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Titans', Predators' Nashville facilities flooded

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Published May 3, 2010 at 10:08 p.m.

Muddy waters poured over the banks of Nashville's swollen Cumberland River on Monday, spilling into Music City's historic downtown streets and causing damage to the city's professional sports facilities ...

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RadioActive: May Day Hartford

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Published April 25, 2010 at 10:35 p.m.

SEIU 1199’s Steve Thornton discusses the events surrounding Hartford’s first annual May Day celebration, coming Saturday May 1 to Burr Mall, Main Street next to city hall in Downtown Hartford – music, food, workshops and a walking tour of labor history in Hartford.Click here to download the MP3 ...

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Charter Oak Cultural Center hosts Prison Art Show

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Published April 23, 2010 at 1:15 p.m.

Hartford, CT–  The much anticipated art exhibit of the year will be held this year at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in downtown Hartford.  The 32nd annual show of artwork from Connecticut’s Prisons features 140 artists from 14 correctional facilities, and is open throughout the month of May at Charter Oak.This [ ... ] ...

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Alternatives to the Highway Through Hartford

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Published March 26, 2010 at 11:07 a.m.

A consultant-led public workshop—the second of three in a series guided by Boston-based Goody Clancy—took place last night at the downtown Hartford public library. The focus: what to do about the highway through Hartford, specifically the section known as the viaduct.The piece of highway is a poorly designed, raised section roughly between Sisson Avenue and [ ... ] ...

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Victory for SeaSol and tenants at Kasota!

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Published Feb. 1, 2010 at 5:20 p.m.

Victory for SeaSol and tenants at Kasota!Not long before Christmas, Sound Mental Health (SMH), the property managers of downtown Seattle’s Kasota apartments, began going door to door in the building trying to get tenants to sign a new lease. SMH houses both mentally ill ‘clients’ and roughly seventeen low-income tenants at the Kasota, but the [ ... ] ...

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Sit-In for the Homeless at Hartford City Hall

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Published Dec. 21, 2009 at 10:01 p.m.

Downtown Hartford residents, business owners and activists will gather at City Hall, 550 Main Street in Hartford, Tuesday from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM to protest the relocation of the No-Freeze Shelter from Center Church in Downtown Hartford to Lafayette Street. The original proposed location of the shelter resulted in howls of protest from certain [ ... ] ...

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No Business as Usual: 10,000 Protest the Vietnam War in Hartford

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Published Oct. 14, 2009 at 11:40 a.m.

By Steve Thornton, courtesy of HomefrontOn a cool and sunny fall day in Hartford, ten thousand people jammed into Bushnell Park with one goal: to stop the war in Vietnam. As the single largest protest of its kind in the city’s history, October 15, 1969 was historic.  And the thousands who marched to downtown Hartford [ ... ] ...

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RadioActive: The Scapegoating of Hip Hop

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Published July 13, 2009 at 10:41 a.m.

CT rapper Front Page discusses the scapegoating of hip hop in the wake of a shooting at a nightclub in downtown Hartford, and other issues in rap today.Click here to download the MP3 ...

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Don’t Believe The Hype

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Published June 18, 2009 at 10:18 p.m.

Since their invention in the 1970’s, Hip Hop culture and rap music have been blamed for everything from the deterioration of society to global warming. That Reefer Madness type of hysteria has emerged again in the wake of two shootings which took place June 7 at The Mansion nightclub and Papa’s Pizza in Downtown Hartford. [ ... ] ...

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Pittsburgh Penguins fans flood downtown to celebrate Stanley Cup title

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Published June 15, 2009 at 4:55 p.m.

Four months after celebrating the Steelers' Super Bowl victory, tens of thousands of people converged on downtown again for a parade, this time in honor of the Stanley Cup champion Penguins ...

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