Tag: Foreclosures

Sharpen your red pencils. The government transparency group, Public Markup.org, posted the full text of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 — otherwise known as the $700 billion blank check to Wall Street — to encourage public discussion sans pundits and politicos.

When the government bailed out Bear Stearns in March, plenty of people on Main Street complained it wasn’t fair to save an investment bank and do nothing to help homeowners. Imagine how they feel now.

Breaking news on a GOP voter disenfranchisement plot from our sister site, Michigan Messenger. The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Michigan over the Michigan GOP’s plan to use foreclosure lists to challenge voters at the polls, as first reported by the Michigan Messenger.

Our Michigan Messenger colleague Eartha Jane Melzer follows up on her blockbuster news story last week on a plan by the Macomb County Republican Party to challenge residents' voting eligibility in predominantly Democratic neighborhoods hit hard by foreclosures. Now, a veteran Republican activist and author of Confessions of a Republican Operative: How to Rig an Election spills the beans on how "holding down Democratic turnout is a key part of Republican strategy for victory in November."

Foreclosures and the subsequent decrease in overall property values could lead to budget problems for some Colorado counties.Dropping property values - a major source...

A funny thing happened on the way to the capitol. The Colorado Banker's Association has jumped on the bandwagon of informing state legislators about...