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San Francisco Blasts Sonic Noises to Disperse Homeless

Joel John Roberts | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Live Aid, Homelessness, Third World America, Manuel Noriega, Nimby, Homelessness San Francisco, The Tenderloin, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Tenderloin San Francisco, San Francisco News

Most communities around the country are frustrated that very poor Americans are squatting on land. Not-In-My-Backyard has almost become a popular community anthem. But police sweeps and angry blogs are not very effective.

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Is Posting Contact Info of Homeless Advocates Online Bullying?

Joel John Roberts | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Poverty, Homelessness, Nimby, Los Angeles, Bullying, Online Bullying, Venice California, California Homeless, Los Angeles Homeless, Homeless Activists, Impact News

Property owners created blogs, and listed the names, addresses, and phone numbers of community leaders who support homeless people's rights. If you are going to live on the streets, they say, go live near the people who advocate for you.

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Neighborhood Fight Brewing Over The Future Of Coit Tower

Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Coit Tower Sf, Coit Tower San Francisco, WPA Murals, San Francisco Recration and Parks Department, Coit Tower Murals, Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower Ballot Measure, Protect Coit Tower Committee, Nimby, San Francisco News

While the San Francisco Chronicle isn't all that impressed with the view from the top of Coit Tower, we'd have to disagree. The impressive panorama th...

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Are You A MAMIL?

www.high50.com | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Cyclists, Nimby, Mamil, Acronyms, Middle Age, Humor, DINKY, Mid-Life, Middle-Aged, Bicycling, Lombard, Cycling, Lycra-Suit, Mid-Life Crisis, Fifty News

If anyone were looking for evidence that in the 21st century we are just as snobbish as ever we have been, then you only have to look at the acronyms ...

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Bad Lawsuits Against Public Transit

Joel Epstein | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Nimby, Streetsblog Los Angeles, Wilshire Subway, Century City, The Daily Show, Los Angeles, California Legislature, Expo Line, Ceqa, Farmers Field, Metro, Jerry Brown, Downtown La, Transit, Aeg, Neighbors for Smart Rail, Beverly Hills School Doard, Los Angeles News

Here's an important story that may not have made it onto The Daily Show yet. While it is only a matter of time before Streetsblog Los Angeles has the...

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Hey San Francisco, Why Don't You Like Live Music?

Conan Neutron | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Local Music, Live Music Venues, Entertainment, Music, Nimby, Questions, San Francisco Around Town, Live Music, SF Musicians, San Francisco News

It's a common complaint among the creative class in World Class Cities, but here's the deal, I sometimes think there might be something there. Why is SF so indifferent to music?

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Rejecting Century City Subway Station Adjacent

Joel Epstein | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Bling, Nimby, Lobbyists, Taxes, Education, Beverly Hills Adjacent, Metro, Rodeo Drive, Wilshire Subway, Beverly Hills, Constellation Blvd, Century City, Los Angeles, Los Angeles News

Dear Beverly Hills: What were you thinking when you let your mayor write Metro basically threatening to pull the city's support for America Fast Forw...

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Bait-Switch-Fix: The Westside Subway's Three Act Play

John Mirisch | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Westwood, Ucla, Metro, Developers, Beverly Hills, Nimbyism, Westside Subway, Century City, Mass Transit, Los Angeles Mass Transit, Constellation, La Metro, La Transit, Nimby, Los Angeles News

The message of the press conference participants was clear: we want the Century City station on Constellation and we don't care if you have to tunnel under Beverly Hills High School to get there.

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Wind Power Noise Dispute On Tranquil Maine Island Intensifies

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Noise Pollution, Fox Island Electric Cooperative, Vinalhaven Wind Power, Penobscot Bay Maine, Wind Power Noise Pollution, Renewable Energy, Fox Island Electric, Renewables, Penobscot Bay Wind Power, Fox Island Wind, Penobscot Bay, Wind-Power-Noise, Nimby, Maine Wind Power, Maine, Green News

While thousands of wind power enthusiasts and industry representatives gather in Anaheim Calif. for Windpower 2011, the American Wind Power Associatio...

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Revolution, Democracy and the Subway in Beverly Hills

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Nimby, Hosni Mubarak, Beverly Hillbillies, Wilshire Subway, Lawyers, Beverly Hills, Election, Century City, Pr, Los Angeles, Wilshire Blvd, Metro 720 Rapid, Beverly Hills High School, Metro, Numby, J?Accuse, Los Angeles News

As I ride the Metro 720 Rapid Bus along the washboard known as Wilshire Blvd. I think maybe, as hard as it would be, that it is time to get an office ...

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Polls: Anti-Wind NIMBYs Are Small Minority

Brian Keane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Clean Energy, Nimby, Sustainable Energy, Nimbyism, Wind Turbines, Green News

The media frenzy over unhappy wind-turbine neighbors is downright irresponsible -- mainly because multiple studies show that wind turbine critics fall squarely in the minority.

