Cestoûr News Round-Up

Provincial capitol sinking!

The Maricopa Capitol Building, also known as Milwaukee City Hall, is sinking into the ground. A prominent Talossan landmark, the Maricopa Capitol was built on marshy riverfront land in 1895, in the Flemish Renaissance Revival style. At the time of its construction, it was the third tallest building in the United States. But according to Milwaukee officials, the building has sunk 1.5 inches over the past twenty years. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Jim Stingl calculates that at the current rate, the top of the building will be level with the ground in only 56,000 years. The Ministry of Defence had no comment on whether the observed sinking is actually the result of a plan to convert the Maricopa Capitol into an underground bunker in case of a 581st-century Canadian invasion.

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http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=676827
City Hall has sinking feeling; repairs foreseen

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=679121
City Hall's unsettling, er, settling news

Deli owner creates Talossa’s spiciest sandwich

Challenged by a regular customer who complained that all of his regular offerings just aren’t spicy enough, Maricopa deli owner Felix Glorioso has invented a sandwich to test the hardiest tastebuds. The sandwich’s heat is derived from hot pepper spread, an Italian olive salad with pickled vegetables and peppers called muffuletta, and calabrese and cappicola sausages. A long-time comic book fan, S:reu Glorioso calls his creation “the Human Torch.” Glorioso’s deli is located on Brady Street, or Cuntradâ Davron, in Maricopa Province.

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http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=679678
Spicy sandwich built for a superhero

Milwaukee may sell part of Talossan park

Parts of O’Donnell Park, a public park located near Veterans Park in Maritiimi-Maxhestic Province, maybe be sold to the private sector under a plan suggested by Milwaukee County Supervisor Paul Cesarz. The park complex includes a large parking structure and a building with a restaurant and children’s museum. The parking structure is the part of the park most likely to be sold. Cesarz hopes to use revenues from the privatisation to benefit other parts of Milwaukee County’s park system. While Talossans may resent the sale of such assets to benefit parks outside of Talossa, proponents of the plan point out that the $36.5 million cost of building the parking structure and other park facilities in the 1980s was paid by Milwaukee County taxpayers in the first place.

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http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=678160
Sale of park property urged