George's Blog

Reckless, irresponsible, and criminal behavior by the executive officers in our financial institutions has damaged investors (corporate, public agencies, non-profits, & private), customers (businesses, public agencies, non-profits & individuals), competitors, markets, government income (local, st...

‘Kitchen Witches,’ written by Caroline Smith,  is a comedy in which two culinary divas unfold the story of their 30 year rivalry over the man they both loved while preparing recipes that are seasoned with insults, mixed with laughs and served with a twist of love. Kitchen Witches creates some hil...

Port Orford has chosen to participate in the Oregon ‘Main Street' program, a statewide initiative to revitalize commercial districts through the Oregon Economic and Community Development Department. According to the Department's website, the underlying premise of Main Street is to encourage econo...

Port Orford is a small town on the southwest coast of Oregon with a population of approximately 1200 people. Our town has a small business district and only 1 major highway, Hwy 101, going through it. Members of the Kalmiopsis Audubon Society and other concerned residents were moved to action in ...

The Port Orford Arts Council (POAC) had its annual fund raising event at the Port Orford Community Hall. The decorating committee did an excellent job painting panels that made our community center feel like a street in New Orleans with balconies, doorways,  wrought iron railings, and shuttered w...

In our town approximately 75% of the properties are listed by local agents and approximately 88% of the clients who buy in our town worked with a local agent. We have both Sellers Agents and Buyers Agents yet there are some sellers and some buyers who choose to work with out of town agents. If yo...

Oregon entered the Union on February 14, 1859, as state number 33. I have read three different explanations for how Oregon got its name and three different definitions of what the name means. The explanation and the definition I like are written below. In, French, Oregon means hurricane a name fo...

I just finished watching Bill Moyer's Journal on PBS. According to Bill Moyers, key administration officials came from the same banks that taxpayers are now bailing out. I checked this out on line and found that: Mark A. Paterson, former lobbyist at Goldman Sachs is now Geithner's Chief of Staff ...

Congress is ramping up to flood the market with public funds through the Federal Reserve, the Department of the Treasury, and other government channels. They will use the FDIC to provide any necessary guarantees. They repeatedly promise transparency and accountability but what have they published...

Perhaps the FDIC is reluctant to seize any of the banks that were deemed to big to fail because of the impact it will have on all of the other banks that are carrying the so called "Tarnished Assets" on their books. The reason, the Book Value is significantly greater than the True Market Value. I...