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2011
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When things go wrong with buying or selling a home, it's an easy hit to blame the realtor. As Rita Hayworth sang in "Gilda," you can "Put the Blame on Mame, Boys." In the song, sexy Rita assigns the real blame for the Chicago Fire and the San Francisco Earthquake to a dame named Mame, whoever sh...
05/16/2011
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Spring is here and color has returned to the landscape. At least I think it has. As I look at my garden through my living room window, my view is interrupted somewhat by the dirt that has attached itself to the glass panes during the fall and winter months. The first windows back in ancient Meso...
05/09/2011
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"Wall Street Lays an Egg" is the famous headline that appeared in Variety after Black Tuesday in 1929 when the stock market crashed. Ever since then, headline writers have labored to capture complex issues into simplistic word snippets that correctly capture the news at hand, but sometimes not. ...
05/09/2011
So Sing Sing may be closing to save the state money and possibly make way for a luxury housing development? Oh, my. If this happens, future generations will understand the term "up the river" to mean traveling to classy digs, rather than to the "big house." Since 1825, the prison has held sway ...
05/09/2011
