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The two-hour meeting brought together stakeholders from neighborhoods in close proximity to the Coliseum.
Plans include 500 units of housing, 600,000 square feet of office space, 200,000 square feet of restaurants and retail and a new hotel.
The changes will allow RXR Realty and BSE Global to move ahead with their $1.5 billion mixed-use proposal.
BSE says its Coliseum lease allows it to “submit a collectively developed master plan” for redeveloping the site.
The company says it has a letter of interest from an unnamed “nationally respected biomedical research entity” that would occupy 100,000 square feet of space.
Expressions of interest are now due by August 17.
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran won't go through with $1 billion proposal from Blumenfeld Development Group.
Onexim Sports and Entertainment, which holds the ground lease for most of the property around Nassau Coliseum, has ended talks on a potential joint venture agreement with BDG.
President-elect Barack Obama's pending selection of Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) as secretary of homeland security was greeted yesterday as a sign that the new Democratic administration will fundamentally change the tone of the nation's post-Sept. 11 approach to domestic security.
Immigrant advocates, business groups and civil libertarians said that the choice of a two-term governor from a Republican-friendly border state could lead to a reversal of policies that they contend unduly punish illegal immigrants, commerce and Americans' privacy. Agency observers on the right and the left say that her selection appears to reflect a calculation that she could do so without appearing weak on terrorism.
In fact, immigration opponents and counterterrorism analysts praised Napolitano. They said, however, that they think the former federal prosecutor would continue much of the Bush administration's enforcement-first policies, including border security enhancements and promoting national standards for identification cards.
In both promising to restore "balance" to what Democrats say has been a one-sided security debate and seeming to straddle wide political divisions, Napolitano is much like Obama, both Republican and Democratic observers said.
Napolitano is "someone who's fair. She listens. She understands complex issues," said Grant Woods, an Arizona Republican whom Napolitano succeeded as state attorney general in 1998, and who likened her to Obama. "Most importantly, she's someone who has excellent judgment."
Jamie S. Gorelick, a deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, called Napolitano "the perfect choice," given that no Democrat has run the troubled and sprawling department since its creation in 2003.
Napolitano "has run a major bureaucracy," Gorelick said, "and the biggest challenge for the DHS right now is the management challenge of leading nearly 200,000 workers."
If Napolitano, 50, is confirmed, Obama will gain a hardheaded lawyer with a voracious appetite for work, who picks her way deliberately through difficult problems.
She graduated from the University of Santa Clara in California and the University of Virginia Law School before gaining national attention as a lawyer for Anita Hill in her 1991 sexual harassment case against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. In 1993, she was acting U.S. attorney pending confirmation when the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Cindy McCain, the wife of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), for stealing prescription drugs from a nonprofit she ran.
Napolitano also offers a skill set well-suited for DHS secretary, a role that is a combination of cop, politician, international negotiator and comforter in chief. She was the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney for Arizona, in 1993, and state attorney general, in 1998, and was the first Democratic governor to be elected twice in Republican-leaning Arizona in a quarter-century.
Her selection "bodes well for state and local officials," a U.S. intelligence official said, acknowledging that Washington has frequently clashed with them over DHS grant funding, the role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and innumerable security mandates.
In 2003, Napolitano developed the first state homeland security strategy that highlighted the role of state and local law enforcement, information-sharing and law enforcement-led intelligence "fusion centers" for preventing terrorism. Its themes were later adopted by big-city police chiefs, DHS's own advisory committee experts and the Bush administration.
On immigration, Napolitano has cultivated an image of toughness, calling for National Guard troops on the border and signing legislation to punish companies that hire illegal immigrants. But she has also argued for humane treatment of such immigrants and for the need to strengthen Arizona's economy.
Groups including the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the National Council of La Raza, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Center for Immigration Studies, which seeks to reduce immigration, praised her yesterday. She "knows better than anyone how important border security is to our national security," said Rep. Brian P. Bilbray (R-Calif.), chairman of the hard-line immigration reform caucus in Congress.
