| Adjusting to real estate's 'Great Depression' |
| Seattle Times editorial columnist Bruce Ramsey disputes Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's claim that there is "not a significant risk" of deflation. We have it already, Ramsey says, in real estate. |
| 08/31/2010 |
| U.S. banks post stronger profits |
| The nation's banks last quarter recorded their strongest overall profits since 2007 as projected loan losses shrank for the first time in more than four years, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said in a report Tuesday. But banks in the... |
| 09/02/2010 |
| Alaska Senate hopeful wants land, not cash |
| Alaska's political leadership has spent decades touting its ability to bring federal dollars back from Washington. But the man who may have unseated incumbent Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in last week's primary says forget the cash -- he'd rather have real estate. |
| 08/29/2010 |
| Investors sue sleep study lab owner |
| Investors in a Northbrook sleep study lab have sued its principal owner, charging that he fraudulently sold shares in the company and that he misspent at least half of the $2 million in proceeds.Ken Dachman, chief executive of Central Sleep Diagnostics, used $400,000 in investor funds to set up a son-in-law as the owner of a Near North Side tattoo parlor, the complaint alleged. It also said ... |
| 09/02/2010 |
| Stanley Kutler: Our enabling media worse than ever |
| Thomas Jefferson periodically expressed support for a free press as essential to an “enlightened citizenry,” but when the reality of political life settled on him during his presidency and beyond, Jefferson had harsh words for it. The newspapers, he complained in 1803, “present only the caricatures of disaffected minds.” In his “retirement” a decade later, Jefferson deplored the “putrid state ... |
| 09/02/2010 |
| Nation/world briefs |
| U.S. to give $5B to help firms pay for retirements; Imam: Mosque fight grows; Ovary removal may lower cancer risk; AGs demand end to Craigslist sex ads; Photos show Fidel Castro, U.S. writer; 6 GIs die in Afghanistan; 19 in 4 days |
| 09/01/2010 |
| Salvage Efforts for Sheldon Jackson College Continues |
| Robert Woolsey, KCAW – Sitka The salvage effort at the shut-down Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka continues. The Borough turned down the trustees’ request for a loan in 2007, and that meant the end of the college. Now trustees have sold off some of the campus’s valuable real estate and are hoping they can keep the [...] |
| 08/31/2010 |
| As he considers 2012 bid, Pawlenty takes hit at home |
| A new survey indicates that more than half of Minnesotans do not approve of Gov. Tim Pawlenty's busy out of state travel schedule. (CNN) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is discovering that laying the ground work for a presidential run can take a political toll back home. According to a new survey from Minnesota Public [...] |
| 09/01/2010 |
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