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Nancy Pelosi's now famous remark that "We won't know what's in this healthcare bill until it's been passed" is coming back to haunt her -  20% of the latest 203 Healthcare Waivers were for fancy restaurants, nightclubs, and hotels in Pelosi's Northern California district.  It's not clear why thes...

Knockout Roses are the most care-free and lovely flowering plant I've ever seen.  You can get them in various colors - pinks, reds, and yellow - and either single or double-bloom.  They flower from early spring until the first frost and stay green year-round.  I don't know how they do in other cl...

Today was the last day of the 2011 Tallahassee Parade of Homes.  There were 21 entries this year - at least one in every  quadrant of Tallahassee.  All were new construction homes that ranged in price from $149K to $599K. BTW, the median selling price in Tallahassee is $170K.  Winners will be an...

Biggerpockets.com is aimed at real estate investors, but there are many interesting blogs and tidbits that anyone interested in real estate will enjoy. There is a weekly entry, Real Estate by the Numbers, that is not a market report, but full of real estate "trivia" that's interesting and timely....

It seems that everywhere I go lately on the internet, I see the Sign in with Facebook alternative to registering for an account at a website I hadn't used before. I feel a twinge of anxiety after I click the FB button and when the next window says I agree for this site to access my profile and al...

In these difficult economic times, most people are looking for ways to cut expenses for preparing a house for sale and one obvious way is to Do It Yourself (DIY). There are plenty of books written, DIY TV shows on almost every aspect of home repair, classes by local home improvement stores, and t...

It's discouraging to hear, only halfway through the presidential term, that Mr. Obama has started his campaign for 2012 and is hoping to raise 1 billion dollars toward that end.  Like most politicians (in both parties), now that the campaign is underway, he's probably going to tread lightly in fe...

There are way more cool sites & blogs than there is time to visit them and the longer you are "connected", the faster the hours go.  Despite the fact that you may go further afield today than you planned, here is a blog that you should check out ASAP:   How to Engage and Entertain People Online, ...

The Bigger Pockets Real Estate Blog is aimed at investors and makes for interesting reading.  I have it delivered to my Kindle and enjoy reading while I have my morning coffee.  Today, one of the articles was Six Steps to Green Any Property, which provided some fairly easy ways to make a property...

The New York Times and Mashable posted an article this morning about a relatively new app being used in San Francisco called Parking in Motion , which is designed to reduce congestion in crowded cities by helping drivers find parking spaces.  Monitors are attached to parking meters and garage par...