Foreclosure Filings Up 81% In 2008
WASHINGTON — More than 2.3 million American homeowners faced foreclosure proceedings last year, an 81 percent increase from 2007, with the worst yet to come as consumers grapple with layoffs, shrinking investment portfolios and falling home prices. Nationwide, more than 860,000 properties were actually repossessed by lenders, more than double the 2007 level, according to RealtyTrac, a foreclosure listing firm based in Irvine, Calif., which compiled the figures
Art Levine: Ad Wars: Dr. Evil vs. Unions Over Employee Free Choice Act
The pro-union American Rights at Work launches Thursday a new $3 million ad campaign promoting the right to organize unions and the Employee Free Choice Act.
Zondra Hughes: Mr. Burris Goes to Washington (Finally)
The debacle is over.
Christina Bellantoni: Obama: Call me Barack
First published at WashingtonTimes.com Reporters crowding around outside the Senate Democrats’ lunch on Capitol Hill today didn’t hear much from special guest President-elect Barack Obama. When leaving, he was greeted by dozens of camera clicks and flashes.
ProPublica: Bailout Opposition Mounts as Obama Requests Funds
by Paul Kiel , ProPublica The incoming Obama administration has launched an “aggressive campaign” to release the second installment of bailout funds, the Washington Post reports . Given widespread criticism from both right and left over how the Bush administration has handled the first $350 billion, opposition is to be expected
Obama To Maintain Practice Of Naming Donors To Ambassador Posts
President-elect Barack Obama will uphold at least one of Washington’s old ways: the appointment of campaign donors to plum ambassadorships.
HuffPost Party Location: Newseum
HuffPost is hosting its pre-Inaugural ball at none other than Washington D.C.’s Newseum. The museum of news opened in 1997 and is a place where visitors can explore five centuries of news history while also taking a look at where the news media is heading, Read more about it here
Karin Kloosterman: Georgetown U Newspaper Editor Reports on Sderot-Gaza, and Recording With Rockets
I met Andrew Dubbins , the Assistant Editor of Georgetown University’s student newspaper, The Hoya, when he was in Israel last week.
Inauguration To Close Bridges, Streets In DC
WASHINGTON — Police are blocking off all bridges crossing the Potomac River into Washington and a huge chunk of downtown when Barack Obama takes the oath of office Jan. 20, securing the largest area of the nation’s capital for any inauguration
Bush Heading To Texas On Inauguration Day
The White House said Wednesday President Bush will go directly to Midland, Texas after leaving Washington on Inauguration Day. White House spokesperson Dana Perino said the President and First Lady Laura Bush will leave Andrews Air Force Base, and fly to Midland for a “welcome home event” in Centennial Plaza on the town square
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