Washington?s New Tack: Helping HomeownersThursday, December 4, 2008 @ 8:00PMAt the Treasury Department, top officials continued to work on a plan to boost the housing market by subsidizing 30-year home mortgages with rates as low as 4.5 percent.
Credit Crunch Threatens Even Isolated ArmeniaThursday, December 4, 2008 @ 6:44PMUntil recently, banking system had managed to survive relatively unscathed, mainly because it is only slightly integrated into world markets.
Changes in parking, traffic ordinances receive preliminary OKThursday, December 4, 2008 @ 5:59PMRevisions to La Grande’s parking and traffic ordinances received tentative approval of the city council last night. During its regular monthly session, the council heard first readings by title only of new ordinances that clarify and strengthen parking and traffic rules.
Small biz loans scarce for boro entrepreneursThursday, December 4, 2008 @ 11:52AMThe number of loans approved for small businesses in Queens has dropped drastically in the last fiscal year and fallen by more than in any other borough, according to recent report by a Manhattan think tank.
Not just another car ride for GM CEO WagonerThursday, December 4, 2008 @ 11:38AMSOMERSET, Pa. (AP) — The head of the nation’s largest automaker took perhaps the most important car ride of his life Wednesday, traveling 500 miles, mostly over highway through four states, to Washington, D.C., where he will ask Congress for a second time to save his slumping company.