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Asserting their rights
Rom community takes to the streets
On February 7, via Cavour rang with the voices of members of a marginal community that wants its voice heard. Equipped with loudspeakers and banners, over 50 Rom residing in Osmannoro staged a protest in front of the city Prefect’s office …
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Molehills to mountains
Going door-to-door to tackle trash
Tuscany is getting tough with garbage. The recent trash emergency in Naples has made officials ever more attentive to the rising levels of garbage produced in the region. With each Tuscan producing almost two kilos of trash a day, authorities from …
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Scholarly swindles
Phoney certificates tarnish university
What do Italian university students do when they cannot manage to pass the Preliminary English Test (PET) exam? They buy it.
A phone call to a private language institute located in the southern Italian region of Calabria and a few hundred euro …
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Parliamentary pretenses aside
Leonardo Domenici will not run for parliament. Quelling recent rumours about his candidacy in the upcoming national elections, the mayor of Florence confirmed his intention to carry out his full term. In a controversial meeting with his often fragile leftist administration, …
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Statuary squabbles
Despite widespread criticism of his controversial proposal to move the David to the outskirts of the city, Tuscany’s culture chief Paolo Cocchi has continued in his crusade to save Florence from the burden of tourism. His suggestion to move Michelangelo’s heroic …
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Americans get out the vote
U.S. citizens living in Florence had the opportunity to vote in the 2008 Democratic Global Primary on February 5 at Syracuse University in Piazza Savanarola. Though voting could be done online, by fax and mail, a total of 264 people also …
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Pedal into the future
Bike Sharing la mode
Florence just got a tad more cosmopolitan. City officials approved a bike-sharing service similar to those in other European cities. Modeled on the successful program in Paris and scheduled to start by autumn 2008, this ambitious initiative will make 700 bicycles …
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Primping Peretola
Florence airport revamped by Brit architects
The internationally acclaimed English architects responsible for designing the world’s largest air terminal, London Heathrow’s Terminal 5, will renovate Florence’s Peretola airport. In addition to winning the job, Pascall+Watson Architects Limited-Ausglobe Spa received an additional 250,000 euro to manage and supervise …
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Ancient resource renewed
Arno goes green despite drought scare
It’s official: the silver river will soon be the source of pollution-free hydroelectric power. After months of intense scrutiny, provincial officials recently announced the launch of a unique project that will retrieve clean and renewable energy from the Arno by using …
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Safe haven
Two new centres for the displaced
Refugees seeking asylum in Italy will have a place to rest in Florence when the city soon opens two multi-function centres for humanitarian purposes. In accordance with a national law passed by the Internal affairs ministry last year, a similar centre …
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On the run
Escapee causes traffic chaos
Enraged drivers gridlocked in Novoli could not believe their eyes when they realized the cause of their misery. The culprit: a runaway sheep. Traffic on a main city thoroughfare in the Florentine suburb was backed up for miles when the wooly …
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Chicks rule
Woman nominated head of Tuscanys Confindustria
She is a 33-year-old woman from Grosseto who owns her own chemical business. Members of Tuscany’s Confindustria unanimously elected Antonella Mansi as the new president of the regional business association, a position she will hold until 2011.
Mansi replaces Sergio Ceccuzzi, …
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At the seaside with the mob
Police uncover money-laundering ring
The quiet Tuscan island of Elba was rocked last week as anti-mafia officials dismembered an organized crime ring hailing from the Campania region. More than 250 cars and a slew of apartments, businesses and land valued at more than 40 million …
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Home sweet home
Now is the time to purchase a home, according to a report released by Tecnocasa Firenze. For the first time in six years, prices, which have risen continuously, have begun to stabilize. The report notes that the credit crisis that is …
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Via Faenza facelift
In response to ever-increasing decay in via Faenza and repeated calls for action by residents and merchants, local officials have announced plans to transform the street. Construction, scheduled to start February 4, includes larger sidewalks and new water, gas and electric …
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Saturday, May 18, 2013