| City Commission reworks anti-discrimination ordinance (Western Herald) |
| City Commission reworks anti-discrimination ordinance By Craig Sudeikis Kalamazoo City Commissioners unanimously adopted an ordinance Monday night to amend chapter 18 in the Kalamazoo City Code of Ordinances that renames Article II from “Discrimination in Real Estate Transactions” to “Discrimination Prohibited.” |
| 12/01/2008 |
| QUICK POLL (GlobeSt.com) |
| DETROIT-As the General Motors board of directors acknowledges that it has considered bankruptcy as an option, following an unsuccessful trip to Washington, DC to ask for billions in loans, the company has hired Chicago-based Jones Lang LaSalle to try to sell properties to gain needed cash. |
| 11/24/2008 |
| Business calendar (Lansing State Journal) |
| • Kiwanis Club of East Lansing, 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. MSU Union, corner of Abbot Road and Grand River Avenue, East Lansing. On the second floor. Guests welcome. |
| 11/24/2008 |
| FHA-Backed Loans: The New Subprime (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News) |
| As if they haven't done enough damage. Thousands of subprime mortgage lenders and brokers -- many of them the very sorts of firms that helped create the current financial crisis -- are going strong. Their new strategy: taking advantage of a long-standing federal program designed to encourage homeownership by insuring mortgages for buyers of modest means. |
| 11/21/2008 |
| Airline expected to boost economy, officials say (Sun Newspapers) |
| PUNTA GORDA - The passengers on Direct Air's first flight from Niagra Falls, N.Y., to Punta Gorda disembarked with big smiles on their faces Friday. “It's 23 degrees and snow,” said Ed Tedesco from Thorold, Ontario, who arrived with his wife, Barb, to visit his brother in Venice. |
| 11/21/2008 |
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