September is National Emergency Preparedness month. After September 11th, 2001, because it was recognized that our citizens needed to be better prepared in case of a disaster, natural or otherwise, the Office of Emergency Preparedness was established. Not only did police officers and firefighter
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09/06/2007
Jennifer Wilson hit me with a book meme the other day. My immediate reaction was that I don't read much any more, so what can I write about? I do read, but it seems like it is websites that take my time instead of books. I used to read a lot, and have some favorite authors. One of my favorite
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09/03/2007
Where once we had little cabins, today we have huge condo buildings. Yes, they are designed nicely, and have a mountain feel, but the town is losing a little of its charm and quaintness. One example is the half acre site at First and Granite, that used to have a Bed and Breakfast named The Lark
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08/28/2007
A website that ranks real estate sites gave us some nice recognition this month. We have been Posh'd! http://www.poshd.com/ says "We support those of you trying to break the mold and make the real estate sites on the web a better experience for everyone."We are one of twenty two sites that is b
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08/27/2007
I was doing a little research tonight, looking for corroboration on an opinion I had about new domain names being sandboxed by google. I figured that surely Brad Carroll would have written about it as he is so knowledgeable about SEO and web design. He should be, as that is what he does for a l
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08/25/2007
Our new hospital in Frisco, Colorado, has been open for nearly two years now and not only does it offer great care, it has awesome views, a good array of services and some very nice people. Cheerful volunteers greet you at the information desk at the front of the lobby, with its huge fireplace
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08/23/2007
Hannah, the resident yellow lab, and her sidekick Buddha, a fiercely happy chihuahua, are the welcoming committee at the Hotel Frisco, a small boutique hotel on Main Street in our mountain town of Frisco, Colorado. Mark and Mary Waldman, refugees from Silicon Valley California, are the inn keepe
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08/17/2007
I am not particularly tech savvy, and I like things to be explained simply, without a lot of jargon. Here is my attempt to explain the "long tail" in a way that I hope others also think is simple. It is a term that if you know and understand it, will help you to be found by the search engines t
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08/14/2007
This was the title of a post I did a couple of months ago on my outside blog. I was reminded recently, when I read a post by Esko Kiuru about the lack of affordable housing in Las Vegas, that not every resort area has good programs to help locals get affordable housing. Summit County, Colorado
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08/13/2007
A few years ago I read a book Called "The Popcorn Report" written by a woman named Faith Popcorn. She wrote it in 1992, 15 years ago. She heads a company called BrainReserve which specializes in predicting trends that will happen years down the road. Faith Popcorn is the person that coined th
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08/11/2007
