Current Websites: candidates for mayor of the city of Coral Gables
January 25, 2011 Leave a comment
In alphabetical order:
Jim Cason. http://www.votejimcason.com/about-jim/
Tom Korge. http://korgeformayor.com/index.asp
Don Slesnick. none
House Prices Still Going Down
January 25, 2011 Leave a comment
According to Standard and Poors house prices continue their decline in Miami. There is concern about a national double-dip in these prices.
Two points–don’t believe the real estate agents and fully expect the city of Coral Gables to increase property taxes yet again in 2011.
In November, only four MSAs – Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington DC – showed year-over-year gains. The Composite indices remain above their spring 2009 lows; however, eight markets – Atlanta, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas, Miami, Portland (OR), Seattle and Tampa – hit their lowest levels since home prices peaked in 2006 and 2007, meaning that average home prices in those markets have fallen even further than the lows set in the spring of 2009.
Carol Browner, Obama’s energy and climate ‘czar’ leaving
January 25, 2011 Leave a comment
The departure of Carol Browner is explained simply–the utter failure of the climate change policy of the Obama administration. The US, and especially Florida and Coral Gables, will certainly pay a high price for the lack of a response to global warming, sea rise, weather pattern changes, effects on agriculture, etc.
the catastrophic failure of the administration to pass a climate bill — heck, the failure to even get a vote in the Senate or one…speech from the President on the gravest threat to the health and well-being of our children and future generations — must have taken its toll. And that’s without factoring in months and months of dealing with the BP oil disaster or the prospect of two years of a hostile House of climate zombies.
via Breaking: Carol Browner, Obama’s energy and climate ‘czar’, to leave White House « Climate Progress.
Do You Think WikiLeaks Has Caused Damage?: Not the State Departement
January 23, 2011 Leave a comment
The damage caused by the WikiLeaks controversy has caused little real and lasting damage to American diplomacy, senior state department officials have concluded. It emerged in private briefings to Congress by top diplomats that the fallout from the release of thousands of private diplomatic cables from all over the globe has not been especially bad.
via WikiLeaks has caused little lasting damage, says US state department | Media | The Guardian.
