Tag: Real Estate

The housing market on the West coast is white-hot. This means that even older and less fashionable homes cost a fortune. Kenny Slaught says that since 2008, the prices increased steadily. He pointed to the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller home price index as a common reference. This reveals that last April, the home prices in…

Chris Wilson is the director of Global Health Discovery at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He says that the grants have the purpose of helping new discoveries that could ultimately save millions of lives. The GCE winners expand the line of thought for worldwide health and development in places where creative thinking is needed…

Santa Barbara City College has an unmatched reputation for network support training. Kenny Slaught says that those attending these classes will find them very useful. Those trained as network engineers help their coworkers have the best connectivity and data management applications. Every year there are more and more job openings and career opportunities in the…

Santa Barbara is focused on its community, and this comes from its charity tradition. Kenny Slaught talks about the town’s many nonprofits, that continue the work started by the Santa Barbara Foundation in 1928. The charity organizations answer promptly to the community’s needs, which reduces the need to ask for assistance from national foundations.  Read…

The Spanish Colonial Revival style was started in the early 1900. It highlights the Spanish influenced architecture in the former Spanish colonies that later became American regions. The style is often encountered throughout California. Following the 1925 quake, Santa Barbara adopted it as an inspiration for rebuilding the city. Architect George Washington Smith was the…

Hoover Dam was constructed during the Great Depression era, from 1931 to 1936, explains Kenny Slaught. The structure’s price was $49 million, and it was first called Boulder Dam. Its name was changed to Hoover Dam later as a tribute to its major supporter, President Herbert Hoover. Hoover Dam can generate over 4,2 billion kWh…

When a child loses a parent, they may feel abandoned and realize their life will never be the same. The program ‘I Have a Friend’ allows kids to share their experience with someone who can relate. The mentor will offer support to the child for as long as they need. The mentor will touch sensitive…

The reputation that Santa Barbara City College has in network support training is unmatched. Kenny Slaught believes that everyone who attends the program will find it a good use of their time. Network engineers provide support to their coworkers with the best connectivity and data management applications. Information technologies offers many job openings, which results…

The Spanish Colonial Revival architecture style was started by George Washington Smith, 100 years ago in California. Smith gave up Harvard to work in business, and later moved to Santa Barbara for his retirement. Locals loved the house he designed, which convinced him to keep designing for the city. He used materials brought from Spain…

Santa Barbara became an area for developing businesses along with being a top tourist destination, says Kenny Slaught. Many successful firms like AppScale, LastLine, TrackR, and Salty Girl Seafood were started by University of California Santa Barbara graduates. Central Coast claims double the investment per capita in development than the larger market in the Los…