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Visiting a classroom full of political science and businessstudents on Tuesday, Illinois Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon said she wascurious: How many of those students plan to transfer to a four-yearuniversity after finishing their studies at Black Hawk College inMoline?More than half raised their hands. That’s what Simon likes tosee, she said, explaining that she’s traveling around the state andtalking to    .. more …

Interest rates on new credit card offers stayed at record highs this week, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report.The average annual percentage rate ( APR ) on new card offers remained at 14.94% for the second straight week. That’s the highest since we began tracking rates in 2007. The previous record was 14.91%, set in July.The only APR change we saw this week was from    .. more …

In 2009 California took in $839 million in taxes from the sale of cigarettes. And with its”and many other states’”budget in dire straights, it is hard to turn down any extra income.But that’s just what the state has been doing, with overall cigarette sales dropping year after year thanks to anti-smoking efforts . And these tobacco control programs aren’t free either”adding up to some $100 million    .. more …

CACI International Inc. ( CACI ) CACI International Inc provides the IT and network solutions needed to prevail in today’s new era of defense, intelligence, and e-government. CACI International Inc. Cl A has a market cap of $1.48 billion; its shares were traded at around $49.02 with a P/E ratio of 11 and P/S ratio of 0.4. CACI International Inc. Cl A had an annual average earnings growth of 15.7%    .. more …

Six months after shutting down sales at his longtime homebuilding company, Paul Estridge Jr. has filed for personal bankruptcy.The Chapter 7 liquidation petition, filed Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Indianapolis, lists debts of $50 million to $100 million to more than 50 creditors.Debts come primarily from the homebuilding company that bore the Estridge name. Assets are listed at $1 million    .. more …

(Best Syndication News) Mortgage interest rates continued to climb higher today as the benchmarks that are used to determine them advanced for the third straight day (see rate charts below). Citibank and Chase were among the lenders raising their loan rates.Bankers use various indexes to benchmark their loan rates, with the most common benchmark being the 10-year note. On Tuesday, the major U.S.    .. more …

09.02.2011-Like many other industries, the Houston credit repair industry has good and bad companies. Unfortunately, as with any industry, there are some companies that want to try to get as much as they can while exerting little to not effort for their customer, and these kind of companies are not a stranger to the Houston credit repair industry. While there are plenty of companies in the credit    .. more …

A teenage boy pulled a knife on an 11-year-old girl, another teen boy threatened to stab someone during an attempted robbery, and police apprehended a man charged with burglarizing a church, according to Montclair authorities.All the information below has been provided by the Montclair Police Department. Accounts that indicate charges are pending against an individual do not imply guilt or    .. more …

One of the first lawsuits filed against the government’s new consumer protection agency can move forward, a federal judge has ruled, signaling that new rules limiting upfront credit card fees may be struck down. The lawsuit pits two natural enemies against each other. It was filed by First Premier, which issues credit cards mostly to consumers with bad or little credit history. Because such    .. more …

It’s not easy to put your finger on the precise moment when New York ceded the mantle of America’s Most Dysfunctional Legislative Body to the U.S. Congress , but Friday works just fine for me.I never thought it would happen. New York had been the champ, the veritable Sonny Liston of dysfunction. After all, hadn’t I been there in June 2009 when the state Senate’s Democrats and Republicans attempted    .. more …