Bill giving KC authority to set up land bank awaits Nixon's signature

There are neighborhoods in Rep. Gail McCann Beatty's district where nearly every block has a dozen or more vacant properties.
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/18/3616359/bill-giving-kc-authority-to-set.html

Published: Thu, 17 May 2012 21:09:48 -0700

Chesapeake Energy’s Chief, Under Investor Pressure, Seeks to Win Over Skeptics

Aubrey McClendon said asset sale delays would enable the company to bargain for better terms.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chesapeake-energy-chief-under-investor-113805257.html

Published: Tue, 15 May 2012 04:38:05 -0700

First in Fairmount: The Benton House was built by a Kansas City builder for a couple who moved from St. Louis

In 1898, Fort Worth's southern boundary was a prairie that roused the dreams of developers and entrepreneurs who platted 22 subdivisions on 375 acres.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/05/11/3951793/first-in-fairmount-the-benton.html

Published: Thu, 10 May 2012 14:38:55 -0700

Aubrey McClendon of Chesapeake Seeks to Win Over Skeptics

Aubrey McClendon said asset sale delays would enable the company to bargain for better terms.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/business/aubrey-mcclendon-of-chesapeake-seeks-to-win-over-skeptics.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Published: Sun, 13 May 2012 19:59:27 -0700

Rising farmland values have some worried about bubble

Economists are not using the word “bubble,” even though the real estate picture in U.S. farmland sort of looks like one.
http://www.iowafarmertoday.com/news/crop/rising-farmland-values-have-some-worried-about-bubble/article_0033bc52-a5d5-11e1-bc30-001a4bcf887a.html

Published: Thu, 24 May 2012 12:24:26 -0700

Monsanto’s college strangehold

Here’s what happens when corporations begin to control education. "When I approached professors to discuss research projects addressing organic agriculture in farmer's markets, the first one told me that 'no one cares about people selling food in parking lots on the other side of the train tracks,’” said a PhD student at a large land-grant university who did not wish to be identified. “My ...
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/14/monsantos_college_strangehold/

Published: Mon, 14 May 2012 06:17:21 -0700

Ring that stole cars worth $6 million and shipped them to Africa is busted in Newark

Touting the dismantling of a sophisticated, multi-layered theft-and-smuggling operation, J. Gilmore Childers, the first assistant U.S. attorney for New Jersey, joined representatives of more than 10 law enforcement agencies in announcing that federal charges had been brought against 19 people
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/ring_that_stole_cars_worth_6_m.html

Published: Wed, 23 May 2012 14:06:20 -0700

Carver plans 3 programs in 1 day

 The George Washington Carver National Monument is offering three programs in one day on Saturday, just in time for the summer season.
http://www.neoshodailynews.com/news/x1474279398/Carver-plans-3-programs-in-1-day

Published: Thu, 17 May 2012 22:37:54 -0700

Farmland values shoot up again. Is this a bubble?

Economists are not using the word “bubble,” even though the real estate picture in American farmland sort of looks like one. Farmland values are up around 20 percent or more in the Midwestern corn belt in the first quarter of the year.
http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/860248ae-a12e-11e1-9ccd-0019bb30f31a.html

Published: Sat, 19 May 2012 22:15:00 -0700

Sunday morning coming down UPDATE

SMOKIN'! Ruins of burned car at 8th and Washington. The photo would have been far more dramatic had I had a camera when I passed this car about 5:50 a.m. on the Mills Freeway. It was "fully involved," as the firefighters say, with six-foot-high flames engulfing it. By the time I went home, got a camera and drove back, Little Rock firefighters had doused it and were heading back to the station ...
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/05/20/sunday-morning-coming-down

Published: Sun, 20 May 2012 07:23:39 -0700