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A request for $79.4 million in tax-increment financing for the Crossroads project has pushed TIF — a popular and sometimes controversial tool to rejuvenate "blighted" areas — into the spotlight.

CHRIS DUNKER Lincoln Journal Star Residents of Mead, which is about 12 miles west of Omaha’s city limits, say they fear that the plants waste is causing health problems, contaminating the land and harming wildlife. WAHOO -- Residents of Mead anticipated learning more about ongoing environmental contamination originating from AltEn in a community meeting with local leaders and officials from the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy on March 1. On Tuesday, Saunders Coun...

Brandi Russell Balch & Bingham has announced the addition of Brandi Russell who joins the firm as its chief diversity & inclusion officer and director of talent management. Brandi joins the firm’s professional management team and will be based in the Birmingham, Ala. office. As chief diversity & inclusion officer and director of talent management, Brandi will work alongside firm leadership and its Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council to lead the firm’s diversity strategy, addressing ...

Illinois shoppers who use Instacart will now be able to order items from Walgreens, the retail pharmacy chain announced Tuesday.

Earlier this month, Fultons city council members voted 4-3 against extending the mask ordinance.

Monday, 22 February 2021, 6:23 pm Data released today by the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) shows there were 154 more farm sales (+42.4%) for the three months ended January 2021 than for the three months ended January 2020. Overall, there were 517 farm sales in the three months ended January 2021, compared to 520 farm sales for the three months ended December 2020 (-0.6%), and 363 farm sales for the three months ended January 2020. 1,486 farms were sold in the year to January 202...

Saturdays meeting came after numerous reports of Texans receiving exorbitant electric...

New Braunfels Utilities on Sunday afternoon lifted its boil water notice after the utility said it had successfully achieved system-wide Texas Commission on Environmental Quality minimum pressure requirements.

A new program is celebrating the diversity of Fredericksburg businesses by featuring two of them per week and releasing a monthly compilation video. FXBG Diverse City is an educational and promotional effort of the city’s Department of Economic Development and Tourism and the Economic Development Authority. The latter kicked in $5,000 for marketing costs. The program is designed to focus on different categories each month from February through June, beginning with black-owned businesses in...

You probably should not judge a book by its cover, but the enticing and recurrent advertisement in the Wall Street Journal touting Paul Krugman’s 2020 nonfiction economic thriller, Arguing with