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Warrick Co. growing, bringing new people to the area

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(WFIE) WARRICK CO., IN (WFIE) - Warrick County is growing, and the chamber can prove it. Several new developments in the works right now, are bringing people and new businesses to the area.  Take a drive down Highway 66 and you will see a lot of new development. Bigger one's like the Ortonesic hospitals, and medical office buildings to the smaller ones like restaurants and apartments.  Chamber officials say this is a welcome sight. Several new businesses are coming to the area and existing ones, like the Energy Systems Group , are expanding. Because of all the development, new subdivisions are being built as well. What about schools? Chamber officials say the school corporation is thinking ahead too.  Chamber officials say the area planning commission has seen an increase in people submitting building permits over this time last year, and most importantly for land to build on.  Copyright 2017 WFIE. All rights reserved.

Littoral Madness: On Kathy Acker

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Chris Kraus remembers the late writer, in life and in death. Kaucyila Brooke, Untitled #94 from Kathy Acker’s Clothes , 1998/2005, color photograph. From the cover of After Kathy Acker . Like everything in the past, everyone remembers it differently, and some of the people involved hardly remember at all. We’re talking about something that happened more than seventeen years ago . But on January 23, 1998, which was a Friday, friends of the late writer Kathy Acker drove from San Francisco to Fort Funston, about twenty-five minutes away, to scatter her ashes. She’d died two months earlier at an alternative clinic in Tijuana, where she received palliative care for late-stage, metastasized cancer. The ash scattering—like the wake at Bob Glück’s house on December 13 and the memorial reading at Slim’s Bar where Michelle Handelman was booed off the stage for no reason she can recall—devolved into a kind of black comedy, the way these things often do. I remember Cookie Mueller at Jackie Cur...

New Yorkers Are Fleeing To Los Angeles In Droves, Study Shows

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NEW YORK, NY — It's one of the oldest rivalries in American migration: New York vs. Los Angeles. For the better part of a century, residents of the nation's two largest metro areas have been defending their chosen kingdom and dismissing the other on an endless loop of judginess between kitty-corner coasts. Ew, the traffic! But the sunshine! But the subway! But the garbage! But the skyline! But the coastline! But the bustle! But the chill! In this tireless war of words, a clear winner has yet to emerge. But it's harder to argue against the numbers. Thousands of working professionals have relocated to Los Angeles County from New York City in the past year and a half, according to a series of monthly "workforce reports" released this spring and summer by the job- networking site LinkedIn (and spotted by LA Weekly). And it's not exactly a two-way street. Since early 2016, according to LinkedIn, around seven or eight out of every 10, 000 site users in LA report...

Whispering Pines senior housing application withdrawn

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ROTTERDAM -- Plans to build a multi- faceted senior citizen community off Helderberg Avenue have been withdrawn by the developer in the face of opposition from residents and some Town Board members . Developer Lou Lecce pulled the application for the Whispering Pines senior complex at the end of a two- hour Town Board public hearing on the project Wednesday night . It was the second hearing in three weeks at which many Helderbeg Avenue neighbors spoke against the concept. "It's off the table. We're done," Lecce told the Town Board, after a series of verbal exchanges between Town Board members and the audience. Lecce said the project he proposed was a good one, but he didn't believe any new analyses he could present about traffic impacts or other issues would overcome the opposition of the crowd. "You were never going to convince this crowd of anything except what they wanted to believe," Lecce said. The developer said he still plans to buy the 96-...

House-flipping is all the rage. But beware – it’s a lot harder than it looks on TV

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House-flipping hit its highest levels last year since before the recession as investors seek to capitalize on rising home prices and a seller’s market with tight inventory. But the process is nothing like what you see on TV, where it looks like a home can be bought, gutted, renovated and resold in less than an hour – not including commercial breaks . The truth is often much messier, real estate professionals in Charlotte said. “It’s a lot easier to lose money in this business than it is to make it,” said Jeff Johnson, owner of NewPath Properties , which specializes in buying and rehabbing distressed properties . Still, that’s not deterring people from giving it a try in Charlotte. First-quarter figures from Attom Data Solutions show flips – defined as the same property selling twice in a 12-month period same year – made up more than 6 percent of sales in the Charlotte region, or 540 sales. House-flipping increased almost 4 percent from a year ago, though it remains well below the cit...

New 61-story tower remakes San Francisco skyline

SAN FRANCISCO — More than 60 stories above the ground, construction workers climb makeshift stairs and cross narrow steel planks to put the finishing touches on Salesforce Tower , now San Francisco ’s tallest building. The $1.1 billion skyscraper has already changed the city’s skyline, towering over old favorites like Coit Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid. Unlike in New York and Chicago, the new 1,070-foot high-rise is a gargantuan presence in this liberal West Coast city . Salesforce Tower and a massive adjoining transit center also embody a larger transition in San Francisco — one that pits the technology industry against the city’s charming neighborhoods. Tech giant Salesforce .com, which provides online software for business, bought the naming rights to the 61-story steel and concrete building, adding to concerns that the tech economy is steamrolling through the city. “All the tech and people the industry is bringing in, you can work two jobs and barely make a living for yo...

Cleanup underway after devastating storm hits Montreal

Thousands of Quebecers are cleaning up, assessing the damage, and figuring out insurance claims after a devastasting storm swept across the province. Environment Canada said the storm started with hail in the Outaouais region early Tuesday afternoon and caused more damage as it moved east. A tornado struck Lachute , damaging more than 300 homes. Environment Canada has confirmed a microburst with winds blasting more than 100 km/h straight down hit NDG just after 3 p.m., bringing down trees across the entire borough . CDN- NDG borough mayor Russell Copeman said it will be well into September--at the earliest --before everything is sorted out. "It's going to take weeks until we get it completely cleaned up. Our priority is streets, major east-west arteries, and then side streets. After that it will be parks. Most streets we hope will be open by the end of [Wednesday]," said Copeman. "They had to close Sherbooke St . West for a couple hours because of a tree br...