In Arizona, news of Napolitano's selection was welcomed by both Republicans and Democrats.
Wes Gullett, a Republican consultant in Arizona, noted that Napolitano won reelection in 2006 with 63 percent of the vote and GOP support, and chaired the Democratic Party's 2008 platform drafting committee without controversy. "That says volumes about her ability to run a tight ship," said Gullett, a former McCain aide.
State law barred the governor from seeking a third term, and her departure for the Obama Cabinet would eliminate a potential top-tier Democratic challenger for McCain in 2010, when the senator is up for reelection.
McCain called to congratulate Napolitano and said in a statement that her government experience "warrants her rapid confirmation by the Senate, and I hope she is quickly confirmed."
Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer, a Republican, is in line to become governor, inheriting a GOP-controlled legislature.
On Capitol Hill, members of the Senate homeland security panel were not notified before Napolitano's emergence as the top choice for the job was reported. Chairman Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) did not comment. Ranking Republican Susan M. Collins (Maine) said only that it is critical for DHS to have "a strong leader" committed to bipartisanship, adding that she would consider the nomination carefully.
Still, Napolitano backers appeared confident that she will win confirmation. Former senator Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), who recommended Napolitano as U.S. attorney 25 years ago and chaired Lieberman's presidential campaign in Arizona in 2004, said that when the committee receives her background file, "I can't imagine anything in there that nobody knows."
Staff writer Carrie Johnson and research editor Alice Crites contributed to this report.
(Reuters) - U.S. energy regulators have told EQT Corp and other companies building the $3.5-$3.7 billion Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia to stop all construction.
The action by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), in a filing on Friday, followed a July 27 order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that vacated decisions by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service authorizing construction of Mountain Valley across federal lands.
That court decision was the most recent appeals court victory by the Sierra Club and other opponents of the pipeline.
Mountain Valley is one of several pipelines under construction to connect growing output in the Marcellus and Utica shale basins in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio with customers in other parts of the United States and Canada.
FERC said in its decision Friday that it cannot predict when the BLM or Forest Service may act or whether the agencies will ultimately approve the same route for Mountain Valley.
“Should the agencies authorize alternative routes, (Mountain Valley) may need to revise substantial portions of the project route across non-federal lands, possibly requiring further authorizations and environmental review,” FERC said in its filing.
“We will continue to work closely with all agencies to resolve these issues and look forward to continuing the safe construction of this important infrastructure project,” Cox said.
Before the FERC decision, EQT delayed its target date to finish the pipeline to the first quarter of 2019 from late 2018.
Analysts at Height Capital Markets in Washington, however, projected the project may not enter service until the fourth quarter of 2019.
The 303-mile (488-kilometer) pipeline is designed to deliver 2 billion cubic feet per day of gas to meet growing demand for the fuel for power generation and other uses in the U.S. Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.
One billion cubic feet is enough gas to supply about 5 million U.S. homes for a day.
Mountain Valley is owned by units of EQT, NextEra Energy Inc, Consolidated Edison Inc, AlatGas Ltd and RGC Resources Inc. EQT Midstream Partners LP will operate the pipeline and owns a significant interest in the venture.
In the late 1970s, as the worldwide oil crisis heated up, an Arlington, Va., company headed by a former Central Intelligence Agency staffer came here to the remote Musandam Peninsula.
Iran lies just 26 miles away, across the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world's oil supply is carried by a steady parade of tankers out of the Persian Gulf.
The stated business of Tetra Tech International Inc. is development. But the power it came to wield here is, in the words of one employee, "a little peculiar."
On contract with the government of Oman, TTI helped set up the Musandam Development Committee in 1976. In that capacity, it was given supervisory control in 1979 over the operations of 11 government ministries.
TTI's employees have supervised activities from road building and port construction to minor details of everyday life. They inspect the few restaurants here for hygiene. They tie up goats found wandering the streets and fine their owners.
