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Promoting a Smoke Free Tucson
12/22/2011

Since November of 2006, it’s considered illegal to smoke in almost every restaurant, bar, store or office building in Arizona thanks to the Smoke Free Arizona Act. Thanks to this law, Arizona has been leading the way to prohibit smoking in the state and limit the harmful amounts of second hand smoke that have been [...]

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Tucson’s Hottest Jewelry Designers
12/22/2011

If you live in Tucson, Arizona you love the area because, of the wide varieties of recreational and entertainment opportunities that it has to offer. Other people love Tucson because, of its eclectic culture of artists and jewelry designers who live and work in there. Krikawa Jewelry Designs: 4280 North Campbell Avenue #107, Tucson   [...]

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Finding Enhancements in Tucson
12/22/2011

We all know about the wonders of male enhancements. There is so much to be said on the matter that the talk is continuous. Do you know what the most important part of any conversation on the subject is though? Why, where to get them, of course. Male enhancements can make any man more confident [...]

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How to Extend the Life of Your Bra
12/22/2011

In today’s world, bra shopping can be expensive. Thanks to the economic recession, the average woman doesn’t have $30 to $100 to spend on one bra and is doing everything that she can to extend the life of her bras until they ultimately wear out or she can afford new ones. Prolonging the life of [...]

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Protecting Your Clock from the Tucson Climate
12/22/2011

Some people find it to be a clever turn of phrase to say you live in “Arid-zona”. Those who actually live there understand it to be funny, but oh, so true. The capital, Phoenix, tends to be not only hot as a griddle, but also dry as a bone, with annual rainfall averages of less [...]

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Arizona Car Insurance Resources
12/22/2011

Getting car insurance in Arizona is important for new drivers and for people who have just moved to that state. If you insurance, there are plenty of Arizona car insurance resources that can help you. Consider checking with an independent agent first, because you’ll be able to get quotes from multiple companies that can offer [...]

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Are You Making The Most Of The Football Game?
12/22/2011

Sometimes NFL games can be rough; there are games that are just a drag to watch at times. This does not happen often but it does happen from time to time. Placing bets on the football games or going to a bar van make these games more enjoyable. If you are a big football fan [...]

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Head basketball coach Adras resigns
12/21/2011

The Mike Adras era is officially over at NAU. The 13-year head coach announced his resignation from the program Friday afternoon, effective immediately. In his time as the Lumberjacks head coach, Adras compiled a record of 193-170, leading the Jacks to five Big Sky Conference championship game appearances and a selection to the NCAA Tournament in [...]

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The Lumberjack – Issue 15, Volume 99
12/21/2011

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Questions surround Adras’ resignation
12/21/2011

Former NAU men’s basketball coach Mike Adras abruptly resigned Friday afternoon, leaving behind 13 years of head coaching experience in Flagstaff. For the most part, Adras compiled a solid career manning the sidelines, finishing with a 193-170 overall record and taking the program to multiple conference championship game appearances, including a berth in the 2000 NCAA [...]

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Jacks get first Division 1 win of season in Brown’s debut
12/21/2011

New men’s basketball coach Dave Brown got a nice reward in his first game as the Lumberjacks’ head coach — a victory. Led by freshman guard James Douglas’ 22 points, the Jacks snapped a three game losing streak and got their first Division 1 victory of the season, an 80-67 win over the Cal State Bakersfield [...]

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The Sacred Peaks
12/21/2011

The Arizona Snowbowl has been given approval by the U.S. Forest Service and the City of Flagstaff to use reclaimed water to make snow on the San Francisco peaks. Thirteen Native American tribes consider the peaks to be sacred. These are the voices of some of those involved. By Multimedia Editor Kent Wagner.

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Women’s hoops forces Nebraska to double overtime in loss
12/21/2011

What could have been for the NAU Lumberjacks (5–5). Twice the score was tied with a shot to win it and twice the shot would not fall. In their first game at home against a Big Ten opponent, the Lumberjacks pushed the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers (9–1) to the brink before falling 97-88 in the second [...]

