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jedwan on March 1st, 2010

Moved to Credit in the News, although SmorgasBoard might have been as appropriate. :D

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jedwan on February 15th, 2010

Fleets: Related News
2/12/2010 – Gordon Trucking Helps to Bring Missing Children Home In 2006, the Washington State Patrol approached Pacific, Wash.-based Gordon Trucking, asking if the carrier would participate in a program to get posters of missing children on the sides of its trailers.
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jedwan on February 14th, 2010

News Briefs
Mammoth Lakes Library extends hours The Mammoth Lakes Library has extended its hours on Tuesday nights. Library hours are as follows: Monday through Friday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. (until 9 p.m. on Tuesdays) and Saturday 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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jedwan on February 11th, 2010

Mellow’s sudden retirement news fuels speculation
The shock of state Senate Democratic Leader Robert J. Mellow’s sudden announcement of retirement reverberated through the area Wednesday, fueling speculation about a potential replacement and why he decided to retire now. One of those questions will be a
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jedwan on February 10th, 2010

Because there seems to be so much misinformation and downright confusion about the Credit CARD Act of 2009 (and that’s just among the lenders!), I thought I’d post a link here, plus summaries by the Congressional Research Service, part of the Library of Congress. The original act has a tacked-on correction (see below) specifying that it was credit card accounts that were affected by one aspect (the timely notice of new statements

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Moved to Credit in the News (after internal debate.)

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jedwan on February 10th, 2010

News Search:
WITH the nights still dark and everyone feeling the pinch, some of our less salubrious citizens are deciding that burglary is a good way to make ends meet.
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jedwan on February 7th, 2010

Business News brief
New data released by real estate analyst firm shows home mortgage foreclosures and delinquencies continuing to rise in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area.
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KJCT8.com – Grand Junction, Montrose – Weather, News, Sports | Government-owned GMAC loses $5 billion in 4Q
DETROIT (AP) – Home and auto lender GMAC Financial Services says it lost $5 billion in the last three months of the year, as losses from its mortgage operations kept the company in the red for another quarter.
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jedwan on February 5th, 2010

Moved to Credit in the News.

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