Louisiana residents prepare for Hurricane Francine strengthening As the state prepares for Hurricane Francine, many communities along Louisiana’s coast are under mandatory and voluntary evacuation orders. Louisiana residents prepared for landfall Wednesday after Francine strengthened into a hurricane, threatening the Gulf Coast with damaging winds, up to 12 inches of rain and storm surges of […]
Personal data of millions of Americans hacked in data theft Millions of social security numbers were hacked after a massive data theft. Here’s how you can protect yourself. This year, nearly 68 million American retirees, veterans and dependents rely on Social Security benefits each month to make ends meet. For nearly 30% of Americans, these […]
Kamala Harris briefs crowd in Raleigh on affordable housing plan Democratic candidate Kamala Harris visited Raleigh, North Carolina, to talk about her economic program and affordable housing. Home closings fell to a more than 20-year low in July as mortgage rates remained high, supply was tight and many homebuyers seemed to have simply given up […]
It’s painfully obvious to homebuyers that real estate prices in Fort Collins have been rising aggressively for years. So what is the median house price today and how has it changed over the last five years? Below is a chart showing median sales prices, broken down by single-family homes and townhomes/condos, from 2019 to 2024. […]
Justice Department claims RealPage software helped landlords collude over rents The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that RealPage used technology to help landlords share information about leases, thereby keeping rent high for millions of tenants. WASHINGTON — A lawyer for RealPage, a company sued by the Justice Department for allegedly helping landlords maintain high rents, […]
2 minutes reading time High vacancy rate at Preakness Shopping Center in Wayne Aerial view of the Preakness Shopping Center in Wayne, NJ, in April 2023. Retailers continue to disappear from the mall on Hamburg Turnpike well into 2024. Amid a slew of retail bankruptcies, retail store closures have outpaced new openings this year for […]
Sarasota County has not yet released a timeline for the park’s reopening Flooding in the Parrish area after water was diverted from Lake Manatee Footage of flooding in the Parrish area captured by local resident Chris Whittaker following a release of water from Lake Manatee during Tropical Storm Debby. VENICE – Sarasota County has closed […]
Soybean yield record broken and food price index rises slightly This is your agribusiness update from the Ag Information Network. **Georgia soybean grower Alex Harrell broke the world record for soybean yield with an overwhelming average of 218.2856 bushels per acre. As www.agriculture.com reports, he not only broke his own previous world record of 206 […]
It was an event that shook Europe and world events. In the early morning of September 26, 2022, a series of violent underwater explosions damaged pipelines under the Baltic Sea near Denmark that carried Russian natural gas to Germany. The finger was immediately pointed at Ukraine, which had been at war with Russia since the […]
Have game show prizes been adjusted for inflation? What you need to know. Do game show prizes keep up with inflation? What the original $1 million prizes are worth now. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is expected to announce plans to combat food inflation through a federal ban on gouging in food prices, but economists […]
