What We Learned About Invasive Species While Drinking Beer

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 2:44 PM EDT (NPR)

Monday night StateImpact Texas hosted an event called Invasive Species and Why We Love Them With Salt, part of KUT Austin’s regular Views and Brews: Conversations at the Cactus Cafe series. We took a look at the issues of invasive species in Texas (over beer) and examined s …

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Bank of America: First Principal-reduction Letters Going Out

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 1:20 PM EDT (ABC News)

Bank of America said Monday that the first homeowners should get offers in the mail this week for principal reduction on home loans as part of the $25 billion mortgage settlement with leading mortgage servicers and federal and state officials.

business, mortgages, bank-of-america, loans, principal, letters, home-loans, write-down

Solar panels cause clashes with homeowner groups - From the Wires - Salon.com

Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 1:41 PM EDT (Salon.com)

The government wants you to install solar panels at your house, and will even give you a tax break to do it. But your neighbors? Maybe not. It’s a lesson Angel and David Dobs discovered when their homeowners association north of Atlanta denied their request to install so …

power, states, electricity, rules, limits, solar-panels, home-garden, home-owners-associations

Central Texas drought conditions reduced, milder summer anticipated

Seeded on Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:12 PM EDT ()

Though most of Travis County and the Hill Country remain in moderate to severe drought, recent rainfall has lifted extreme and exceptional drought conditions across Central Texas. Parts of the extreme Western Travis County and the Hill Country (Gillespie, Blanco, Southern Mas …

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'Project X' Copycat Revelers Allegedly Wreck $500,000 Home

Seeded on Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:33 PM EDT (AOL)

It didn't take long before the carnage in the hit house-party movie "Project X" spilled onto the real real estate market.

homes, real-estate, damage, mansions, home-garden, foreclosures, project-x, property-damage, party-in-foreclosed-home

Texas Drought Outlook Improving

Seeded on Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:56 PM EDT (NPR)

Today the National Weather Service offered a glimmer of hope to Texans bracing for another hot and dry summer.

water, environment, improving, water-supply, texas-drought, seasonal-drought-outlook

Rant on American Airlines Flight Ends With Flight Attendant in Hospital

Seeded on Fri Mar 9, 2012 6:18 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

An American Airlines flight headed from Dallas-Fort Worth to Chicago returned to the gate just prior to take off this morning when a female flight attendant began making inflammatory remarks over the public address system.

american-airlines, flight-attendants, delays, odd-news, bi-polar, medical-issue, passenger-brad-leclear

Drought map shows Texas got drier in past week

Seeded on Thu Mar 8, 2012 5:55 PM EST (The Austin American-Statesman)

Parts of Texas have grown drier as a lack of substantial rains and windy conditions have led to less moisture in the soil.

water, environment, drought, dry, arid, texas-drought, us-drought-monitor-map

For first time, drought keeps thousands of Texas rice farmers from getting irrigation water

Seeded on Mon Mar 5, 2012 5:51 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Thousands of Texas rice farmers won’t get water for irrigation this year because lakes and rivers remain low after more than a year of drought. The Lower Colorado River Authority said Friday it won’t release water from two Austin-area lakes into the rivers and can …

business, texas, rice, drought, colorado-river, water-rationing, lower-colorado-river-authority, texas-drought

Misery Loves Campaigning: The Housing Misery Index and the 2012 Election

Seeded on Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:14 PM EST (The Huffington Post)

The housing crisis hurt some states especially hard. In those states, like Florida and Nevada, the Republican presidential candidates couldn't ignore housing.

business, economy, real-estate, housing-market, foreclosures, real-estate-market, housing-misery-index

Terrell Owens Faces Foreclosure: Two Dallas Condos To Be Auctioned Next Month

Seeded on Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:53 PM EST (The Huffington Post)

Just because football star Terrell Owens has earned $80 million over the course of his career doesn't mean he's immune to foreclosure.