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Affordable Housing: An Oxymoron?

Joel John Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homelessness, Third World America, Prevailing Wage, Homeless, Real Estate, Los Angeles, Nimby, Affordable Housing, Housing Prices, Homeless Housing, Housing Crisis, Impact News

If we truly see homelessness as a crisis, we would be instituting emergency rules that would temporarily breakdown bureaucratic barriers, overcome expensive rules and streamline the process.

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Anti-Military Militancy Has Gotten Out of Hand

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Not One More Acre, Fort Carson, Pinon Canyon Army Expansion, US Military Readiness, Base Closures, Nimbyism, Nimby, Pinon Canyon, Denver News

Rampant NIMBYism is reaching new heights, literally, as residents of rural Colorado rise up in opposition to a proposed modest increase in the number of low-level military training flights.

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Constellation Blvd Is the Best Choice for the Wilshire Subway Century City Station

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mayor Jimmy Delshad, Nimby, Crenshaw Corridor, 30/10, Va, Wilshire Subway, Washington DC, Congress, Beverly Hills, Century City, Los Angeles, Expo Line, Metro, Senator Boxer, Lax, 405, Public Transportation, Green Line, Westfield, Man Up, Los Angeles News

While it is unfortunate that the Beverly Hills City Council has now come out against the Constellation station location, we should remember that this was once a community that opposed the very idea of a subway.

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Let's Get Real on Wind Turbine Noise

Brian Keane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Wind Energy, Wind Turbines, Nimby, Wind Power Noise, Wind Power, Green News

Let's get this into perspective. Imagine you are standing in front of your dishwasher.

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On the Waterfront: A New Park Rises in Brooklyn

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

There's so much new public space in NY that even a tourist magnet as big as the City can afford to let the public know about some of its new gems.

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Baby Dies in Oil Spill (VIDEO)

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

The Gulf Oil Spill will change our world forever. BP, Government apathy, underfunded code enforcement, and a burgeoning oil-addicted population are ...

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Fighting the Noise Wars -- One Blog at a Time

Jeremiah Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogs, Nimby, Upper West Side, East Village, Noise Wars, Lower East Side, Central Park West, New York News

In the East Village, bar "noise wars" have become epic smackdowns. For a decade at least, bar owners have had the upper hand. But the atmosphere began to change in the summer of 2009.

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Fire Department Abandons Plan to House Inmate Firefighters At Malibu Station

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles County Fire, Malibu, Inmates, Prison Inmates, Los Angeles Fire, Nimby, Not in My Back Yard, Los Angeles News

The Los County Angeles Fire Department has scrapped a plan to use a fire station in Malibu as a temporary location to house inmate firefighters displa...

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NIMBY Comes to China Revisited

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Xiamen, Prc, Democracy, Chengdu, Nimby, China, World News

Happenings in the PRC this year echo phenomena seen in 2008.

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Not in My Backyard: Fear of the Guantánamo Legion of Doom

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yucca Mountain, John McCain, Ramsi Yousef, George W. Bush, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, Nevada, Nimbyism, Richard Reid, Nimby, Gitmo, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Shoe Bomber, Zacharias Moussaoui, Prison, Guantanamo Bay, Gop, Enhanced Interrogations, Prisons, 20/20, World Trade Center, Waterboarding, Afghanistan, Gitmo Detainees, Republican Party, Republicans, Torture, George Bush, Comedy News

Yup, that's right, the self-same prison system that has held Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Son of Sam is apparently no match for a bunch of unarmed, sensory-deprived foreigners.

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Many Renewable Projects Meet Local Opposition

wsj.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nimby, Green Stimulus, Green Politics, Green News

Even though Obama has approved tens of billions of dollars in direct grants, loans and loan guarantees for the renewable and transmission industries, ...

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The Coming Hyde Park Bar Mitzvah Ban

David Hoyt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hyde Park Progress, Doctors Hospital, Hyde Park, Prohibition, Nimbyism, Hyde Park Referenda, Chicago Liquor Laws, Leslie Hairston, Local Option Chicago, Chicago Drinking Laws, Stony Island Mariott, Stony Island, Nimby, Hyde Park Development, Chicago News

If voters of the 39th Precinct of Hyde Park's 5th Ward decide to exercise their "local option" to ban the sale of alcohol on November 4, they will effectively be banning the celebration of bar mitzvahs in their corner of the neighborhood.

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Radioactive Pigs

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Nuclear Energy, Yucca Mountain, Mccain, Nuclear Power, Mccain Yucca Mountain, Mccain Nuclear Power, Nimby, Green News

More evidence of the hard-wired sloppiness that has plagued Yucca from the start popped up a week after DOE filed for its NRC permit. So how does this play out politically?

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