LawnStarter is embarking on an intern hiring spree. Austin, TX-based LawnStarter, which connects homeowners with lawn care professionals, is on the prowl for as many as 40 awesome interns to help us provide a fantastic experience for our customers. In return, the interns will be paid — real money plus free […]
Joel Roberts Poinsett probably would be wilting if knew this: South Carolina, where Poinsett was born in 1779, saw the number of grower-sold poinsettias — the variety of flowering plant that now bears his name — plummet 80 percent from 2010 to 2014. Among the 15 top-producing states, South Carolina […]
Bad news for residents of the Lone Star State: Not everything is bigger in Texas … at least when it comes to growing Christmas trees. By far, North Carolina is the biggest state for production of Christmas trees in the U.S., with nearly 4.3 million trees harvested in 2012, according […]
The “magic of homeownership.” That’s how Julián Castro, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), described one of the pillars of the American Dream during a speech at the 2015 convention of the Mortgage Bankers Association. “President Johnson once said that owning a home is more […]
It couldn’t be more appropriate that the University of North Texas football team goes by the name Mean Green. In 2011, the University of North Texas’ 31,000-seat Apogee Stadium became the first college football stadium in the U.S. to earn LEED Platinum certification for new construction. LEED (Leadership in Energy […]
Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. But in some cases, you’ve got to believe that every single beholder agrees on what constitutes ugly. As such, we’re confident you’ll agree with the five picks we’ve made for the ugliest college football fields in America. By and large, we like […]
It looks like lawns and other spots in the Provo, UT, metro area will be teeming with superheroes and princesses on Halloween. A LawnStarter analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data found that the Provo area has the biggest potential pool of trick-or-trickers among U.S. metro areas with at least 500,000 residents. Data […]
Iowa State University’s football team may not be nationally ranked this season, but the home field where the players compete has been nationally ranked for years. In 1996 and 2012, the Sports Turf Managers Association named Iowa State’s Jack Trice Stadium as College Football Field of the Year. The university […]
You think ghosts and goblins are frightening? Some of the statistics we dug up about pests in the Austin, Texas, area are just as scary. U.S. Census Bureau data released earlier this year from its 2013 American Housing Survey shows that rats, mice, cockroaches and untrustworthy neighbors are some of […]
The Austin, TX, economic train keeps chugging along. A LawnStarter analysis of economic projections compiled by IHS Global Insight for the U.S. Conference of Mayors shows that among the 50 U.S. metro areas with the biggest economies, the Austin area’s economy will expand the most from 2015 to 2021. The […]
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