The Voice of Orange County...Michael A. Caruso's Blog

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Real Estate Agent - Surterre Properties
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2008 

Orange County's city furthest south is the city of San Clemente.  We love this town for so many reasons, but they gave us a new reason to be proud.  San Clemente has saved 10,091 tires from being tossed in the trash heap this year.  In fact, since 1995 the city estimates that it saved 281,900 tir...
03/10/2008
I eat stress for breakfast...nothing ever bothers me...I don't worry about anything!  Are those your mantras?Well for all of us who spend thoughtful time to instill proper nutrition in ourselves and others we care about, take heed that all the nutrition in the world won't offset a high stress lif...
03/05/2008
Check out today's Journal of the American Medical Association for more details.The first follow up of a landmark study of hormone use after menopause shows that heart problems linked with the pills seem to fade after usage is stopped, but surprising new cancer risks appear.That government study w...
03/05/2008
According to the California Human Resource management Association, 2 OC companies are among California's best places to work.  The association honored 4 other OC businesses.  The field was over 400 nominees.Congratulations to: Motorcycle Industry Council, located in Irvine as a winner in the Smal...
03/05/2008
San Juan Capistrano...where he swallows come every March.  A city of 14 square miles and 40 percent of it is winding trails and rolling hills.  A city with 400 acres of orange groves, mustard flowers and lush fields...privately owned.  A city that has become a natural refuge in the midst of Orang...
03/04/2008
A Columbian designer Miguel Caballero is "the Armani of bullet proof clothing".  He has a clothing store in the Polanco neighborhhood of Mexico City, Mexico.  Police recently closed him down.  They closed the store because he was selling bullet proof vests without a permit.But all his clothes are...
03/04/2008
Everyday we all hear and read stories about the "credit crunch"...it's really famous!  All the bad news started in the housing market with slowing sales and prices deflating, then homeowners began defaulting on loans.  That hurt the debt securities market and made sub-prime a high risk or bad inv...
03/04/2008
Is education an expense?  Perhaps we should all think of education in a different way...as an investment rather than an expense!Isn't it true that we are always learning in our lifetime?  Well, continued formal education has never been easier.  We can take courses in a classroom or on line.  We c...
03/03/2008
Need a job?  The prospects of finding one in Arizona are improving.  That is because Arizona enacted a new law punishing employers who hire illegal immigrants.  The new law (now 2 months old) suspends or revokes the business licenses of violators hiring illegal immigrants.Scores of Arizona immigr...
03/03/2008
Yes, we Southern Californian's live in a desert...by definition!  You know the old song 'well, it never rains in Southern California'...The OC is a great climate for sun lovers, as average annual rainfall is about 9 inches a year.  But the last few years have been dry...real dry!And yet, Federal ...
03/03/2008