New Orleans No Real Loan Forgiveness, Just More Bank Scams “…the main purpose of the settlement was to keep people in their homes. Yet the report shows that $13 billion of debt has been written off in 113,500 short sales, versus $2.5 billion in 22,000 principal-reduction loan modifications. Those numbers raise questions about which types …
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Two-Tiered Teacher Pay and Anti-Unionism Are Charter School Issues
New Orleans In the wake of the Chicago teachers’ strike there is a lot of talk about the real issues provoking the strike. The Times seems them as trivial. There’s a lot of ink pitting it as a personality problem between the prickly and notoriously difficult Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and the every bit his equal, …
How Could a Comcast Lobbyist End Up at FCC?
New Orleans We had a good, but troubling, meeting with organizers from Houston, Little Rock, Shreveport, New Orleans and elsewhere about how to proceed to lower the digital divide and access lower cost internet services, promised, but not delivered, by Comcast and other companies. By mid-February we will move forward to either involve the FCC more …