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Sober housing for recovering addicts

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CLOSE Kristine De Jesus , a staff psychologist and coordinator of the Alcohol and Other Drug Program at MSU, speaks about the services the school offers to students dealing with alcohol and drug abuse. Mollie Shauger/NorthJersey.com Montclair State University " /> The Montclair State University Red Hawk statue on the school's campus. (Photo: Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com file) For students recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, the typical college campus can seem like a minefield of temptation, with frat parties, tailgating and late night rounds of beer pong. To help recovering students cope , Montclair State University has set aside a floor in one of its dormitories for those committed to sobriety. Officials hope it will give recovering students a refuge on campus, as well as a way for them to develop a small community of classmates who can provide each other support. The initiative at Montclair State  is part of a growing trend nationally , with about 50   coll...

Wolf Creek Apartments Raleigh, NC 27606

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Business Details Coupons Gallery Reviews Sponsored Links Wolf Creek is dedicated to providing the very best furnished student housing off campus in Raleigh! Reasonable rent, great amenities! Hours Regular Hours Mon - Fri 10:00 am - 7:00 pm Sat 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Services/ProductsWolf Creek Apartments are located off-campus near North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina . Our community offers all inclusive living at a great value, a convenient location, and most importantly, fun! More than just a typical college dormitory experience , Wolf Creek offers housing that provides the ideal educational apartment environment At Wolf Creek, our residents enjoy a 24 hour recreation room , 24 hour fitness center , 24 hour computer lab , 2 basketball courts, 2 tennis courts, 5 tanning beds, 2 sand volleyball courts , an Olympic size lap pool and a resort- style swimming pool . And every apartment has high-speed Internet and cable. NCSU, Meredith, Wake Te...

Not a typical affordable-housing community, Las Brisas finds success through its enrichment programs and police presence

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Las Brisas affordable -housing community contains approximately 160 rental units , varying in size and number of bedrooms.</strong>" title="Las Brisas 1" width="400" height="300" class="size-full wp-image-16158" /> Cory Bilicko/Signal Tribune Signal Hill’s Las Brisas affordable -housing community contains approximately 160 rental units , varying in size and number of bedrooms. Nick Diamantides Staff Writer Approximately five years after the completion of the Las Brisas affordable -housing community in Signal Hill, programs offered at the site are still succeeding in improving the lives of the people who live there. The project was developed in two phases under the auspices of Los Angeles- based Abode Communities with funding from the now- defunct Signal Hill Redevelopment Agency , as well as financial assistance from other public and private sector entities . According to Robin Hughes, president of Abode Communities , Las Brisas c...

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...

Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...