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

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

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

Oil boom resurrects North Dakota ghost town

For more than three decades, Kerry and Darrell Finsaas were all that kept this blink-and-you-miss-it North Dakota community from becoming completely deserted.As Dore's only residents, they lived in a ghost ...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/oil-boom-resurrects-north-dakota-142526648.html

Published: Thu, 10 May 2012 07:25:26 -0700

Forestar Group Inc. Reports First Quarter 2012 Results

Forestar Group Inc. :
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/forestar-group-inc-reports-first-130000090.html

Published: Thu, 10 May 2012 06:00:00 -0700

Land of abundance makes Tripp County No. 1 in beef in S.D.

Members of the Novotny family and their hired man sit by the family’s finishing feed lot about six miles south of Winner, S.D., in Tripp County, the state's No. 1 county in beef production. From left are hired man Luke Kartak, Mike Novotny, Todd Novotny and brother-in-law Mike Levi.
http://www.tristateneighbor.com/news/regional/article_49767156-95ff-11e1-9c6f-001a4bcf887a.html

Published: Fri, 04 May 2012 09:02:36 -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

Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsOil boom resurrects North Dakota ghost town

DORE, N.D. (AP) - For more than three decades, Kerry and Darrell Finsaas were all that kept this blink-and-you-miss-it North Dakota community from becoming completely deserted.
http://www.hometownstations.com/story/18249036/oil-boom-resurrects-north-dakota-ghost-town

Published: Thu, 10 May 2012 00:35:15 -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

Oil boom resurrects ND ghost town

DORE, N.D. - For more than three decades, Kerry and Darrell Finsaas were all that kept this blink-and-you-miss-it North Dakota community from becoming completely deserted.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20120510/NEWS/120519954/1052/rss01&source=rss

Published: Fri, 11 May 2012 01:32:44 -0700