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...banks naturally want foreclosed properties taken off their hands in the NSP buyout - and since reckless and even predatory lending was so often at play in the subprime mess - perhaps they in return ought to be required to show some level of commitment to homeowner relief, such as revising interest rates and other mortgage terms. This month, in advance of the Dec. 1 deadline cities face for submitting plans for their NSP funds, Miami Gardens councilman Andre Williams sent the Bush Administration a request to permit the city to use a "carrot-and-stick approach." "Can we," Williams asked, "steer...
...Wells Fargo denies the accusation, and has asked a judge to dismiss the suit.) Countrywide Financial (now merged with Bank of America), which also attended the Miami Gardens clinic, last month settled lender-fraud complaints brought against it by 11 states by agreeing to lower home-loan amounts and interest rates at a cost of $8.4 billion...
...best interest of wealth to be, in part, spread. It is, after all, not money but the movement of money that produces more money. Deeper pockets across the country mean more that can be spent by consumers. In any case, during the past eight years we have been redistributing wealth - from our kids, and theirs, to the upper few percent on the economic ladder with little or none trickling down to the common man the GOP purports to speak for. Dan Thompson, Union...
...schoolwork into one schedule, the Quincy House junior says he manages to do it.“I like to have both going on,” he says. “It keeps me from getting sick of either thing. There’s just a wealth of interesting material.” Campbell has been playing jazz since middle school, according to Sayuri Miyamoto of Newton, Mass., his classical piano teacher from first to twelfth grade. “He showed a lot of interest in the structure and theory of the music,” she says...
Many civil rights activists hope that the legal efforts will eventually lead to the prosecution of outgoing Administration officials for various offenses allegedly committed in the name of fighting terrorism over the past eight years. So far Obama and key congressional Democrats have signaled little interest in investigating and prosecuting Bush Administration officials once they leave office, a position some fear could leave the way open to similar government abuses in the future. "How do you deter these types of crimes in the future?" asks Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. "There is no meaningful...