Longaberger Empties 7-Story Picnic Basket for Sale or Foreclosure
Meanwhile, in Newark: Yesterday Ohio-based basket weaver Longaberger finished moving the last of its employees out of its former corporate headquarters, a replica of the company’s Medium Market model...
View ArticleResponding to a Flood of Complaints About Flood Insurance
Meanwhile, in New York: A few months after a joint Frontline and NPR investigation noted how profits for insurance companies administering the National Flood Insurance Program regularly peak after...
View ArticleRRC: Your Drinking Water Probably Hasn’t Been Poisoned by Those Wells We...
Meanwhile, in Austin: The Texas Rail Road Commission is hiring a geologist to look through the 10,000-or-so permits for oilfield waste disposal wells it’s approved since 1982, in an effort to figure...
View ArticleThe Case of the Speculative Rube Goldberg-Style Long Distance Home Arson Attempt
Meanwhile, in Kerikeri: Gag orders surrounding a set of insurance fraud and blackmail investigations have recently expired, bringing to light details of New Zealand investigators’ suspicions that...
View ArticleThe Next Big Hurricane Rebuild Will Go Much Faster If You Start On It Now
Meanwhile, in Brownsville: Housing advocates in Dolly-battered South Texas have since developed a disaster response program optimistically called Rapido; new legislation (similar to a bill that failed...
View ArticleUber’s Self-Driving Cars Hit Streets With Actual Passengers, Drivers Just In...
Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh: As of Wednesday, Uber is letting some of its customers opt into possible pickup by its fleet of heavily tricked-out self-driving Ford Fusions. The rollout is the company’s...
View ArticlePermits Issued To Store Texas Wind Energy in Giant Underground Salt Cave, Too
Meanwhile, in Tennessee Colony: As Fairway works on retrofitting some of those giant salt caves south of the Astrodome to store crude oil, a company called APEX says it has the permits all lined up to...
View ArticleLicense Suspension Recommended over Fatal Californian Balcony Collapse
Meanwhile, in Berkeley: The California Contractors State License Board filed a formal complaint yesterday against the company that worked on the Liberty Gardens Apartments — where a cantilevered...
View ArticleHouston and San Antonio Companies Join Up in Sprouting Texas Pot Market
Meanwhile, in La Vernia: Kyle Hagerty provides an update on Houston-based aeroponics company Indoor Harvest’s plan to team up with San Antonio-based Alamo CBD in an attempt to become of the medical pot...
View ArticleRest of the Alamo To Be Remembered in Ghostly Glass Echoes
Meanwhile, in San Antonio: New renderings are out of the plans for a redo of the Alamo’s streetscape, showing the missing pieces of the mission-fort’s compound’s original courtyard outlined in glass...
View ArticleUber Claims It’ll Be Testing a Flying Taxi Network in Texas by 2020
Meanwhile, in Dallas: Uber announced yesterday that the company plans to have a set of flying taxis called the Uber Elevate Network in testing stages in both the DFW area and Dubai in about 3 years. If...
View ArticleHow To Build a ‘Sponge City’
Meanwhile, in Berlin: Landscape architects and designers in the German capital have identified a strategy designed to keep water where it lands, to imitate the natural water cycle otherwise absent from...
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