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… Cleveland won’t be reborn until it buries its dead,” a Cleveland Magazine article explains, and the ghosts haunting Cleveland are some 8,000 vacant and abandoned homes.
They draw drug dealers and prostitutes while dragging down surrounding homes’ values. Mayor Frank Jackson has stepped up efforts to bring the problem under control in recent years. But annual foreclosure rates hovering around 14,000, means the city is aiming at a moving target.
“There’s a lot more supply than there is demand,” says Cuyahoga County Treasurer Jim Rokakis. “If there was huge demand for this housing, people would be moving into it.”

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Bill “Silver B” Richards from the Cleveland Treatment Center’s Project Safe said, “We hope to give a lot of awareness and also education around HIV testing.” Richards continued to say how important it is to talk about sex and expressed his feeling on the matter, “The more we talk the better.”
Jerome Little John of Project Safe as well, said that Project Safe “was created primarily because intravenous drug users were the highest of infections in the early eighties along with men who were having sex with men, so we created Project Safe for preventive education to community-based organizations, such as drug treatment centers.” He continued to tell of all the locations where they tested intravenous drug users, prostitutes and anyone else they found and concluded saying, “We did a whole lot of intercity interventions.”

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Ms. Pelosi said she would not allow separate votes on abortion or other controversial issues. “Not on abortion, not on public option, not on single-payer, not on anything,” she said.
Behind the scenes, Ms. Pelosi was working aggressively to address the concerns of anti-abortion Democrats. She met with at least three of those lawmakers — Representatives Christopher Carney and Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania and Steve Driehaus of Ohio — none of whom had publicly committed their vote.
Before Democrats decided to take a direct vote on the Senate health care bill, Representative Joe L. Barton, Republican of Texas, described the plans to approve it without a direct vote as “a sleight-of-hand subterfuge” that would allow lawmakers to avoid accountability.
“This process corrupts and prostitutes the system” and could “unleash a cultural war” over the legislation, Mr. Barton said.

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Roll rates of mortgages rolling over between stages of delinquency were mixed in January for subprime first lien portfolios, raining from a 5% decrease to a 10% increase. The discrepancy was even more pronounced among second liens, ranging from a 55% increase to a 2% decrease.
Clayton also found the one-month constant prepay rate decreased across all vintages for subprime first liens, ranging up to a 27% difference from December. Subprime second liens decreased as well, researchers said, up to 76%:
It was reported Friday that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) would hold a teleconference over the weekend to discuss a plan to file for bankruptcy.
The New York Times reported that, of the group’s 30 state chapters, at least 15 have shut their doors in the last six months with no plans to reopen — including the Maryland chapter, which came under fire recently after an undercover video clip showed ACORN Housing employees allegedly explaining how to obtain a mortgage to purchase a home to start a brothel.

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Along with eight Democrats and one Republican as co-sponsors, Stupak had introduced a resolution Friday that would insert his abortion restrictions as a “correction” to the underlying bill. That would add new complications to the already complex strategy Democrats are pursuing to pass the bill, requiring additional votes on a highly charged issue. Abortion opponents are divided over whether restrictions on taxpayer funding for abortion already in the bill go far enough.
Under a complex and disputed procedure the Democrats have devised, a single vote probably will be held to send one bill to Obama for his signature and to ship a second, fix-it measure to the Senate for a vote in the next several days.
“This process corrupts and prostitutes the system,” said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, pleading with the Rules Committee head, Rep. Louise Slaughter, to allow separate votes on the underlying Senate bill and the fixes.

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Dems drop ‘deem and pass’ plan
Wire servicesLocal News – March 21, 2010 – 9:57am
WASHINGTON With tea party demonstrators rallying outside to protest the legislation, the House Rules Committee chaired by Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-Fairport, dropped a controversial plan that would have “deemed” Senate-approved health care legislation passed as part of a resolution setting rules of debate. The maneuver had been seen as a way to allow Democrats to avoid voting on the bill.
During the debate, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, pleaded with Slaughter to allow separate votes on the underlying Senate bill and the fixes.
“This process corrupts and prostitutes the system,” he said.
Slaughter chastised Barton, a
leader on health care, and said his party had “opted out” of cooperating on the legislation. “We have to get on with it,” she said.

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Ms. Pelosi said she would not allow separate votes on abortion or other controversial issues. “Not on abortion, not on public option, not on single-payer, not on anything,” she said.
Behind the scenes, Ms. Pelosi was working aggressively to address the concerns of anti-abortion Democrats. She met with at least three of those lawmakers — Representatives Christopher Carney and Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania and Steve Driehaus of Ohio — none of whom had publicly committed their vote.
Before Democrats decided to take a direct vote on the Senate health care bill, Representative Joe L. Barton, Republican of Texas, described the plans to approve it without a direct vote as “a sleight-of-hand subterfuge” that would allow lawmakers to avoid accountability.
“This process corrupts and prostitutes the system” and could “unleash a cultural war” over the legislation, Mr. Barton said.

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Building on Democrats’ momentum, the House Rules Committee worked to set the terms for floor debate and a final vote Sunday on Obama’s top priority and the focus of his first year in office.
The battle tilted in Obama’s direction Friday as more Democrats disclosed how they would vote.
Victory within reach, the president decided to make a final personal appeal with a Saturday afternoon visit to the Capitol. Republicans, unanimous in opposition to the bill, complained anew about its cost and reach.
Under a complex and disputed procedure the Democrats have devised, a single vote probably will be held to send one bill to Obama for his signature and to ship a second, fix-it measure to the Senate for a vote in the next several days.
“This process corrupts and prostitutes the system,” said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, pleading with the Rules Committee head, Rep. Louise Slaughter, to allow separate votes on the underlying Senate bill and the fixes.

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No Parliamentary Shortcut
12:40 am March 21, 2010, by Jamie Dupree
House Democrats on Saturday backed off a controversial plan to approve a Senate health care bill using an arcane parliamentary shortcut and will instead allow a direct vote on both a health care reconciliation bill and a Senate-passed health care bill.
As the House Rules Committee began its Saturday morning on the parameters for the health care debate, every Republican slammed the idea of an indirect vote on that Senate bill.
“This process corrupts and prostitutes the system,” said Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX).
But Democrats led by Rules Committee Chair Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) turned aside such complaints, reminding Republicans that they had used self-executing rules repeatedly when the GOP ran the U.S. House.
A few hours later though, Democrats suddenly changed their tune, announcing that there would be no parliamentary shortcut, that the House would vote directly on the Senate bill.

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Retired businessman Randy Simpson, 67, of Seneca, S.C., also said the health bill was just a first step.
“My concerns are about the health-care bill, and the direction it takes us is toward communism, quite frankly,” he said.
At a daylong meeting of the House Rules Committee, members of both parties in a tiny hearing room traded accusations in a session that was often a shouting match.
“You all in the minority know what the American people think,” Representative Alcee Hastings, a Florida Democrat, said loudly and mockingly at Republicans repeatedly saying the public overwhelmingly opposes Mr. Obama’s health bill.
Representative Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, said a tricky voting procedure that Democrats had been contemplating “corrupts and prostitutes the system,” and would “unleash a cultural war in this country.”

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