Bug that could hurt Christmas tree industry found in western Michigan
ROCKFORD — An invasive bug that could threaten Michigan's Christmas tree industry has been discovered in the western part of the state. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said Monday it confirmed the presence of the balsam woolly adelgid near Rockford in Kent County. …
Pediatric dentists scramble as demand has them fighting for operating room space
Molly Doyle stretches her shoulder as she preps a syringe of Versed — a brand of midazolam drug engineered to sedate patients for medical procedures. The pediatric dentist is prepping for her first of three procedures for the day. This one is the last four of 12 crowns on a 4-year-old child…
Costs and delays plague shipping, hobbling supply chain to metro Detroit businesses
Have some patience for that neighbor with the unkempt grass this summer — it could be the supply chain disruptions of the past year just won't get off their lawn.Supply chain woes, from lawn and garden equipment to the global computer chip shortage afflicting the auto industry, continue to…
Some Notre Dame students and faculty outraged by proposed campus Chick-fil-A
Roughly 180 University of Notre Dame students and faculty have signed an open letter calling on the school’s Campus Dining division to nix the proposed new shop.
Lumber Wipes Out 2021 Gain With Demand Ebbing After Record Boom
(Bloomberg) -- Lumber, which at one point was among the world’s best-performing commodities as the pandemic sent construction demand soaring and stoked fears of inflation, has officially wiped out all of its staggering gains for the year.Prices at Monday’s close are now down 0.6% for the year as demand eases and supply expands in response to earlier gains. The rally turned a common building product into a social media sensation and a flash point in the debate over U.S. monetary policy. At one po
Coffee Prices Soar After Bad Harvests and Insatiable Demand
The rises threaten to drive up costs at the breakfast table as the world’s biggest coffee producer, Brazil, faces one of its worst droughts in almost a century.
‘Should We Sell?’ After Collapse, Hot Florida Market Faces Uncertainty
The partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., has plunged older beachside condos and high-rise buildings like it into a swirl of apprehension.
Michigan businesses weather lockdowns, surge of interest in great outdoors
Restrictions on most indoor activities during the COVID-19 pandemic turned our entire society inside out — literally. Parks, campgrounds and secluded short-term rentals filled up. Bicycles, roller skates and RVs sold out. Michigan businesses have dealt with pandemic-enforced restrictions and…
U.S. Housing Prices Jump the Most in More Than Three Decades
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. home prices jumped the most in more than 30 years in April.Nationally, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index of property values climbed 14.6% from a year earlier, according to a statement Tuesday, the biggest gain in data going back to 1988. That came after 13.2% increase in March, and was the 11th straight month that price gains accelerated.Home prices in 20 U.S. cities, meanwhile, jumped 14.9%, beating the median estimate in a survey of Bloomberg economists and was the bigge
Jerry Bridges looks at his books and sees black, but nothing else about the numbers over the past year-and-a-half are normal.There's never been so many people looking for an RV or fifth wheel at Lloyd Bridges Traveland in Chelsea. Even so, sales volume is down 40 percent from last year."I can't get…
Photos: How a resurgence in skating has rolled out across metro Detroit
It's not your imagination: Everyone is suddenly skating. As COVID-19 public health measures restricted indoor activities, outdoor recreation flourished, and people explored new ways of safely getting beyond their four walls and moving their bodies for physical and mental wellness.
Seems skating has gotten an extra boost, too, from TikTok and Instagram, where reels of neat tricks set to peppy music have inspired people to lace up some skates for the first time — or for the first time in a while. (That is, if they can find a pair: The Wall Street Journal reported in March that the roller skate supply chain is one of many that's been kinked up by a surge in demand.)
Local skate parks, which have proliferated in recent years, have been bustling. We sent photographer Nic Antaya to some area skating hot spots to capture the view of the world on four wheels. It's a study of motion, merriment and crowds in public spaces again, in the best way.
This story is part of a special report on Michigan's outdoor economy.
— Amy Elliott Bragg
Homebuyers looking for a new spot to lay their head at night in Metro Detroit are competing for one of the limited number of houses for sale. But added to the mix: investors, who are also vying to buy homes from the same historically low pot. Their inverse goal: a spot for others to lay their heads…
Pandemic pets are a 'furry annuity,' says Petco CEO
NEW YORK (AP) — Yummy, a 12-year-old Labrador retriever, is in Petco's San Diego offices so much he has his own title. “We call him the chief dog officer,” says CEO Ron Coughlin, the real top dog at Petco, who brings Yummy to work every day.
Some used vehicles now cost more than original sticker price
Welcome to the wacky world of U.S. car and truck sales, where the pandemic and a global shortage of computer chips have pushed prices to record levels.
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