Good evening,
last year more commuters traveled to Hesse than in 2021, Hofheim will soon have a new furniture store, and the organizer of Roger Waters' tour has distanced itself from the musician.
News and news from the region in our evening overview, today again with a tip for the weekend.
Jacqueline Vogt
Department head of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Dispute about a musician
: Is Roger Waters, founder of Pink Floyd, who performs solo today, an anti-Semite?
The answer to this question is probably obvious given the fact that he likes to release a balloon in the air from the stage in the shape of a pig with a Star of David around his neck.
There can hardly be two opinions.
Different with the question of whether he should appear in Frankfurt or not.
The dispute over this has been smoldering since 2022 and has picked up speed these days;
among other things because of the demands of candidates for the office of mayor such as Mike Josef (SPD), Uwe Becker (CDU) and Manuela Rottmann (Die Grünen) not to let him play in the Festhalle in May.
On Thursday, the organizer of the British musician's tour distanced itself from statements by the controversial artist,
does not cancel his concerts of his own accord.
Alexander Jürgs reports.
Area displacement:
land is valuable, scarce in many places.
Land is needed for agriculture, commerce and housing, and nature conservation and recreational needs must be taken into account.
In particular, there is often a conflict of objectives between the desire to create living space and the desire not to force industry out of a municipality.
It's no different in Hofheim, but it's still special.
There, the Polar Mohr company is vacating a piece of land in the city centre.
A new company site is required.
A commercial area is being planned for this in Diedenbergen, and a furniture store will also be built.
Jan Schiefenhövel reports.
In and out:
Hessen was also a strong magnet for commuters in 2022, perhaps better: remained a magnet despite the persistently high home office rate.
The regional directorate of the employment agency counted 423,660 commuters last year who had their place of work in Hesse but not their place of residence, as they announced on Thursday.
That was 4.4 percent more than a year earlier.
The largest group came with more than 112,000 people from Rhineland-Palatinate to work in the neighboring state.
The number of commuters from Hesse rose by 4.8 percent to 289,822 people.
The largest group (63,600 people) commuted to Baden-Württemberg.
And in addition
, anyone who has not submitted their property tax return in Hesse by January 31 should receive a personal reminder from their tax office
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, according to a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation, every fourth child in Hesse is at risk of poverty about their living and family circumstances
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Eintracht Frankfurt hopes that national goalkeeper Kevin Trapp can be there in the game against FC Bayern Munich and many Eintracht fans probably hope so too.
Greetings from the editorial team
Jacqueline Vogt
You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website.
The tip for the weekend
Hai Minh Hoang has already left some traces in Frankfurt: He worked in the "Lafleur" in the Palmengarten-Gesellschaftshaus and was head chef at the "Frankfurter Embassy" in the Westhafen. There he cooked French with an Asian influence, and that's basically what he's doing now also in his own restaurant, the "L'Arôme", right next to the "Komödie" within sight of the opera and theater Hai and his team only offer two menus, one classic and one vegetarian with four to six courses.