Oman's Sultan Qaboos, often described as the United States' closest friend on the Persian Gulf and a man who has relied heavily on foreign advisers and employees in every aspect of his country's development, needed to secure the Musandam quickly and efficiently in 1979.
The strictly military aspects of that job were given to the Omani Army, much of which is commanded by British officers. At the same time, the United States began investing hundreds of millions of dollars in upgrading four Omani air bases to handle fighter and transport planes if Washington should be called on to defend the gulf.
One is the Khasab field, where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers replaced the old 2,000-foot dirt strip with a 6,500-foot runway.
Most of the rest of the work to be done here was carried out under TTI, whose president, James H. Critchfield, served the CIA as Middle East desk officer and a national intelligence officer for energy until 1974, according to several published reports, including one in The New York Times last March 26, and some of his former colleagues.
In the Musandam there were special problems to which a man with such a background might be sensitive. As one British consultant to the sultan put it, Qaboos had to keep the remote peninsula from "floating away" politically.
The Musandam, with a population of about 11,500, is separated from the rest of Oman by about 40 miles of territory of the United Arab Emirates.
Many fishermen on the coast still use the boom, a traditional wooden boat, to bring in their catches. The Bedouins among the crags of the mountains carry walking sticks topped with small stone ax heads.
For generations, tribal rivalries and feuds wracked the peninsula. Some villages until recently professed loyalty to the sheiks of the United Arab Emirates rather than to the sultan of Oman.
In Khasab, the biggest settlement, about 40% of the population is Iranian or of Iranian descent. Little Iranian fishing launches still move constantly in and out of the Khasab port.
"With twin engines on the back you can bang across to Iran in an hour and a half," said a foreign worker here. Iran seemed a closer neighbor than the rest of Oman.
TTI's projects are a highly sophisticated example of what soldiers like to call civic action aimed at winning and holding the sometimes shaky allegiances of the peninsula's people. In an area such as this, development can be seen essentially as preventive medicine against subversion.
Sultan Qaboos, a graduate of Britain's Sandhurst military academy, is expert in the nuances of such undertakings.
After taking power from his father, with British encouragement, in 1970, Qaboos spent the first five years of his reign crushing a communist-backed rebellion in the southern province of Dhofar. He was aided by British forces, including the Special Air Service and intelligence officers who put a premium on civic action.
"The Dhofar war was eventually successful," said a senior British officer in Oman's capital, Muscat, "because civil projects followed very quickly on military success."
But while Dhofar and Muscat began to prosper, the Musandam stood still.
There were no telephones and virtually no roads. Most of the Musandam's people could be reached only by sea, by helicopter, by donkey or on foot.
In such circumstances, "you have to make doubly sure the population is well cared for," said the British officer in Muscat.
"Whether you call it psychological warfare, 'hearts and minds' or whatever," he said, "it's common sense." But he added that he could not comment on details.
"It's very much a U.S.-led operation," he said.
According to its employees here, Tetra Tech International was originally part of Tetra Tech, a Pasadena, Calif., company that deals with water and energy resources as well as underwater-weapons development.
But after Honeywell Inc. acquired the parent company, TTI broke off, its employees here said. Critchfield remains in charge at the home office in Arlington.
In 1979 and 1980, TTI, acting through the development committee, took over "the work and power" of several ministries here, including agriculture and fisheries, power, water, the post office and telecommunications, information, land affairs, municipalities, youth affairs and public works, according to an official committee fact sheet.
One of the few ministries over which TTI does not have jurisdiction here is defense. But military activities affecting the local population are closely coordinated with the development committee.
In addition to a sophisticated listening post and military base on Goat Island just west of the Musandam's tip, the Omani military recently created a new secret installation at the village of Qabal, on the east coast, according to residents here. These sources said it was TTI's job to relocate the residents of the town the army took over.
