Daily Links
February 21st, 2009-
A worldwide architectural firm with offices in Los Angeles (Morris is behind the under-construction Anaheim GardenWalk Hotel) recently won the top prize in a hospitality design design contest for their award-winning "Oil Rig Resort, Spa, and Aquatic Adventure," a design concept that transforms your standard Gulf Coast oil rig into an sustainable resort.
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Nobody is better on television than Mick – a great spokesman for OKC! And he tells it like it is…we have to do better on transit. Glad to know we are addressing the problem.
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The $787.2 billion economic recovery bill — to be signed by President Barack Obama on Tuesday — dedicates $8 billion to high-speed rail, most of which was added in the final closed-door bargaining at the instigation of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
Just last October, former President George W. Bush signed a bill authorizing up to $1.5 billion for high-speed rail through 2013. Obama’s commitment in the same period will be eight times that.
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Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, head of a group called Republican Mayors and Local Officials, says that “in terms of policy, the Bush administration was not friendly to cities.” He says there’s a chance Obama will deliver because of Daley.
“If I was going to put one person in a president’s life and say listen to this guy, it would be Mayor Daley,” Cornett says. ”So the fact that he comes from Chicago gives me great hope.”