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Thom Baker told city leaders that his daughter has killed dozens of the poisonous spiders at her Timber Ridge apartment . Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:56:15 GMT —  An alleged infestation of brown recluse spiders has a concerned father looking for help from the Columbia City Council . Thom Baker told city leaders that his daughter has killed dozens of the poisonous spiders at her Timber Ridge apartment . The story began last month when Thom Bakerâ??s daughter Taylor found brown recluse spiders inside her Timber Ridge apartment . The Bakers said they have been feuding with apartment managers ever since. Timber Ridge apartment managers won â??t cancel Taylor Baker â??s lease because they say spiders are not a problem at their Southside Columbia complex . Thom Baker said thereâ??s a huge brown recluse spider problem . Baker said heâ??s been threatened, punched and accused of trespassing by members of Garry Lewis Properties , the owners of Timber Ridge apartments . Baker said, â??I walked up ...

When it comes to condominium development , Cascadia’s two largest cities couldn ’t be more different. Last year nearly 60 percent of new housing starts in the city of Vancouver, BC , were condominiums; meanwhile, Seattle saw no new condominium buildings open . And that’s not changing anytime soon: less than 10 percent of all building slated for downtown Seattle in the next three years will be condos. What’s the difference—why the blossoming of condominium construction in one city and the almost complete dearth in the other? The short answer is economics. In Vancouver, apartments are saddled with an unfavorable tax code , making condos the more lucrative multi- family housing investment even despite high rental demand . In Seattle’s skyrocketing rental market , one that’s climbed even faster than the condo market in recent years, apartment buildings are much more financially attractive, while condos come with bigger risks and, typically, lower returns. Compounding this profit differe...

JENKINSVILLE (AP) — For the better part of a decade, thousands of people showed up in this town on the shores of Lake Monticello and got to work on a project that was sure to change its fortunes. As a pair of nuclear reactors rose behind the gates of the V.C. Summer power plant , a town of fewer than 100 residents suddenly had a few thousand. Campsites and restaurants sprang up before long to meet the new need, banking on a few more years of construction work and decades of maintenance to come. The boom in this rural corner of Fairfield County coincided with rising hopes in Winnsboro, the county seat, which is 25 minutes east on winding backroads. South Carolina Electric & Gas was spending billions of dollars to build two of America's first new nuclear reactors since the 1980s, and county officials expected a property tax windfall — tens of millions of dollars every year for decades. They imagined new fortunes for one of the state's smallest counties, a place with a sh...