Mayors face test of spreading foreclosures
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TRENTON, New Jersey  - Mayor Douglas Palmer, meeting with visitors at City Hall, points to a large map peppered with dark dots. Each one represents a home or group of homes on the verge of foreclosure, and there are dozens all over the city.
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Aides to billionaire mayor of New York reported to be examining procedure for entering US presidential race
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The Patrick administration's top housing officials met with nine mortgage lenders in the first of a series of meetings seeking to remedy the state's foreclosure crisis. Kofi Jones, spokeswoman for the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, described the 90-minute meeting as a preliminary discussion of what the state and lenders can do to help "keep people in their ...
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 10--Lenders who foreclose on contaminated properties would have to disclose hazards to buyers under a bill being considered in the Legislature.  "This is just huge moral issue in my view," said state Sen. Karen Fraser, D-Olympia.
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By Janice L. Habuda, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 6--Kenmore officials want to join a growing coalition of municipalities seeking guidance for dealing with vacant properties.
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By Christopher D. Kirkpatrick, Jen Aronoff and Victoria Cherrie, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 11--LENOIR -- Eugene and Violet Anderson were home last spring when a van pulled up and the mayor, a county commissioner and several others piled out.
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By Elias E. Lopez, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--Palmetto Bay Mayor Eugene Flinn asked residents to join him in a fight against overdevelopment in Miami-Dade County, rising insurance rates and "unfair" mitigation fees during his annual State of the Village address Wednesday.
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JACKSONVILLE, Florida - The mayor wanted a picture with him. The owner of the local National Football League team wanted a word with him.
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The nation&#39;s home builders, real estate salespeople and mortgage bankers stood by their man in the presidential election, and now they hope he stands by his housing agenda during the next four years.
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Baltimoreâs mayor and City Council contend that Wells Fargoâs lending practices discriminated against black borrowers and led to a wave of foreclosures.
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Officials are promoting a corner of their state as a good place for financial companies to build backup facilities in case of a disaster.
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City government finds new ways to raise cash
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This is a boomtown, but it is also scattered with signs of bust &#151; namely, homeless people. And the city is taking a hard line against them.
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Campaigning for office is typically a shoe-leather exercise, with lots of walking through neighborhoods and knocking on doors. But that's not easily done in some of New Orleans' devastated and largely depopulated sections.
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A surfer and maverick city councilwoman appeared to cling to a narrow lead Wednesday in her write-in bid to unseat the mayor of the nation&#39;s seventh-largest city.
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STOCKTON, California  - Stockton, California, may be the foreclosure capital of the United States, but that is not influencing how residents like Michelle Encinias who are losing their homes will vote on "Super Tuesday."
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 10--BILOXI -- Mayor A.J.