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• Beyond the Foreclosure Blame Game

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via Realty Trac 

  Real estate investors are becoming a convenient scapegoat for many looking to assign blame for the recent surge in foreclosures and faltering real estate market.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Local Headlines

• FBI: Bemidji realty scam inflated property values

  Apr 12, 2008 | via KSAX 

  An FBI affidavit accuses a realtor in Bemidji of participating in a conspiracy to inflate property values in through sham sales, kickbacks, and falsified loan applications.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Real Estate, Publishing, Media, Bemidji, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Home Listing, Home

• FBI raids in Bemidji target realty fraud

  Apr 11, 2008 | via Star Tribune 

  In August 2004, a source in the Bemidji real estate industry complained to the FBI about a real estate agent who appeared to be engaging in fraudulent deals involving rental properties.

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  Related Topix: Frazee, MN, Foreclosures, Bemidji, MN, Real Estate, Beltrami County, MN

Regional Headlines

• Bond insurer MBIA's losses expected to grow

  20 hrs ago | via The Morning Call 

  Q: I am very concerned about my shares of MBIA Inc. What are the prospects? V.R., via the Internet A: The world's largest bond insurer has taken charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Minnesota, Financial Markets

• MBIA Inc. Is Battered By Competition, Subprime Issues

  Friday | via Hartford Courant 

  I am very concerned about my shares of MBIA Inc. What are the prospects? - V.R. , via the Internet T he world's largest bond insurer has taken charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Minnesota, Financial Markets

• Good news for health care

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via St. Paul Pioneer Press 

  We break from regularly scheduled programming for this special report: Good news! Competition is improving health care in Minnesota! We refer to the latest report from MN Community Measurement, a nonprofit ... 6 comments

  Related Topix: Housing, Minnesota, Anoka, MN, Opinion

• Builders: Regulations keep suburban home prices unreasonably high

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via St. Paul Pioneer Press 

  Peter Orbidan, the owner of a carpentry company, works on a house in Fieldstone homes, Lakeville, on Thursday, June 12, 2008. 86 comments

  Related Topix: Housing, Minnesota Government, Minnesota

• Number of abandoned pets on the rise

  Monday Jun 30 | via KAAL-TV Austin 

  Whether it's high gas prices or foreclosures, the economy is taking a toll on Minnesotans.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Minnesota

National Headlines

• Coming up in Congress

  6 min ago | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Washington - - Democrats bent on showing they can govern and Republicans anxious about a sour re-election climate are pushing a pared-down agenda when the Senate returns today and the House on Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Healthcare Law, Law

• Housing crisis may end sooner rather than later

  2 hrs ago | via Free Republic 

  This real estate market collapse is starting to send signals that it will differ from the last one in one key aspect: It may not last as long.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Real Estate, Education, Los Angeles County, CA

• 15.JUN.08 Moratorium Now Coalition to stop

  8 min ago | via The Michigan Citizen 

  Official town hall meeting to demand passage of SB 1206, which will stop all foreclosures in Mmichigan for two years Saturday, June 14, 2-4 pm, UAW Local 7 2600 Conner Avenue, Detroit At the Town Hall Meeting ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro, Detroit, MI

• 18.MAY.08 'Improve your neighborhood'

  9 min ago | via The Michigan Citizen 

  Black Family Development Neighborhood Resource Fair Detroit residents will have the opportunity to learn how to form block clubs, prevent home foreclosure, obtain information on criminal record expungement and ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro, Detroit, MI, Wayne County, MI

• Trend toward specializations, relationships with clients

  10 min ago | via The Business Ledger 

  Trend toward specializations, relationships with clients As a result of the nation's economic climate, the legal profession is in a state of flux and experts agree that strengthening relationships with clients ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures