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Frisco Residential Homestead Exemption

The city of Frisco is known for many things, mainly for being home to many of DFW’s Professional Sports Team. Not only is Frisco home to FC Dallas with Toyota Stadium, but also home to the practice facility of The Dallas Stars and The Dallas Cowboys. However, besides sports, Frisco is also well known for many another things. One of those things being the beautiful designs and architecture of the city. The houses located in Frisco range from Spanish Hacienda, to…

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Added by Chrissy Jackson on November 8, 2017 at 7:57pm — No Comments

SDSN Index and City Preparedness

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-sustainable-cities-most-likely-to-survive-a-disaster-2017-9

 

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2058390,00.html

  

     Business Insider posted a list of the top ten cities that are most prepared for a disaster. They used data…

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Added by Sean McAndrews on October 29, 2017 at 12:39am — No Comments

City Emergency Management

     https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/us/houston-harvey-disaster-lessons.html

     In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, cities’ emergency management officials took hard looks at their own plans and cross-examined them to Houston’s. The article by Adam Nagourney and Jess Bidgood of the New York Times discuss how city emergency preparedness officials have learned from Harvey and how…

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Added by Sean McAndrews on October 28, 2017 at 11:18pm — No Comments

Dallas And Houston: Centers For Economic Development

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/07/26/dallas-and-houston-centers-for-economic-development/2/#57bc7b17ed5e

Economic development is a major factor on the creation of urban settings (maybe the most important one). Jobs, taxes, investment are this that individuals obtain and contribute while residing in metro-areas. Dallas and Houston are the…

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Added by Sebastian Ortiz on October 25, 2017 at 2:52pm — No Comments

Dallas mayor proposes new public-private partnership to build Trinity River Park

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-city-hall/2017/07/26/dallas-mayor-proposes-new-public-private-partnership-build-trinity-river-park

The Trinity River Park is a long-time dream for many people in the Dallas area. There has been talks within the local government that this project need to be done as soon as possible to have the…

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Added by Sebastian Ortiz on October 25, 2017 at 2:15pm — No Comments

Frisco's Building of the Biggest Skate Park in North Texas

As a current resident of Frisco that has younger siblings, neighbors with young children, I often wonder what types of parks does Frisco have for their young citizens. After doing research I have learned that Frisco has numerous parks such as Frisco Commons Park, Frisco Central Park and etc. All beautiful are beautiful parks with gorgeous walking trails for adults, play grounds for kids and beautiful scenic views and theme’s that differ for each park. These elements make all of Frisco’s park…

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Added by Chrissy Jackson on October 22, 2017 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Frisco,TX & the profit from the FEDC

As a current resident of Frisco, Texas I often wonder where much of the cities immense amount of wealth comes from. Although Frisco does have a surplus of wealthy business headquarters located in the city limits, a load of wealthy individuals living in the city, and most notably and most recently, the opening of the Dallas Cowboys new practice facility The Star. Although those 3 things do play a major part in the city’s wealth I knew there had to be more than just that. To find this out I…

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Added by Chrissy Jackson on October 22, 2017 at 3:27pm — No Comments

The law of Crucible

A few months ago, there was a very influential film to be remade by Taiwan. The film is “The Crucible”. The film has influenced the laws of Korea. The film tells the story is at a school for disabled people. The principals and teachers sexual abuse and abuse of minor children with disabilities for a long time. When the principal and teacher were told, they eventually went unpunished. The two-thirds of the story is the investigation after the evidence collection and court debate scenes. These…

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Added by Linghuiyuan Du on October 8, 2017 at 9:41pm — No Comments

The law of Crucible

A few months ago, there was a very influential film to be remade by Taiwan. The film is “The Crucible”. The film has influenced the laws of Korea. The film tells the story is at a school for disabled people. The principals and teachers sexual abuse and abuse of minor children with disabilities for a long time. When the principal and teacher were told, they eventually went unpunished. The two-thirds of the story is the investigation after the evidence collection and court debate scenes. These…

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Added by Linghuiyuan Du on October 8, 2017 at 9:41pm — No Comments

Child safety

Time has evolved into a new and more modern generation. With that, the protection of our children has greatly shifted over the past few decades. There are many wonderful memories my parents have been able to share about their childhood that included no adult supervision. Stories were told of my father and his buddies riding their bikes downtown and exploring the town. Stories were told of my mother and her best friends walking to the movie theater as a “girls’ night out”. Stories of children…

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Added by Jasmyn Rios on October 6, 2017 at 8:35pm — No Comments

From Business to the White House

According to CNN, our President Trump has some tensions with the former Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. Rex Tillerson is a well-known engineer for his work at Exxon Company. Starting as a production engineer and years later he became the President of the branch Exxon Neftegas. After years of hard work, he also became the CEO of Exxon Mobil.

