As we went to press this week Congressional Republicans began committee hearings with the intent of defunding the Obama administrations key foreclosure alternative program known as HAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program). Also targeted are the FHA’s Refinance Program and two other relief programs that while not entirely successful by any standards, have helped hundreds of…
I live in North Park, on a relatively active street. It’s a great niche in the community. I know all my neighbors. Yes, I even know all of their names, although I think I have to re-introduce myself each time I run into the older lady next door. We hang out, we chat, we borrow…
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“On Wisconsin, on Wisconsin! Plunge right through that line …” so starts the University of Wisconsin Green Bay Badgers fight song. Those “lines” stretched to some 30,000 raucous, righteous supporters of labor rights – all marching on the statehouse in Madison during the freezing February winter. To say it’s been an interesting couple of weeks…
This week, Freedom to Marry is launching the largest-ever national public education campaign aimed at increasing popular support for same-sex marriage. Appropriately, their first Why Marriage Matters ad ran on Valentine’s Day. The campaign is a good reminder that our fight for equality is not over. We’re still in the heat of a social and…
Carolyn Bowahy, Broker-associate at ARG Abbott Realty Group, just scored a major plum for a University Heights client. Her listing was chosen as the show’s San Diego remodel spotlight and hosts Tanya Memme and Roger Hazard will work their magic before our very eyes. Rehab will be complete in time for a public open house…
When people ask me what I do for work – you know those odd courtesies we find ourselves in during social encounters – I usually say I am a story teller. Sure, I can impress them by stating I work for an alternative weekly newspaper, or declare I am an award-winning journalist, or even say…
I know we’ve covered this before, but with several letters this week, let’s go over it once more please, and this time with emphasis. If you’re savvy enough to read between the lines coming at you constantly from most news outlets, you’ll notice a widespread and not-too-subtle lie being spread by my arch-nemesis over at…
As reported here a few weeks back, most of the nation’s large mortgage lenders routinely add 40 to 60 points to the minimum FICO credit score required by the FHA. Last week, Quicken Loans and Wells Fargo quietly suspended the questionable practice saying they will now honor the FHA’s 580 minimum score on the…
Simply reading the word, or hearing it said, conjures up images of African Americans being hosed down by racists in the South. The word is permanently associated with racial discrimination, but its true meaning is a prejudgment, an assumption made about someone or something before having adequate knowledge to be able to do so with…
