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		<title>Marriage, yes; mortgage, no&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benny Kass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEAR BENNY: I recently got engaged and have plans to have my new fiancé move into my house.  I am currently the sole owner of the home.  We have a wedding date scheduled for over two years from now.  He makes much more money than I do and has a greater tax liability.  Would it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernankie&#8217;s billions stoke stocks, inflate Fed&#8217;s debt&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Berko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEAR MR. BERKO: You have said often that the $85 billion a month the Federal Reserve injects into the banking system has forced stock prices to rise. Could you please explain why or how in simple layman&#8217;s English? Also, could you recommend some Japanese stocks that trade in the U.S. market? An article I read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renovation Report: Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Church&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payton Guion, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First communion is a rite of passage in the Catholic Church. It’s an important time in which families gather to celebrate a child’s taking his or her first sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. Though first communion is among the more important functions at any Catholic church, most churches don’t put up new buildings to host the ceremonies.]]></description>
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		<title>On the Level with Bill Miley of Metrostudy&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2013/05/21/on-the-level-with-bill-miley-of-metrostudy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Brown, Staff Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get this: As a kid, Bill Miley use to play tennis with … but we’ll let him tell you. The Charlotte regional director for the Houston-based Metrostudy housing analytics firm just released his latest quarterly report, and it says that developed lots in the nine-county Charlotte market are … well, it’s complicated; better you should hear it in his words.]]></description>
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		<title>Sign up: Builders may get a break on projects that require zoning board rulings&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2013/05/21/sign-up-builders-may-get-a-break-on-projects-that-require-zoning-board-rulings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payton Guion, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a local zoning board of adjustment rules in favor of a builder, the zoning battle is not necessarily over. That’s because the deadline for anyone to appeal such a ruling can be a moving target. And if the appeal succeeds, it can kill a project that at one point seemed a sure thing. But House Bill 276, which has passed the North Carolina House and is in the Senate Commerce Committee, would set a much more firm appeal deadline, provided the builder who got the favorable ruling knows the rudiments of making and displaying a sign.]]></description>
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		<title>Construction underway on new CMPD Eastway Division headquarters&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payton Guion, staff writer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Tract]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLOTTE – Construction started Monday on the new Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Eastway Division headquarters, at 3505 Central Ave. Mecklenburg County also on Monday issued two building permits, valued at about $5.4 million, to CMPD for work on the project, according to county records. Darryl Kellough, principal of Charlotte-based Southside Constructors, the general contractor on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proffitt Dixon closes on uptown land for apartment project&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2013/05/20/proffitt-dixon-closes-on-uptown-land-for-apartment-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payton Guion, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLOTTE – Proffitt Dixon Partners, a developer based in the city, finally has closed on a 2.28-acre parcel of land just inside the Interstate 277 loop, at the intersection of Stonewall and McDowell streets. Kent Winslow, a city development manager, confirmed Monday that the sale went through last week. Proffitt Dixon paid about $3.8 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CATS schedules public meetings for Blue Line Extension&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2013/05/17/cats-schedules-public-meetings-for-blue-line-extension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payton Guion, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLOTTE – Officials from the Charlotte Area Transit System will have two meetings, open to the public, for information on the 9.3-mile extension of the city&#8217;s light rail public transportation system. The meetings are to give updates on the construction activities set to start this summer. The first meeting is at 6 p.m. on Tuesday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial Confidential: Harrisburg Town Center&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2013/05/16/commercial-confidential-harrisburg-town-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payton Guion, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prior to 2003, the growing town of Harrisburg, just north of Charlotte in Cabarrus County, didn’t have an epicenter of commercial property. Sure, there were small pockets of retail and places to eat, including the Harrisburg Family House Restaurant, but the town lacked a real center of activity and congregation.]]></description>
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		<title>Prices up, but fears of a housing bubble appear inflated&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2013/05/16/prices-up-but-fears-of-a-housing-bubble-appear-inflated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Woodard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s very unlikely that a significant housing bubble is forming, most experts say. For example, reports from Capital Economics and Redfin asserted no such bubble is forming – at least not on a national level. Capital Economics recently addressed concerns that home price increases, which are rising twice as fast as gains in income and [...]]]></description>
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