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Please click on this link! Don\'t Text and Drive! A friend of mine, Robert Sizer, sent me this video to share with others. Rather than just send it to my family and friends I thought it was important enough to post here for, hopefully, lots of people to see it and send it on.
Carlsbad Needs More Places To Go…So To Speak
I get emailed information pertaining to Carlsbad almost daily. Today I got the following link about a place you might be able to use. Go to the “browse” directory of the site, and you can search all over the country! Do you have places you can add? What will people think of next to put [...]
Carlsbad – Adopt A Family – Urgent
The North County Times announced today that the Carlsbad Christmas Bureau is seeking donations of food, school supplies and toiletries for the Adopt-A-Family Project. Money donations are also accepted to buy gifts and food for families. Donate nonperishable foods, toys, school supplies, toiletries and more at these collection sites through Dec. 8: – City of [...]
Carlsbad Game Company’s Telestrations
Telestrations™ is a fun new game developed by USAopoly®, headquartered here in Carlsbad. My son, Tony, is head of the Art Department, which had a big hand in designing the game’s graphics. He also recruited his family and me to play the game and appear in a video version for YouTube. That’s Tony explaining the [...]
Carlsbad Christmas Coming
Mark Stone, of our Sterling/Stone,REALTORS® real estate company, sent me some great advice about being safe this Christmas. It’s such good advice that I thought I’d pass it on so you can be safe too! Holiday Lights Electric holiday lights and displays sparkle and wow children and adults alike. But because too many homeowners don’t [...]
Crucial Carlsbad Constituents
This morning I had the pleasure of introducing Matt Hall to a group of business people who live, work, or have clients living here in Carlsbad. We reviewed his service as a Vietnam Vet, with a Purple Heart Award, his successful business career as an independent business owner in the Village for more the 40 [...]
Retire in Carlsbad At 55 & Get Paid $76,440 Per Year
According to Carlsbad city officials, the average police officer or firefighter retires at age 55 after 28 years of service in Carlsbad. In the past, the City and public safety officials had negotiated what was called a “3 at 50″ plan, which lets some 50-year olds retire at 90 percent of their highest salary. Someone [...]
Carlsbad Debt Crisis Explained
Here’s the best explanation I’ve seen for the current debt crisis: The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. We have another debt crisis looming here in Carlsbad involving the pension obligations for our public safety employees. I’ll discuss that in another post, but suffice to say that it’s important that Carlsbad citizens [...]
Carlsbad Developer’s Transfer Tax On Home ReSale
There have been some newspaper and Internet articles about the move by some developers to impose a private transfer fee (tax) on the resale of the new homes they are selling (if they’re selling any!) The transfer tax would be charged each time a home is then resold. The tax would be paid to [...]
Carlsbad Sunrise & Sunset – Earthrise & Earthset
One of the great pleasures of living in Carlsbad or Encinitas is that we get great sunrises and wonderful sunsets. But, have you ever seen an Earthrise or an Earthset? Well, click on the video, and you’ll see both! I found this at OpenCulture, which is a wonderful site that has free audio books, free [...]
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