This morning Boris Johnson faced a barrage of questions from the London Assembly at City Hall, during the monthly mayors question time.The questioned ranged from the impact that the financial crisis is having on London to the shortening the length of time traffic lights stay on green!When faced with questions on the economy from John Biggs (Labour), Boris stated "40% of the FTSE 100 companies are
The principle is this: as a citizen you should have a “problem” if City Hall tells you how to run your business / investment / or life. Milford City Hall did this recently with their bylaw regarding rental housing.
The purpose of the bylaw may be reasonable on its face, but it wouldn’t make as much [...]
Favre Receives a Big City WelcomeNew York Times, United StatesThat’s too big a city for me.” In Atlanta, Glanville quickly grew exasperated with Favre. He did not quibble with Favre’s passion for the game or his desire ... Read More
img src: (left 2 right) Hollis Wear & Madeleine Clifford (Canary Sing) Sean KlostermanRogue Pinay & El Dia (1st Quarter Storm)City Hall will be hosting a lineup of the city's finest female hip-hop artists who take to the stage. Peep the press release below. Click here to learn more!Seattle’s leading female hip-hop artists to take the mike at City Hall, Aug. 14 “Traffic Jam” to featur
Remember the saying you can’t fight City Hall? Everyone knows you can’t win fighting City Hall but what happens when the fight is within City Hall? Well that is exactly what is happening with Dennis Alcoreza & the Manila City Hall Councilors Tear Jerker Drama against Alfredo Lim over their “victim hood” portrayal giving Korean Tele-Novellas a run...
Philippine political & social events as
We visited Chicago City Hall yesterday as part of our immersion with American institutions. We got to meet Filipino-Americans holding important positions in the City Government of Chicago and got to tour City Hall as well. Mayor Richard Daley wasn't there but it was not a problem since we were meeting him in the evening anyway.Lunch was at the James Thompson Center next door where we experienced m
Source: group of around 20 persons from the antiauthoritarian milieu attack late Thursday's night the city hall of Ilioupoli. According to a local radio stasion, they broke the glass windows and then left to nearby streets."
On June 20, 2008, I gave my 4th seminar in the last 2 years for the City of Chicago’s Department of Business Affairs and Licensing. Like my prior seminars for them, it focused on labor and employment law for small and medium sized businesses (2-1,000 employees). The handout for this, which reflects 2008 legal changes, [...]
The City Hall of San Francisco, California, opened in 1915, in its open space area in the city’s Civic Center, is a Beaux-Arts monument to the brief “City Beautiful” movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the period 1880-1917. The present building is actually a replacement for an earlier City Hall that was completely [...]
Vancouver’s Park Board learnt a lesson in how to please private-sector partners when they had a 3 year controversy over Kits Beach’s Watermark Restaurant
The City of Vancouver’s land at English Bay has had an eatery since the 1950s and now the City has decided to turn it into a restaurant. The City is seeking public input on [...]
City HallCharleston, South Carolina4 January 1998Living on the Charleston, South Carolina Peninsula was a very pleasant experience, especially because I love to walk and could get myself almost everywhere necessary on foot. Charleston City Hall is across from the downtown Post Office (another historic building) where I held a mail box so I looked at the pale pink marble edifice almost every day. W
Just today, the police paid a visit to Jerusalem's municipality:
Detectives from the National Fraud Unit raided the Jerusalem City Hall with a search warrant on Monday afternoon, seeking documents dating back to Olmert's two terms as mayor of the capital from 1993 to 2003, during which he is suspected of illegally receiving funds from New York financer Morris Talansky.
"The search is linked
Good news for bloggers and internet users and fanatics, the Marikina City Hall is now a WiFi Free Zone!
So now, you can bring your laptops and fidget with your computers while waiting for your transactions to finish.
For those without laptops, don’t despair, Marikina City Hall also have a kiosk with computers for free [...]
Welcome back to Photo Friday - my little way of taking a break from San Francisco Real Estate and instead blogging about our great City’s past instead. All photos are published with permission from the San Francisco History Center and San Francisco Public Library.
Postings have been light this week because I have procrastinated and waited till the [...]
On April 15, 1908, the new Little Rock City Hall was opened to the public.
To mark that “Century of Service,” Mayor Mark Stodola, the Little Rock City Board of Directors, and City Manager Bruce T. Moore are hosting a 100th Birthday Party at City Hall (500 West Markham) from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
For more information, check out the City's website at www.littlerock.org.
Giuliani Snuck Out 2,000 Boxes From City Hall Excerpt:"Under an unprecedented agreement that didn't become public until after he left office, Giuliani secreted out of City Hall the written, photographic and electronic record of his eight years in office _ more than 2,000 boxes.Along with his own files, the trove included the official records of Giuliani's deputy mayors, his chief of staff, his travel office and Gracie Mansion _ the mayor's residence that became a legal battlefront during his caustic divorce.The mayor made famous _ and very wealthy _ in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has long described his City Hall as an open book.In a Republican presidential candidates' debate last week, Giuliani asserted: "My government in New York City was so transparent that they knew every single thing I did almost every time I did it. ... I can't think of a public figure that's had a more transparent life than I've had.""http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071221/giulia
This cartoon almost wrote itself. Last week a city councillor in Toronto was punished for not spending a penny of his $53,000 office budget. Instead he paid for stationary and the like with his OWN money. All this in a city that is forecast to have a 300 million dollar budget shortfall.(c)2007 Johnny Ancich .
