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True Stories Can Be Stranger Than Fiction [Extra Extra ]
- One of the country's biggest private mortgage companies goes belly-up, leaving 120 Austinites newly jobless
- The Texas Department of Transportation releases a list of over 2,000 "structurally deficient" bridges across the state, with 10 in Travis County
- Nicole and Jeffrey Rank of Corpus Christi are awarded $80k after being wrongfully arrested at a Bush rally in 2004
- Tax-free holiday weekend starts on Friday
- Whole Foods gets the go-ahead to buy out Wild Oats
- The director of the Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter gets arrested after stealing a tax refund check
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Not that I'm not feeling for those 120 poor souls, but..
Can we please start the countdown to our real estate meltdown too? My cash is ready and Daddy wants a new pair of condo's. Or perhaps the modestly priced kinney avenue bungalow.
Thanks Bear Stearns!!!!
Over-crowded Wilco vet: let's just kill all the animals and start over. Wait, did I say 'animals'? I meant 'IRS refund check-stealing veterinary directors.'
Why do you think Bear Stearns played a large role in the sub-prime mortgage catastrophe? I doubt they have any larger stake in structured products than the other big investment banks. Besides, they're not the one issuing these bad loans --- small commercial banks are.
Jesus! Will somebody go up to the Williamson County Animal Shelter and take things over please? WTF??? 1)Starving animals 2)Early euthanization of owned animals 3)Fraud and theft--by the director???!