Old hotel site to house recovering addictsThe former site of a seedy hotel on University Avenue will soon be a haven for recovering addicts. A nonprofit organization, with help from the city, purchased the former North Park Inn last year and plans to open housing for homeless men battling addiction and mental illness.Priceline.com Becomes 1st Major Online Travel Agency to Offer $25 Bounty as Part of its 'Big Deal' Hotel Price GuaranteeNORWALK, Conn., March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- After leading other online travel agencies in eliminating airline booking fees and slashing hotel reservation fees, priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) is at it again.The Village may get another hotelWhen the Mondrian was a flash in a developer’s eye, it was a 189-room condo hotel, one of many ambitious projects in Mountain Village two years ago.Prairie Meadows OKs terms for new hotelPrairie Meadows on Wednesday approved terms to build a 179-room hotel on the northwest side of the casino.Armed officers evacuate guests from Kendal hotelARMED police swooped on a Kendal town centre hotel after a member of the public reported seeing a man with a gun.Village hotel development proposes changesThe developers of a proposed Mountain Village hotel that has taken the working name Mondrian say they need another 10 feet to add a floor of 40 hotel rooms to the top of their structure, already 79 feet high in some places and pushing Mountain Village zoning regulations.Blue Earth Co. Commissioner Won't Seek Re-electionBlue Earth County Commissioner Tom McLaughlin says this term will be his la read moreDishin': Earth & Ocean Opens (60) Scallop EyesThe March issue of City Arts , now on the streets, features an eye-opening Dish-Off. Two chefs must each prepare a dish interpreting Gnarls Barkley's \"Blind Mary,\" a song about a guy who loves a girl because she's blind and doesn't know he's ugly. At Earth & Ocean , Chef Adam Stevenson focused on the \"Blind\" in \"Blind Mary,\" serving up seared scallops with black-eyed pea chole and cumin carrot ...This Is Why That Amazing NASA Earth Image Looked So FamiliarAfter publishing the The Most Accurate, Highest Resolution Earth View to Date , it got extremely popular: The day after, it got reproduced by newspapers and countless blogs worldwide. Even NASA wrote to us. But everyone knew it before. Here’s how: (more…)Earth and other things from outer spaceThis spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date.This Is Why that Amazing NASA Earth Image Looked So Familiar [IPhone]# iphone After publishing the The Most Accurate, Highest Resolution Earth View to Date , it got extremely popular: The day after, countless newspapers and blogs worldwide reposted the story. NASA wrote to us, surprised. Why? Because everyone already knew about it: More »
