Will Cork city get its mojo back after this interminable lockdown?
In her weekly column Colette Sheridan asks if there are really sunnier days ahed for Cork city?
HECTIC HIGH STREET: A bustling Patrick Street in the 1920s. The city has reinvented itself many times, can it do so again?
Colette Sheridan
WHO would be a business owner in Cork city?
Apart from lockdown which will slowly be lifted in the coming months there is always the fear of flooding, a very real fear often faced with nothing more than sandbags at the entrance of premises.
But, with brighter, sunnier days ahead and al fresco dining being catered for, and 17 streets in the city being pedestrianised permanently, things are looking up.
Katie Hurley, Alaska political figure dating back to territorial days, has died at age 99 Published February 22
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Print article Katie Hurley, a longtime Mat-Su political figure and a participant in the drafting of Alaska’s Constitution, died Sunday in Portland, Oregon, at age 99, her daughter said. Hurley got her start in politics when she joined the office of Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening in 1940. She became secretary of the territorial state and was chief clerk to the Alaska Constitutional Convention in 1955 and 1956. Hurley served as president of the Alaska Board of Education, executive director of the state Women’s Commission, state Senate secretary for five sessions and on Gov. William Egan’s statehood transitional staff.