Debbie's Posts & Ramblings

This is basically a continuation of my earlier post, which you can find here:   http://activerain.com/blogsview/471789/Honey-Turn-something-OFF .  For those of you who don't know yet, Juneau is serviced by a hydro-electric plant south of Juneau.  This morning around 4AM there was a catastrophic a...

50 cents per kilowatt hour.I'm reminded of a comedy skit where a father is described, standing by the electric meter, watching it twirl around and around.  I think when I get home, I'm going to make sure to use my hot tub because certainly we will be draining everything and shutting it down in th...

Like most small towns, Juneau has a short list of family names well known throughout the community.  Ones of those surnames is "Beedle".  Everybody knows at least one.  Many of us know several.  Jim Beedle works hard, and has for many years, in various positions throughout the Alaska Marine Highw...

Summit Housing will be making a presentation in Juneau on Thursday, April 17th at 5:15pm at the downtown library. Summit Housing Group, which is an affordable housing developer based out of Missoula, Montana.  They have been looking at Juneau for several years and have found a potential site that...

This one is long.  It isn't pretty.  I don't have any photos on here yet, but I hope you read it anyway. Gabriel was born January 2, 2001.  He has two little sisters, Adria and Alaina, born just a few years later.  Our entire office lights up when they come to visit their daddy.  Everybody loves ...

Yesterday I submitted an offer on a house for my buyers.  The listing agent thought perhaps it was an April Fools' joke.It wasn't.The house has been on the market for almost 10 months.  The current owners have only had the house for just about two years.  So, for almost half the time they've owne...

The mission statement is "To Provide Alaskans Access to Safe, Quality, Affordable Housing".Since 1986, Alaska Housing Finance Corporation has contributed over 1.5 billion dollars to the State of Alaska through cash transfers, debt service payments and capital projects after paying all their own o...

Tonight I was finally posting a few articles I'd written for Active Rain, many while I was on vacation and without internet access.  I've got a list of ideas and some drafts.  Since some of them were timely but getting stale fast, I decided to just get them posted before they were outdated.  Many...

Last year, about this time, I did a post http://activerain.com/blogsview/54400/RELAX-Chicken-Little regarding the Juneau market.  I was going to use that one as a template to do a similar market report tonight.  What I ended up with though was a side-by-side comparison of the two markets.  Curren...

For as long as I can remember there's been a push to move the seat of government from Juneau to somewhere near Anchorage.  You can almost set your calendar by it.  Every time it happens, people plan for the worst and hope for the best.  Property prices predictably start to fall but bounce right b...