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- State budgets lean on property sales, leases
- The Arizona House of Representatives’ office, one of the buildings the state is considering selling as part of a sale-leaseback program to raise cash, would cost a private owner more than $18 million. Lawmakers would continue to occupy the…
- Stateline
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- 1 hour ago
Stateline- What's the deal with prices?
- Home sales were up for the fourth straight month in Masssachusetts, jumping 17.7 percent in October, while condo sales were not far behind, rising 17.2 percent, according to MAR. Nationally, resales of existing homes soared 10.1 percent,…
- Boston Globe
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- Giving Thanks For The Blessings
- Thanksgiving is a chance to gather with loved ones and share in a time-honored American tradition. For some, it is an excuse to stuff themselves with turkey and football. For others, it is a special time of "giving thanks" for blessings in…
- Post Chronicle
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- Nantucket Island's Christmas Stroll
- One of the best kept holiday secrets on the East coast is the annual Christmas Stroll on Nantucket Island. The island located off the coast of Massachusetts, has long been famous as a summer destination for the wealthy and occasional…
- Luxist
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Luxist- What's best on the Thanksgiving menu? Giving, of course.
- That first thanksgiving day in America, celebrated in 1621 by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians, was far more than a day to give thanks. The fall feast in Plymouth was also an occasion to give to others – gifts of joy and hope as well as…
- The Christian Science Monitor
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- U.S. Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index Fell to 67.4 (Update1)
- Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Confidence among U.S. consumers fell in November for a second straight month as job losses threaten to limit spending heading into the holiday shopping season. The Reuters/University of Michigan final index of…
- Bloomberg
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- 34 minutes ago
- see what Todd Harrison has written »
- Todd Harrison, founder and CEO of Minyanville, has 18 years of experience on Wall Street. After graduating from Syracuse University with honors (1991), he spent seven years on the worldwide equity derivative desk at Morgan Stanley (vice…
- Minyanville
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- 2 hours ago
- Acorn Housing Struggles to Hang On
- PHILADELPHIA—On a shabby block in North Philadelphia, the front window of an Acorn Housing office bears a poster urging distressed mortgage borrowers to "seek help before it's too late." That advice also could apply to Acorn Housing. The…
- Wall Street Journal
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- Letter: 'A Misleading Shortfall'
- Frank Tramontozzi, chief engineer for Massachusetts DOT. In his letter Mr ... Tramontozzi I point out a misleading shortfall in his letter, pursuant to the remaining numbers of homes that continue to have serious water issues throughout the…
- Abington Mariner
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- The Almanac - Nov. 25
- In 1987, Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, died in office of a heart attack ... 2007, thousands were evacuated as a wildfire scorched nearly 5,000 acres and destroyed 49 homes in tinder-dry canyons in Malibu, Calif. It was…
- Post Chronicle
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- 3 hours ago