| Good, or at least non-bad, signs on the housing market |
| David H. Stevens, president of the Mortgage Bankers Association, recently paraphrased Thomas Jefferson in assessing the housing market: It's "swimming with the current rather than standing like a rock," and what is needed now is "rock-like certainty." |
| 01/24/2012 |
| Oil will be big boost to Valley's economy |
| Area economic development officials have some bold predictions about the impact that oil and gas exploration will have on Tuscarawas County in 2012 and beyond. They include an unemployment rate of 5 percent or lower by the end of the year, an additional 5,000 to 10,000 residents and creation of significant pockets of wealth in the county. |
| 02/06/2012 |
| From ramshackle to spectacular |
| The typical house-hunter likely would have avoided the wooden "shack" on Jefferson Street in Belmont Hills. After all, its former owners had to leave the main structure to use the bathroom or the kitchen. |
| 01/22/2012 |
| SB12-30: Foreclosure proceeds available sooner |
| Homeowners who lose their property to foreclosure could collect excess auction proceeds several weeks sooner under a bill offered today by Sen. Cheri Jahn. The Jefferson County Democrat submitted SB12-30, a bill with a variety of changes to the state’s public trustee laws, one of which is shortening the amount of time in which trustees [...] |
| 01/11/2012 |
| Mitt Romney Still Preferred To Newt Gingrich By Power Outsiders |
| WASHINGTON -- Although he appears headed to victory in Saturday's South Carolina primary, Newt Gingrich faces skepticism from grassroots Republican activists and officeholders, who increasingly prefer Mitt Romney as their first choice for the Republican presidential nomination. That's the main finding from the latest Power Outsiders survey in the early primary and caucus states and beyond. |
| 01/21/2012 |
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