Geaux Tigers! LSU head football coach Ed Orgeron has been named The Associated Press Coach of the Year after leading the top-ranked Tigers to an SEC championship and their first College Football Playoff appearance. Orgeron received 33 of 56 first-place votes from Top 25 poll voters and a total of 130 points for the award presented by Regions Bank and announced today. Read the full story.
Buyer beware: Because just about anyone can open a store on Amazon.com and sell just about anything, customers might literally be buying trash, The Wall Street Journal reports. Professional dumpster divers are a dedicated cadre of sellers on Amazon who say they sort through other people’s rejects, including directly from the trash, clean them up and list them on Amazon for sale. Read the full story.
Houses: Construction of new homes across the country rose again in November while applications for building permits rose to the highest level in 12 years, both encouraging signs of a rebound in the national housing market. The Commerce Department said today that builders started construction on a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.37 million homes in November, an increase of 3.2% from October. Applications for building permits increased 1.4% last month to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.48 million. That was the highest level for building permits since May 2007. Read the full report.
