| Rays re-imagine downtown
ST. PETERSBURG — The Tampa Bay Rays this afternoon revealed a bold plan for a new waterfront baseball stadium at one end of a dramatically transformed St. Petersburg downtown. The Rays’ plans call for a $450-million, open-air, 34,000-seat stadium to open in 2012 at the current site of Al Lang Field. On the other end of downtown at Tropicana Field, the team proposes a massive retail and residential development. "We’re talking about a major-league downtown," Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg said during a meeting with the St. Petersburg Times editorial board, where he previewed the concept. "My goodness, it's beautiful," said Gov. Charlie Crist, after a rendering of the stadium was unveiled. The break in the team’s silence comes after nearly three weeks of speculation.
As housing slumps, realtors quit
Yanking up her custom-made "For Sale" signs in her North Lake neighborhood rattled her ego, she admits. But when Ms. McMahon closed her final sale, a house in Snellville, Ga., in late November, the mother of two felt a swell of relief. "Now I can finally get my own house back together," she says. "I'm nervous about the future, but I feel happy." McMahon is one of thousands of real estate agents across the US wandering with mixed emotions and uncertain prospects through the debris of a real estate gold rush. As many train for new careers, return to old ones, or wait tables until prices rebound, the plight of the real estate agent – average age, 51 – reveals the human dimension of how loose lending, raw opportunity, and self-determination produced a housing bust that has stunned the US economy.
Audit faults Md. oversight of mortgage sector
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised. Not only did Maryland lack strong laws to prevent abuse by mortgage operators, it didn't enforce what flimsy regulations it had during the worst mortgage blowup in memory.
As of June, state regulators were as much as two years late in performing required mortgage-lender examinations, according to a new audit by the Department of Legislative Services.
A flood of mortgage-broker applications overwhelmed the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Regulation after Jan. 1, making it more likely that licenses were being granted to unqualified people. The office also failed to ensure that mortgage lenders and other financiers with expired licenses were no longer doing business in the state, the audit found.
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Scottish council approves Trump resort
ABERDEEN, Scotland, Nov. 20 Donald Trump's plan to build a luxury golf resort in the birthplace of golf inched forward Tuesday with approval from a county council in Scotland.
Members of the council voted 7-4 in favor of Trump's $2 billion project after a bitter 2 1/2-hour meeting, The Scotsman reported. Trump was not present, although he reportedly was receiving frequent updates from Aberdeenshire in New York.
John Loveday, a Liberal Democrat, lambasted Trump for demanding that plans for a wind farm be revised if they conflict with his resort.
"Basically, I think I have a problem with the applicant, Mr. Trump," Loveday said. "Right from the start I think the arrogance that was put forward has not made things very easy. This is the northeast of Scotland and the U.K., which is very different from the U.S."
George Sorial, Trump's managing director for international development, told Loveday he should be ashamed of making a personal attack.
DeepLinks Archives, January 2008
But now, as search engines become more specialized and capable, certain copyright owners have become increasingly dissatisfied with the notice-and-takedown bargain struck in the DMCA. That's what these lawsuits are really about -- the defendants are complying with the letter of the law, but copyright owners are now trying to change the rules in court. Of course, the SeeqPod case may settle (as a similar case brought by Warner against iMeem did). But the copyright issues will not be going away anytime soon (in particular, keep your eye on the remand in the Perfect 10 v. Google case, where the DMCA safe harbor issues may take center stage). [Permalink] .
Curtain Call
Annapolis was the beginning of my career," he said. "I met Dan Wolfe in a Florida marina when he considered buying my father’s boat. He offered to get me an audition on the Mike Douglas show. After the audition, he and his wife left on vacation and I stayed on his boat [docked in an Annapolis marina] for a month." Working as a writer for musical comedian Jim Stafford, Gallagher drew on capital history. "I made up a routine for Jim based on Francis Scott Key and what other musicians, like Johnny Cash, would have written as the National Anthem if they were kept on a boat during the war," he said. After his shipboard stint, Gallagher hit the road, developing his odd brand of family-friendly entertainment. He blames his jokes and performance style for his grueling tour regimen.
Why the Giants Shouldn't Be in the Super Bowl and Ways They Can Win It
Not forever, as it turns outnot if they can win the Super Bowl. As late as December 16, the home fans booed them in a 22-10 loss to the Washington Redskins at the Meadowlands. Coughlin's crew doesn't perform well in the hometown spotlight; these Giants are the first Super Bowl team in NFL history with a losing record at home. Throughout his 12-year pro coaching career, Tom Coughlin has given a perfect imitation of someone who is both in charge and out of control, with the result that the Giantsone of the most talented teams in the leaguehave also been the most erratic, forever changing the way of their errors without changing the error of their ways. Things got so bad last year that The Washington Post's Mark Maske wrote, when Coughlin accused the media of being a distraction: "What the media was distracting Coughlin's players from .
Wayne Carey a drunken thug with anger issue - Miami police
That matter's still undergoing investigation and we haven't completed that yet,'' she told ABC radio. "The police are conducting a range of investigations around that matter with Wayne Carey and will continue to do that.'' Share this article What is this? .
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