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First of all welcome Michael Buettner to the Big Blogroll.  He is the author of new Charleston.net blog Real Money.  Yesterday he had a great post examining the change in the affordability of gas.

Shrimp and Grits notes the price tag for the Savannah Hwy Sofa Super Store site:

Although the idea was rumored to be floating about City Hall after the tragic events of last June 18th, Mayor Riley finally announced last week that he would recommend to City Council on Tuesday, April 22nd that the City purchase the former Sofa Super Store site for $1.85 million.

Geoff is dealing with cars and lawyers:

Back at the end of March, I bought a car here. A cheap ($2500) Ford Taurus which had high mileage on it, but I figured would last me a few months to get me around Charleston. My circumstances changed recently, meaning that a bike would no longer suffice and I had to morph a tiny step further to become proper-American-like by getting a four wheeled device instead.

The problem was that after two weeks, it broke down. Big-time. The generic engine warning light turned out not to be a simple thing, and for $350 a service engineer took the car apart and told me that it basically needed a new engine and with parts & labour involved it was going to cost me $5000 to get it fixed - twice what it had cost me in the first place. Their advice? … was to scrap the car.

(Photo Credit Michael Buettner)

Heather @ April 22, 2008