The Bike Shop is closing due to lack of funding

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About 3 years ago, I wrote about a great program started by Matt Velguth in Portland, Maine called The Bike Shop. He operated in some space owned by the Portland Housing Authority in one of the poorer neighborhoods of the city, where he taught civic values to kids by...

Frank McCourt buys the rights to the LA Marathon

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Frank McCourt just bought the operating rights to the Los Angelos Marathon from Divine Racing Management. He is already shaking things up, moving the date of the race up from Sunday, March 1st to President’s Day on Monday, February 16th for the 2009 running of...