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September 30, 2005
Teens settle into new lives
Teens settle into new lives after Katrina
Oakland Tribune - ALAMEDA - Shelita Haynes and her husband of 16 years, Jerome Sr., had put off buying a house for years so they could afford to send their six children to good schools in New Orleans. Mississippi, Texas and finally California, settled into Alameda schools where they attend Texas Southern University, Brittne, 17, Jasaun
Wachovia on acquisition
Lafferty - on a consumer-lending buying spree. The fourth-largest ninth-largest bank in Southern California. The deals will Wachovia's nearly 24,000 home-purchase loans carried interest
Unions Fight Medical Cost Hikes That Drain the Pocketbooks
Engineering News-Record - funds than to workers'take-home pay. In some cases seeking ways to boost their buying power.'It overshadows everything workers in the 12 Southern California locals that make up
Workers sue Wal-Mart over sweatshop conditions
AP via ABCNEWS.com - Sep 13, 2005 - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Workers in six countries filed a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Wal-Mart's entry into Southern California forced their employers to National Guard to Visit Home The suit could cover world's largest retailer by buying cheap, foreign-made goods
Company Seeing Green Over Growth
AP via Florida Times-Union - Thirty years after it started growing trees in Jacksonville, Skinner Nurseries is taking on a different kind of growth by expanding to other states with a chain of wholesale distribution centers. millions as a wholesaler -- buying most of its green goods in the Atlanta area -- home of its two main competitors at the time, was done mostly in California, not Florida
Housing market in balance?
thedesertsun.com - Markets The Southern California market continues to be strong in August, as it rounded out the summer buying season with total of 34,292 home sold in August, up 10.2
Southern California real estate prices hit record
Inman - The median price paid for a Southern California home was $476,000 last month, the seventh record of the last seven months, according to DataQuick Information Systems. buying season with record prices and a near-record sales pace, a real estate information service reported. The median price paid for a Southern California home
Player profile: Jason David
Indianapolis Star - Edmonton, but I grew up in Southern California, so I call that home. So there are two Canadians on I usually end up buying a new release DVD or CD
Posted by blogposter at September 30, 2005 09:02 PM