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Bid Approved For $30 Million CSLA At Lakeside Project Wednesday, May 5, 2021 - by Joseph Dycus The Hamilton County Commissioners on Wednesday approved TriCon Inc.’s bid for the Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts (CSLA) at Lakeside project, which will cost around $30 million. Commissioner Tim Boyd noted he has long been a proponent of finding CSLA a new home, and thanked the commissioners for approving the bid.   “This $30 million is going to repurpose Lakeside Elementary to a K-12 magnet school,” Commissioner Boyd said. “I’ve worked for over 10 years to g...

Architecture highlights from southern Africa include projects from Zambia and Mozambique Dezeen 5 hrs ago © Provided by Dezeen Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide To conclude our collaboration with Dom Publishers, the editors of the Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide have picked architecture highlights from southern Africa. Edited by Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai, the Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide features over 850 buildings from the 49 sub-Saharan countries in Africa. "For the very first time the architecture of every sub-Saharan country is presented individually in...

The decades-long war on government has left struggling Americans to fend for themselves. ILLUSTRATION BY ROBERT YOUNG In 2005, I wrote a piece for The Nation surveying the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I concluded it on this cautionary note: We have to be clear that what happened in New Orleans is an extreme and criminally tragic coming home to roost of the con that cutting public spending makes for a better society. It is a shocking foretaste of a future that many more of us will experience less dramatically, often quietly as individuals, as we lose pensions, union protection, a...

Mayor-Elect Kelly Focusing On Economic Development, Early Childhood Education Wednesday, April 14, 2021 - by Joseph Dycus Mayor-elect Tim Kelly says economic development and investing in early childhood education are two points of emphasis for his administration over the next four years. Mr. Kelly, on the day after his election runoff victory, said he has spoken to most of the City Council members and people within the city, and said investing in preschool education is an “easy sale.”   “The science is crystal-clear, right?,” the former auto dealer said in a Wednesday afternoo...

By Thomas Elias Thomas Elias is an independent opinion columnist for Paso Robles Press; you can email him at tdelias@aol.com.  Memo to Larry Ellison (Oracle Corp.), Elon Musk (Tesla), and other Californians eyeing a move to Texas because it has no state income tax but does feature lower living expenses and far less government regulation than California: Think twice, maybe three times, before you leap. That’s one lesson of the mid-February combination of blizzard and deep-freeze that struck the Lone Star state, dropping some outdoor temperatures near zero and indoor levels into the 30s and...