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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

• Finding home: Family of nine gets little government aid after flood

  Dec 29, 2007 | via Winona Daily News 

  Eric and Jane Thompson and their seven kids, Lily, 4, Grace, 6, Eli, 8, Caleb, 10, Seth, 12, Nick, 13, and Allie, 16, play games in the living room of their Rushford apartment Friday.

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Peterson, MN, Rushford, MN, Winona, MN

Regional Headlines

• Trendsetters

  Thursday | via Minnesota Monthly 

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

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• 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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National Headlines

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  6 min ago | via Morris Daily Herald 

  Congress passed the most significant housing legislation in decades Saturday, offering help to struggling homeowners and seeking to stabilize a troubled housing market that has dragged down the economy.

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

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  6 min ago | via WWLP 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  6 min ago | via X101.5 

  Federal regulators have closed two banks in the West, saying they were undercapitalized due to the poor performance of home mortgage loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Reno Metro, Reno, NV

• U.S. Congress approves massive housing bill

  6 min ago | via The Globe and Mail 

  The bill was approved by the Senate in a 72-13 vote. It was passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, George Bush, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, US News, US Politics, Home, Mortgage

• Provisions of housing-mortgage relief bill

  7 min ago | via Buffalo News 

  The housing bill that Congress passed Saturday and sent to President Bush would: -Give the Federal Housing Administration $300 billion in new lending authority and relax standards to provide affordable, ...

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