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OK. We lost. The “‘Just Say No’ to Everything” party is doing their end zone happy dance all over the media and the pundits...
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OK. We lost. The “‘Just Say No’ to Everything” party is doing their end zone happy dance all over the media and the pundits...
Unless you’ve spent the last week in a cave, you know there are people really hurting not all that far from our borders. Many...
Devoted readers of AgentGenius and, perhaps, the occasional web surfer may have noticed something I posted last week as an Open Letter to the...
Tech policy geeks (myself included) in Washington were focused on network neutrality this week. That’s because last October, the Federal Communication Commission issued a...
The future of bar camps Hard to believe anyone would want to kick you to the curb just after your first birthday. In fact...
Dear Vicki (may I call you, Vicki?), I just finished reading the wonderful profile written about you in REALTOR Magazine. As a native Washingtonian...
FTC to Refocus Privacy Efforts So I’ve notice a good deal of discussion here on Agent Genius related to privacy. I thought I’d devote...
Please welcome AG’s newest writer, Melanie Wyne who has been a technology policy advocate for nearly a decade. At NAR Melanie’s policy portfolio includes...
The real challenge with writing about politics and real estate is that everyone takes off during the Christmas holidays. Congress has left town and...
Times are changing In the old days we didn’t question much of anything. This is how much it costs for X homes magazine, this...
By IT I mean the Senates Health Care bill passed on Christmas Eve. Left or Right The left doesn’t like the public option is...
It’s a shame isn’t it? The only real time many of us take to reflect, plan, contemplate and organize seems to be the turn...
We seem to be focusing on trees - the rare attempted act of terrorism on flights - rather than the forest - loss of...
When the ball came down on Times Sqaure to usher in the new Century we didn’t vaporize as many had thought (remember the Y2K...
Christmas I find it sad and alarming that the traditions, values, and beliefs that have existed since the founding of our country are slowly...
From early September of 2008, our country began a ride like we had never seen. Crashing financial markets, staggering housing issues, stock markets in...
I was on Facebook recently, minding my own business (Well, ok, I was minding everyone else’s business. I was on Facebook.) when I got...
It looks like Ben Bernanke is getting re-elected and the American people don’t get a vote. A porcupine with a bad head cold taking...
Anyone ever have the short sale deal that makes sense collapse, only to see it go to sale via the foreclosure process and sell...
NAR’S Gravestone. The National Association of Realtors this week amended it’s trademark policy to allow the use of the Realtor logo on personal head...
A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down “If you don’t pass this legislation, then … the EPA is going to have to...
This week the House of Representatives passed a sweeping financial reform package that would deter, in part, some of the most egregious practices of...
So my voice is shot (again) and I’m seriously considering adding something a bit more powerful in my Bigelow tea to help. While I’m...
The plans for a markup next week – still tentative as of late Friday – appeared to signal growing congressional support for the idea,...
I first caught whiff of this in an Inman News article by Matt Carter. Then I saw an editorial about it in The Washington...