The year 2007 is going out with a bang in our office. Tomorrow morning, I have a showing appointment with my new client, Robyn. She is a relo client (and real estate licensee) from Florida who is moving to the Twin Cities with her husband. I'll be showing her a townhome in the suburbs west of M
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12/30/2007
Associated Press put the story out yesterday. Mark Zandi, Chief Economist at Moody's, made the statement that the nationwide housing market is "in a free fall". Zandi pointed to the fact that new home sales are at a twelve-year record low. The downturn in national new home sales from October to
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12/30/2007
Philadelphia merchant Joey Vento got more attention than he expected when he placed a sign in his restaurant that reads "This is America. When ordering, please speak English". What's wrong with Vento's hostility towards those who don't speak English? Vento's supporters point out that his sign
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12/18/2007
An article in the November 2007 issue of Discover magazine may scare the heck out of you. The Discover article got my attention, particularly because of all the posts I've been reading on ActiveRain lately about the wisdom of going paperless in our business and at home. Caltech professor John Do
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12/18/2007
A recently-released study by the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, suggests that rural drivers tend to engage in riskier behavior when behind the wheel than their urban counterparts. The study singled out rural pickup-truck drivers as the riskiest category. Survey results sugge
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12/18/2007
DO YOU LIKE THE IDEA OF YOUR CELL PROVIDER CENSORING YOUR TEXT MESSAGES? This post was inspired by Maggie Dokic's own post on this very disturbing subject http://activerain.com/blogsview/177750/Save-The-Net about the "Save The Net" campaign. Maggie's mentions efforts to stop Internet censorship
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12/14/2007
The recently-released movie Juno, written by Minneapolis author Diablo Cody, has already received three Golden Globe nominations and is on its way to being widely acclaimed by audiences worldwide. Juno is directed by Jason Reitman, who has directed Thank You For Smoking, Consent, Uncle Sam, Gulp
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12/13/2007
Recent press releases have drawn attention to the discovery of significant ore deposits in Minnesota's iron mining region. The commercial development and exploitation of these deposits could conceivably revitalize and "jump-start" the economy in northern Minnesota for decades to come. The intere
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12/13/2007
I tuned into FOX TV's new cop thriller, "K-ville" yesterday evening, and I was delighted to see an old friend, John Carroll Lynch, starring in a lead role (Captain James Embry). John is a Guthrie Theater alumnus and colleague of mine from the 1990s and we worked together at the old Guthrie when
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12/11/2007
The sixth annual LuxuryRealEstate.com Spring Retreat will be held at the Grand Del Mar Hotel, in San Diego, California, April 15-18, 2008. This is a special event for members of LuxuryRealEstate.com and attendance is by invitation only. Spring Retreat is a gathering of some of the most accompli
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12/10/2007
