County north of NYC to market housing to nonwhites

The suburban county just north of New York City agreed Monday to create hundreds of affordable homes in heavily white communities and encourage nonwhites to move in.

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Last debate set for America's first suburb

New York's Nassau County once was such a bedrock Republican stronghold that nearly 16,000 admirers of President Nixon gathered in 1972 at the newly opened Nassau County Coliseum for a GOP rally.

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Philadelphia suburbs hold key to Pa. primary

Take the Chester exit of I-95 and wend your way to the Pennsylvania Turnpike. If Barack Obama has any chance of cultivating an upset on April 22, this 20-mile stretch is fertile land.

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French Leader Visits Rough Paris Suburb

Conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid an unexpected visit Monday to a rough and tumble Paris suburb and promised to give young people there a "first chance."

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It happens every month: Millions of American pony up for the gas bill, mortgage or rent payment and real estate taxes--and subsequently watch their bank balances dwindle. That's because housing expenses are the biggest monthly expense most families face.

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As opposed to most suburbs, which usually just hide misery and loathing and substance abuse.

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A quiet suburban street on Amager conceals a Buddhist temple for Copenhagen's Thai residents

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Fire officials in the Seattle suburbs say a sunny day and a dog's glass water bowl combined to cause a blaze that charred the back of a home.

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Three elephants that belong to a circus currently camped in a southern suburb of Berlin have been spotted roaming the area regularly, the daily Tagesspiegel reported on Sunday.

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Rats are perhaps the most uncanny and abhorred mammals on the planet. And they are on the move again in the nooks and crannies of Dallas and its suburbs.

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In addition to being one of Salem's nationally syndicated radio talk show hosts, R. Albert Mohler, Jr. is the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and recognized as one of America's leading theologians and cultural commentators.

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The way Donnell Herrington tells it, there was no warning. One second he was trudging through the heat. The next he was lying prostrate on the pavement, his life spilling out of a hole in his throat, his body racked with pain, his vision blurred and distorted.

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Poverty in the United States is spreading from rural and inner-city areas to the suburbs, according to a study, a situation that can worsen as the economy confronts what may be a protracted recession.

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interesting take on re-making sprawl suburbs

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If suburban parents can lavish their kids with new cars and trips to warm places in exchange for good grades, why can't inner-city kids get cash bounties, Mayor Daley said Friday.

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The new slums. Why do you like suburbs over [the] city? Be honest please, I never understood it, still don't. I might have serious problems, because I hate even looking at pictures of suburbs.

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A Carfree Culture

Most of man's inventions can be used for good and bad. Like a knife, a gun, nuclear energy and the automobile. The auto is great for intra city transportation. But not for commuting, suburban sprawl and that trip to the convenience store and the shopping center.

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I thought the introduction in this article was very effective because it started off with the fact that the V.P.'s better their respective Presidential nominees, but they have an understanding of the things that will change the election.

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This story reveals how backwards US thinking is on both oil and economics. When one describes exurbs as "unsustainable," the claim is fundamentally _not— that exurbians are immoral--it's that they're _foolish_.

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The business model of the suburbs is under scrutiny as gas prices remain high. Peak Oil sinks the 'burbs and, alas, the infrastructure of the American Dream.

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Abandoning grueling freeway commutes and the ennui of San Fernando Valley suburbs, Mike Boseman recently found residential refuge in this Southern California city.

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Devastated by the subprime mortgage crisis, hundreds of homes have been foreclosed and thousands of residents have been forced to move, leaving in their wake a not-so-pleasant path of empty houses, unkempt lawns, vacant strip malls, graffiti-sprayed desolate sidewalks and even in …

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FIFTEEN miles east of Philadelphia, Willingboro's Grand Marketplace is a chaotic place. Merchants hawk Christian T-shirts, Amish quilts, Chinese food, massages and Afrocentric literature. Salsa music blasts from a CD stall.

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Presidential Candidates Don't Want To Talk About The Slow Death Of American Cities By Bruce Fisher

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What if your husband came to you and said, "I want another wife?" Even though polygamy is illegal in America, experts say there are 30,000 to 50,000 people living in plural families across the country.

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Forbes.com compiled a list of the best standard of living suburbs for the country's 15 largest cities.

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"Millions of Americans have moved to the suburbs over the past 60 years. They gain a bigger house, but until recently, few were aware of the impact those choices had on the environment.

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What's the point of taking dirty socks upstairs when the washer's in the basement?

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Sprawling postwar complexes in the region are attracting the interest of preservationists.

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