Sentences with phrase «around nearby districts»
Dismantling Brown's district would have the side effect, of course, of allowing Democrats to «unpack» the district, taking its many Democratic voters and spreading them around nearby districts, creating three or four Democratic - leaning districts where there is currently just one solidly Democratic district.
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The three bombs — sticks of dynamite wrapped around a timer — exploded before dawn on May 5 outside a Kallithea district police station, destroying part of that structure and nearby cars and shops but injuring no one.
The day before, on April 2, I had gone to a Goodwill store in the city of Orange and purchased a disguise, clothes that would have suited any bum wandering around nearby MacArthur Park or the broken - bottle district of downtown L.A.: a $ 5 pair of baggy brown pants, marked down to $ 2.50, whose cuffs scraped the floor; a large gold shirt for $ 3; a white tie, with a bright yellow stain, for 15 cents; a pair of brown shoes, which I wore without socks or laces, for $ 5; and the ugliest sports coat in the store, a black number with red and white flecks, for $ 2.50.
Over the course of the last ten years, two of the city's neighborhoods, the Design District and the nearby Wynwood, have become famous for their ever - changing art scene that today houses around 200 galleries and artist - run spaces.
While downtown Fort Lauderdale already established a nightlife centered around the Las Olas business and entertainment district, downtown Miami was slow on the uptake due in part to fierce nightlife competition from the neighboring urban playground South Beach (or SoBe to the locals) and nearby Coconut Grove.