10% of Guadalajara metro area lacks water, sewer
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- Published on Friday, 31 January 2014 10:42
- Written by GR Staff
With more than 4.3 million people in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, and urban expansion that comes in fits and starts, some 10 percent of the population lack water and sewer service.
Work to restart on city’s modern art museum
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- Published on Friday, 31 January 2014 10:31
- Written by GR Staff
Construction is set to restart on the modern art museum overlooking the Huentitan canyon on the northeastern outskirts of Guadalajara.
Rainbow Warrior docks in PV
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- Published on Friday, 10 January 2014 11:57
- Written by GR Staff
The Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of the environmental organization Greenpeace, will be docked in Puerto Vallarta from Saturday, January 11 through Tuesday, January 14 and will be welcoming aboard visitors.
Racing bus drivers cause record fatalities
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- Published on Friday, 24 January 2014 11:22
- Written by GR Staff
A new record has been set after five pedestrians died under the wheels of city buses during the first ten days of 2014. In most of the cases, the drivers fled the scene of the accidents.
Reducing fires is major goal of Primavera Forest’s new governing body
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- Published on Friday, 10 January 2014 11:52
- Written by GR Staff
A new, more independent era has begun for the much-beleaguered Bosque de la Primavera, the huge forest that hugs metro area Guadalajara’s west side and acts as a climate regulator, as well as “lung” that filters atmospheric contaminants.
White cycle campaign highlights bicycle safety
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- Published on Friday, 24 January 2014 11:21
- Written by GR Staff
Activists hang a chain of white bicycles cut from paper outside the Casa Jalisco, the residence of Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval.
Growing city airport looks to the future
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- Published on Friday, 10 January 2014 11:22
- Written by Dale Quinn
The Guadalajara airport is expanding a terminal and adding more space in immigration to prepare for more international travelers.
Man shot dead at Chapalita glorieta
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- Published on Friday, 24 January 2014 11:02
- Written by GR Staff
Four men are in custody after a 37-year-old businessman was shot to death at the Glorieta Chapalita last Friday.
Governor to move into official residence
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- Published on Friday, 10 January 2014 11:20
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Aristoteles Sandoval has gone back on a campaign promise and will be moving his family into the Jalisco governor’s official residence in Guadalajara, the Casa Jalisco.
State university rejects more than half of applicants
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- Published on Friday, 24 January 2014 10:15
- Written by GR Staff
Only 44 out of every 100 applicants have been accepted to study at the University of Guadalajara (UdG) in the next calendar year.
Jalisco needs 14,000 more nurses
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- Published on Friday, 10 January 2014 11:20
- Written by GR Staff
Jalisco Governor Jorge Aristoteles Sandoval Diaz honored 33 nurses for their long careers on national Nurses Day January 7.
New parking options near city airport
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- Published on Friday, 24 January 2014 10:14
- Written by GR Staff
A glut of low-cost parking alternatives has sprung up on the highway close to the Guadalajara International Airport.
Drunk driver returns voluntarily to jail cell despite securing early release
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- Published on Friday, 03 January 2014 13:45
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The posada season of December 2013 will be one that 52-year-old mariachi violinist José Armando Gomez Espinoza will never forget.
New labs to open doors for Guadalajara innovators
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- Published on Tuesday, 21 January 2014 15:01
- Written by Dale Quinn
An alumni group from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a Jalisco non-profit and along with the state government plans to create four laboratories by 2016 for entrepreneurs in science and technology to develop and test their ideas.
Bus fare hike a killer blow to low paid
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- Published on Friday, 03 January 2014 13:34
- Written by GR Staff
Despite the inclement climate, some 200 people staged a protest over the holiday condemning the recent one-peso hike in city bus fares. The protestors unfurled this banner pointing out that someone earning a minimum wage will pay 20 percent of his/her earnings on a mere two buses a day.
Deaths reported as flu season spikes
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- Published on Friday, 17 January 2014 10:50
- Written by GR Staff
At least eight people have died from the flu virus in Jalisco over the past month, health authorities revealed this week.
City officials fail to limit street vendors downtown
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- Published on Friday, 03 January 2014 12:04
- Written by GR Staff
On taking office last year, the new Guadalajara municipal administration vowed to rein in the dozens of unlicensed street vendors who set up stall in the downtown zone on a daily basis.
A fashion salute to Guadalajara
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- Published on Friday, 17 January 2014 10:46
- Written by GR Staff
Making waves on the inaugural runway at this week’s Intermoda fashion expo were some spectacular designs honoring some of Guadalajara’s most heralded landmarks created by local fashionista María Rosario Mendoza of the Takasami fashion house in Guadalajara (www.takasami.com.mx).
2013 was record year for bank robberies
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- Published on Tuesday, 31 December 2013 14:10
- Written by GR Staff
It is not difficult to fathom why the number of bank robberies in Jalisco skyrocketed from 58 in 2012 to 138 last year.
Under fire city councilor digs in
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- Published on Friday, 17 January 2014 10:17
- Written by Michael Forbes
A Guadalajara city councilor – once tipped to become the first female governor of Jalisco – is facing criminal charges for breaking into her own office this week.
City cops turn on the charm
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- Published on Friday, 27 December 2013 11:56
- Written by GR Staff
Guadalajara municipal police officers stacked their patrol cars with dozens of mutli-colored plastic balls Monday, December 23.