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Fla. sticks it to most-vulnerable borrowers
As opposition groups go, the folks fighting Florida Senate Bill 282 offered about as broad a coalition as you can cobble together these days. The Florida Consumer Action Network lobbied against the bill. The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops called...
Tags: Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Loans, Consumers
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Letters to the Editor: Cadillac Citrus Bowl, no trust in government, novel idea
A Cadillac Citrus Bowl The city is pumping money into the ancient Citrus Bowl stadium, and the soccer folks want their own stadium. The football folks want to be able to attract college play-off games and more, and the soccer folks want a place to hit...
Tags: Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Politics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Windermere
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Britain's scrutiny of tax havens involves looking in the mirror
LONDON — For hundreds of years, the island of Jersey has been famous for its cows, which have been bred, raised and exported worldwide. But these days, the mother's milk of its economy is something else entirely: the billions upon billions of...
Tags: G20, Economy, Business and Finance, Starbucks Corp., European Union, David Cameron
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Local men give unique gift to The Gaither Group
Daily American Staff Writer, @daalyssacGospel group Bill Gaither and his vocal band will be together forever thanks to two Somerset men. Jim Phillippi, Somerset, painted 23 members of The Gaither Group, both living and dead. His long-time friend John Jagnow, Somerset, hand delivered it...Tags: Memorial Day, Politics
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Trial to begin for officer charged in Randallstown teen's death
It took Chris Brown months to return to work after the death of her 17-year-old son. She has left her old home and is still hesitant to look at pictures of the teen. On Monday, a little more than a year after Christopher Brown died, the Baltimore County...
Tags: Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Murder
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Real estate notebook: Developer to rename Wharfside plaza
A developer has paid $13 million for the Wharfside Village Shopping Center and plans to renovate and rename the Boca Raton plaza. Boston-based TJAC Development acquired Wharfside, located at Powerline Road and Southwest 18th Street, from DRA Advisers....Tags: MDC Holdings Incorporated, Coconut Grove, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Miramar, Politics
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Lake school cutbacks would mean fewer students get busing
Two years ago, Lake Minneola High School parents successfully lobbied the School Board for courtesy busing for children who otherwise would cross a busy road and walk a partly unpaved pathway to school. Now, faced with a $16.3 million budget shortfall...
Tags: Politics, Students, Teaching and Learning
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A rose garden to remember dad
South Bend TribuneA rose garden for dad. Christine Sopczyn-ski, of South Bend, has been elated about her rose garden on Westmoor Street, near Kennedy School. Chris said the garden was started by her father, Ben, in the mid-1940s. Her father was an accomplished rosarian and...Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Veterans Affairs
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Still fresh, but on a new corner
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- Vendors at the Urban Garden Market decided they needed less wave and more zoom. Or maybe more of both. Each weekend, they'd try to wave customers into their quiet nook at LaSalle Square, about a block from the zoom of traffic on Lincoln...Tags: Healthy Diet, Politics
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New community center opens in Ellicott City
The old low-income Hilltop Housing project in Ellicott City has given way to another world: new apartments with facades of soft-colored siding and stone, and a recreation center with the latest in exercise gear, including a retractable-roof indoor...Tags: Interior Policy, Apartments, Economy, Business and Finance, Personal Income, Finance
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O'Malley lobbies EPA to ease cruise ship pollution rule
Gov. Martin O'Malley has interceded with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of Carnival Cruise Lines after the company threatened to pull its business from Baltimore over a pending air-quality regulation that would require large, ocean-...
Tags: Travel, Bahamas, Arts and Culture, Environmental Defense Fund, Caribbean Islands
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Gov. Brown targets enterprise-zone tax credits
SACRAMENTO — A battle is raging over a California program that grants businesses tax breaks for creating jobs but prevents the public from knowing who got them and why. At issue are enterprise zones, which were established to boost employment in...Tags: Unemployment, Taxation, Labor Markets, Tribune Company, Small Businesses
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