$1.39 per Gallon Gasoline???
How to save a heap ‘O money at the gas pump from doing something you already do anyway!
Optimism Balanced with Facts
There have been many reasons cited in the media over the past couple of months for waiting to purchase a new home. Unavailability of financing, fear the market will continue to decrease a home’s value, looming unemployment increases, continued foreclosures. The majority of reporters and politicians don’t pay enough attention to an important cause of [...]
Why Battelle is so Important
This week we were again reminded, in a huge way, how important Battelle is to the Tri Cities. Not just because they are a big employer here, or the impact they have on research and innovation in key fundamental sciences and technology. Battelle has consistently been a good neighbor for us, funneling large amounts of [...]
The Lost Art of Customer Service in Tri Cities WA
I’ve tried almost all the local cleaners. I have a lot of dress shirts I take to the cleaners and they all have french cuffs. You know- the kind with fold-over cuffs you wear cuff-links with. The problem is that almost all cleaners, when they press the sleeves using their big machines, also press the [...]
I’m Dreaming of a Big Chinook
When I was a little kid in Richland, we anxiously looked forward to snowfall. Especially if it happened during the school week. Back in my day, a little snow meant two things- School closures and Carmichael Hill. Now days, even if we get dumped on here, they only give the schools a 2-hour delay. A [...]
True Street Cred- Review your Neighborhood
I love my neighborhood. When my kids and I first moved back to the Tri Cities from Orange County, CA it was such a quick transfer I didn’t have time to find a house to purchase, so I called my mom while still in Cali and asked to her find a house for us to [...]
I’m Loving it! (with apologies to MickyD’s)
I’d like to share a video that really shows why Richland, Pasco and Kennewick is such a great place to live. I grew up here, my kids have grown up here, and my mom grew up here- see the pattern?? We spend as much time as possible on the river during the summer. On the Columbia [...]
