A man who once worked for a Cook County agency that was formed to promote the redevelopment of vacant properties has been charged with scamming it to line his own pockets. Mustafaa Saleh, 36, of Chicago, faces one count of wire fraud for what authorities said was ascheme involving his former employer, the Cook County…
Journal Club 12-02-22 – Passive Income MD
Here’s Journal Club 12-02-22! Every week, I hold a JOURNAL CLUB. After filtering through the articles on the web, I present a few that impacted my life this week. Be safe and stay well! People who are rich and those who don’t have one thing in common… Can you guess what that is? They each…
How Mayor Andy Street is supporting investment in Birmingham
Mayor Andy Street is a big advocate for Birmingham, and rightly so. It’s part of the job description after all. Recently, he has been very active on social media discussing the continued investment in Birmingham. We’ve taken a deeper dive into what he’s been talking about over the past few months and summarized it here…
UK£0.037 loss per share (vs UK£0.40 profit in 1H 2022)
British Land (LON:BLND) First Half 2023 Results Key Financial Results Revenue: UK£215.0m (down 3.6% from 1H 2022). Net loss: UK£34.0m (down by 109% from UK£370.0m profit in 1H 2022). UK£0.037 loss per share (down from UK£0.40 profit in 1H 2022). earnings-and-revenue-growth All figures shown in the chart above are for the trailing 12 month (TTM)…
My Stock Report Card for Aug – Dec 2018
My Stock Report Card for Aug – Dec 2018 US Stocks SG Stocks Total Dividend Collected between Jan – Dec 2018 : SGD$29,634. Total Profit/Loss from Sales of Stock between Jan – Dec 2018: SGD 6690.18 Stocks added between Aug – Dec 2018 : Ascendas Reit It’s been a long time since I’ve updated my…
NJFOG Study Finds Systemic Lack of Compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Jersey Foundation for Open Government, March 2021 New Jersey’s local governments, on average, are only 60 percent in compliance with the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA), according to a study released by the New Jersey Foundation for Open Government (NJFOG). The OPMA, passed into law in 1975, has remained…
Benefits of Starting a Business Overseas
Benefits of Starting a Business Overseas: Find Out if it’s Right For You So, you started a business yourself, it’s grown to some success over the past couple of years and now you are ready to branch out. Or maybe you have an idea for a new business and you’re trying to decide where to…
House sells for $627,000 in Hialeah area, Florida
The property located in the 14200 block of Cypress Court in Hialeah area was sold on Oct. 24, 2022 for $627,000, or $444 per square foot. The house built in 1967 has an interior space of 1.412 square feet. The property features four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a garage. It sits on an 8,400-square-foot lot….
A Look Back at a 19th Century Brooklyn Thanksgiving
Editors note: This post originally ran in 2015 and has been updated. You can read the first post here. Thanksgiving in America has always been a rather strange combination of festivals, food and frolic. We watched colorful parades in the morning, stuff ourselves in the afternoon and then retired to our couches to watch two…
The Insider: Clinton Hill 13-Footer Gains Light, Function, Storage in Parlor-Floor Renovation
Got a project to propose for The Insiders? Contact Cara at caramia447 [at] gmail [dot] com When architect Luca Farinelli of Manhattan-based BLD LAB Architecture first saw the exceptionally narrow four-story townhouse he was charged with renovating, one of a row of five designed by architect William B. Tubby and built in 1894, “it seemed…