You Choose Bay Area – 2011
Several organization led by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation have launched a website and are planning a series of conferences with the remarkably deceptive name “You Choose Bay Area”. Here’s how...
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Looking Out for the View at Olana, Frederic Church’s Hudson Home
DOROTHY BROWN, 80, the matriarch of Cherry Ridge Farms, doesn’t use the word “viewshed,” but she is standing in one she helped to save, as she looks up the hill at Olana, Frederic E. Church’s grand...
View ArticleThe Population Illusion – The Bay Area’s Rubes?
To the Editor: I recently attended the “You Choose Bay Area” meeting in Berkeley, part of a series of meetings organized by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. I found that while they purport to...
View ArticleEconomy Contributes to Slowest Population Growth Rate Since ’40s
The population of the United States grew this year at its slowest rate since the 1940s, the Census Bureau reported on Wednesday, as the gloomy economy continued to depress births and immigration fell...
View ArticleSpicewood, Texas Water Shortage – Tanker Trucks
SPICEWOOD, Texas (AP) — Tanker trucks loaded with water have become the lifeline for a Texas lakefront village that came precariously close to becoming the state’s first community to run out of...
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Atlanta’s Dismal Distinction in Housing Values
MARIETTA, Ga. — Housing prices continue to fall nationwide, despite a few modest signs of improvement. But not all markets are equal. Places like Miami and Phoenix — symbols of boom-time excesses and...
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Home Prices Declined to New Lows in 2011
HOME prices in the United States, which seemed to begin to recover in 2009, fell to new lows in 2011, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index of prices. Seattle and Atlanta were among...
View ArticleCensus Data Offers Look at Effects of Recession
The Census Bureau offered the first detailed picture of population shift in the United States since the end of the recession, releasing data that showed that population growth in outer suburbs — the...
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New-Home Sales Fell in March, Following April Surge
Sales of new homes fell sharply in March as the housing market remained under pressure, but the monthly decline appears in part to reflect an upsurge in home buying in February. The Commerce Department...
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New Home Sales May Be Poised to Rise
THE boom in housing in the middle of the last decade created a huge oversupply of homes in the United States. But now that oversupply appears to be close to vanishing, at least in most parts of the...
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