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TheStar.com | USElection | Clinton's hopes will live or die in Ohio
Clinton has the more aggressive plan to deal with the fallout of the mortgage crisis that began on Cleveland's Fleet Avenue and cascaded all the way to Wall Street and finally beyond America's shores. She has called for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures and a five-year freeze on subprime adjustable mortgage rates and has pledged $30 billion in funding to help combat the housing crisis. Her rival, Barack Obama, says Clinton's plan would drive up rates for traditional mortgages and has instead proposed spending $10 billion to prevent further foreclosures. With so much attention focused on Ohio as it votes Tuesday along with Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont, its economic malaise is now well known. Ohio has lost more than 200,000 jobs since 2000 and its unemployment rate is above the national average at 5.5 per cent; only Michigan has had a bigger net job loss in recent years.
What's up in The Albemarle 03/05
Police Chief Charles Crudup will discuss the city's "traffic calming" study on Main and Church streets during the Historical District Neighborhood Watch group meeting at the Elizabeth City Bed & Breakfast Thursday at 7 p.m. For more information, call 331-5957. Guild of Museum Friends to meet. The Guild of Museum Friends will meet in MOA's Gaither Auditorium Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Fred Holdsworth will speak on the topic, "The Invasion of the Outer Banks during the Civil War." Vineyard Group to meet. The Perquimans County Restoration Association's 1730 Vineyard Group will hold committee meetings in the Newbold-White House visitor center on Thursday at 7 p.m. For more info, call 426-5123. Pittenger to speak to GOP club. Lt. governor candidate state Sen.
'Magical misery tour' spotlights foreclosures
The big white bus rolled up to a dozen empty houses in Elk Grove, where last year something went badly wrong for those who lived inside them. Saturday, their swimming pools were green, the electricity off and pieces of a child's puzzle lay scattered across one upstairs hallway. The houses were the main attractions of a new phenomenon to rock this housing market: the foreclosure bus tour. While other people jogged or shopped for groceries ahead of an expected storm, 25 investors and others looking for a house of their own toured the city's bank repos Saturday. And by day's end, two of them agreed to make offers. .
SNP 'not fit to govern'
Here he seems to have missed a rather basic point. The SNP are proposing a tax cut. They have made that point clear, describing it as the largest tax cut in a generation.Mr. Midwinter says that moving from the council tax to the local income tax will raise £831 million less in tax than at present. That is half true. £450 million less will be raised. Put another way (and one I suspect that will ring more true to taxpayers) that means £450 million will be returned to Scottish taxpayers. That is a central feature of the SNP plans.This leaves £381 million in dispute. This £381 million is the amount of the current council tax rebate. Mr. Midwinter assumes that this money would be lost to Scotland in the maw of the Treasury.What we know from the Burt Review is that arrangements are flexible enough to deal with their proposed alternative to Council Tax.
NFL Weekly Predictions: Week 16
It's takes anger, and a certain amount of manhood, to turn over a table on Jim Rome after being called by the name of a women's tennis player. So this week, I'm challenging Marc Navritilova to come through with his best game of the year." Sorry, Coach. Navritilova is more of a man than Bulger, with one heck of a slice serve to the ad court, to boot. It hasn't been a banner year for the Rams, and it continues. A legion of Terrible Towel wavers make the trip; Rams fans counter with Kleenex. Steelers win, 34-20. Dallas @ Carolina (-10½) With new flame Jessica Simpson in attendance, wearing a pink No. 9 jersey, Tony Romo fired mostly blanks, limp-arming his way to a 13-of-36, 214-yard, 3-INT day as the visiting Eagles stunned the Cowboys, 10-6. The loss dropped Dallas to 12-2, and raised the possibility that the Cowboys may not have homefield advantage throughout the playoffs.
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