Land Resource LLC Developer of Grey Rock at Lake Lure Files for Bankruptcy Protection

History of Grey RockLand Resource, LLC purchased the 4,000 acre Grey Rock tract for less than 12 million dollars in 2003 ... mountain residential community located in Rutherford, North Carolina, commenced over the spring weekend ... is the only structure completed in the development.On September 21, 2005 the North Carolina [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 23:42:00

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Bank of America Drops as Merrill May Need U.S. Aid

Bank of America Drops as Merrill May Need U.S. Aid Posted by: Alex Stanczyk 15 Jan, 2009 Alex’s Notes: ... on Jan. 20, when the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank could post its first quarterly loss in 17 ... into the markets, and the Fed has used up pretty much all its credit, so the next shoe to drop will be the bond [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:53:41

Throwing Pennies Down A Drain

Some housing bubble news from Wall Street and Washington ... s first annual report on the credit rating agencies since Congress gave it express oversight in 2006 ... . Today, the SEC released its report on credit rating agencies and their role in the subprime mess. Moody [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 18:36:25

Checking Your Credit Score

Most people don’t know their credit score. What does that mean? ... debt. Never close your oldest accounts because they can add valuable history to your credit report. Set ... those that do not. Check your credit report regularly. Keep it free of inaccuracies and mixed [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 11:58:12

No More Nanny: Teach Me How to Cook!

Tomorrow is the last day that our nanny will be working at our house full time. She watches our boys. She does our laundry. She cooks our dinner. And starting next week, we are on our own! She’s still going to watch our 11-month-old for 10 hours a week, but it won’t be at our house anymore [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 13:29:25

Credit Crisis Timeline

This is lifted from American Thinker, and by the way to the editor if you'd prefer I not take so much of the text leave comment or email me, ... " community reinvestment Senate bill. Opponents argued the bill would allocate credit without regard [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 12:09:00

How the Rescue Bill Politics Did (and Didn't) Change

How the Rescue Bill Politics Did (and Didn't) Change By Ben Pershing The second time was the charm for the House of Representatives, which began the week by sending the stock market into the tank with its defeat of the financial rescue bill, and has ended the week by approving a modified version of the measure by a comfortable margin [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 19:25:00

Voters Use Twitter To Track Election Day By Mobile Phone

Voters Use Twitter To Track Election Day By Mobile Phone By Tricia Duryee - Tue 04 Nov 2008 11: ... are working. For instance, voters reported in Tampa that a machine was jammed, in North Carolina ... . Perhaps the biggest demonstration of this is at The Twitter Vote Report, a site developed by a team [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 22:25:51

Islamic finance in Michigan: "When you look at the economic crisis we're in, if you were to follow Islamic or Sharia financing, you couldn't have this crisis"

And if cars didn't exist, you never would have had that fender-bender that made you late for work. The "cure" being offered here is worse than the ailment for several reasons. In particular, there is the fundamental matter of opportunity costs and benefits, and risk and reward [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 05:01:00

Iraqi Government Confirms Preference For 2010 Withdrawal

Iraqi government statements about a time horizon for our withdrawal from Iraq is a big plus for Obama and a big negative for McCain. It might be true, but it does not have to be that way. Since the McCain campaign is seemingly unable to get out of their own way, [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 01:13:36

SATURDAY JANUARY 10 & SUNDAY 11, 2009

THIS SITE SUPPORTS ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL POLICE DEPARTMENTS, EMS CREWS, IN ADDITION TO ALL SERVING IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, NO MATTER WHERE YOU MAY BE NEW BRUNSWICK HIGHWAY HIGH RISK MOOSE & DEER LOCATIONSNEW BRUNSWICK HIGHWAY VIDEO CAMERASNew Brunswick Weather: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 02:22:00

NCSBN's Nursys.com Implements Paperless Verification of Nurse Licenses

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) ... is completely online, is said to be more efficient, easier and quicker because the verification report ... days upon verification of payment which is processed through credit card.Nursys LicensureVerification [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 18:32:00

Age Verification Debate Continues; Schools Now at Center of Discussion

This week, I have been up at Harvard University participating in another meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force (ISTTF) ... with evaluating the market for online child safety tools and methods and issuing a report [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 17:54:06

Id theft and their prevention

Identity theft is an increasingly prevalent problem in the United States ... thieves from getting credit in your name. It locks access to your credit report and your credit score ... be given a special pin number that you can use online to unlock your credit report and credit score [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 23:06:53

California Assembly Passes Foreclosure Reform Bill But More Needed to Protect Future Borrowers from Predatory Loan Practices

By Frank D. Russo Legislation that would reform the foreclosure process in California for the benefit of homeowners trying ... vote to pass. Credit Perata and others for working out a viable bill that has been able to make [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 16:15:44

Nursing News: NCSBN Nursys.com to launch completely paperless verification

NCSBN Nursys.com Web site will implement paperless verifications beginning Jan. 1, 2009 ... because the verification report is activated immediately and available to all nursing boards ... RN and LPN licenses is $60.Nursys.com applicants can pay by credit card using the secure and private [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 23:51:00

