On April 11, the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter, a 145-foot smokestack was demolished in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, spreading brown dust over a major cultural and economic corridor — and a COVID-19 hotspot in one of America’s hardest-hit cities. For nearly 90 years the smokestack had …
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Ohio’s governor on Sunday said wearing a face mask should be a public-health issue, not a partisan one. “ “This is not about politics. This is not about whether you’re liberal or conservative, left or right, Republican, Democrat.” ” — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine During an interview Sunday morning on …
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A new model for assessing stocks may include higher valuations, as the old paradigm is no longer valid, according to a research note from DataTrek Research on Tuesday. From about 1950 to 2000, according to Nicholas Colas, Co-founder of DataTrek Research, there was a fairly stable paradigm in place for …
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President Donald Trump could suffer a historic defeat in the fall if the economy doesn’t sharply recover from the coronavirus pandemic and the disease lingers, according to a model that has predicted the winner of the popular vote in 16 of the past 18 elections. Oxford Economics predicts Trump would …
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I know I’ve written about buying French Real Estate before, but I’ve been getting lots of questions about it lately, and I thought it would be fun to talk about it again. Mostly, people are curious about what kind of properties are out there, and what are prices like. I …
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You may know by now that I sometimes start projects and then see something shiny and switch gears in the middle of it. Our mud/laundry combo is a good example of this. I quite literally stopped painting in the middle of a wall: I have zero shame in doing this…it …
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Charlie Baker wants answers. The governor of Massachusetts — a Republican, and a former health care executive — wants to know why so many people had to die in nursing homes from the COVID-19 epidemic. “This is one [topic] that’s going to require some pretty-heavy duty analytics,” he said Wednesday. …
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A barrel bolt is a great solution for locking all kinds of openings from gates and shed doors to windows. It’s a fact of life: gates eventually sag, and the lock becomes difficult to latch. The solution is Ajustco’s self-adjusting lock — watch the video to learn more! This simple …
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I love everything about my new barbecue setup, which is right off the kitchen and tucked in here at the end of the deck — but there’s no counter! If your back porch lacks the space to hold platters or condiments, it’s time to get creative! In addition, there’s not much …
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