The Federal Reserve Tuesday raised interest rates again, boosting the federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point to 2.75%. While the mortgage markets already increased their rates anticipating the Fed action, similar increases throughout…
Date Archives March 2005
Slow blogging
I've been busy working on real estate today ... will try to pick up the pace later today ...
To rent or to buy?
Potential home buyers increasingly are facing a difficult economic and emotional quandary: Soaring housing prices in many parts of the country have made renting a bargain.
Anti-Pipeline website
This “Best Place to Live” may increase its urban water supply NOT with mountain runoff from the Shenandoah National Park, not from the fields and forests of northwest Albemarle, not from stewardship of our watershed,…
Nelson’s planning process
Stay up to date at their informative website.
April Forum Watch is out
Neil Williamson with the Free Enterprise Forum has sent out the April Forum Watch…. This is a great way to stay on top of local issues (and act like you’re informed!) Neil Williamson with the Free Enterprise Forum has sent out the April Forum Watch…. This is a great way to stay on top of local issues (and act like you’re informed!)
The road to hell is paved with city dollars – Why does Virginia make cities pay for suburban sprawl?
Each year Charlottesville pays about $13.5 million in gasoline and sales taxes earmarked for transportation funding, but we only get back $6.7 million for maintenance, new projects and transit funding. …It pays about $26.6 million…