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Officials investigate power-shortage at new childrens hospital
A three-hour blackout at Meyer’s new facility last week could have ended in tragedy. Luckily, the 100 in-patients at Florence’s newest pediatrics hospital emerged unscathed. Due to the significant danger the power shortage posed, officials are demanding answers.
Just days after the …
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ATAF on the attack
The bus strike on January 16 did not produce the results the drivers had hoped for. As a result, the union is demanding that all contracts made with new drivers be pulled until the union and company officials are able to …
Tuscany News
Changing faces
According to recent statistics, by 2023 the number of foreign residents in the region will double. Today, the 234,398 immigrants living in Tuscany represent 6.4 percent of the total population. Regional officials project that in the next 15 years the population …
Florence News
Just a few pedals away
Scandicci and Florence just got a little closer. Local officials recently opened a bike path connecting the two urban centres. The new lane links Scandicci to Florence along via Ponchielli to Casellina, until city hall. The bike lane is not adjacent …
Florence News
Cioni laureate
Florence’s ‘sheriff’ got top honors from an America university. Perhaps the city’s most controversial councilor, safety superintendent Graziano Cioni, says he was ‘proud and moved’ to receive a degree honoris causa from James Madison University. In addition to the receiving the …
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Fashion foots the bill
Florentine stylist pays price for his vines
After years of protest from residents and shop owners, properties in the Cinque vie area located in Florence’s Quartiere 3 will no longer be engulfed by rainwater runoff from an adjacent vineyard. The flooding problem started years back when the vineyard …
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Spielberg joins Florence
Holocaust victims commemorated across the region
From international conferences and film showings to discussion forums and a ‘video’ appearance by American film director Steven Spielberg, over 200 initiatives throughout the region have been organized in remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. The rich calendar of events …
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Medici on Euro tour
Renaissance Florence plays centre stage in Hungary
Florence’s most powerful renaissance dynasty will be the talk of Budapest over the next few months. A wide variety of artwork and precious items from over 60 Italian collections will bring the powerful Medici family and their leading role in Renaissance …
Florence News
Energize while you drive
Tuscan motorway to generate electricity in a novel way
On the Fi-Pi-Li freeway, environmentally damaging traffic will soon become a renewable source of clean energy. The provincial government recently announced the installation of a hi-tech device along the highly congested regional motorway that will use passing vehicles to create electricity.
Installed …
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Parodies in paper-mach
Politicians provide inspiration in Viareggio
Once again satire and mirth unite forces in Tuscany’s most renowned winter carnival festival. This year marks the 135th anniversary of the Viareggio Carnival, which kicked off this year on a more somber note, with a minute of silence to honour …
Italy News
Religious persecution
Pontiff calls off visit to university in Rome
In an unprecedented move, Pope Benedict XVI cancelled a visit to Rome’s La Sapienza University last week after a group of students and staff signed a petition and staged a sit-in to protest of the pontiff’s upcoming speech.
Over 60 lecturers and …
Italy News
Oddball pulls off the second
Spanish steps draped in colour
Tourists in the Eternal City got a thrill last week as thousands of multicoloured balls rumbled down the Spanish Steps into the square below. In another outlandish move, Graziano Cecchini, the self-declared artist and political activist responsible for turning the Trevi …
Italy News
Mastella packs his bags
Justice minister resigns amid scandal
His adversaries thought this day would never come. Italy’s Justice minister and leader of the catholic-leaning Udeur party, Clemente Mastella, issued his resignation following the news of a judicial probe involving his wife. Mrs. Mastella has been placed under house arrest …
Italy News
Breaking new ground
Research and innovation culminate in Turin
For its crucial role in the fields of design, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, the city of Turin has been officially named the World Capital of Design 2008 by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.
The nomination rewards areas that have …
Italy News
Club Med
A new Mediterranean Union may be just around the corner. Both Italy and Spain said they would discuss the possibility of an alliance that would unite the 20 countries along the Mediterranean Sea. Author of the proposal, French president Nicolas Sarkozy, …
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013