Pasco Real Estate Blog

Curbside Recyling coming to Pasco?

The City of Pasco is in the process of sending out surveys asking residents about curbside recycling — and specifically how much you’d be willing to spend on curbside recyling. KVEW-TV reported on this last week: The city is also creating a community survey asking residents how much they would be willing to spend on [...]

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Allegiant Air adds Pasco (PSC) to Phoenix (IWA) flights

Here’s some good news for local travelers: Allegiant Air has just announced new, non-stop flights between Pasco (PSC) and Phoenix-Mesa (IWA). The new service will begin on November 19th and introductory fares will be as low as $59 each way. I should note that this is not Sky Harbor Airport, the main international airport in [...]

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PSC to MSP is dead … thanks, Delta

I had a feeling something was going on, and this Herald article confirms my suspicions that Delta is killing the Pasco to Minneapolis flight. Goodbye, PSC to MSP. Dang. I have a trip coming up in October to a mid-sized city on the east coast. You can’t there directly from Salt Lake City, but I [...]

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Children’s Museum has a new home

We can happily update this post from a couple weeks ago with news that the Three Rivers Children’s Museum has a new home, and it’s staying right in the Broadmoor Outlet Mall facility. The new location is right across the parking lot, on the side where the Van Heusen outlet store is housed. They’ve just [...]

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Can You Help the Children’s Museum?

Update: The Children’s Museum has a new home. Details are here. ——— You may have heard the news today — the Three Rivers Children’s Museum is losing its current space at the Broadmoor Outlet Mall and needs a new home. According to the museum’s web site, they have until the end of the month in [...]

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Pasco Fire Department in financial trouble?

KEPR-TV ran a story last week suggesting that the Pasco Fire Department could be looking at a $300,000 budget shortfall this year. Why? Because people are spending less and the fire department gets most of its funding from sales tax revenue. Fire Chief Bob Gear says the department is being more careful about monitoring work [...]

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CBC Hit Hard by State Budget Cuts

Ouch. CBC has just announced what I’d call massive cuts to both staff and educational programs based on decreased state education funding. For 2010, the school’s operations budget has been cut by almost $3.5 million. Here’s what that means: enrollment will be cut by “up to one thousand” FTE students 55 staff and faculty positions [...]

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Pasco Airport Has New Flight Options

When Cari and I first moved to the Tri-Cities (in the 1990s), air travel options were pretty limited at the Pasco Airport. But things have improved over the years, and this year the options seem to be better than they’ve ever been. Check it out: United Airlines is adding new Pasco (PSC) to San Francisco [...]

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