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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

• Lugo brings rejuvenated career to Fiesta opening night

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Topeka Capital-Journal 

  Leslie Lugo, who headlines the opening night of the 75th anniversary Topeka Fiesta Mexicana, was in a real estate class a couple of years ago when she learned the rule about "location, location, location" also ...

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  Related Topix: University of Texas System, San Antonio (University of Texas System), Real Estate, The College of Wooster, The College of Idaho

• Penny problem comes full circle

  Friday Jul 4 | via Topeka Capital-Journal 

  State law prohibits the county treasurer and the county commission from forgiving a 1-cent underpayment of taxes, county officials learned Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Shawnee County, KS, Financial Services, Mortgage, Home

• Delinquent taxes - A penny lost

  Thursday Jul 3 | via The Topeka Capital-Journal 

  Benjamin Franklin once said, "A penny saved is a penny earned." His words on the wisdom of thrift were uttered in the 18th century, however.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Shawnee County, KS, Opinion

• Security Benefit ratings suffer

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Topeka Capital-Journal 

  Downgrading of financial ratings for Security Benefit Life Insurance Co. in the wake of the subprime mortgage crash shouldn't alarm investors because the Topeka business is built on a solid foundation, the ...

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  Related Topix: Topeka, KS, Topeka Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Ellis, KS

• Payment shortage to cost mortgage company in Shawnee County

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via Kansas.com 

  That will cover both delinquent taxes and costs the county incurred in pursuing them.

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  Related Topix: Shawnee County, KS, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Obama Veep Search Turns To Dodd

  Thursday Jul 10 | via CBS 5 

  Barack Obama's presidential campaign has requested information from Democratic Sen. 3 comments

  Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Kansas Government, Kansas

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Kansas Storm Victims

  Thursday Jul 10 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 46 storm-ravaged counties in Kansas and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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  Related Topix: Weather, Stafford, KS, Kansas, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Starbucks closing 600 stores nationwide

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday it will close 600 company-operated stores in the next year, up dramatically from its previous plan for 100 closures, a sign the coffee shop operator is still feeling the pain from ...

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  Related Topix: Kansas, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Ohio Democrats get pro-Obama message

  Saturday Jun 21 | via WXIX-TV Cincinnati 

  Governor Kathleen Sebelius is telling Ohio Democrats that the door of the White House only opens through their state.

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  Related Topix: Kansas Government, Kansas, Ohio, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Foreclosures

• Ohio Democrats to get pro-Obama message

  Saturday Jun 21 | via KansasCity.com 

  Democratic governors who won in states that twice backed George W. Bush have lessons to offer presidential nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama, one of those governors planned to tell Ohio Democrats on ... 5 comments

  Related Topix: George Bush, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Foreclosures, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, US Senate, Democrat, Kansas Government, Kansas

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  5 min ago | via KansasCity.com 

  Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing, George Bush, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Realtor notes

  4 hrs ago | via Star-Press 

  MUNCIE -- Monte Needler, vice president of Coldwell Banker Lunsford, has announced the firm's residential sales and listing leaders for the week ending July 14.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Muncie, IN, Muncie Metro

• Don't count on Fed bailout for plunging U.S. currency

  4 hrs ago | via SFGate 

  The U.S. currency is not going to get a bailout, even though its steep decline is feeding inflation and straining the economy.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Essex, CT, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Tips quicken chances for home sale

  4 hrs ago | via Fort Collins Coloradoan 

  Even though we are in mid-July there are still new listing coming on the market each day.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home

• Helping houses remain homes

  4 hrs ago | via The Baltimore Sun 

  Two years ago, Germaine Thomas and her husband, Anthony, moved with their five children into a house in an upscale neighborhood in Prince George's County .

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  Related Topix: Housing, Morgan State University