A (Real Estate) Tale of Two Cities and Four Zip Codes
For those who still doubt that all real estate is local, I thought it would help to compare two areas with approximately the same number of listings (detached single family). The first - the southeast zip codes of 97202 and 97206, encompassing Woodstock, Eastmoreland and Sellwood - has 438 active listings; and the second - […]
While we worry about declining real estate prices, there are villages in Africa worried about their next meal.
One of the things I love about Lake Grove Presbyterian Church is the amount of time, talent and giving that goes to worldwide mission outreach programs. One of those is a now ten year partnership, through Worldvision, with a federation of sixteen Wolof villages in Senegal. Not mission in the sense of “here, let me give […]
April numbers: There’s somethin’ happenin’ here, what it is ain’t exactly clear…
I said before I people and situation watch, because that can give early cues before the numbers catch up:
Nationally the DOW just went over 13,000 - up 13.5% since January - unemployment went down when it was expected to go up, and fresh $600 checks are taking some of the mental agony out of $3.60 gas prices. […]
Decorum
For the third time I deleted a comment yesterday. The first two were easy - one accused someone else who’d commented here of being active on a gay porn site, the other was a typically hysterical lefty rant - this one took a couple seconds to decide.
I’ve said I’ve been through all this before, and […]
