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• Home buying could soon beat renting

  Mon Jan 23, 2012
  • Oh sure, interest rates are great, but banks are making it incredibly difficult to get a loan. One of my clients had an 800+ score, a great income, no debts and one bank was giving her a crazy run-around. We ended up going to another bank.

• Jobless claims drop to near four-year low

  Thu Jan 19, 2012
  • The most important sentence was buried in the article: More than 13 million people remain unemployed. Millions more have given up looking for work and so are no longer counted as unemployed.

• As home prices fall, more borrowers walk away

  Mon Jan 9, 2012
  • When mortgage companies refuse to modify in order to profit further, absolutely.

• Hiring gained traction in December

  Fri Jan 6, 2012
  • Hiring ALWAYS increases in December - it's Christmas shopping time! UGH. Show us something that really means something.

• Postal Service on verge of going broke, shutting down

  Mon Sep 5, 2011
  • It's such an outdated model.  Is there really a need for a post office the size and scope of what we have? In early days, it was necessary.  Now, it's not (people are paying bills via internet, there's other options for shipping parcels/letters (UPS, FedEx, other shipping …

• Should death row inmates be allowed to donate their organs?

  Wed Apr 20, 2011
  • If healthy (free from HIV, Hepatitis, etc) and sane, then let them donate and save a life (or 12)! It's their last chance to do some good!

• Seeing double: Texas school sets record for most twins

  Thu Mar 3, 2011
  • because they "landed in the Guinness World Records for having the largest number of twins and triplets in one grade."  Sounds like it's a different record

• Gunshot to head ends 70 years of marriage

  Mon Nov 22, 2010
  • It's appalling - not what he did... the fact we can end our pet's suffering by "putting them down" but any attempt to end the suffering of our loved one's is called murder (even when they are no longer "living").

• Should kids be required to get a license in order to sell baked goods in a park?

  Mon Nov 15, 2010
  • While I love their entrepreneurial spirit, they need to be treated like other vendors - even if only from a health inspection standpoint.

• Couple: We didn't notice $175,000 bank error

  Wed Jan 14, 2009
  • I've actually had this happen.  This was long ago, when ATM's were new and not everything was computerized in a bank.  I went to withdraw some $ and my account receipt said I had $75000 (+ the amount of my balance).  Tempting as it was to scream "whoo hoo" and run away, I …