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

Local Headlines

• .com investigations bring you into the story

  Yesterday | via KSTP 

  Home foreclosures in Hennepin County are up over 400 percent in just the last three years.

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  Related Topix: Hennepin County, MN, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Home Foreclosures Mean More Homeless Families

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Wcco.com 

  The housing foreclosure crisis created another crisis in the Twin Cities -- homeless families.

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  Related Topix: Hennepin County, MN, Foreclosures

• Broker Resorts To Stealing "Realtor's Little Helper" From Clients

  Saturday Jul 19 | via Housing Doom 

  A real estate broker is facing charges after he allegedly stole pain medication from houses he had claimed to be showing to clients.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Hennepin County, MN, Home Listing, Home

• Housing Pain: Broker Allegedly Swipes Pills

  Friday Jul 18 | via US News & World Report 

  The national housing bust has put real estate agents in a world of hurt; as business has slowed dramatically from its once-booming clip.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home Listing, Home, Hennepin County, MN

• Minnesota Real Estate Broker Arrested For Theft

  Friday Jul 18 | via The Real Estate Bloggers 

  This kind of thing can break the level of trust between agents and home sellers, but it looks like an isolated case in Minnesota.

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Real Estate

Regional Headlines

• Trendsetters

  19 hrs ago | via Minnesota Monthly 

  Our semi-annual profile of the region's leading companies and their key executives.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Eden Prairie, MN, Real Estate, Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

• Homeless advocates get promise

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Southside Pride 

  Demonstrators on the sidewalk outside the HUD office in downtown Minneapolis. A protest of government policies that concern, among other things, how the homeless population in America is calculated, has ...

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  Related Topix: Minnesota, Evergreen State College, Home, Mortgage

• Higher gas bills may push more into foreclosure

  Monday Jul 21 | via KAAL-TV Austin 

  Behind on Your Bill? A spike in home-heating costs this winter may be high enough to put some out in the cold.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Minnesota, Home, Mortgage

• Internet Insite: Cheap, last-minute Minn. getaways

  Monday Jul 14 | via KAAL 

  Do you have an interesting Web site you'd like to see featured on Internet InSITE? Email Web Manager Justin Piehowski, jpiehowski@kstp.com . Watch INTERNET InSITE each Monday at 6:30 on 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Lutsen, MN, Minnesota, Grand Marais, MN

• DNR must stop stalling;new study confirms MCEA shorelands concerns

  Friday Jul 11 | via Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy 

  July 11, 2008 DNR must stop stalling;new study confirms MCEA shorelands concerns After a year and a half study led by the University of Minnesota, planners have concluded Minnesota needs to better protect its ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Minnesota Government, Minnesota

National Headlines

• Early Briefing: Bob Johnson's Foray Into Liberia

  5 min ago | via The Washington Post 

  Robert Johnson, who is building a resort in Liberia, says African Americans "have a responsibility" to support the West African nation.

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Housing

• Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday

  5 min ago | via WAOW-TV Wausau 

  The Senate has cleared the last hurdle to passing a massive housing rescue bill.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, George Bush, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Housing construction continues slump in St. Louis

  5 min ago | via STLtoday 

  Sales of new houses nationwide fell in June, prolonging a deep slump and other data show the St.

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• Why Do We Need Publicly-Listed Commercial & Investment Banks? Part One

  5 min ago | via The Reasoned Sceptic 

  A collection of often sceptical, always candid observations and insights on the US economy, politics and large-cap equity markets by the Chief Investment Officer of Performance Research Associates, LLC.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Mortgage

• Human Services provides various assistances services

  6 min ago | via Mason Valley News 

  The Lyon County Human Services Department offers a wide variety of programs and services to families, including assistance with rent, utilities, food, and shelter.

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  Related Topix: Lyon County, NV, Home, Mortgage, Fernley, NV, Silver Springs, NV, Yerington, NV