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So now we go to the Gold room, which was created by a young artist. He wasn't really that famous before he did the Gold room, and in Sweden he wasn't very famous afterward either. This is because the old artist who was going to do the room died before he could start. The new guy was found, and he was very promising... but he first estimated that the room could be done in seven years, only to be told he had two years to do the work. So there's a few mistakes. Like St. George the Dragonslayer's head is chopped off.Now, the Gold room is rather controversial because the artist did it in a style not typically thought of as "Swedish" Or even classical, in keeping with the rest of the building. Rather, this room is rather foreign in flavor, more in keeping with Roman or some other mosaics. However, all the motifs are Swedish.The best thing about this room though is the woman who dominates the artwork. She's susposed to the the spirit of the lake that joins up with the sea (Where S
This is the room where congress meets. The dais is there not because of any sense of grandeur (heaven forbid Swedes raise someone up higher than all the others and perhaps imply that he or she is better than all the others) but because of acoustics... because the room is so high. The beams. Originally the beams were supposed to be covered, but the architect decided he liked the effect, so he left the concrete beams in, covered them with wood, and had them painted. The motifs in the "sky" are supposed to invoke the Vikings, who held their meetings under overturned boats in the winter. Apparently the Vikings made very quick decisions because nobody wanted to be out in the cold that long, and this was the architect's way of trying to tell the governing body to keep things brisk and efficient here. To one of the sides there is seating for people to watch. What's funny is often the members of the council will bring their children with them for their meetings, because most of the
Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA. Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record. HABS CAL, 19-LOSAN, 51-19. Larger reference image (JPEG - 123K bytes) Highest resolution image (TIFF - 19367K bytes).Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA. Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record. East side HABS CAL, 19-LOSAN, 51-8 Larger reference image (JPEG - 162K bytes) Highest resolution image (TIFF - 19636K bytes)The records in HABS/HAER were created for the U.S. Government and are considered to be in the public domain. the Library of Congress is not aware of any U.S. copyright protection (see Title 17 U.S.C.) or any other restrictions in the HABS/HAER materials Rights and ReproductionsItem Title: Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA.Medium: Photo(s): 337 (4 x 5 in.). Data Page(s): 27 plus cover page.
The City of Chicago's Department of Business Affairs & Licensing has asked me to do another employment law seminar (my 3rd). This free seminar will be on Wednesday, August 15, 2007, from 3pm-4:30pm at City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., Room 805. Like my prior seminars, this will be largely Q&A and round-table discussion. Additionally, I'll be providing participants with a 19-page
Sad to say, one of my favourite Maggi Mee Goreng in Jinjang Selatan stall, has been closed down, and I believe it is the work of City Hall. The question is , do you know where this stall is now ? Although the stall has been demolished for like a few months already, I believe it is somehow related to the story below. I hope someone can tell me where if the stall has been relocated...City Hall: Bring ’em down By YIP YOKE TENG metro@thestar.com.my RESTAURANT operators in Jinjang Selatan and Jintang Utara new villages are crying foul over City Hall's order to dismantle the extensions to their shops. Distraught: Liew says City Hall should explain why they wanted the structures down. They received letters from City Hall since last month saying the extensions were illegal and must be dismantled within two weeks from the dates of the letters or the authority would do it for them. One of the shops, Lam Seng coffee shop, failed to escape the bulldozers on Aug 1, when hi
This picture was taken near City Hall a while back (during my lunch at Omuto Tomato Fusion Omurice with Hoo Kang.) Apparently it's the new post office building. The design of the building is pretty unique so here it is for your viewing pleasure:
Previously on The Daily Kimchi I mentioned how I wanted to go take some pictures of the sights and festivities at City Hall. After being inspired by I'm A Seoul Man and SeoulLife.net, I just had to join in on the fun. Here are my attempts at City Hall and Chonggaechun. Comments are welcome.
Pictures from the day...here's the ice skating rink they setup:
Just one of a million people here taking pictures (just like me):
It was cold so we went inside for a bit. On our way back from the Lotte Department Store:
You must visit City Hall to see the lights:
A few from Chonggaechun:
Season's Greetings from Audi:
On Wednesday, November 15, 2006, from 3pm-4:30pm, I'll be conducting a free employment law seminar at Chicago's City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., Room 805. This will be largely Q&A and round-table discussion. Additionally, I'll be providing participants with a 14 page handout summarizing 55 federal, state and local labor and employment laws, and explaining what human resources and labor and employment law are, what can be asked of job applicants via interviews and applications, and how much an employment dispute could cost. Thanks to the Community Economic Development Law Project (Angela Hall and Loren VanDyke www.cedlp.org) and the City of Chicago's Department of Business Affairs & Licensing (Anthony Bertuca) for organizing this. If you would like to attend either contact me or the DBA.
Based on the success of my 1st seminar, the City of Chicago's Department of Business Affairs & Licensing has asked me to do a 2nd employment law seminar. This free seminar will be on Wednesday, January 17, 2007, from 3pm-4:30pm at City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., Room 805. Like my November 15, 2006, seminar, this will be largely Q&A and round-table discussion. Additionally, I'll be
Today was a day off from work! It's the Korean Independence Day...in other words, "Gwangbokjeol" in Korean. Hey, I'm not one to complain that I'm not working today, so let's go celebrate!This is an appropriate time to post about our trip to City Hall...after visiting Seoul Tower.This is probably why City Hall is decked out with the Korean flag:This shot was taken while we were on the bus...I opened the window and snapped away. Yes, I know it's a wonderful shot, thank you!Here's a close up of City Hall...I am thinking these light up at night:...and here was a mini water park setup in front of the lawn...the water smelled like chlorine:
