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  • Baltimore sells $1 houses in effort to combat vacant home crisis

    03/27/2024 6:07:46 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 49 replies
    Fox ^ | 3-26-24 | Sarah Rumpf-Whitten
    Baltimore, Maryland, city officials approved a program that would sell city-owned vacant homes for next to nothing at $1 for some applicable residents. According to the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), the Fixed Pricing Program was created to combat the more than 13,500 homes in Baltimore that are vacant. City officials said Tuesday that just over 200 homes are currently in the program. According to the DHCD, the homes would only be sold to individuals who are willing to invest their money in fixing the dilapidated homes. Applicants must provide proof that they have at least $90,000 to...
  • Ugandan president's son offers 100 cows to marry likely Italian PM Giorgia Meloni

    10/07/2022 11:18:44 PM PDT · by aquila48 · 128 replies
    Just the news ^ | 10/7/22
    Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, issued a bizarre string of Tweets this week in which offered to trade 100 cows for the right to marry likely Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and threatened war should the "Romans" refuse his offer. "For my Italian friends, these are Nkore cows," Kainerugaba wrote. "The most beautiful cows on earth. I know Europeans give girls they like flowers? I have never understood it. In our culture you give a girl you like a cow." "I would give her 100 Nkore cows immediately! For being fearless and true!!" he wrote in a separate...
  • Report: Harvard To Name First Woman President

    02/09/2007 7:51:24 AM PST · by Froufrou · 73 replies · 1,022+ views
    FOX ^ | 02/09/07 | Unknown
    Harvard University could be about to name its first female president, as the governing board charged with vetting candidates has narrowed its search to a single one, historian Drew Gilpin Faust, according to published reports. The Harvard Corporation was expected to recommend Faust to the school's Board of Overseers, an alumni group that has final say, at a meeting on Sunday, multiple sources told The Boston Globe and The Harvard Crimson in Friday's editions. Both newspapers said Faust was the only remaining candidate. "We don't comment on the search process," Harvard spokesman John Longbrake told The Associated Press early Friday....