Sentences with phrase «affluent neighborhoods on»

Democrats view the seventh district, which includes Rice University and affluent neighborhoods on Houston's west side, as a ripe target because it went narrowly for Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 after previously supporting Republican presidential nominees Mitt Romney and John McCain by large margins in the 2012 and 2008 presidential contests, respectively.

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Often it is people who live in middle - class or affluent neighborhoods that are relatively free of violent crime who insist on holding a «root - cause» seminar while people are dying in the streets.

Buffalo was experimenting on a small scale with «tipper totes» — large, rat - proof garbage containers designed for easy loading by trucks — but only in one of the city's most affluent neighborhoods and with no plan for wider use.

They had turned their backs on the problems of those less - affluent Jews who preferred to remain in the old neighborhoods rather than to relocate to the suburbs.

Also on Thursday, Daley said he believes that Park District programs are offered even - handedly throughout the city despite a Tribune study that concluded teenagers in poor neighborhoods are provided fewer offerings than teens in more affluent areas of Chicago.

Studies have shown that these neighborhoods, on average, include fewer parks, more fast food outlets and more crime than affluent or Caucasian neighborhoods.

Sited in an affluent neighborhood in northern Dallas, the White House replica remained on the market...

Based on Alicia Erian's novel Towelhead, Nothing is Private follows an Arab - American teenager (Summer Bishil's Jasira) as she encounters a number of quirky characters - including a racist reservist (Aaron Eckhart) and a nosy neighbor (Toni Collette)- after moving to an affluent Texas neighborhood.

In contrast to the affluent towns on the west side of the park, only 40 percent of adults in this neighborhood graduated from high school.

In the bad old days, before statewide standards, affluent communities tended to ask their kids to shoot for the moon (or at least 3s, 4s, and 5s on a battery of Advanced Placement exams), while too many schools in low - income neighborhoods were happy with basic literacy and numeracy.

And it was right on the border of Garden City, a very affluent neighborhood with a top - notch public school district.

In Boston, 241 out of 255 precincts (95 %) voted No on 2; the 14 precincts that voted yes were largely more affluent, white neighborhoods.

However, research published in 2006 on families in five major U.S. cities who used the federal Moving to Opportunity housing voucher program to transplant from public housing to more affluent neighborhoods concluded that living among the more affluent had no significant impact on student test scores, behavioral incidents or student engagement.

One of the reasons Finland has consistently stayed at the top of international rankings in education is because it focuses on equity; poorer schools receive more funding than those in more affluent neighborhoods, according to Finnish Lessons 2.0: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland author Pasi Sahlberg, a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Sylvia Renee Lyss, founder of F.L.O.C.K., and her volunteers go out on a regular basis, usually at night, to the casino back alleys and into the less affluent neighborhoods of Las Vegas to maintain «Feeding Stations» with water and food for a multitude of stray and wild cats.

Sylvia Renee Lyss, founder of F.L.O.C.K., and her volunteers go out on a regular basis, usually at night, to the casino back alleys and into the less affluent neighborhoods of Las Vegas to maintain «Feeding Stations» with water and food for a multitude of stray and wild cats.The purpose is to humanely trap and give the cats immediate vet care, neutering, and vaccinations.The cats are either adopted out or taken to the F.L.O.C.K. sanctuary to live out their lives in comfort for as long as they are with us.Sylvia Renee Lyss has devoted her life to helping stray and unwanted cats and kittens.She has been actively doing this work for over the last 30 years in Las Vegas.

On the border of SoHo and TriBeCa, this mid-century gem sits at the corner of two of the city's most affluent neighborhoods.

So I headed out there after Little Italy, driving uphill on a tree lined street and find the cemetery within an affluent and quiet residential neighborhood.