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16 Nov 2022, 6:51 am
What was once seen as an affordable, creative haven is now a runaway boomtown, pricing out most of whatever was left of Austin’s proclaimed weirdness.... [read post]
21 Dec 2021, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” Josh Gibson According to an article from Time Magazine dated July 19, 1943, “The Grays [Gibson’s then team] have adopted boomtown Washington as their second home town, play in Washington’s Griffith Stadium every available Sunday, in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field every available Saturday. [read post]
10 Dec 2021, 10:17 am by Tom Smith
DUBAI—This city-state of skyscrapers and Persian Gulf beaches is emerging as a pandemic boomtown, drawing in the ultrarich, entrepreneurs and tourists with open-border policies, high levels of vaccination and low Covid-19 infection rates. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In the late 1880’s Tombstone was a boomtown whose economy was driven by nearby silver mines. [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 3:47 pm by John McFarland
I highly recommend a podcast sponsored by Texas Monthly, Boomtown. [read post]
17 Feb 2019, 9:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
In Identifying with Nationality, he uses the Mediterranean city of Alexandria to develop a genealogy of the nation and the formation of the modern national subject.Alexandria in 1880 was an immigrant boomtown ruled by dozens of overlapping regimes. [read post]
14 Aug 2018, 8:01 am by Editors
Rather, Texas and parts of the Mountain region are taking over and considered the “biggest boomtowns” in America. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 2:12 pm by Adam Bednar
But a steady barrage of murders, shootings and robberies threatens to swamp the city’s ability to reposition itself from struggling former industrial center to millennial-driven boomtown. [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 9:56 am by Naumes Law
It has been reported that the charter bus was heading towards the Boomtown Casino as a part of their casino charter trip. [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 8:19 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
Bob Geldof (now Sir Bob Geldof), of The Boomtown Rats, dreamed up the idea after traveling to Ethiopia. [read post]
31 Mar 2015, 7:05 am by Glyn Moody
The heavy traffic, noise and odour that accompanies fracking, as well as the socially disruptive effects of temporary ‘boomtowns’ and the spoilage of the natural environment are additional health hazards. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 5:05 am by Steve Cornforth
I wouldn’t say that I am in the Boomtown Rats league but it is not normally my favourite day! [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 10:32 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
In the most recent Bench & Bar (Minnesota State Bar Journal) article “Boomtown: Risks and Rewards in the Peace Garden State,” Kristin Rowell writes about her experiences in litigating contract claims in both Fort Berthold Tribal Court and North Dakota’s Montrail County District Court where the courts reach opposition conclusions on the same legal question. [read post]
15 Feb 2014, 7:39 am by Scott Andrews
., d/b/a Boomtown Casino and Hotel and Boomtown Casino, 2013-CC-1991 (La. 1/27/14), granted a summary judgment dismissing the accident victim's slip and fall case. [read post]
2 Nov 2013, 2:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Strippers are discovering they can make ten times as much dancing in the oil boomtown of Williston, N.D. [read post]
6 Sep 2013, 1:20 pm by WIMS
Possible hazards in nearby communities include increased traffic and motor vehicle accidents, stress related to risk perception among residents, and boomtown-associated effects such as a strained health care system and road degradation. [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 12:22 pm by Lisa A. Mazzie
Virginia City, Nevada, was a 19th century mining boomtown that, at its peak, had 15,000 residents. [read post]