Archive for November, 2007
Drug Dealers: Internet Style
Sunday, November 25th, 2007For a lot of illegal drug-users, their dealer is no longer some guy in a long coat and dark glasses, sitting on a busy corner somewhere. Illegal prescription drugs are now just a click away for some Virginians.
However, Del. Bud Phillips, working with Commonwealth’s Attorney Mike Bush, is working on legislation to address this serious problem.
The Bristol Herald Courier reported on Del. Phillips and Mr. Bush’s efforts here.
The Bill will be appearing here for your review soon.
Obviously I am bias, but I think this is a very important issue being addressed and hope that the rest of the General Assembly will agree and support Del. Phillips’ bill.
Outhouses of my youth…
Friday, November 16th, 2007Luck
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007New Construction : Slowing or growing?
Saturday, November 10th, 2007The Roanoke Times recently published an article giving a cursory look over new home construction in Salem.
The national housing market has been described as slow, gloomy and in crisis. But in Salem, things are booming.
Now that makes the new construction market sound just peachy. The problem with making as assertion like that is it’s not true. Yes, builders are continuing to frantically build new neighborhoods all over the Roanoke and Salem markets, but that doesn’t indicate a healthy market. These builders are already committed to these new developments and financially enmeshed with them and it’s prudent for them to continue but where will the buyers come from?
“There’s a misconception that we’re in a doom-and-gloom market,” Hendrickson said.”
I hope they’re misquoting this guy because it seems to me to be a very ‘head-in-the-sand’ statement to suggest the market hasn’t turned for the worse in the past few months.