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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Macatawa Bank reports 52 percent earnings drop

  Monday Jul 14 | via Grand Rapids Press 

  Macatawa Bank Corp. profits fell by 52 percent for the second quarter over a year earlier, due to higher loan losses.

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  Related Topix: Holland, MI, Banking, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage

• Lawns gone wild: Lawn grass complaints on the rise

  Jun 12, 2008 | via Holland Sentinel 

  What constitutes an out-of-control lawn? The city of Holland is trying to figure out just when it should step in at a time when complaints are through the roof.

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  Related Topix: Holland, MI, Grand Rapids Metro, Foreclosures

• Our View - Don't let vacant homes infect neighborhoods

  Jun 5, 2008 | via Holland Sentinel 

  The foreclosure crisis has exacted a heavy toll in this area. A total of 850 properties went into foreclosure in Ottawa County in 2007, with 384 of them in the Holland-Zeeland area.

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  Related Topix: Ottawa County, MI, Zeeland, MI, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Holland, MI, Opinion

• My Take - Pain is hard to avoid for most of us

  May 23, 2008 | via Holland Sentinel 

  In his letter suggesting we need $8 per gallon gas prices to change wasteful behavior, Robert Vanderkamp has a good idea in slowing down to save gas but for the most part he fails to see the plight of the ...

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  Related Topix: Toyota Prius, Toyota, Home, Mortgage, Holland, MI, Grand Rapids Metro, Opinion

• Utility scam leaves struggling mother searching for answers

  Apr 26, 2008 | via MLive.com 

  Connie Wilder was getting used to turnarounds in her life. It hadn't. Courtesy photo Connie Wilder signed up with a company that promised to keep her gas bill down.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Ottawa County, MI, Muskegon, MI

Regional Headlines

• Inflation takes hold in Europe

  Yesterday | via Detroit News 

  It took a few months. But the economic woes touched off by soaring oil prices and the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States are finally engulfing Europe.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services, Charlotte (University of North Carolina System), University of North Carolina System, Michigan

• University comes to Michigan's rescue

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Holland Sentinel 

  As job losses, foreclosures and other woes continue to batter Michigan, an unlikely savior has emerged from the halls of academia.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Michigan, Michigan Government, Ann Arbor (University of Michigan System)

• Big players in real estate now on the same team

  Thursday Jul 17 | via LivingstonDaily 

  Two of the biggest names in real estate in Livingston County have combined and created a new force in the market.

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  Related Topix: Livingston County, MI, Howell, MI, Real Estate, Brighton, MI, Michigan

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Michigan Storm Victims

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 11 storm-ravaged counties in Michigan and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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

• An unconstitutional amendment

  Sunday Jul 13 | via LivingstonDaily 

  What happens when a constitutional amendment is so complicated that the amendment itself becomes unconstitutional? We might be about to find out.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Michigan, Michigan Government, Opinion

National Headlines

• Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update...

  12 hrs ago | via KXMB-TV Bismarck 

  Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update KABUL, Afghanistan Barack Obama says the United States, NATO and Afghanistan must do more to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida. Among other things, the ...

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  Related Topix: World News, Kabol, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Asia, Home, Mortgage, Weather, Junction City, CA

• Brown pledges aid to Palestinians, calls for settlement freeze

  10 min ago | via The Daily Star 

  OCCUPIED BETHLEHEM: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday pledged new aid to the Palestinians and called for a freeze on Israeli settlement building to bolster the Middle East peace process.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Israel

• Words from the

  15 min ago | via Safehaven 

  "The end is neigh" was what many despondent investors were starting to believe as the past week kicked off with volatile trading amid concerns that US regional bank IndyMac's demise was a harbinger of many more ...

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  Related Topix: Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Treasury Chief Sees 'Months' of Hard Times

  19 min ago | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 2 comments Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• US Treasury Secretary: Economic Fundamentals are Sound

  21 min ago | via Voice of America 

  The Bush administration says the U.S. economy will continue to experience slow growth in the months ahead, but is fundamentally sound.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, DC, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance