Ontario Airport to Close! Imagine finding that headline on your morning paper one day in the not too distant future. If the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the organization that owns and operates the Los Angeles / Ontario International Airport, has their way that day may come sooner rather
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03/21/2012
Since January 2011, standard sales have increased from 29% of our active market to 41% and sales have climbed from 25% to 38% of sold homes in Southwest California. While about 2/3 of these continue to be flipped properties, good old-fashioned ‘normal’ sales make up a growing percentage. That’s
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01/04/2012
To all my ActiveRain friends - always good visiting with you from time to time here in the Rain. Let's work for an improvement to our market in 2012.For EVERYBODY'S sake. From Lisa & I to you and yours, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and may 2012 be your best year ever (or at least a close 2nd).
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12/24/2011
I am genuinely perplexed and am hoping someone here can help me out. I've been reading about this Keystone XL pipeline that's got everybody atwitter. As I understand it, the Canadians are going to extract oil from sand in their own country. Their first offer was to ship it to our country via pipe
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12/19/2011
Dane Wunderlich here - the less seasoned member of the team, with a special holiday offer for our ActiveRain family. After a hectic day helping buyers and sellers, I like to unwind by doing a little woodworking. Last year, being mostly broke, I made some heart shape boxes for family members. Thei
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12/09/2011
Up in Sacramento, our state capitol, there's a great little restaurant about 2 blocks from the Capitol called Frank Fat's. It's been there since 1939 and over the decades it's earned the sobriquet 'The Third House' because it was a popular gathering place for legislators, lobbyists and governor
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12/07/2011
The four biggest banks in the country now control 62% of all bank assets in this country, up from 54% five years ago when housing/banking troubles started. According to the Wall Street Journal, JP Morgan/Chase assets have increased from $1.3 trillion to $2.3 trillion Bank of America has grown f
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12/07/2011
As I watched and read the news accounts of the recent breakdown of the Occupy camps in New York and Los Angeles, I couldn't help but recall a little sticker I kept on my bookcase for years - a memento of a Grateful Dead weekend in 1987 that read - "Deadheads Leave Only Footprints". For that event
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12/01/2011
Anybody interested probably already knows about this and has been enjoying and downloading these tunes all month. But there may be a couple of you that don't. This is the 2nd time this year that the Grateful Dead net has released a song a day from the vault for our listening and downloading pleas
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11/23/2011
I've been ignoring this SPAM message for the past couple weeks again since it first made the rounds this spring. Until now. The past couple days I've had calls from several friends asking if this is a scam - and friends, I hate to say it but IT IS! If you get something in your email that looks l
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11/23/2011
