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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

• Bankruptcy experts expect the problem to worsen

  Apr 29, 2008 | via WALB-TV Albany 

  Georgia has the sixth highest rate of foreclosures in the nation, and the number of homes heading toward foreclosure is twice as high as this time last year.

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  Related Topix: Dougherty County, GA, Lee County, GA, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• 40 could face federal charges over indoor marijuana growing operation

  Mar 6, 2008 | via WALB-TV Albany 

  Lee County- Federal Prosecutors say as many as 40 people could be indicted in a three county, three state indoor marijuana growing operation.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Lee County, GA, Drugs

• Video Media Center

  Dec 21, 2007 | via WALB-TV Albany 

  The Big Switch By now you've probably heard about digital television. But you might not know what that means for you.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Stone Mountain, GA, Tifton, GA, Lee County, GA

Regional Headlines

• Lesbian candidate advances to Georgia House runoff

  Friday | via Southern Voice 

  Keisha Waites made it to an Aug. 5 runoff after taking second in a crowded field for House District 61 while Kevin Clark lost his bid for state Senate District 2. Keisha Waites is one step closer to making ...

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  Related Topix: East Point, GA, Mortgage, Atlanta Metro, Georgia

• A Texas warning for Georgia banks

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Several Georgia banks dominate a recent ranking of the nation's riskiest financial institutions based on a measure known as the "Texas ratio," which attempts to gauge how likely they will run into deep ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Alpharetta, GA, Georgia

• Superior Court Clerk Candidates Q&A

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Rome News - Tribune 

  I am a Floyd County native and I began my public service career in 1975 as a deputy sheriff with the Floyd County Sheriffs Department.

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  Related Topix: York (Pennsylvania State University System), Commerce (Texas A&M University System), Texas A&M University System, Georgia, Real Estate

• Tourism groups get grants for projects

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Augusta Chronicle 

  The Augusta Canal Authority was among 11 tourism organizations named Thursday to share $90,000 in grants from the Georgia Department of Economic Development.

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  Related Topix: Georgia, Marketing, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• New Prudential Realty Office Open in Roswell

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via Atlanta Real Estate Forum.com 

  Prudential Georgia Realty, which is consistently named one of the 10 most productive affiliates in the 2,100-office Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Roswell, GA, Georgia, Cobb County, GA, Atlanta, GA

National Headlines

• Many Ada County property owners get a break

  2 min ago | via Fort Mill Times 

  More than 1,000 property owners in southwestern Idaho's highly populated Ada County asked for a reduction in assessed property value in an attempt to lower their property taxes.

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  Related Topix: Ada County, ID, Real Estate

• Woes of U.S. credit crisis: lack of regulation?

  3 min ago | via The Hindu 

  "Issuers should only launch products which are easy to understand and easy to measure risk" The developments in the U.S. sub-prime markets or housing mortgage markets have brought to the fore several issues ...

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  Related Topix: Burbank, CA, Chicago (University of Illinois System), University of Illinois System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• One year of the global financial crisis

  3 min ago | via The Hindu 

  It is a little over a year since the U.S. financial crisis became a global issue.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Banks sound but economy to take time: Paulson

  6 min ago | via Portland Tribune 

  The U.S. economy needs months to recover from its slowdown, but the banking system remains sound despite a home mortgage crisis that could cause more problems, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said.

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

• Paulson braces public for months of tough times

  6 min ago | via The Post-Star 

  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 Politics, US News, Home Listing, 2008 Presidential Election