Phoenix and Valley News

Last spring, I included many, many photos of our wildflowers, and I suspect with the rain we’ve been fortunate to have this past winter, that we’ll have as good, if not better, displays.
While we wait, though, there’s a gallery on my hiking page, that profiles many of the great trails we have and the views [...]

A recent report from the Pew Research Center found that older adults feel younger out west. Fully 78% of adults ages 65 and older who live in the West say they don’t feel old, compared with 67% of older adults who live in the rest of the country.
Not that we’re tooting our own horn [...]

Actually, that used to be the American dream. What happened in the last few years, is that folks started looking at owning homes more as an investment and a return on their money.
Experts now believe you should start by looking at a home as the place where you live, as opposed to the investment that [...]

Tax credit: 10% of the purchase price of a primary residence, up to a maximum of $8,000 for first-time homebuyers and $6,500 for repeat buyers. First-time homebuyers are defined as people who have not owned a home in the previous three years. Repeat buyers must have owned their current home at least five years. The [...]

USA Today
An economic survey out Monday provides fresh evidence that a fitful recovery is underway as customer demand grows in the third quarter for the first time in more than a year and the jobs outlook brightens a bit.
For the first time since the recession began, the portion of companies planning to add [...]