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Saldivar leads Jacks to upset of Sun Devils
12/21/2011

The last time the NAU men’s basketball team traveled to Tempe, Ariz. to take on the ASU Sun Devils was the 2006-07 season, where they walked out with a win. Five years later, history repeated itself. Junior point guard Stallon Saldivar capped off a career day by draining a scintillating 3-pointer from well beyond-the-arc with under a [...]

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Wupatki National Monument
12/21/2011

Archeologist Lisa Baldwin takes us on a tour of the Wukoki site at Wupatki National Monument near Flagstaff. Less than 800 years ago, Wupatki flourished as a meeting place of different cultures. How and why did people live here? The builders of Wupatki and nearby pueblos have moved on, but their legacy remains. By Kent [...]

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Impressions from latest Dark Knight Rises trailer
12/21/2011

After a multitude of low-resolution bootlegged previews had spread all over YouTube (and were subsequently taken down by Warner Brothers), an HD-quality studio-approved version of the Dark Knight Rises trailer debuted on iTunes and is now finally beginning to go viral. If the months of Hollywood hype surrounding the film’s principal photography, plot synopsis, characters and [...]

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Phoenix home price appreciation???
12/21/2011

From Mike Orr at The Cromford Report; For the monthly period ending December 15, we are currently recording a sales $/SF of $84.47 averaged for all areas and types across the ARMLS database… The current price level is 1.4% higher than last year on December 15. I probably need to say that again to let [...]

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Interesting take on government housing policies
12/21/2011

Washington Examiner. The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class [...]

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The Most & Least Taxing States to Live and Retire In
12/21/2011

From Bloomberg’s look at state taxes. Arizona Income tax: 4.54% Sales tax: 6.6% Property tax per capita: $1,043 Inheritance tax: None The tax burden in Arizona is small compared to that of other states because of its lower-than-average property taxes, so the decline in home prices has hit Arizona’s municipalities harder than those in many [...]

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The Lost Decade of Phoenix Home Price Appreciation
12/21/2011

Seattle Bubble blog made this great visualization of Case-Shiller Home Price Index data showing the number of years of appreciation that have been “lost” with the real estate bust. Phoenix home prices are where they were in January 2000, according to Case-Shiller data so it’s actually more than a lost decade, 11.7 years. But, in [...]

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How would increasing Phoenix home prices affect bank foreclosures?
12/21/2011

1) Economic Answer. The banks may slow down a bit on the speed of foreclosing because they expect/hope their Phoenix homes will be worth more later. 2) Organizational Answer. The banks have created and staffed over several painful years a bank foreclosure bureaucracy and that bureaucracy will not want to slow things down and become [...]

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Phoenix home price up in November, against seasonal trend
12/21/2011

Dr. Jay Butler of Realty Studies at Arizona State University came out with his Phoenix area residential real estate sales and median home price numbers for November 2011. Greater Phoenix – Median Home Price (Single-family resale homes. Excludes repossessions but includes sales by banks after they repossess. ASU calls these “Traditional Sales”) November 2011: $130,000 [...]

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Ah hell! Skyrocketing student loan debt will delay homeownership
12/21/2011

John Burns Real Estate Consulting points out the devastating fact that total student loan debt is now greater than all credit card debt combined! Yikes! Student loans are going to be yet another hurdle for the housing market to overcome. Faced with mounting student loan debt, poor job prospects and stagnant wages, an increasing amount [...]

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This is nuts! I made 165 posts in December 2006!
12/21/2011

165 posts in one month? That’s a little scary, actually. I guess I was new at blogging 5 years ago and trying out different strategies. 165 posts in one month was not a successful one. It’s interesting to me to see how short many of my posts were back then, they were almost like Tweets. [...]

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How to find Arizona homes for sale
12/21/2011

I got a call yesterday from a gentleman in Houston who had some questions about how to use a website of mine to find Arizona homes for sale (and, yes, you can find the actual property taxes paid on my websites). I have dozens of websites where you can find homes for sale. Most of [...]

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