Last year, after Trump won as president, he decided to give him an opportunity in politics. It seems that for the last couple months…

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Added by Paulette Cubero-Sierra on October 6, 2017 at 3:42pm — No Comments

Secretary Tom, guilty for using his private jet and sponsored by the US Government?

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price last Thursday said he will repay the government for a fraction of the cost of his flights on charter planes in the last months. He was harshly criticized by both parties for the economic expense. Tom price could fly for less money rather than taking his private jet for personal matters with the US money.

 

According to Washington media outlet, Politico reported that Price has taken a least two dozen private charter flights…

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Added by Paulette Cubero-Sierra on October 4, 2017 at 8:05pm — No Comments

North Korea & Japan

One of the most controversial leaders in these days is the Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong- Un. At his 33 years old, he seems to be a threat for many countries. His recent war of words with the former president, Donald Trump seems to be not the only one, but also over the last month, his word turned into actions against the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe. In the last month, North Korea fired two test missiles that impacted the sea of Japan. This situation escalated recently when…

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Added by Paulette Cubero-Sierra on October 3, 2017 at 6:55pm — 3 Comments

Las Vegas & Weapon Control

The relevance of this is the topic is weapon control. Yesterday. Sunday night in Las Vegas there was a massacre where more than 50 people were killed by a man. This happened at a concert when a man named Stephen Paddock, decided to start shooting innocent people, accordingly to Fox News this tragedy is one of the deadliest mass shooting in Modern History. I chose this article because I truly believe that the Government should have a better control of the weapons. In the last three years, we…

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Added by Paulette Cubero-Sierra on October 2, 2017 at 10:09pm — 2 Comments

Gov. Abbott on Houston Suffering from "once-in-a-lifetime flooding event"

Governor Abbott has said that it would take many more days for the water to recede in Houston from tropical storm Harvey.  Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States and has experienced record levels of rain from Harvey.  Abbott also talks about how even though the water is receding does not mean that Houston problems are finished.  Considering Houston's great size is will be a long time before things start getting back to normal.

In a statement by Governor Abbott, he…

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Added by Hunter Thompson on September 24, 2017 at 10:07pm — 3 Comments

Trump Urges to Boycott NFL for Flag-Kneeling Protest

At a recent rally in Alabama, President Trump said how he would love to see NFL team owners fire people who disrespected our countries flag.  This was just a small part of a 1 hour and 20-minute speech that he gave, and people have been making it a big deal.  Trump's base appreciates defending the flag, it was not telling owners to fire players to kneeled it was just him saying he wished that the players would respect the flag.  This Sunday when players kneeled during the national anthem…

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Added by Hunter Thompson on September 24, 2017 at 8:44pm — 1 Comment

Blog 2: Rebuilding after diasters

Many people have been affected by the storms in Texas and Florida which has caused homes to be destroyed and buildings to be flooded. Now begins the rebuilding process, however , these states need to not only rebuild but also focus on preparing for the next time something like this happens. The infrastructure of roads, bridges, pipes, drains and power grids need to be modernized because they are decades old and failure to do so can lead to bigger problems in the future. 

A modernized…

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Added by Gregory Johnson on September 24, 2017 at 1:56pm — 1 Comment

Blog 1: Sustainable cities? Australia's building and planning rules stand in the way of getting there

Australia has run in to a big problem with the construction of their buildings and the land use policies. The problems are hindering them from building "sustainable cities". A sustainable city can be best described as a city that takes in to account the impact it has on the environment. Most buildings in Australia fail to reach the building requirements. Failure to meet these requirements could be a result of the construction team not doing their job properly. There is nobody watching their…

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Added by Gregory Johnson on September 24, 2017 at 1:36pm — 1 Comment

Las Vegas's New Stadium Facing Delays

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/clark-county/las-vegas-raiders-stadium-other-projects-could-be-delayed-county-warns/

 

The new stadium being built for the Las Vegas Raiders has run into a few issues that might delay its completion. The biggest obstacle, according to the article, is that staffing…

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Added by Nathan Lewis on September 23, 2017 at 7:21pm — No Comments

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