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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Realty Trac 

  With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation's fourth-largest banking institution .

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures

Local Headlines

• Closing Maine's budget shortfall

  Mar 18, 2008 | via Bangor Daily News 

  By John Buell Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - Bangor Daily News Legislators in Augusta face a daunting challenge in closing a nearly $200 million budget shortfall.

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  Related Topix: Augusta, ME, Bangor Metro, Bangor, ME, Housing, South-Gardiner, ME, Maine

• An inconvenient truth? Take a look at the measures

  Mar 10, 2008 | via Village Soup 

  AUGUSTA : It's as insidious as climate change. You don't notice it until you look back at solid data and ask: How did that happen?!? Fortunately for Maine, the remedy to our economic woes is within our control ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Augusta, ME, South-Gardiner, ME, Maine

• Bridging budget gap requires strategic thinking, balanced approach

  Feb 29, 2008 | via Village Soup 

  Closing this gap in a way that both avoids lasting damage to Maine's economy and protects our most vulnerable fellow citizens will require honest debate coupled with a strategic look at all available options.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Augusta, ME, Healthcare Law, Law, Kingman, ME, Isle-Au-Haut, ME, Opinion

• Dyer to challenge high school mentor in House race

  Feb 18, 2008 | via MaineCoastNOW.com 

  ' Republican Steven Dyer of Rockland has filed his intent with the state to seek the Maine House District 47 seat that covers Rockland and an adjacent section of Owls Head that is largely east of Ash Point ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Owls Head, ME, Lincoln County, ME

• Dyer files intent for city House seat

  Feb 18, 2008 | via MaineCoastNOW.com 

  Republican Steven Dyer of Rockland has filed his intent with the state to seek the Maine House District 47 seat that covers Rockland and an adjacent section of Owls Head that is largely east of Ash Point Drive.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Real Estate, Lincoln County, ME, Alna, ME

Regional Headlines

• Maine woman shocked to find 8-foot snake in washer

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Earthlink 

  More Maine woman shocked to find 8-foot snake in washer Nuisance wildlife specialist Richard Burton, left, holds an 8-foot long non-venomous reticulated python as wildlife rehabilitator Jen Lewis calls a friend ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Maine, Gorham, ME, Offbeat

• Cutting torch caused fire at Maine boatyard

  Monday Jul 14 | via WBZ-AM Allston 

  The Maine fire marshal's office says a blaze that destroyed a well-known boatyard was caused by sparks from a cutting torch.

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  Related Topix: Maine, Natural Disasters, Maine Government, Wildfire, Fire, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• 'Your Piece of Maine' winners announced; local receives $5,000

  Thursday Jul 10 | via York Weekly 

  The Maine Association of REALTORS announced the winners of the "Your Piece of Maine" YouTube contest at a Portland Sea Dogs pre-game ceremony on June 28 at Hadlock Field in Portland.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Maine, Maine Government, Kennebunk, ME, Holden, ME

• 3 words to solve the problem Solar Thermal Heating put the black

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Cape Cod Today 

  N/AF Fair [ Forecast ] :: Monday, June 30th, 2008 Alberto's Ristorante Exquisite Northern Italian cuisine served in a casually elegant atmosphere.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Science / Technology, Alternative Energy, Home Listing, Maine, Maine Government

• Sunday Morning Breakfast and a Lunch Buffet at the Maine Dish

  Friday Jun 20 | via Village Soup 

  BELFAST : BELFAST, YOU WANT IT, YOU GOT IT!!! SUNDAY MORNING BREAKFAST BUFFET!! OVER 20 ITEMS TO CHOOSE FROM HOT AND COLD! COME ON IN, RELAX AND ENJOY THE BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF THE BAY.

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  Related Topix: Maine, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  3 min ago | via NWI Times 

  CRAWFORD, Texas - Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in ...

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  Related Topix: Crawford, TX, George Bush, Foreclosures, Housing, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat

• No slowdown for the downtown

  4 min ago | via Edmonton Sun 

  As executive director of the Downtown Business Association of Edmonton, it's a given Jim Taylor would be revved up about the city's core.

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  Related Topix: University of Houston System, Downtown (University of Houston System), Housing, Arlington (University of Texas System), University of Texas System, Canada, Edmonton, AB, Alberta, Opinion

• Lehmans Lament

  6 min ago | via New York Post 

  Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld may have earned himself a temporary reprieve from the onslaught of bad news buffeting his firm and it just might offer him enough time to decide its fate.

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  Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Investment Services, Home, Mortgage, Business News

• Will homeowners abandon loans?

  3 hrs ago | via Coshocton Tribune 

  COLUMBUS - Experts say fretting homeowners who worry the mortgage market is worsening are, well, making the mortgage market worsen.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures

• Take Stock in Florida: Dow 14,000 salad days long gone

  3 hrs ago | via News Press 

  Dow 14,000 - a new all time high. How long has it been? It was in July - Was it in 2003? 2004? 2005? 2006? It seems longer than just a year ago, doesn't it? Time flies when you're having fun.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Auto Dealers, Financial Markets