How to deal with estate issues on a family vacation home (Market Watch)
BOSTON (MarketWatch) — To some it's a source of family harmony. To others, however, it's source of great family division, anger and strife. Yes, it's the old family cottage or vacation property or compound or camp or call it what you will. And now with summer coming to a close, many Americans are trying to figure out what to do with their piece of heaven on earth.
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Federal deficit plan puts a big squeeze on social services (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
County leaders say it's some of the most important social work: Getting troubled parents off drugs or into anger-management classes before the government takes their kids away. Making sure the mentally ill keep taking their medicine so they don't end up in an institution. The tasks are part of "targeted case management" — the painstaking work of arranging counseling, setting appointments and
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Media company is put 'in a box' (International Herald Tribune)
After Jeffrey Johnson, publisher of The Los Angeles Times, defied his bosses at Tribune Co. by refusing to make layoffs at the paper, he was summoned to Chicago and spent Tuesday meeting with executives.
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Hedge Fund Sheds Assets in Energy (New York Times)
Amaranth Advisors is said to have sold its book of energy trades to J. P. Morgan and the Citadel Investment Group.
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