoâs history. Held in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus arrival in the New World, the exposition attracted 27 million people, who paid $21.5 million for admission in a six-month period.
From a school to a casino, a brief history of epic building moves in S.F. By Peter Hartlaub
The move of a 139-year-old home from 807 Franklin St. around the corner to Fulton Street on Sunday was the distraction San Francisco needed.
But the joyous event that dominated social media, as crews took down wires and trimmed roadside trees to facilitate the move, turns out to be just a small footnote in a city that can’t seem to keep its buildings in one place.
At one point in the 1940s and 1950s, house moves were so frequent there were three different San Francisco companies bidding for the jobs. It happened so often, sometimes dozens of moves in a year, that a Victorian on blocks could be on the city flag.
Bay Briefing: A San Francisco legend passes
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, painter, owner of City Lights bookstore, dead at 101.John O Hara
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Wednesday, Feb. 24, and San Francisco has a history of not keeping its buildings in one place and we’re not talking about earthquakes. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
Soul of the S.F. scene
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, publisher, painter and pivotal figure to the Beats and about every other counterculture literary movement in San Francisco, has died at 101.
“We’ve lost a great poet and visionary,” Nancy Peters, co-owner and retired executive director of City Lights Bookstore and Publishers, told The Chronicle on Tuesday. “Lawrence was a legend in his time and a great San Franciscan.”