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Covid-19

“Congress Should be Able to Work Remotely” (I said, almost 30(!) years ago)

“Better Late Than Never” Dept. “Congress, Come Home: Faxes Can Do the Talking on Capitol Hill”** –Ross Kaplan, Star Tribune Op-Ed page (1993). OK, so I got the part about faxes wrong: today’s technology, including Zoom, FaceTime, and streaming video, positively blows away fax machines. And, I didn’t anticipate the health and safety reason (i.e.,...
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Why Housing Prices Are Sticky (at least for awhile)

“Sellers Who Don’t Have to Sell,” or Picking Up Their Marbles & Going Staying Home Would-be forecasters trying to divine the future of home prices, post-pandemic, would be wise to remember the aftermath of The 2008 Financial Crash (sorry, I never bought “The Great Recession” label). Namely, housing prices weakened much more slowly than stocks, employment, and...
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Showing Instructions (April, 2020): “Turn Off Lights, Lock Door, Put Plastic Gloves in Waste Basket”

How to Encourage Showings During a Pandemic “The health and safety during the COVID 19 crisis is our top priority. We will not be allowing overlapping showings, and we have supplied sanitation wipes & had sanitizer that we ask you use when entering and exiting the home! As per our MLS, we will not be...
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Rip Van Winkle in the Age of Coronavirus

The Hyperspeed News Cycle Rip Van Winkle fell asleep for 20 years. In the age of Coronavirus, the news and headlines are coming so fast I feel like Rip Van Winkle after a 2 hour nap (which I’m taking often now) . . .
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Social Distancing? No, a Normal Baseball Game

Looks Like They’re > 6′ Feet Apart to Me Of the four major league sports in the U.S. — football, baseball, hockey, and basketball (apologies to soccer) — the one that would seem to pose the fewest health risks now would seem to be baseball. True, those pitcher’s mound conferences would have to practice social...
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(Overlooked) News Flash!! Salt Lake City Area Hit by 5.7 Earthquake

  Coronavirus! Pandemic! Stock market crash! Healthcare system overload! Nightmare in Italy! Whole cities (NYC) and states (CA) in lockdown! Flatten the curve – NOW!! How chaotic has the last week been been? Sufficiently crazy that an earthquake near Salt Lake City — 5.7, this Wednesday — seemingly couldn’t penetrate the din. If aliens ever...
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