The asking price is $3.5 million, astoundingly high for a country-road plot with a three-bedroom house tucked away in an economically struggling corner of the country.
Government officials in this economically depressed corner of upstate New York embraced his proposal, hoping it would spur a tourism boom, and Albany lawmakers passed legislation last year that gave Mr. Wallenda legal authority to cross.
— The stillborn Satsop nuclear plant, a product of cheap-power fantasies run amok here a quarter-century ago, stands ominously on a hill in this economically depressed corner of western Washington.
The resulting fray has worried many residents of Sullivan County, who had thought that after 30 years of effort, gambling -- and the hundreds of thousands of visitors it would attract -- was finally going to come to their economically depressed corner of the state.
But even if the Republican governor persuaded several conservative senators who hate gambling to hold their noses and vote for casinos in Niagara Falls and Buffalo, he still has a long, rough road ahead of him before the first legal crap game can be held in that economically devastated corner of the state.
Developers, city planners and community groups hope the Shipyards project will bring much-needed construction and retail jobs into this geographically and economically isolated corner of the city, but some local residents fear it may signal the beginning of a new wave of gentrification -- this one funded by detached foreign investors.
It was always falsely comforting to imagine that Trump's supporters were far away, marooned in economically distressed corners of the country, places so battered that, frankly, it was easy to understand why Trump appealed.
Earlier Monday, the president took his message on the road, traveling to one of the most economically distressed corners of the nation, Elkhart, Ind .— a city whose hard luck story, including an unemployment rate of 15.3percentt, he invoked hours later at the White House as he sought to highlight the severity of problems facing ordinary Americans.
This could also be the year we finally turn the corner economically.
Mr. Lazio contends that it has turned the corner economically, although he acknowledges that more needs to be done.
