Tri-Cities, Washington, real estate and homes - thoughts and conversation.
Posted in Tri-Cities, WA on Aug 30th, 2008
Yes, once again I’m going to bring to my readers’ attention the story of a young kid battling the disease I despise. Before, I told you about Mathew Blacketter, and his brave battle, and eventual loss. I know this has nothing to do with real estate, but it has to do with the communities in [...]
Posted in Tri-Cities, WA on Aug 28th, 2008
If you read this blog regularly, you know I am not a fan of the WASL (the Washington Assessment of Student Learning). The results from the latest testing go-around in the spring were released today, and they show limited gains over last year.
The Richland school district, which until recently was headed by the estimable Richard [...]
Posted in Tri-Cities, WA on Jul 25th, 2008
Rumor has it (I feel like Perez Hilton) that the ABC show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition might be coming to the Tri-Cities. Wow!
This is by no means set in stone, but how cool will it be if it’s true? And why shouldn’t they come?
After all - we have a local ABC affiliate, KVEW - TV.
We [...]
Posted in Tri-Cities, WA on Jul 18th, 2008
Starbucks just released a list of every store they’ll be closing, and NONE of the Tri-Cities ones are supposed to fall under the axe. As you might remember, I’m a diet Coke fan, so dwindling numbers of the coffee giant wouldn’t have affected me.
BUT, because I am nothing if not cognizant of others’ needs [...]
Posted in Tri-Cities, WA on Jul 16th, 2008
On June 5th, I wrote a post about the unusually high water we had along the Columbia River in Richland.
Well, today I had a chance to get out to the park and take a picture of a much more normal water line -
Compare June 5th -
with today -
and 6/5/08
with today -
So, snakes should be gone, [...]