| Eagle Scouts clean up Elliott Key |
| While many of us spent the Easter/ Passover weekend with family, Robert Steen rallied his troop (pun intended) to do some serious spring cleaning on Elliott Key. Steen is a 15-year-old Palmetto High School student working on his Eagle Scout achievement. Serving as the troop’s elected Senior Patrol Leader, Steen is already the youth authority. [...] |
| 05/04/2012 |
| The legacy of waste at the GSA |
| The big General Services Administration has long needed a big cleanup. But GSA is still in the same sort of mess it was in when the Republicans took over. The main ingredients: favoritism, factionalism, sloppiness, and waste. |
| 04/29/2012 |
| Fortune Classic: The legacy of waste at the GSA |
| Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a story from our magazine archives . In light of the controversy surrounding the General Services Administration's spending habits and the recent Congressional hearings on the subject, we go back 56 years to August 1955, when Fortune reported the GSA "just as much of a mess today as it was in 1952." It's safe to say that not much has changed in the ... |
| 04/29/2012 |
| Needed to fix parking blight: Lots of trees |
| It’s been nearly a century since the French architect and planner Le Corbusier envisioned La Ville Contemporaine, a city whose centerpiece was a cluster of 60-story towers set in a lush park. His aim was to clean up urban squalor, give all residents access to green space and make city living more efficient. Today his vision has become a reality — with a major difference. We now have towers, not ... |
| 05/07/2012 |
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