Forum wide moderators
I had no idea.
A massive 'megatsunami' wave created when part of an Alaskan mountain crumbled into the sea is the second tallest ever recorded – and a reminder of the risks posed by melting glaciers, say scientists.
Last summer a giant wave swept through a remote fjord in southeast Alaska leaving destruction in its wake..
Foreign actors are attempting to undermine Canadian interests by interfering in Alberta's separatist debate, according to new report.
Actors from Russia and the US are attempting to promote separatist ideas in what researchers behind the report described as a threat to Canada's "democratic integrity".
The findings come as a proposed independence referendum in the western Canadian province could face a vote as soon as this autumn.
Earlier this week, a group behind a citizen-led petition seeking independence for Alberta said that it had acquired the number of signatures needed to trigger a referendum.
Kash Patel giving away personalized bottles of bourbon?
Sarah Fitzgerald of Atlantic reporting...
Imagining it without furniture I like it a lot.
Is that a good price? I dont know the US but compared to the house near Lake Erie which is smaller but more$? Difference just location or is the commercial look a factor?
Hard to compare. It's a totally different beast than the Lake Erie home. This one is on a somewhat busy road, wouldn't be a good option for an Airbnb rental, and it isn't in a recreational/touristy/lake area like the Ohio house. Don't know about @steve-miller market but the inventory here is ridiculously small. When you don't have much to choose from you may make more compromises and/or pay more.
The house has been listed for five days and is already under contract so I guess it must be a reasonable price! 
I think it's crazy...
The office building is actually on the back of the house and appears to be an addition done in the 1970’s.
That's what caught my eye in the listing. I know that stretch of Wheeling Road well, as itis just a few blocks north of my Mom's townhome/condo subdivision. I was like "where is there an office building on that street?"
Looking at the baseboard heat, (is it electric?)
Possibly, but more likely hot water powered by a gas boiler. We had a similar arrangement (zoned hot water baseboard and vaulted ceilings in an open floor plan with lots of windows) in Door County and it was remarkably comfortable. That house was built in 1991 and had good insulation and quality windows.
That the water source is “Lake Michigan”?
Prospect Heights is between Mount Prospect and Arlington Heights, a bit more rural than typical suburban and sort of an outlier in the area. It doesn't have a "downtown" like the other 'burbs that are on the Metra commuter train line. A PH station was added when commuter service was initiated on a RR line that goes through the east side of the town. That wasn't that long ago.
As you noted, homes built in the 1930s, most of them on half acre or larger lots. When we moved here in 1980 PH didn't have its own police or fire departments. They got police and fire service from surrounding towns and the Cook County sheriff's dept.
https://www.prospect-heights.il.us/130/History-of-City
Early homes in Prospect Heights and even our town were on wells (and septic) but later construction included municipal water and sewers. The municipal water was not from Lake Michigan; each town managed its own wells. Eventually the towns connected to the Lake Michigan system. Not sure exactly when, but our 1960 house had a water softener that was switched off because by the time we bought it in 1980 we were on Lake Michigan water. My Mom's 1980s PH condo that she bought in 1995 didn't have Lake Michigan water until a few years after she moved in.
Rubio is heading to the Vatican, some say to help smooth over the rough spots in the US-Vatican relationship.
Brilliant photo montage by the Guardian. Leo is so "Chicago"....
That's a lotta dead peach trees.
Central California farmers are expected to gain up to $9 million in federal aid to help remove 420,000 clingstone peach trees following the closure of Del Monte Foods’ canneries earlier this year.
Del Monte permanently closed its Modesto and Hughson canneries in April after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last July. The factory closures left hundreds of workers without a job while also leaving farmers in dire straits as they navigated what to do with their crops. In March, the Sacramento Bee reported that many Central California farmers had their 20-year contracts to grow peaches with Del Monte canceled while facing a $550 million loss in revenue.
The impacts pushed a delegation of California lawmakers to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide financial support to the fruit growers. Last week, California Sen. Adam Schiff and Reps. Mike Thompson and David Valadao announced in a news release that the USDA had approved their request to pay California farmers to remove around 3,000 acres of clingstone peach trees before the harvest season. According to the news release, removing 50,000 tons of peaches from production could help growers save about $30 million in losses.
“For generations, Central Valley family farms have relied on Del Monte’s Modesto facility to process their peaches, and its sudden closure left growers with thousands of pounds of fruit and no clear path forward,” Valadao said in the news release.
Schiff, Thompson and Valadao, in addition to 39 other members of Congress, sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in March, stating that many of the affected California farmers are multigenerational family farmers who have invested in their orchards for decades. They argued that it was necessary to aid these farmers or risk “long-term structured damage to our nation’s agricultural base.”
https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php
Great article.
We had a couple of Lustron homes in Arlington Heights up until fairly recently. They got torn down and were replaced by soul-less HSOs (house-shaped objects)
