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California gay marriage fight echoes past
Detroit Free Press, United States The Rumford Act ignited a voter backlash, and a year later, the California Real Estate Association put Proposition 14 on the ballot. Despite a major mobilization by religious groups and liberals — which helped fuel the Berkeley Free Speech Movement … |
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Calpers Investment Boss Arrives as Pension Slips From Pinnacle
Bloomberg Calpers welcomes Dear, 57, after it was rattled by a 18.5 percent net decline real estate investments, a 41 percent slide in its stock portfolio and the departure of four senior executives during 2008. The asset loss was so great, Calpers fell off its … |
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Candid Cam: Vultures circle, stalk A's
Inside Bay Area, CA By Cam Inman A day after officially declaring dead their Fremont move, the Oakland A's found themselves as the object of other cities' affections Wednesday, specifically Sacramento and San Jose. For the first at-bat, let's listen to what came out of … |
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Assemblywoman Harkey Sued
San Clemente Times, CA … for real estate deals. But the lawsuit, filed February 17 in Orange County Superior Court, contends it has been mismanaged, creating huge losses for investors who were told they were safe. Diane Harkey, reached in Sacramento, denied any wrongdoing. … |
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Virtue Joins Lowe Enterprises as Director, Workout Services as …
Business Wire (press release), CA … manages $4 billion in real estate assets on behalf of institutional and investment clients. In addition to its Los Angeles headquarters, Lowe Enterprises maintains regional offices in Denver, Irvine, San Francisco, Sacramento and Washington, DC. |
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California perseveres despite the bad press
Sacramento Bee, USA Politicians spend the money that flooded in during the real estate boom and thought little of what would happen when the property taxes and income taxes that fueled the boom vanished in the bust." O'Brien said the state requires a golden PR push … California Dems have it wrong OneNewsNow all 739 news articles |
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Greyhound Bus Station on the Move
News10.net, CA On Tuesday, the Sacramento City Council voted to move the longtime terminal and build a new station on Richards Boulevard, north of downtown. Police call the terminal on L Street a problem with high crime and homeless. A real estate developer wants to … |
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Sunset on horizon for Fairmont's Tonga Room bar
San Francisco Chronicle, USA (the real estate outfit headed by A's boss Lew Wolff), say the Tonga Room's fate has yet to be decided. But hotel reps tell us that as part of the Fairmont's makeover, they hope to move the downstairs Grand Ballroom to a more accessible spot off the … |
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Analysis: Giant home loans were still going strong in 2007
USA Today The size of those loans should have been a clear red flag, says Susan Wachter, who studies real estate and finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. People who borrow that much money are more likely to default on loans. … |
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Lawmaker pressures bad brokers
Santa Monica Daily Press, CA The bill also will allow law enforcement to obtain crucial real estate records more quickly via a court order. "Look at the flood of foreclosures and the state of our economy and ask yourself whether mortgage fraud should be a misdemeanor and punished … |
