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Rates for all mortgage loan products headed higher this week as positive employment indicators rolled in, with job growth over the last six months the strongest it’s been since 2006. That, coupled with the Greek debt restructuring on the international front and the results of the Federal Reserve...
03/16/2012
U.S. Marshals admitted to saving tens of thousands of images recorded at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.  An associate general counsel with the Marshals Service acknowledged that they had saved more than 35,000 images from the Orlando, Fla. federal courthouse.  According t...
11/18/2010
Today the British Petroleum Commission charged with exploring what happened that lead to the explosion of the Macondo well deep in the Gulf of Mexico, released its preliminary report.  The important conclusion of the report is that the federal government could have done a better job of informing ...
10/06/2010
Approximately 112 miles of Gulf Coast shoreline is currently experiencing moderate to heavy oil impacts-approximately 101 miles in Louisiana, 9 miles in Mississippi and 2 miles in Florida. Approximately 497 miles of shoreline are experiencing light to trace oil impacts-approximately 231 miles in ...
09/14/2010
If you are anticipating closing on a house in the near future or during the time of year that is "hurricane season", be sure to keep one eye peeled on the weather reports.  Most insurance companies won't write insurance on a home when there is a named tropical storm.  We are now at the peak of hu...
09/12/2010
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I hope everyone takes a few moments today and remembers the victims of the attack in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.  It's a good time to remember how we all felt violated on that day, the fear of not knowing what was going to happen next, and to remember how we all felt like family--it d...
09/11/2010
Some scientists are now saying that there is an oil slick the size of Manhattan Island sitting below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico.  When the government and other organizations are saying the oil is 75% gone, we who live here are hard pressed to believe that all that oil has disappeared.  I k...
08/22/2010
Tonight, August 15, there will be a "rock the beach" free concert, featuring Lynryd Skynyrd and Josh Thompson at the Boardwalk on Okaloosa Island.  It's being sponsored by the Tourism Development Council with money from BP--in an attempt to boost tourism in the area and bring some people into loc...
08/15/2010
This page on CNN is a really good look at the numbers from the Gulf Oil Spill.  Click on the link to see what the overall tally of the damage is at this point.  And it isn't over yet--we're not getting new oil, but the ecological long term effect is unknown.  And the economic devastation to the G...
08/04/2010
Well, well, there is how many millions of gallons of oil leaked into the gulf of Mexico, and how many gallons of corexant  to break it up and turn it into orange goo instead of black goo?Now people would have us believe that it has all disappeared magically almost seemingly overnight.  I don't be...
08/03/2010
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