CPI at .1% Annually, Smallest Increase Since 1954

Even without properly accounting for housing which would drive the CPI hugely negative, the 2008 U.S. Consumer Price Gains Slow to 0 ... food and energy, costs were unchanged.Today’s report underscores the destruction of companies’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:32:00

19 August SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup

IRAQ Civilian Court Tries Case From the Fog of War - Nicholas Casey, WSJ Jose Luis Nazario was a Marine Corps sergeant in Iraq in November 2004, ... provincial elections collapsed in a bitter dispute over Kirkuk, as Arabs and Turkmens demanded [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 08:24:27

AMERICAN FINANCIAL CRISIS BOOSTS OBAMA

For months, Mark Wagner stuck by John McCain, ... with experience,” he said. Some Republicans report hearing of similar conversions in Ohio, Indiana and North Carolina, and they fear that the change [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 00:11:07

Marc Faber - Bullish On The US$, Bearish On Commodities

U.S. Dollar Rally Continues. Here are the charts of the dollar index. $USD - US$ Index Daily (Thursday Evening) Click on chart for sharper image $USD - US$ Index Daily (Friday Evening) Click on chart for sharper image Marc Faber Weighs In There is a very interesting Bloomberg video interview of Faber that I commented on in Marc Faber - [more...]

Date: 2008-08-10 17:03:39

Environmental Federal Register, Vol. 74, No. 11, January 16, 2009

Readers & Subscribers: Please see the Readers Note in the right column ... or company contribution by credit card (click here). Fill out the form (optional); insert "REGTrak ... environmental briefing report. Subscribers Note: There will not be a Federal Register published [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:18:00

Dark Days for the Golden State

Dark Days for the Golden State). After all, debt requires interest and principal payments and those payments come from one source — taxpayers ... in housing markets, credit markets, financial markets i.e. too much regulation.   Neither point of view [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 20:36:40

This Market Is Unique

A report from New Jersey Biz. “Homeowners in the state facing mortgage foreclosures are heading in droves to law firms, state agencies and nonprofits for advice on how to save their homes or buy [more...]

Date: 2008-06-18 15:12:58

Ann Coulter's Appearance on the "Today Show" Gets Cancelled

I was pleasantly amused to learn that Ann Coulter, the moral compass of the right wing, got shafted by NBC ... attack machine: the mainstream media. He wasted no time in denouncing the North Carolina ad. Obeying ... a letter to the North Carolina Republican Party presuming [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 23:50:00

It’s the Economy, Stu…, Er… Senator!

By Al Giordano “I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues ... Furman, and report back to you the opening salvos in the “primageneral” election war over [more...]

Date: 2008-06-09 15:21:14

The Five Myths of Campaign 2008

The Five Myths of Campaign 2008 In a piece for tomorrow's "Outlook" section, The Fix explores -- and explodes the five biggest myths of the 2008 campaign. We don't want to ruin the surprise but here's a sampling: Myth #2: A wave of black voters and young people was the key to Obama's victory. Afraid not [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 17:18:00

Friday Line: Republican Governors on the Rise

Friday Line: Republican Governors on the Rise As the GOP charts its post-election course, some see leadership coming from the Republican governors, ... been more clear." To that end, expect next week's RGA annual conference in Miami to be closely watched [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 16:09:24

Delaware Offshore Wind Farm Pattern For Future?

Delaware Offshore Wind Farm Pattern For Future? A New York Times article on the politics of wind power looks at the long fight for political ... is subsidized by a production tax credit of about 2 cents per kwh. However, in defense of this subsidy coal [more...]

Date: 2008-09-14 22:39:52

How “Green” is the McCain VP Short List?

With the opportunity for sustained media face-time at a premium before the upcoming national party conventions, ... Credit to encourage the development and use of locally owned wind and clean energy sources [more...]

Date: 2008-08-11 20:50:42

DrumBeat: October 23, 2008

The Peak Oil Crisis: In the Eye of the Storm So where does all this leave the world's oil supply - the life blood of our civilization? ... citizens spent 19.2 percent of their annual disposable income on food. As recent as 1980, Americans [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 13:14:59

DrumBeat: October 10, 2008

The Official Demise of the Oil Bubble On Sept. 11, 2007, the price of crude oil closed at $78 ... ,'' Neil McMahon, a London-based analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., wrote in a report today ... , the Saudis are the key to the future existence of OPEC,'' the report said. ``However [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 13:15:00

Jesse Helms, 1921-2008

I wasn't planning on a post memorializing Jesse Helms, who died today at the age of 86, but I thought better of it after seeing the left's hatred of late North Carolina Senator ... Soul on the Contemporary Left." Photo Credit: New [more...]

Date: 2008-07-04 18:54:57

Wag the Blog: An Obama Mandate?

