Seven local schools Exemplary

The Texas Education Agency released accountability ratings Friday for Texas schools, conferring seven Wichita Falls schools with the top Exemplary rating and nine schools with the second-best Recognized rank.

Jerry Chautin: Uniquely Crafted Business Plans Are Needed to Raise Capital

Now is the time to think about dusting off your old business plan as the economy improves. A business plan is required to obtain a loan or venture capital. It is uniquely designed as a sales tool to get financing.

Big Country school districts get ratings today

As state academic ratings go out to school districts today, Abilene ISD is bracing for a probable academically unacceptable label, and statewide controversy is swirling about newer elements of the accountability formula some claim inflate academic ratings.The Texas Education Agency wont officially release ratings to the public until Friday, but districts will receive their reports today. Most ...

Credit rescoring can help you qualify for a mortgage

Rapid rescorings by independent, legitimate firms use procedures approved by the three major credit bureaus. They can help correct errors or omissions that are dragging down your scores. Call it the great real estate disconnect of 2010: Mortgage rates have been at half-century lows and home prices have stabilized, but applications for mortgages to buy houses have declined most weeks during the ...

High finance and corporate pot, California style

Economists see corporate pot as a multibillion dollar market about to be unfettered with little sense of how consumers will react. Finance - United States - California - Business and Economy - Cannabis

'Rescoring' can score better credit and get that loan

Call it the great real-estate disconnect of 2010: Mortgage rates have been at half-century lows and home prices have stabilized, but applications...

Rescoring can boost crummy credit

Call it the great real-estate disconnect of 2010: Mortgage rates have been at half-century lows and home prices have stabilized, but applications for mortgages have declined most weeks during the past three months, as measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The Nation's Housing: Rescoring can score better credit

What's going on here? Shouldn't 30-year fixed-rate loans well below 5 percent be flying off the shelf? Economists say part of the reason is the expiration of the federal home purchase tax credits, which encouraged thousands of buyers to accelerate their transactions -- starting with mortgage applications -- into the ...

In tough times, how to score a better mortgage deal

Call it the great real estate disconnect of 2010: Mortgage rates have been at half-century lows and home prices have stabilized, but applications for mortgages have declined most weeks during the past three months, as measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association. Mortgage - Business - Financial Services - United States - Loan

Wakefield Trinity 6 St Helens 50: Wildcats' form still lacking as Saints run amok

THE good news off the pitch could not be replicated on it as troubled Wakefield Trinity Wildcats saw their Super League play-off hopes take another crushing blow yesterday. (26/07/2010 10:38:56)