Monthly Archives: March 2013

County’s existing home prices see 32-percent rise

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Latin Rite Group Listed Among Haters

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What do the Aryan Nations, the Ku Klux Klan and the home of Spokane’s Singing Nuns have in common? They’re all on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s map of “hate groups” in the Northwest. Mount St. Michael, home to a Latin Rite or Tridentine Catholic church, school and convent north of Spokane, has been listed since 2006 by the law center as a radical traditional Catholic group and accused Read more [...]

PhillyNow Calendar: Civic Events, March 11-15 – PW

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The city recently promised it’d be holding a series of town halls to better explain the new Actual Value Initiative (AVI), and it’s totally happening all week. Check out the listings below for when an AVI meeting is coming to your neighborhood. And, as usual, if you want your civic event listed, hit us up at civics@philadelphiaweekly.com. Monday, March 11 City Council. The Committee on Labor and Civil Service will hold a public hearing with regard to terms imposed on AFSCME Local 2186, District Read more [...]

20 Percent of This UES Building Is For Sale, and Here’s Why

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Since December, five homeowners at 531 East 88th Street in Yorkville—a prewar 25-unit building—have put their apartments on the market. Why? Because a waste transfer station located along the East River at 91st Street, set for completion in 2015, is going to reduce quality of life by luring round-the-clock garbage trucks, emitting gross smells of trash and gas, and generally jacking up traffic in the typically quiet Upper East Side neighborhood. At least, that's what tenants who want out of Read more [...]

SXSW 2013: setting the scene in Austin, Texas

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It’s difficult to know when, why and how SXSW became so darn big. Maybe it was the whole Twitter thing (the social media service bursting out of the blocks here in 2007), but that alone doesn’t explain why this 10 day springtime event in the heart of Lone Star state has become such a huge draw for so many. There are 5,000 events listed in the official schedule and there’s probably as many again fringe and unofficial events, ranging from gigs in people’s backyards out in the wilds of east Read more [...]

Homes For Sale in Low Supply

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The supply of homes for sale is still unusually tight as the spring buying season opens,  turning up the heat on already-rising prices. The number of homes listed for sale on real estate website Zillow was down almost 17% in late February vs. a year earlier. In some California markets, it was down more than 40%.  The supply crunch is likely to last all year, says IHS Global Insight economist Patrick Newport. "We're still not building enough homes." The U.S. is creating about 1.1 million new households Read more [...]

The Fukushima Nightmare

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In the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that struck Japan in March 2011 and killed about 16,000 people, this medley of ghost towns and populated oases in the northeast captures the imbalance, red tape, and confusion that afflict the region—and the nation—two years on. The government says the plant is “stable.” That water is keeping the reactors cool. That the plant no longer emits significant amounts of radiation. That authorities are “doing our best” to decontaminate Read more [...]

Lundin Petroleum Extends Emerging Oil Play Offshore Malaysia

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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN--(Marketwire - March 11, 2013) - Lundin Petroleum AB (TSX:LUP)(OMX:LUPE) (Lundin Petroleum) through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Malaysia BV is pleased to announce that it has discovered oil in the Ara-1 well that was drilled in Block PM308A, offshore Peninsular Malaysia. Ara-1 was drilled to a total depth of 4,030 metres by the jackup rig West Courageous in 75 metres water depth. The objective of the well was to target the extension of the Paleogene intra-rift Read more [...]