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Illinois Mortgage Refinance Wisconsin Mortgage Refinance

Inlanta Mortgage, your local Wisconsin and Illinois mortgage broker, offers first time home buyer, 80/20, cash out refinance, jumbo, construction, lot loans, no money down, refinance, 100% financing, interest only, investment, my community mortgage, FHA, VA and rural housing...

Apology to the Little Old Ladies of Wright County Minnesota

" As you recall, over a series of several articles in the past few months, I attempted to get property tax and budget information from my County of residence, Wright County in the State of Minnesota. I was motivated to research and analyze this information due to...

Response to: Liberal bloggers admit conservatives winning Twitter

"Liberal bloggers established online political activism, besting their conservative rivals during President George W. Bush's eight years in office. But conservatives are now finding great success 140 characters at...

Wright County MN Massive Financial Cover up Continues 2

" When I first started investigating this issue, I had no idea how difficult it would be. This has taken an enormous amount of time and patience. You would not know this was America. Was all the information we learned in High School Civics about "Public Servants", "Open...

Rockford Train Derailment Kills One, Causes Firey Blaze

In Rockford, Illionis, a train derailment has killed one person and caused tank cars with thousands of gallons of ethanol on board to explode into flames. Hundreds of homes nearby were also evacuated. Five cars are...

Pilot Dies - Passenger Succeeds with Emergency Landing

A retired jet pilot, Joe Cabuk died just after a smooth take-off in a twin engine plane at Forty Myers, Florida.  Doug White, only a novice pilot himself took the pilot's seat, however White had never flown a...

Where immigrants tread, your family walked, too

Chris Linden   Growing up in the diverse city of Rockford, Ill., I never gave much thought to immigrants. They, like everyone else, blended into the urban landscape.   It was easy to forget that only a few generations ago, it might have been my family that...

Rockford Residents: City violated First Amendment

" Residents who placed an anti-abortion advertisement on a Rockford bus-stop bench in 2005 say the city violated their First Amendment rights when it removed the ad."

Tornados Rip Up Midwest US

Some very dramatic weather in the US Midwest last night, with tornados in Missouri Northern Illinois. At least two dead, three hospitalized and several homes destroyed."UNDATED -- The storm that passed over the...

Charity Desk Calendar On Sale

PHOTOGRAPHERS WITHOUT BORDERS ANNOUNCES2008 CHARITY DESK CALENDAR TO SUPPORT EDUCATION ROCKFORD, IL —Photographers Without Borders is proud to announce the release of its first charity desk calendar. The calendar contains fine art photographs submitted by photographers from...

Toddler Survives Wisconsin Shooting

I'm amazed that a two-year-old girl could make it through something like this; I hope she recovers. "A shooting inside a home killed six people, and a toddler was found in a nearby vehicle with a gunshot to the chest, the police chief said Sunday. Police found the bodies...

New Rockford Fosgate gear for 2007

Rockford Fosgate revamped their whole subwoofer line for 2007 in addition to the Power amplifiers. They also have a sound deadener called “Dead Skin” and a shallow mount subwoofer. All in all it looks like they have some nice products for the new year.

Ed Viesturs and Dreams

"Ed Viesturs and Dreams I went to see Ed Viesturs at the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver last night. Ed was there to promote his new book, No Shortcuts to the Top, which details his quest (called Endeavor 8000) to climb the fourteen 8000 meter (26,000+ foot) peaks without...

Feds: Man Planned Grenades in Ill. Mall

Did this guy really think that someone would trade grenades for used stereo speakers? Wow..

Man charged with shopping mall bomb plot

"A man was arrested Friday by federal agents on charges of planning to set off hand grenades in garbage cans at a shopping mall. Derrick Shareef, 22, of Rockford, was arrested when he met with an undercover agent in a parking lot to trade a set of stereo speakers for four...

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