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Deal bolsters prospects for stalled marina project
A stalled residential marina development in Blue Island has been purchased by a south suburban company that built its name rehabbing foreclosed homes. Tinley Park-based Mack Cos. acquired 27 acres at Fay's Point, on a peninsula between the Cal-Sag...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Services and Shopping, Real Estate, Broadway Theater, Realty
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Lifestyle is keeping budget goal out of reach
Dear Liz: My husband and I are recovering from a job loss four years ago. We used up all our savings and home equity. My husband is now employed, but we are struggling to keep ahead even with a salary of about $100,000. I was a stay-at-home mom for the...Tags: Pension and Welfare, AAA, Freddie Mac, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Avoid costly mistake when collecting last month's rent upfront
Q: When my tenant moved in, I collected a security deposit of one month's rent, plus last month's rent. Now, 10 years and two rent hikes later, the tenant is leaving and says she won't write a check for the difference between the current rent and the rent...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Justice and Rights, Politics, Civil Rights, Halloween
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Technicality lets tenant assign lease to friend
Q: My tenant assigned his lease to his friend without my consent, and I didn't realize it until the new "tenant" withheld rent over repairs. I lost the case, which turned on the anti-assignment clause and the difference between "cannot" and "may not."...Tags: Rental Service, Trials, Justice System, Lawyers, Litigation
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How the welfare state has grown — and sapped America's economy and culture
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." — Thomas Jefferson My recent column on the challenges associated with the Social...
Tags: Sociology, Authors, State of the Union Address, Elections, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Programs help homebuyers clear mortgage hurdle
Hundreds of would-be homeowners stepped forward in the final two months of last year to claim $15,000 down payment assistance grants from Wells Fargo & Co.'s CityLift program. With no waiting list being kept and the funds all reserved, the program...Tags: Chicago Mortgages, Housing and Urban Planning, Real Estate, U.S. Department of Justice, Finance
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Kevin Hunt: Is This A Federal Reverse-Mortgage Offer Or A Scam?
The Hartford CourantThe successful scam letter looks authentic. But what happens when an authentic offer looks like a scam? Shirley Stewart of South Windsor recently received a multi-color form letter — the old style, U.S. Postal Service type — inviting her...Tags: Homes, Services and Shopping, U.S. Postal Service, South Windsor, Real Estate
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Is recording tenant meeting a sound plan?
Q: One of my tenants wants to meet with me to go over some issues we're having with him. He has complained that we are discriminating against him, and has threatened to file a complaint. I think he's just trying to get some money out of us, and I want...Tags: Rental Service, Judges, Justice System, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Reibman wants Callahan investigated
Valley 610Northampton County executive candidate Glenn Reibman said he wants Mayor John Callahan investigated further for using federal grant dollars to balance Bethlehem's 2010 and 2011 budgets. Reibman, a former two-term county executive, is in a three-way race... -
Greuel makes play for African American voters in L.A. mayor's race
L.A. NOWLos Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel made a play for African American voters Saturday, rolling out a list of endorsements from black leaders and invoking the memory of Mayor Tom Bradley at the opening of her campaign office on Crenshaw Boulevard.... -
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Judge finds Ariz. sheriff's office racially profiles Latinos in immigration patrols PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark...Tags: Immigration, Elections, Terrorism, LeBron James, Goodluck Jonathan
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Alphonso Jackson, Housing and Urban Planning, Mardi Gras, Science and Technology, Hurricanes
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May 25, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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