Pittsburgh Mortgage News

Pittsburgh School Enrollment Dropping; Peabody Could Close (WTAE-TV Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh Public Schools see a possible 25 percent drop in high school enrollments coming, and a committee recommends closing and converting Peabody High School.

Good signs for buying stocks (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
Q What are good signs for buying stocks? - R.S., Pittsburgh

Spiraling mortgages could become morphed (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
About 55 percent of mortgages modified during the first quarter of 2008 were 30 or more days delinquent after six months, according to Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan.

Steelers fans still willing to open wallets (The Pitt News)
Despite a slumping economy, fans are still paying big money to see Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers. People were huddled under bridges on the North Shore, trying to stop the gusting wind from stealing their belongings.

Clean slate: New year is chance for new you (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
It's a symbolic dividing line between one day and the next. But one day, Jan. 1, also divides one year from the next. The old year is a dirty, worn-out dishrag.The blank calendar stretches before us, a pristine wonderland of potential, a clean slate unsullied by mistakes, failures and disappointments.

2008 year in review: Big news, small news and in between (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
JANUARYPDBossuJan. 1: Former Benedictine High School coach Augie Bossu, who led football and baseball teams at the school from 1953-2006, dies at 91. The FBI resumes its search for the mysterious "D.B. Cooper" who hijacked an airliner in 1971,...

Pittsburgh To Use $45.3 Million Surplus For Debt (WTAE-TV Pittsburgh)
PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh will use a $45.3 million budget surplus to chip away at nearly $800 million in debt.

Sunday, December 28, 2008 (Erie Times-News)
The daily filings at the Erie County Courthouse offer solid evidence of the depth of the recession in northwestern Pennsylvania. Many of the recent civil cases involve credit-card companies suing customers over past due bills.

Our ailing economy / Part one: The knock on the stimulus (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Several trillions of dollars into the largest government intervention ever engineered to rescue the globe's beacon of free enterprise, millions of Americans victimized by the recession are getting