| St. Patrick's Day Traffic Plan
Here is the traffic plan for tomorrow afternoon's St. Patrick's Day parade in Albany. Quail Street will be closed between Central and Washington Ave. Washington Ave. will be closed between Quail and State St. State St. will be closed between Washington Ave and N. Pearl St. The parade starts tomorrow at 2PM .
China can build things. Why can't India?
Obviously, a poor man whose house is bulldozed to build a highway is going to be bitter about the process, and he needs a forum which will protect his interest. If development means rendering millions homeless, so that a few hundreds have high flying life, we don't need it. What India needs is a political will to change with a human touch so that all sections of our society benefit from it. .
Plan Fund's microloans help smallest, riskiest Dallas entrepreneurs
Sharon Pickens helps customers such as June Abdullah look good. When her Fair Park neighborhood salon needed a redo, she turned to the Plan Fund, which provided more than money. Loan recipients also get 15 hours of training in financial literacy. Over the life of the loan, they are required to participate in biweekly meetings with other business owners, who form a support group. 'You can talk about your business and how it's doing,' Ms. Pickens says. .
Filing bankruptcy may help troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure
Recent change in Washington state law offers a possible way for some homeowners facing foreclosure to file bankruptcy and stay in their homes.The homestead exemption was created to protect families from losing their homes in hard times. It makes bankruptcy a safety net that could keep the roof over your head even if you're facing foreclosure.The new law aids homeowners who file for bankruptcy by protecting $125,000 of their home equity from creditors. That equity is not protected from your mortgage creditors but depending on your circumstances, filing bankruptcy may enable you to restructure your mortgage payments and other debt, and as a result, stay in your home.Say your home is worth $500,000 and the balance on your mortgage is $350,000. That's $150,000 of equity.Under the homestead exemption, $125,000 of that equity is untouchable; that equity is automatically protected from creditors.
Citigroup to sell $7.5 billion stake to Abu Dhabi
What's happening in the States is going to create a lot of opportunities," Mohammed Shaibani, chief executive officer of the Investment Corporation, said last week. "In financial services, we are evaluating the situation." Shares of Citigroup have plunged 42.5 percent during the last five months. Merrill Lynch & Co , which wrote down $8.4 billion of assets in the third quarter, is down 40.6 percent during the same period. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority manages the surplus revenues of the government of Abu Dhabi, the world's sixth-largest oil exporter. Standard Chartered estimated in September its assets were worth $650 billion. Both Dubai and Abu Dhabi are members of the United Arab Emirates federation. Sir Win Bischoff, Citi's interim chief executive said in a statement on Monday: "This investment, from one of the world's leading and most sophisticated equity investors, provides further capital to allow Citi to pursue attractive opportunities to grow its business." State-run funds are keen for stakes in global banks, which can benefit from the development of emerging markets, a person familiar with the funds said.
Domestic Spying
Cenk Uygur: Why Do You Need Immunity If You Haven't Broken the Law? (1 comments) The Bush administration is desperately trying to get immunity for the telecom companies inserted into the next wiretapping bill. But let me ask a simple question - why would the telecom companies need immunity if they didn't break the law? I'm not trying to be clever here. I'm asking a literal question. Isn't this an obvious admission that the administration did ask the large telecommunication companies to break the law ? Tuesday, October 9: Dave Lindorff: What are Progressives Waiting For? (8 comments) The Democrats have made it clear: They're not going to end the war, and they're not going to impeach. They're not even going to stop the spying on Americans. How much more abuse do progressives plan to stand for? Dean Powers: On Wiretapping, Democrats Ask Bush: "Would You Like it Gift-Wrapped?" (6 comments) Rooting for the Democrats is like rooting for the Chicago Cubs...
Man accused of fraud, identity theft involving bankruptcy petitions
A Los Angeles man who filed allegedly fraudulent bankruptcy petitions in Kansas to stop home foreclosures has been indicted on suspicion of fraud and identity theft.</p><p>Federal prosecutors in Kansas on Friday unsealed an indictment charging Isaac Yass, also known as Itsik Yass, with six counts of mail fraud and six counts of identity theft.</p><p>Yass, 41, was arrested Thursday in California and faces up to 30 years in prison. He also faces maximum fines of $1 million on each of the mail fraud counts and $250,000 on each of the identify theft counts.</p><p>“The indictment alleges that Mr. Yass fraudulently represented to homebuyers who were delinquent in their mortgage payments that he could stop foreclosure, prevent them from having to file bankruptcy and free them from having to make mortgage payments,” U.S.
Pilots gambit risk to NWA-Delta merger
Could a Northwest-Delta merger, touted for all the sense it seems to make, end up being the mega-deal that never happens? Not if their respective boards of directors have something to say about it. The strategic logic of a tie-up -- essentially on hold as pilots from both airlines haggle over an agreement to ensure their seniority rights -- is important enough to keep the managements of Northwest and Delta from issuing a make-or-break deadline for reaching a deal. "There is no finite date," a source familiar with the process tells me. "That has not been done. This is the deal that makes the most sense," and a deadline could undermine good-faith talks to deliver a deal both sides want. A merger would match Northwest, strong in the upper Midwest and on routes to Asia, with Atlanta-based Delta, a powerhouse in the South, along the East Coast and into Europe and Latin America.
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