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Vallejo area rents increasing

Rents in the Vallejo area, while the lowest in the Bay Area, are rising faster than in most other places, even as the number of renters increase, driving some people out of the area, a new study found. A firm called Apartment List conducted the study to try and get a handle on the challenges renters face , spokeswoman Sydney Bennet said. “In the Vallejo metro, the number of renter households has increased by 30 percent since 2005,” she said. “However, there was insufficient data and research into the challenges renters face . To address this, Apartment List set up its data science program in 2014.” That research leverages proprietary rental unit and survey data, she said. “We also invest significant resources into gathering and analyzing Census and other publicly available data,” she said. The resulting study found that the Vallejo area’s 5 percent year-over- year rent increases , leads the national and state averages. The median monthly rent for a two-bedroom unit in Vallejo t...

William Peace University to Expand Student Housing with Wolf Creek Apartments Partnership

William Peace University to Expand Student Housing with Wolf Creek Apartments Partnership Four- Year Baccalaureate University Partners with Wolf Creek Apartments to Offer University - Affiliated Housing . Raleigh, NC, February 22, 2013 --(PR.com)-- William Peace University (http://www.peace.edu), a private four- year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that the Board of Trustees has approved a partnership between the university and Wolf Creek Apartments , which will provide the option of University- affiliated student housing to all sophomore, junior and senior students. The apartments, which are located at 403 Wolf Creek Circle , provide an excellent student housing community in southwest Raleigh, with four-bedroom options to fit all lifestyles. Operating in the same manner as on-campus housing, Wolf Creek Apartments will have William Peace University resident staff living on-site. Additionally, the apartments will host student activities and have a shut...

This Harvard grad says education freed him. Can it do the same for his students? | Immigration

He was at Georgetown during that internship, thanks to a Gates Millennium scholarship that also covered his Harvard tuition for his master’s degree. He graduated from Adamson High School , where he was senior class president . He was also president of Dallas ISD’s teen board in 2011. Years ago, he said he wanted to be the mayor of Dallas someday. More recently, he boldly asserted that he’d like to one day become the superintendent of Dallas ISD. By Day 5 of what he calls his “empowerment” tour, he’d distributed more than 1,200 backpacks. That’s more than double the size of Bowie’s student body. Some anonymous donors stepped in to help, but Gonzalez says he could use more help. He wants to buy new uniforms for all of Bowie students. In addition to teaching the third grade, Gonzalez is the elementary school’s director of family engagement. He wants to build up a PTA-like parent club. Back on the school grounds, Rivera, the mother of the teen who wants to study at Harvard, said she will...

Did George Romero Ever Think Pittsburgh was Scary? - Pittsburgh Magazine - September 2017

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Paying tribute to the late filmmaker, whose work in Pittsburgh changed cinema. by Rick Sebak August 23, 2017 photo: shutterstock A lthough he made some gruesome and horrifying movies, there was nothing very frightening about George Romero himself. When I first met him in 1990, on the Edgewood set of “The Dark Half,” I found him to be a warm and friendly man with an easy smile; he didn’t seem wicked or warped in any way. (Although one of the zombies from his first feature, “Night of the Living Dead,” might’ve regarded him as a pretty big meal , at 6’5’’ and pretty meaty at the time.) Although it was still a secret, he and I both knew that he had been selected as Pittsburgh Magazine’s Pittsburgher Of The Year for 1991; I was there to gather some footage of him and his crew at work for WQED. He appeared on the front porch of the Maple Avenue house they were using just to say hello to our small crew.  We weren’t supposed to bother him with an interview that day, but I th...

Mugabe’s wayward sons living large on $40 000 a month

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Share this story They live in luxury apartments costing $6 000 a month, wear designer labels , drink champagne worth $500 per bottle, cruise around Johannesburg in chauffeur-driven limousines, and African Independent can exclusively reveal that their combined pocket money exceeds $40 000 every month. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe ’s sons, Robert Jnr (24) and Bellarmine Chatunga (20), are living in the lap of luxury. Impeccable sources said each boy receives more than $20 000 in pocket money every month, in addition to the rentals and living expenses which are footed in Zimbabwe. Interestingly, Mugabe revealed in 2015 that the government paid him a monthly salary of $12 000. H is wife Grace said Mugabe is the poorest president in the world.  The Mugabe family ’s only known private business, a dairy located 35 kilometres north of Harare, is a perennial loss-maker. Chatunga posted a video on YouTube last week showing him smoking expensive cigars and sipping on pricey champagne...