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• Do New Mortgage Rules Make Borrowers Safer?

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Realty Trac 

  You could hardly miss the headlines this week: More than 1,000 news outlets covered new rules from the Federal Reserve designed to "protect" America's mortgage borrowers.

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Local Headlines

• Reality vs. Perception Impact Kansas Home Sales

  May 5, 2008 | via KBSL 10 

  Subprime mortgages, low demand and record foreclosures -- all phrases heard daily in the national media when talking about a housing crisis.

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  Related Topix: Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Housing, Augusta, KS, Home Listing

• First-quarter home sales drop

  Apr 29, 2008 | via Kansas.com 

  Existing and new home sales fell by double digits in the Wichita area in the first quarter of 2008, according to data released Monday by the South Central Kansas Multiple Listing Service.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Wichita Metro, Wichita, KS

Regional Headlines

• Obama Veep Search Turns To Dodd

  Thursday Jul 10 | via CBS 5 

  Barack Obama's presidential campaign has requested information from Democratic Sen. 3 comments

  Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Kansas Government, Kansas

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Kansas Storm Victims

  Thursday Jul 10 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 46 storm-ravaged counties in Kansas and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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  Related Topix: Weather, Stafford, KS, Kansas, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Starbucks closing 600 stores nationwide

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday it will close 600 company-operated stores in the next year, up dramatically from its previous plan for 100 closures, a sign the coffee shop operator is still feeling the pain from ...

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• Ohio Democrats get pro-Obama message

  Saturday Jun 21 | via WXIX-TV Cincinnati 

  Governor Kathleen Sebelius is telling Ohio Democrats that the door of the White House only opens through their state.

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  Related Topix: Kansas Government, Kansas, Ohio, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Foreclosures

• Ohio Democrats to get pro-Obama message

  Saturday Jun 21 | via KansasCity.com 

  Democratic governors who won in states that twice backed George W. Bush have lessons to offer presidential nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama, one of those governors planned to tell Ohio Democrats on ... 5 comments

  Related Topix: George Bush, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Foreclosures, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, US Senate, Democrat, Kansas Government, Kansas

National Headlines

• Angelo's Ashes Burned Us

  6 min ago | via New York Post 

  On July 24, 2007, then-Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo jumped onto a conference call announcing the second-quarter results of his company, the largest mortgage provider in the US with a 15 percent ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• More homeowners rent in sagging market

  3 hrs ago | via St. Cloud Times Online 

  MINNEAPOLIS - Sean Kirschner tried for a year to sell his three-bedroom home in Montrose but got only five showings even with a price reduction.

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• Power to end crisis in hands of lenders

  3 hrs ago | via Press & Argus 

  Mortgage companies were greedy and made mortgages that should not have been made.

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• Truth Needed To Stabilize Markets

  3 hrs ago | via Hartford Courant 

  It's not over. Despite mid-week relief for financial stocks, Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Meredith Whitney says the financial markets won't be able to stabilize until there is more truth-telling. Rather than ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ansonia, CT

• Plastic Problems

  3 hrs ago | via Hartford Courant 

  Where will the money come from? Gas and food prices are rising, mortgage interest rates are adjusting higher, loans are harder to find and unemployment is ticking up.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage