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Are Institutional Investors Pricing Average Folks Out Of The Housing Market? Meet America’s New Landlords

Source: Kristyn Martin / Real Money / Al Jazeera America GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA  – It’s a new phenomenon sweeping across the nation: big institutional investors buying up foreclosed homes by the hundreds – even thousands – in distressed communities. Even though the housing market is improving, a new Morgan Stanley report says homeowners who have defaulted [...]

Limited-Edition March On Washington Stamp Unveiled

Source: Shaquille Brewster / ABC News Georgia congressman John Lewis and actress Gabrielle Union have joined the U.S. Postal Service in unveiling a stamp commemorating the 1963 March on Washington. Lewis tells a ceremony at the Newseum, quote, “This stamp, this beautiful stamp, is my hope. It inspires us all to renew our effort to [...]

ROLAND S. MARTIN: MLK 50 Years Later: Still An Economic Radical

by Roland S. Martin Editor-in-chief of RolandMartinReports.com If you’ve bothered to read, listen or watch a lot of the media coverage around the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, you will be impressed with [...]

Kevin Spacey: TV Must Adapt To Viewer Demand Or Die (VIDEO)

At the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Kevin Spacey said TV has overtaken cinema as the home of quality entertainment but the industry risks failure if it doesn’t recognize viewers want to control what and when they watch. (Aug. 23)

‘Sovereign Citizens’ Held In Plot To Kill Vegas Cops

Source: Ken Ritter / AP / USA Today LAS VEGAS — A couple spent hundreds of hours over four months plotting to abduct, torture and kill Las Vegas police officers as a way to attract attention to their anti-authority “sovereign citizens” movement, police said. David Allen Brutsche and Devon Campbell Newman attended training sessions about sovereign [...]

‘We Got It Done’: BET Co-Founder Sheila Johnson To Unveil glitzy Salamander Resort in Virginia

Source:  Margaret Morton / Leesburg Today Salamander Resort & Spa—Loudoun’s newest, and most extravagant, tourist attraction—will open its doors next week following a decade of planning and construction. It arises at the end of a long tree-lined meandering driveway from Middleburg’s North Pendleton Street, a golden hued complex that from afar looks like a small town nestled in [...]

DANA MILBANK: Generation X: The Weakest Generation?

Source: Dana Milbank / The Washington Post In my mother’s telling, I exist because of the March on Washington . Her account went something like this: In 1963, she was a student at Goddard College, an experimental school in Vermont that attracted the forerunners of the hippies. My father had come to Goddard the previous year, and though [...]

Dallas County DA Craig Watkins Cleared Of Contempt

Source: Jennifer Emily / The Dallas Morning News Defense attorney Tom Nowak, who is running for Dallas County DA as a Republican said that Watkins still has a lot to explain to the public. “Despite the acquittal, this has been an embarrassment to Dallas County,” Nowak said. “Today’s decision changes nothing about the motives in indicting Al [...]