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As it goes for so many real estate developers here, President Donald Trump’s dreams of building in California could get derailed by regulations.
A day after President Trump said he wants to reopen Alcatraz as a symbol of law and order, tourists at the decayed historic site struggled to see the logic.
President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on an island off of San Francisco that has been closed since 1963.
On a Monday morning visit to Alcatraz, foreign tourists were only slightly less critical of the president's plan to make it a federal penitentiary again than the Democratic pols who run San Francisco.
According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and generates about $60 million ...
As it goes for so many real estate developers here, President Donald Trump’s dreams of building in California could ... and the FBI to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz to “house America’s most ...
How are people responding? Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has represented the San Francisco area for over 38 years, criticized Trump's plan. "Alcatraz closed as a federal ...
The federal Bureau of Prisons says that the exact meaning is still debated, but "Alcatraz is usually defined as 'pelican' or 'strange bird.'" In the early 1850s, following the California Gold Rush ...
ALCATRAZ ISLAND, Calif ... Yesenia Valencia, an 18-year-old from California’s Central Valley, was visiting the prison on a high school class field trip. She and her fellow students left ...