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Taxpayers And Housing Need A Divorce

Arnold Hamilton - May 19, 2010 0

BY FROMA HARROP Even though Las Vegas is full of never-sold and foreclosed-upon houses, a rumble of new home building has begun there. Similar trends are seen in other housing meltdown meccas: Phoenix, Florida and inland California. Awesome. Vegas has almost 10,000 empty new houses, and thousands of older ones go into foreclosure every month. […]

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Pre-Planned Emergencies

Arnold Hamilton - May 19, 2010 0

BY KAREN WEBB Now, I have heard everything. I have said that before, but now I am sure. I saw a new TV ad that...

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The Good, Bad And Ugly

Arnold Hamilton - May 15, 2010 1

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD The bad and the ugly in state politics have been readily observable to the Oklahoma public, and lately even to the...

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The Silly Season

Arnold Hamilton - May 13, 2010 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I’d like to believe it’s the arrival of spring or maybe just the general decline in civility and common sense that seems to always be in the air in Washington. But it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the reaction to the nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court has […]

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Tangled Web

Arnold Hamilton - May 13, 2010 0

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Some of the material encountered in cyberspace, either floated or directed by messaging, is quite airy, amusing, or really funny. Other...