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Vacation News Archive09-Apr-2006
- 'Congress on Vacation After 2 Weeks of Work (AP via Yahoo! News)
Congressional schedule-keepers had planned for a two-week sprint between Vacations to produce weighty reforms on immigration, pensions and tax policy. But Friday, at the finish line, all of those measures were missing.
- 'Redick, Augustus Win Wooden Awards (AP via Yahoo! News)
J.J. Redick took a West Coast Vacation this week, spending some time with Adam Morrison and beating out his buddy for the John R. Wooden Award as college basketball's male player of the year.
- 'Vacation like a celebrity on Anguilla (Baltimore Sun)
Caribbean island may cater to rich and famous, but ordinary folk welcome too My assignment: Go behind the scenes of a celebrity vacation. Test the waters, so to speak, of Anguilla, a 35-square-mile island in the eastern Caribbean that ranks high on the list of uber-chic superstar hideaways.
- 'Utah adventure in Arches, Moab cures vacation doldrums (Summit Daily News)
MOAB, Utah - By the time we got to Moab, we had the national park equivalent of museum eyes. You know that feeling you get when you've seen too many paintings, and they all begin to look alike? After a couple of weeks on a road trip out West, that's how our family felt.
- 'Saving a vacation that seems out of reach (International Herald Tribune)
When it looks as if all your cash is committed, it's possible to save enough for a vacation this year, if you start now and you're willing to be a little creative.
- 'Congress on Vacation After 2 Weeks of Work (ABC News)
CONGRESS NOTEBOOK: Hey, It's Been Two Weeks Since Our Last Vacation
- 'Rare Colombian Species Saved From Vacation Home Development (Environment News Service)
WASHINGTON, DC , April 7, 2006 (ENS) - Quick action by an alliance of conservation groups has raised $130,000 to purchase a haven for endangered species on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, before it could be developed for vacation homes. Now the site will be protected as a nature reserve.
- 'Congress On Vacation - Again (KGO-TV Bay Area)
Congressional schedule-keepers had planned to produce weighty reforms on immigration, pensions and tax policy before the Easter break. But come Friday, at the finish line, all of those measures were missing.
- 'Congress has much unfinished business before second vacation (News 8 Austin)
Congress began another vacation and there's a lot of unfinished business in the Capitol. Not a whole lot got done since a weeklong vacation for St. Patrick's Day.
- 'Second homes: In the U.S., investment and vacation houses make up 40% of the market (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Americans snapping up second homes - as investments or Vacation properties - accounted for four out of every 10 sales of existing homes last year, a record that helped drive the real estate market to new highs, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Nearly 28 percent of homes bought last year were for investment purposes. An additional 12 percent were
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