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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. NIMBY stands for Not In My Backyard. It's often employed as a shaming tool to portray those unwilling to ...

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The term “NIMBY” — or not-in-my-backyard — is usually considered a pejorative, but some San Mateo residents embraced the description at a community meeting on Tuesday, making claims that the clients ...

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In his letter to the Mountain Xpress, Doug Baughman asks: Why has NIMBY (not in my backyard) come to be seen as a bad thing? [“Why Is NIMBY Considered a Bad Thing?” Jan. 21] He remembers when the ...

When you’ve been around a long time, as I have, the same topics tend to recur. One of those is NIMBY, which translates into Not In My Backyard. Here’s a definition of NIMBY I wrote a decade ago: “It’s ...

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I n an era of rapid urbanization and intensifying competition for prime real estate, “Not In My Backyard” (NIMBY) sentiment and the CAVE (“Citizens Against Virtually Everything”) anti-growth movement ...

San Diego Union-Tribune: Opinion: What ‘NIMBY’ really means is ‘not in my general vicinity’

After John Boyle’s recent Asheville Watchdog article (“Opinion: Yep, NIMBYism Has Reared Its Ugly Head in Haw Creek Development Imbroglio”), I got to thinking about the whole concept of “not in my ...

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There are awards not just for activating and hunting unique parks, but they have their own WAS, there are awards for activating/hunting parks and operators multiple times, park-to-park awards, "late shift" awards for 0000Z to 1200Z contacts (good for the after-work crowd), and more. Activators help the hunters, and hunters help the activators.

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