Business Growth Strategy

Thousands of bees relocated from Northridge Mall to safe habitats [Video]
►
Categories
Home Based Business

Thousands of bees relocated from Northridge Mall to safe habitats [Video]

The years-long battle to demolish the old Northridge Mall hit yet another challenge.Thousands of bees.After a drawn-out court battle over what to do with the property, the city of Milwaukee finally acquired the mall back in January. During the teardown process, a jobsite supervisor found two hives buzzing with thousands of honeybees in the long abandoned building near 76th and Brown Deer.”Right away, I thought about just to save them,” Nazim Agushi said. Agushi is a jobsite supervisor for Balestrieri Environmental and Development, the company in charge of removing asbestos from the mall during the demolition process. “I did remove the whole plywood from here, and it was located right in this corner,” Agushi said. Agushi found one of the hives in the old JCPenney building and a second where the old Younkers department store was located. “The minute I saw them, there’s no way I’m going to get a firehose and blow them out. I’m going to save them. Whatever it takes,” Agushi said.He worked to remove both hives and the honeycombs the bees had been forming.”The bees, they don’t bother you if you don’t really mess around with them. They kind of knew me, it seems like. I guess they like me,” Agushi said. The feeling is mutual. “I worked with bees before back home. Like in the days before I got to this country,” Agushi said. Agushi came to America as a refugee from Kosovo, during the war there in 1999. He said before he left everything, including his home behind, he often worked with bees with his father. “I try to go almost every year, back there. But my dad passed away already,” Agushi said. “Does this remind you of him?” WISN 12 News reporter Kendall Keys asked Agushi.”Yes,” he said. He’s a man on a mission to save the bees. He says overnight Thursday, while the bees are dormant in the hive, he’ll relocate both hives to a farm in Elkhorn. The farm is owned by Balestrieri and already has 14 hives. “You want to do it early because you don’t want to leave any bees behind,” Agushi said. Agushi said the bees were busy making honey during their time in Northridge. He was able to extract about a gallon of it. The asbestos abatement and demolition process is still ongoing at the mall and is estimated to take a year to complete.

Mortgage rates continue falling after Federal Reserve cuts interest rates [Video]
►
Categories
Home Based Business

Mortgage rates continue falling after Federal Reserve cuts interest rates [Video]

Mortgage rates are falling after the Federal Reserve announced a cut in interest rates on Wednesday.”I think as we normalize rates, the housing market will normalize,” said Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.President Joe Biden called the rate cut a sign of economic progress.”I think it’s good news for consumers. It means the cost of buying a home, car, and so much more will be going down,” Biden said.The average rate for a 30-year mortgage has now fallen to 6.09%, the lowest level since February 2023, according to Freddie Mac.”It could allow more home buyers, especially first-time home buyers, to be able to enter into the market in coming months,” said Jessica Lautz of the National Association of Realtors.Housing experts note that existing home prices are at historic highs, but buyers can now expect significant savings compared to the high rates seen last year.”In an ideal scenario, someone putting 20% down, which is rare, on a $400,000 home, we actually know it’s an annual savings of more than $4,000 a year,” Lautz added.”As rates come down people will start to move more and that’s probably beginning to happen already,” Powell said.Despite more homes being available, new numbers from the National Association of Realtors show existing home sales were down in August as prices continue to rise.Some experts say the real problem is the lack of inventory of existing homes.”The so-called lock-in effect has been where current owners of homes are sitting pretty with mortgage rates of 4% or below when the market recently has been just above 6%,” said Mark Hamrick of Bankrate.com.Mortgage rates have been falling for weeks in anticipation of the Fed’s rate cut.Experts expect them to continue to fall and settle in the 5% range.

North Carolina GOP strategist who helped elect Ronald Reagan releasing memoir after 50 years in politics [Video]
►
Categories
Home Based Business

North Carolina GOP strategist who helped elect Ronald Reagan releasing memoir after 50 years in politics [Video]

Longtime GOP strategist Carter Wrenn is sharing his story in politics in an upcoming memoir. Wrenn’s career includes managing the campaigns of Ronald Reagan and Jesse Helms.Top Stories: Rockingham county residents trapped following road collapse from Tuesday’s rain Human remains discovered at North Carolina mans house in connection with possible missing persons investigation ‘Who let the goats out?’ Goat herd goes viral running down Highway 421 in Yadkin CountyGet the latest news stories of interest by clicking hereAfter 50 years in politics, Carter Wrenn has a lot of stories to tell. One of them involves the infamous Jesse Helms TV advertisement on racial quotas. Many people remember it as the “white hands ad.” The Helms Campaign ran the ad in 1990 in his race against Democrat Harvey Gant.Wrenn said, “The white hand’s ad took on a life of its own with the press, and it’s probably the most famous ad for that campaign.”Carter Wrenn was a member of that Helms campaign team, and says in his new book, “The Trail of the Serpent…Stories from the Smoke Filled Rooms of Politics” that running the ad was wrong.Keep up with the latest news and weather by downloading the WXII app here.The NC conservative says a Black friend, along with several Tuskegee Airmen, helped him see the light.”When I saw it through those three Black men’s eyes, I thought that was wrong. That hurt. I wouldn’t do it again didn’t do it again after that,” Wrenn said.Carter Wrenn started his career managing Ronald Reagan’s campaign for president in 1975. He said Reagan was trailing Gerald Ford in the primaries when the campaign began linking the end of the Vietnam war with the threat of communism.In 1984, Jim Hunt held a double digit lead over Jesse Helms in the race for U.S. Senate. Wrenn said a television ad linking Hunt to New York helped turn the tide.Watch: NOWCAST streaming newscastsCarter Wrenn continues to write about politics to this day. In a recent column questioning republican Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor he writes, “When they hear Robinson they don’t like him. Trust Flies out the window and that’s the heart of Robinson’s problem.”Wrenn said he thinks it will be hard for Robinson to win.”Robinson is so mean I think a lot of people are going to say ‘that’s not who I want,'” he said.Now, in his 50th year in politics, Carter Wrenn said politics is like the mafia you never get out. His new book, “The Trail of the Serpent” is scheduled to come out in mid-October.NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Watch NOWCAST TV | Local News | National | News We Love |