Wine and fun for a great cause! This year’s annual wine tasting benefit for Habitat for Humanity is expected to be best yet. Held on May 8, 2008, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Chico’s own Canyon Oaks Country Club. Tickets are only $35.
The event will include live jazz and eight premium wine varietals […]

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Bob Speer did a nice job with today’s article in the Chico News & Review, “Slow but steady.”
I spoke with him Tuesday. He also talked with economics experts, building groups and developers, and points out the relative strength of our housing market:
Chico is an oasis in this sea of doom and gloom. Yes, housing values […]

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Being that it’s Martin Luther King Day, the markets are closed in the United States. They are open in Asia and Europe, though, and what a day it is! World stock markets are down sharply, in some cases as much as 8 percent in a day! This leads me to ponder what will happen in […]

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Will Rogers, as well as others, have been credited with this admonition about how much land we have and how we use it. For Chicoans, his quote seems particularly appropriate as it relates to preserving prime land for agricultural production.
Farming is the largest contributor to the economy of Butte County, Chico and the North State. […]

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Well, 3 percent of 85,000 is 2,550. And you care, why? Because 3 percent has been the long-term population growth rate in Chico and growth is continuing at that pace. That means 2,550 new residents this year and probably next.
Planners understand that they are usually organized into households of 2.14 per household. So, 2,550 […]

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When people have asked me about the housing market, I have always commented on how construction costs play into the future of home prices. Here are some recent comments from the National Association of Home Builders that back up my observations.
“It’s important to keep things in perspective,” said Brian Catalde, president of the […]

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