nfl, sports, economy, terrell-owens, finances, foreclosures, dallas-foreclosures, dallas-homes, sports-players

Bank of America Halts Routing New Mortgages to Fannie Mae

Seeded on Fri Feb 24, 2012 5:27 PM EST (Business Week)

Bank of America Corp., the second- biggest U.S. lender by assets, is stopping the sale of new home loans to government-owned Fannie Mae as a dispute over who should bear the costs for defective mortgages escalates.

business, freddie-mac, homes, mortgages, bank-of-america, fannie-mae

Why the Federal Reserve can't fix housing

Seeded on Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:43 PM EST (CNN)

Housing is still one of the biggest drags on U.S. economic growth, but don't look to the Federal Reserve for help.

business, economy, mortgages, housing, loans, federal-reserve, finances, foreclosures, real-estate-market

What you should know before buying a home

Seeded on Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:51 PM EST (msnbc.com)

When I moved out of my parents’ house and into my freshman dorm room, I had no idea that my existing concept of “home” would change so dramatically. Throughout college and my first few years in the real world, I found a reason to move every single year.

business, economy, investment, finances, home-buying, real-estate-market, what-you-should-know, realtors-buyers-guide

Longest horns in the world are found on Texas Longhorn bull JR in Australia | Mail Online

Seeded on Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:16 PM EST (the Mail online)

A Texas Longhorn bull that more than lives up to its name has smashed the record for the world's longest horns. Seven-year-old JR has horns that measure an incredible 9ft 1ins - and they are likely to grow even bigger. But even though he has a name derived from a character in …

bulls, odd-news, cows, horns, texas-long-horn, long-horn

Chris Ladd: Attack of the Vampire Mortgages

Seeded on Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:39 PM EST (The Huffington Post)

The U.S. Attorney General has unveiled a joint state and federal settlement with banks aimed at "righting the wrongs" of the housing bubble. It's a start -- a start that comes after the battle has mostly ended.

business, mortgages, loans, debt, federal-reserve, wall-streets, sub-prime-mortgages, vampire-mortgages

Bank Sues Couple for Title Typo They Didn't Make

Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:11 PM EST (AOL)

The PR headaches for Bank of America never seem to stop. Recently it was reported that the bank nearly foreclosed on one borrower for an 80-cent typo. A few months before, the hapless lender also came under fire for sinking a borrower's credit score over a $1 coding error.

business, florida, errors, banks, finances, sues, titles, title-typo

Thousands Lose Power, Roads Flood in Houston Rain

Seeded on Mon Jan 9, 2012 5:36 PM EST ()

City roads were flooded and thousands of Houston residents, including at least five schools, were without electricity Monday after powerful thunderstorms ploughed through the area prompting a tornado warning and dumping several inches of rain and hail on the drought-stricken r …

storm, rain, drought, us-news, dry, flash-floods, severe-drought

HOA Forces Family to Remove Disabled Child's 'Therapy Home'

Seeded on Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:33 PM EST (AOL)

Though it's not breaking news that homeowners' associations are drawing fire for their questionably strict enforcement of covenant rules, specifically those regarding personal items within "common areas," the latest decision from an HOA in Lexington, Ky., has raised more contr …

homes, children, hoa, home-garden, cerebral-palsy, home-owners-association, play-houses

Squatters Occupy Texas Houses Worth More than $8M

Seeded on Thu Dec 8, 2011 5:17 PM EST ()

One person moved into a dead neighbor’s house.

business, homes, squatters, fort-worth, squatting, luxury-homes

Building foundations crack as Texas drought shifts soil

Seeded on Mon Nov 7, 2011 4:24 PM EST (TheMonitor.com)

Better Business Bureaus around the state added a new item to the laundry list of problems caused by the drought — cracking foundations. Bureaus in Texas have reported up to 75 percent increases on calls about foundation repairs from last year.

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