Regional Headlines
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Editorial: Helping Wall Street, reacting to Main Street
Sunday | via Argus Leader
At a fundamental level, the whole thing is unpalatable. Greedy Wall Street wants a $700 billion bailout? Taxpayers now are the "owners" of however many hopeless mortgages that tremendous sum of money can buy? ...
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S.D. senators split their votes
Thursday Oct 2 | via Argus Leader
South Dakota Sens. Tim Johnson and John Thune were on opposite sides Wednesday of a $700 billion plan to rescue Wall Street firms from bad debts.
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Dykstra: We have every reason to believe we can win
Friday Sep 26 | via Hog House Blog
We have every reason to believe we can win, Dykstra told the crowd. Dykstra launched his series of town hall meetings Thursday night in Rapid City, on the campus of the South Dakota School of Mines & ...
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Thursday Sep 11 | via KSCJ-AM Sioux City
Some note that in the run-up to this year's presidential nominations, the caucuses didn't prove decisive for either party.
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Jul 24, 2008 | via Argus Leader
The House approved a plan Wednesday to shore up mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and help thousands of homeowners with troubled mortgages refinance into more affordable ones.
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National Headlines
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Paulson turns to Goldman to unclog credit markets
4 min ago | via Fremont Tribune
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson turned to a familiar source when he picked a director for the government's $700 billion bailout program: his former Wall Street firm, Goldman Sachs.
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James Horrigan: Bailing out 'Wall Street' helps 'Mai...
4 min ago | via UnionLeader.com
Voters who want a real contrast between two candidates for high office have no better place to turn than to the U.S. Senate race here in New Hampshire./p> James Horrigan: Bailing out 'Wall Street' helps 'Main ...
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Reinhold ice cream's North Side plant acquired
6 min ago | via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Reinhold Ice Cream Co.'s North Side plant and surrounding properties were claimed by the mortgage holder at an Allegheny County sheriff's sale Monday.
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Can't sell your home? Taking less? Blame the housing...
6 min ago | via PilotOnline.com
Despite the bad economy and housing market, Mari-Ann Messick has put her home on the market in hopes of selling it.
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Habitat for Humanity begins building Westwood homes
7 min ago | via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Amid worries about bad mortgages and a stagnant housing market, nine houses being built in Pittsburgh's Westwood neighborhood were a cause for celebration Monday.
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