The Times Leader: Union plumbers protest over lack of work at Home Depot
Representing local plumbers and pipe fitters, the Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 396 demonstrated outside of the Home Depot construction site Friday morning.
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Early vigilance can save cash when selling your home "I see that constantly - where the seller could control their costs but they wait too long" When Linda Lehman decided to sell her 30-year old home, she worried
Weak Market Creates Advantages for Lower-Income Buyers Q: I don't want to continue renting, but I make only $30,000 annually and don't have a lot of money for a down payment. My credit score is over 800,
City wants study of truck traffic DeKalb looking for ways to keep trucks out of downtown DeKALB - A controversial proposal to make a four-block section of Fairview Drive suitable for truck traffic would cost at least $1.33 million, city officials estimate, but under a recommendation
In Major Reversal, Treasury Won't Buy Bad Mortgage Debt (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Wednesday scrapped his original plan to buy toxic mortgage assets and outlined new ideas for using the government's $700-billion rescue fund to boost lending
FOR SOME, DEDUCTING MORTGAGE INTEREST MAY BE OVER- VALUED: Homeowners' tax break could end (The Charlotte Observer) President Bush's tax-overhaul commission is considering an idea to eliminate the vile alternative minimum tax by, among other things, trimming the break homeowners get on mortgage interest.read more...
Former meth labs listed online Since April, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has listed sites of former drug laboratories on its Web site.read more...