John Dymond, a TTI employee, is director of operations for the Musandam Development Committee. He was formerly an engineer in the British navy and then on the sultan's royal yacht, and came here in 1980.
He denies any direct intelligence function, but he readily acknowledges that many of his projects have basic military value.
Rosemary Shigeko Ito, 82 of Monterey Park passed away at her home with her husband of 61 years at her side. She is survived by husband Willie Ito, son Marc (Helen) Ito, Vincent (Michele) Ito, Matthew (Yvonne) Ito, Sabrina (Jim) Kiilsgaard and grandchildren Tawny Contreras, Michael Ito, Sydney Ito, Corey Ito, Kayla Kiilsgaard, Kyle Kiilsgaard, and great grandchildren, Kaden and Isabelle Contreras.
Rosemary was born in Los Angeles. She and her family were interned at Amache, Colo. concentration camp for Japanese and Japanese American’s during W.W.ll. After 3 years, the family returned to the south bay area where her parents established a floral nursery in Hawthorne.
Besides her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, she has many nieces and nephews.
Donations in her memory can be made to the Topaz Museum, 55 West Main or P.O. Box 241, Delta, Utah 84624.
A memorial “open house” will be held at her home on March 25th. It will be an all day affair.
Keo Motsepe and his fellow dancing pros reunited on Monday night for the debut episode of the all-athlete season of Dancing With the Stars, but sadly, two pairs have already been voted off.
After being declared safe with a score of 21 out of 30, Motsepse, who has been paired with softball star Jennie Finch Daigle, spoke to Inquisitr about the new season, his pairing, and his thoughts on the first dances of his co-stars.
Inquisitr: How excited were you when you found out the new season of ‘Dancing With the Stars’ would be an all-athlete special?
Keo Motsepe: When I found out the new season of DWTS would be all-athlete I was stocked! Not only do I LOVE sports but I also believe bringing athletes to the dance floor brings out a fun and competitive atmosphere to the show. Both pros and athletes are super competitive and have the same goal — the Mirror ball trophy. I think fans will truly love everyone’s performance.
Were there any athletes you were especially excited to meet?
Jennie, obviously. She is such an amazing athlete and to think that we will be sharing the dance floor is such an honor. I was also excited to meet Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – he is such a legend so it was an honor to get to meet him.
What was your reaction to your pairing with softball star Jennie Finch Daigle?
I was (and still am) beyond excited, Jennie is not only a Gold-medal winning Olympian, but also a star. She is competitive, brilliant, and we push each other to be better AND do better. We are thrilled to show everyone what we’ve been working on.
How have things been going with your chemistry thus far?
I believe our chemistry will strike out the competition.
Are you a softball fan? If not, what sports to you enjoying watching/playing?
Yes, I’m honestly a big fan of all sports. I’m a very active guy, I love running and l LOVE soccer— I used to play all the time with my best friend. I love watching football, especially lately. I have become friends with some great football players through DWTS – Von Miller, Antonio Brown, and others – so I love watching them play and supporting them. I also watch Rugby!
Which team are you most worried about, talent wise?
It’s hard to tell at the moment. Since this a shorter season, we only get so much time to practice and get to know our partners. There’s literally no time to be worrying about the competition.
Did you see ‘I Tonya’?
Yes, it was a great movie!
After watching the debut episode, who impressed you the most and why?
Well obviously my partner, Jennie Finch, because she was incredible! Also Chris and Whitney – Chris came out for the first dance of the season and killed it!
To see more of Keo Motsepe and Jennie Finch Daigle, don’t miss new episodes of the 26th season of Dancing With the Stars on Monday nights at 8 p.m. on ABC.
Rob Port Feb 10th 2019 - 6am.
MINOT, N.D. -- A fundamental truth about politics is that voters very often want contradictory things.
This flies in the face of populist mantras about the wisdom of the masses - those chanted by the sort of people who insist we must implement speech suppressing policy such as Measure 1 simply because it’s the “will of the people."