Archive for August, 2007
Tucson It is Way Past Time to Get Real with Personal Finances
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Three very poignant articles were in the Arizona Daily Star business section this morning. I’ve provided links to each in the navigation bar to the left for those wanting to read the entire articles later. For the [...]
Is Technology Driven Consumerism Effecting Affordability of Housing?
I hear people saying we need more affordable housing. I agree completely. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. What is affordable?
When we talk about affordable housing it is often in the context of people that have never owned a home before. Maybe they are young and just starting out. [...]
Tucson Splendor in the Ordinary
I’ve written a couple of times about photography. If you have read this blog regularly you know I like to include images with each post. Images not just for image sake but images which help tell a story.
I thought I would be writing this early this morning, but as is often the case [...]
Tucson Monsoon Season Winding Down
The Monsoon Season in Tucson is winding down for this year, but, it isn’t over yet.
There are several ways of know the monsoon is here in Tucson. Things start to sweat. Most people that haven’t lived here don’t think much about sweat on ice tea, but around here it doesn’t happen most [...]
Tucson Gamblers and Saloon Keepers make donation for Mental Institution
The Story as it might appear in a Tucson Newspaper in 1885.
The Tucson Association of Gamblers and Saloon Keepers today made a donation of land for the building of a mental institution in Tucson. It is possible the number of town drunks were escalating along with an ever burgeoning population.
With an unpleasant dose of [...]
Tucson Pending Contracts
Pending Contracts is a category reported each month in the Tucson MLS Statistics Report. From what I read on other blogs and web sites there seems to be some confusion flying around about Pending Contracts as reported in the Tucson MLS Statistics Report and the status know as a “Pending Contract”.
Here is the current [...]
Tucson Open Range
When I first moved to Tucson one of the most interesting thing I ran across were cows in the middle of the road. Now I’m not talking about down town Tucson, but not far from it. Less than twenty miles outside of town there is open range.
When you see the Open Range sign [...]
