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links for 2009-07-03
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At this different from the Ho Hum restaurant, New Town Bistro is a great place to meet & make new friends. New Town changes its menu each month
links for 2009-07-02
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Michelle Bachmann is a US Representative from MN and thankfully she's mostly their problem. I say that because she says some of the craziest things you'll ever hear from someone in Congress, and I need no other proof than the fact that North Carolina's own Patrick McHenry, who is as staunch a Republican as you're going to find, has tried to talk her down from her latest chicanery (boycotting the Census).
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You just have to read it.
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Do your own debunking online.
links for 2009-07-01
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The daughter of the Greensboro N&R's editor won an internship from Pizza Hut to be its Twitter-person. That sounds like a cool gig.
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Focus on retention can be highly profitable for apartment communities.
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Restructuring a lease to incentivize residents to save energy could have a big impact.
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Back story of the land deals for the Winston-Salem dowtown baseball stadium. Involves W-S Alliance, Millenium Fund.
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N&R article about a new hotel and a school office building being proposed for South Elm area.
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Piece from NAA's blog about biggest apartment deal of the year.
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Charlotte based company that provides recycling services for apartment companies.
links for 2009-06-30
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According to this Biz Journal article, finding qualified renters is getting harder to do.
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Gonna have to let my significant other know about this.
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For once a positive story about consultants.
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"The Mortgage Bankers Association is revising downward its 2009 forecast for U.S. loan originations.
The industry group now expects nationwide mortgage originations this year of $2.03 trillion, down more than $700 billion from what it was forecasting in March.
The association says fewer home purchases account for $84 billion of the drop. The rest is due to fewer refinancings.
The MBA now expects 4.8 million existing-home sales in 2009, a 1.2 percent decline from 2008. The association forecasts new-home sales will drop 27 percent to 352,000 units."
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From the article: "Former N.C. State Auditor Les Merritt has teamed with Frank Perry, a veteran FBI agent who worked for both the N.C. Ethics Commission and the N.C. State Auditor’s office, to launch the Foundation for Ethics in Public Service.
The nonprofit will facilitate the investigation and reporting of public corruption by receiving tips about alleged acts of corruption, ascertaining their credibility and passing the information along to investigative reporters or enforcement agencies."
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Links to audio and PDF files from Paul Krugman's Robbins Memorial Lectures at the London School of Economics
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Welcome to North Carolina and here's what you need to know.
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Why the argument that a public health insurance option would destroy competition is misleading; basically any real competition in health insurance disappeared a while ago.





