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The Heartland Institute has an interview with Gander Mountain CEO Mark Baker, and his take on how super-sized chains like Bass Pro and Cabela’s are easily manipulating governments into giving them gobs of money to open up shop in their towns. Ewald: Gander Mountain has launched a national campaign in opposition to government subsidies in…
I knew it wouldn’t be long before Gabe posted something over at ReUrbanize Buffalo that would annoy me, but I figured I had until the first snowfall before the Skyway would be on my radar screen again. I was wrong. Gabe found an article from Reason.org that in it’s efforts to show the value of…
Good column over at Bloomberg.com from Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. — The subprime and other junk mortgages that Fannie and Freddie bought — and the market in these mortgages that their buying spawned — are the underlying cause of the financial crisis. These…
Let’s start off with a video of the foundation wall forms set in place before the concrete was poured… That also saves me a lot of typing! After this, they do exactly what you expect – fill with concrete, like so… Then a few days later, the forms come off and all you have left…
Time flies when… uh… you’re stuck at home due to the Coronavirus. Somehow I’ve managed to go nearly 3 months without posting an update here. There have been the occasional Instagram pics if you’re following along there, but I’ll bring everyone up to speed here too. We had about a long lull in January/February where…
May was the Month of Drywall. To be fair, we were warned ahead of time that once we hit the drywall stage it would seem like things were going to slow down. And that was before COVID-19. The entire drywall process took just over 5 weeks – two weeks and change to hang it and…