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Fittest cities take exercise publicly and personally
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cities that provide parks, walking trails, playing fields and running tracks are setting standards for the country’s healthiest urban areas and showing that if they build fitness opportunities, residents will come.
UPDATE 1-Three major Chinese cities to enforce new property cooling measures
(Adds Chongqing’s pledge to enforce measures, paragraphs 8-9)
Top 5 Cities for Selling a Home
Where home sales are taking off now.
Idaho, California cities deemed best in U.S. for men
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. men looking for the best place to find happiness, health and a good quality of life might consider heading to Boise, Idaho, or San Jose and San Francisco in northern California.
Some cities find small steps key to storm protection
SACO, Maine (Reuters) – In the aftermath of the historic floods caused by Superstorm Sandy, some city leaders have begun to argue for the construction of sea walls capable of shielding the U.S. coastline from ever more intense storms.
Israel authorizes more reservists after rockets target cities
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s cabinet authorized the mobilization of up to 75,000 reservists late on Friday, preparing the ground for a possible Gaza invasion after Palestinians fired a rocket toward Jerusalem for the first time in decades.
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5 Great Travel Deals In ‘Next Door’ Cities
With hotel prices on the rise, many tourists are bunking in cheaper towns next door to their real destination.
Soda tax war taking shape in two California cities
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two small California cities are the latest battlegrounds in the $ 111 billion U.S. soda industry’s fight to defend a near-perfect record of defeating proposed taxes on sugary drinks.
Why most cities don’t bury power lines
In late June, a freakish and powerful “derecho” storm in the Washington, D.C., area knocked out a bunch of power lines and left more than a million homes without electricity for several days (weeks, in some cases). Sure enough, local … Continue reading