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Cooler weather helps crews battle Calif wildfire
Associated Press WriterFirefighters on Sunday took advantage of cooler, damper weather to battle a vast blaze ravaging Santa Barbara County as they tried to gain a foothold against the fire before the expected return of hotter, drier conditions. Moist air currents from the...Tags: Heart Disease, Diseases, Insurance, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Weather Reports
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Housing market in Welsh town shows wider woes
AP Business WriterDuring a bustling lunch hour in this Welsh commuter town, 25-year-old Richard Williams is one of the few who pause to look at properties for sale in a real-estate agent's window -- and he isn't buying. "I'd love to, but I'm single and I can't afford to...Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Parties and Movements, Rentals, Condos and Houses, Apartments
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Relief bill could help both buyers and homeowners
Congress left town for the July 4 recess with a half-baked cake in its legislative oven - one that has huge potential significance for the housing and mortgage markets. The unfinished work is a major relief bill designed to rescue hundreds of thousands of...Tags: Government, Credit and Debt, National Government, Real Estate Buyers, Internal Revenue Service
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Gas mileage a key to home sales
Special to The Morning CallDid $4-a-gallon gas prompt Scott and Abigail Pasterski to put a for-sale sign on their home in Topton and buy another closer to his work in Wescosville and their church in Emmaus, where they go as many as four times most weeks? No, said Scott Pasterski,...Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Real Estate Sellers, Allentown, Wescosville, Topton
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Edison's estate in a new light
Cox News ServiceIn 1878, Thomas Edison invented a machine that did something the world had never seen, or heard. After Edison recited "Mary had a little lamb," the machine exactly repeated the words, astonishing observers. The phonograph, considered his most original...Tags: Invention and Innovation, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, News Media, Henry Ford
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Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong'
AP National WriterEven folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive:...Tags: Natural Disasters, Vehicles, Corporate Crime, Folk Music, Prices
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Foreclosures to rise, whomever wins White House
AP Economics WriterHome foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November. Even the optimism that surrounds a new president taking office cannot resurrect home values overnight, and presidents have no direct ability to reduce rising...Tags: National Government, Barack Obama, Political Candidates, Federal Reserve, Fraud
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Builder incentives: Just marketing, or the real deal?
Special to The TimesMost new-home buyers find it hard to resist the lure of builder incentives -- paid closing costs, an allowance for free upgrades at the design center or interest-rate buy-downs. But are they really worth it? From the builder's perspective, such...Tags: Government, Real Estate Buyers, National Government, Financial Planning, Housing Industry
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A housing site that worked for families
Chicago Tribune reportersWhile redevelopment of Stateway Gardens on the South Side reveals pitfalls with the Plan for Transformation, a different approach in another part of town has allowed more residents to return to a revitalized neighborhood. At the Henry Horner Homes on the...Tags: Rentals, Condos and Houses, Housing and Urban Planning, Apartments, Chicago Housing Authority
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Public housing limbo
Chicago Tribune reportersChicago's grand experiment to transform public housing is lagging nearly a decade after Mayor Richard Daley's administration turned to private developers to shape the future of housing for the city's poor. Conceived amid a rising housing market, the...Tags: Rentals, Condos and Houses, Housing and Urban Planning, Starbucks Corporation, Financially Distressed Companies
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