On Day 101 of the Obama presidency, the U.S. Senate killed the mortgage-relief-in-bankruptcy bill that President Obama has repeatedly promised to support.
The vote was 51 to 45. All 45 “yes” votes were Democrats… but so were 12 of the “nos”.
Here’s what the President did about it:
New York Times:
President Obama sought the cramdown provision during the [...]
Editor & Publisher today:
The Audit Bureau of Circulations released this morning the spring figures for the six months ending March 31, 2009, showing that the largest metros continue to shed daily and Sunday circulation — now at a record rate.
According to ABC, for 395 newspapers reporting this spring, daily circulation fell 7% to 34,439,713 copies, [...]
The first half of April saw 502 new foreclosure cases filed in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, including 218 cases against properties in the city of Cleveland.
Here’s how the most recent filings were distributed in the city…
Among the biggest Cuyahoga County foreclosers so far this month, collectively accounting for 57% of the new filings, were:
Bank [...]
Next Wednesday, April 22 will be “Lobby Day” at the Statehouse for Ohio foreclosure reform advocates.
COHHIO and the Ohio CDC Association are organizing the “FOCUS on Foreclosures Lobby Day” to show grassroots support for two bills in the House and one in the Senate.
House Bill 9 and Senate Bill 13 both provide some modest new [...]
New foreclosure cases in Cuyahoga County continued to pile up at a rate of more than 1,000 a month during the first quarter of 2009.
3,060 foreclosures were filed with the county’s Common Pleas Court between January 1 and March 31, according to NEO CANDO.
The good news is that this is the county’s lowest three-month total [...]