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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Thursday Jun 19 | via Realty Trac 

  The euphoria that surrounded six years of escalating home prices, record levels of home sales and rock-bottom interest rates crashed and burned in 2007, forcing many foreclosure investors to ratchet down their ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Housing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

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

• 15.JUN.08 Moratorium Now Coalition to stop

  4 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'

  5 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

  6 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

• Washington Report: Nationwide Registration?

  7 min ago | via Realty Times 

  With the Senate poised to pass major housing legislation this week -- even as early as tomorrow -- critics are taking a harder look at some of the bill's lesser-known provisions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Realty Viewpoint: Discount Broker Leaves Sellers Stranded

  7 min ago | via Realty Times 

  Rumors were flying last week that Iggy's House, a discount broker, is out of business.

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  Related Topix: Burleson, TX, Real Estate