Wag the Blog: An Obama Mandate? Did President-elect Barack Obama earn a mandate on Nov. 4? (AP Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais) At an otherwise news-less press conference yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama was asked about the nature of his victory earlier this month [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 11:00:09

McCain’s Nuclear Energy Plan May Cost $315 Billion

McCain’s Nuclear Energy Plan May Cost $315 Billion The Republican presidential nominee expects a 29% increase in electricity demand by 2030, ... of where you sit on the issue.Photo Credit: Red, Green and Blue Archive Read this post » NM [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 01:11:33

An Update on the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Tax Credits (H.R. 5984, H.R. 6049, and S. 2821)--Rejected, but...

The Senate today rejected the part of House bill H.R ... , as it has once before, could attach an amendment to the pending Conference Report for the Housing ... ://www.seia.org/Navigant_Tax_Credit_Impact.pdf Attached document includes: I. Summary of provisions [more...]

Date: 2008-06-11 03:05:49

Auto Sales Plunge To Lowest Level Since 1982

MarketWatch is reporting Automakers post steep sales declines. Here are some of the highlights from the report ... his own plea for federal stimulus in a conference call following the report."Our industry is in a much [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 05:02:00

DrumBeat: September 25, 2008

Nigeria threatens to halt energy firms' LNG schemes ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria could suspend the liquefied natural gas (LNG) ... ethanol. That is 100% of average annual world coarse grain trade and 6.4% of global cereal grain [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 14:01:38

Obama Paints Image of McCain and Bush as One

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Obama Paints Image of McCain and Bush as One ... his 2004 presidential run, including Nevada and New Mexico -- he will also visit Florida, North Carolina and Virginia -- he argued that McCain not only supports Bush's policies, but that he's intent [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 02:11:02

UW-Michigan thoughts

What a nice win to go into the new year, very pleased with today's effort and result ... , more easily than we have against other teams so far.Having watched Michigan beat North Carolina [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 21:37:00

New York Times starts catching up to iSteve

From the Sunday, 12/21/08 New York Times:White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire By JO BECKER, ... . There are plenty of culprits, like lenders who peddled easy credit, consumers who took on mortgages they could [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 04:53:00

Illinois Blues News

All news BLUES in the US! FREE Blues E-Magazine from IllinoisBlues.com December 24, 2008 © 2007 - 2008 IllinoisBlues.com News, photos, reviews, live Blues links & MUCH MORE in this issue! Scroll or Page Down! IllinoisBlues [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 04:03:00

A Lifeline for Renewable Energy at Stake

Solar panels (Flickr: Chandra Marsono) Dennis Markatos-Soriano has been worried. And so are, probably, the hundreds of thousands of other workers in the renewable-energy sector. Markatos-Soriano, an employee of Carolina Solar Energy, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 18:25:34

In Depth: McCain's environmental record (By Ben Whitford)

In January 2006, Brad Miller, a Democratic congressman from North Carolina, joined Sen. John McCain on a legislative fact-finding delegation to the South Pole. Miller recalls the lawmakers, still [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 16:15:52

The Heller Gun Decision Week 6--Career Ending Decisions Being Made?

By Irwin Nowick In my recent article, I mentioned several developments ... from the NRA and others have resulted in "No comments." An AP report was published in dozens of newspapers [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 11:04:59

USA: Finance the Islamic way at Michigan bank

DETROIT (AP) — Big financial institutions have been battered by mortgages gone bad ... also rules out some of the activity that got Western finance in trouble — subprime mortgages, credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:04:00

Eartha Kitt, CIA Target

By Danny Millerwww.huffingtonpost.comDecember 27, 2008Eartha Kitt, self-described "sex kitten" and singer of the yuletide classic "Santa Baby" ... South, born in the tiny town of North, South Carolina, in 1927. Her mother was a poor African-American [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 00:28:00

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13, 2009

THIS SITE SUPPORTS ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL POLICE DEPARTMENTS, EMS CREWS, IN ADDITION TO ALL SERVING IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, NO MATTER WHERE YOU MAY BE Police officer saluted for saving [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:21:00

Asheville's Blue Ridge Savings Bank ordered to stop 'unsafe and unsound banking practices'

In today's newspaper, the Asheville Citizen-Times takes note of a an FDIC action taken against Asheville's Blue Ridge Savings Bank. Former U.S. Rep ... compliance regulations, 12 C.F.R. § 326.8, and the FDIC’s suspicious activity report regulations [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 13:38:22

'Islamic Finance' Spreads to U.S. Heartland

DETROIT: Big financial institutions have been battered by mortgages gone bad ... , credit default swaps and the like. "When you look at the economic crisis we're in, if you were to follow [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:23:00

Kucinich introduces articles of Impeachment (continued; videos)

Kucinich introduces Bush impeachment resolution + videos (updated) videocafeblog Kucinich: Articles of Impeachment: Warrantless Surveillance Added: June 09, 2008 Dennis Kucinich on the House Floor June 9th reading some of his articles of impeachment on Bush’s illegal surveillance of US citizens [more...]

Date: 2008-06-10 06:42:37

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