EDITORIAL: Head in the Sand: Galveston Officials' Reluctance to Use Hazard Study to Evaluate Large Development Ill-Serves Constituents
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By Houston Chronicle  Jun. 11--The site of the United States' most deadly natural disaster, the 1900 Hurricane, Galveston Island is one of the most vulnerable targets for a deadly storm strike.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 15--BILOXI -- The city's failure to quickly act on a plan to create a park around the Biloxi Lighthouse that would be funded with federal money is centered on a lack of communication between Mayor A.J.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 5--Is S.C. Rep. Alan Clemmons' initiative to force public access to the state heritage preserves a good or bad thing? At this point, it is hard to tell.   Clemmons rightly says the S.C.
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By Jill Rosen, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 17--For years, South Baltimore residents have thought a key piece of city property on the Inner Harbor was destined to become yet another high-rise, blocking even more of their shrinking view of the water.
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A survey taken the weekend before Hurricane Katrina struck showed that more than half of the homes questioned had decided against evacuating. But a jury hearing the case against the owners of a home where 35 patients died in Katrina's floods may never see the document.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  Environmentalist and recreation-oriented groups have generated 33,000 comments opposing a gas well project proposed for a location 40 miles south of Vernal.
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STERLING, Va. The National Weather Service says public warnings in advance of Hurricane Isabel as it approached Virginia and Maryland last fall -- failed to include information important to homeowners and businesses in coastal areas.
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By PETER GUINTA  When wild ocean waves are daily undermining the house foundation and washing away patio furniture, it may be difficult for that homeowner to remain patient.
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By Drew Dixon  With builders honing in on the Beaches' few pieces of open land, some government officials and residents have deduced that working with, not blocking, developers could be the best option.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 17--With every new housing development announced in Horry County, nearby residents grit their teeth and clench their brows in anticipation that the traffic problems they encounter daily will get worse.
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By Jannette Pippin, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Sep. 11--BEAUFORT -- A proposed ordinance to preserve water quality in Carteret County's Down East communities won't get the endorsement of a citizens group that has fought for greater protection against development.
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The Christian Science Monitor - A backlash among voters this November against an unpopular Supreme Court decision on eminent domain could dramatically curtail the ability of officials to manage growth and development in parts of the western United States.
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By Dusty Ricketts, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 11--NAVARRE BEACH -- A legal dispute over land and money continues to delay the start of construction on the largest development to come to this barrier island.
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By Paul Sisson, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.  Dec. 8--OCEANSIDE -- County environmental officials say that the soil at  a halted three-home development on Barnwell Street is not dirty enough to pose  a health risk and does not need to be removed.   A letter dated Dec.
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By Neil Gonzales  ATHERTON -- Problems with Atherton's building procedures have resulted in some of the town's large homes possibly becoming fire hazards, according to a San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury interim report released this week.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 4--Here's a dumb idea: The U.S. Department of the Interior has told its U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employees in northeastern North Carolina not to respond to public inquiries about the effects of a proposed Navy practice landing field there.
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By SCOTT HARPER  BY SCOTT HARPER  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  RICHMOND - The State Water Control Board rejected two major development proposals Wednesday - one on the Peninsula, the other on the Eastern Shore - in decisions cheered by environmentalists and watermen.