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Good to know.

Get a load of all the information you can find for any property in Sacramento County. All you need is an address. This would be helpful for lots of things but espescially house shopping. I imagine many counties have something similar.

PROPERTY INFORMATION
Address
Assessor Parcel #
Jurisdiction
Thomas Brothers Coordinates
Assessor Land Use/Zoning Code
Approx. Parcel Square Footage

DISTRICT INFORMATION
Supervisor
District #
City Council
Drainage
Fire
Park
School
Special District
Water Supply

TRASH PICKUP
Service Day
Next Green Day
Next Recycle Day
Refuse

POLITICAL INFORMATION
State Assembly
State Senate
US House
US Senate

SEWER INFORMATION

There’s also a link to property tax information for that parcel.

hilker:

“it’s like wikipedia by actual smart people who know what they’re talking about!”

hilker:

Rod Dreher:

1. We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.

2. Modern conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and social character.

3. Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.

4. Culture is more important than politics and economics.

5. A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship—especially of the natural world—is not fundamentally conservative.

6. Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.

7. Beauty is more important than efficiency.

8. The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.

9. We share Russell Kirk’s conviction that “the institution most essential to conserve is the family.”

10. Politics and economics won’t save us; if our culture is to be saved at all, it will be by faithfully living by the Permanent Things, conserving these ancient moral truths in the choices we make in our everyday lives.

thanks, to this i09 Wall-E post, i think i found a label politic… .

I don’t know about #6 and #7—I’d say that depends—and #10 is a bit vague—what Permanent Things? What moral truths? If this is referring to the principles of “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” referred to in the Declaration then, I’m game—otherwise, spot on.