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Retire Smart: Rising Number of Reverse Mortgage Borrowers Facing Foreclosure
By Mark Miller
Tribune Media Services
Reverse mortgages were created to help seniors stay in their homes by tapping the equity built up over the years. Now, a small but growing number of reverse mortgage borrowers find themselves at risk of losing their homes anyway.
Letter from Fukushima: A Vietnamese-Japanese Police Officer’s Account
On March 11, 2011, the strongest earthquake hit Japan and one of the top five largest earthquakes in the world since seismological record-keeping began. A tsunami followed with waves of up to 33 ft. The disaster left thousands dead and inflicted extensive material damage to buildings and infrastructure that led to significant accidents at two major nuclear power stations.
East Lansing Ministry Brings Humanitarian Help to Rural Ghana
Dr. Mona Reide in Ghana during one of her many visits to impoverished areas in the world.
ACCRA, GHANA — Dr. Mona Reide is the senior pastor of Grace International Outreach Church, located in East Lansing, MI. The church and the pastor are members of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (PAW). As church member Ishmael Odamtten often says “we are small but powerful.”
Your Other 8 Hours: The Quickest Way to Radically Improve Your Life: Use Radical Change
By Robert Pagliarini,
Tribune Media Services
What do the iPad, the band Nirvana and the Fosbury Flop have to do with your professional and personal well-being? They certainly don’t represent anything just a little different or just a little better. They all represented radical change — they operated, sounded and looked completely different than anything that came before them. Their creators didn’t settle for incremental change — slow, steady improvement — but instead radically changed the rules. It wasn’t about doing a few things better.
New shopping site- Wheretogetit
By Aisha SimsI know one of my biggest shopping issues is finding items that I like in the store or online boutique. Sometimes I’ll be browsing through a magazine or watching television and I’ll see a cute piece that I’d like to own but I have no clue where to start looking. I found out about this really cool website where you can post a picture of an item that you covet and people can give suggestions on where to get it.
Do you have an opionion? Your letters 10-5
Before even trying to tackle a $15 to $20 million deficit based on Mayor Bernero’s worst-case scenarios, City Hall decided to use fear mongering and extortion to scare voters into passing an outrageous 26% to 31% tax hike and Headlee override as property values plummeted by an average of more than 10% this year.
Community Resource Connection
By Latasha A. McWright
TNCP Guest Writer
This month of March, many of us are in the middle of our New Year’s weight loss resolutions and summer is right around the corner! Healthy eating habits have to become a priority for the whole family! This is not only good for your weight loss goals, but also your general health and wellness. We’ve located a few programs in our community that can help improve your health, diet, as well as managing your meals on a budget!
Listen to Your Body
By Tom Lagana and Laura Lagana
from “The Quick and Easy Guide to Project Management”
Know what works best for you. There is more than one recipe for success, so sculpt it to meet your needs and lifestyle. Keep an open mind and consider that, regardless of how ridiculous your approach sounds to someone else, if it works for you it doesn’t matter what others think.
AboutThatCar.com: Lincoln MKX Can Compete
By Frank S. Washington
DETROIT, MI – During my week-long test drive of Lincoln’s 2011 MKX, I saw the two faces of the midsize crossover – luxury and utility.
The MKX sported what Lincoln calls its split-wing grille. I call it Lincoln’s butterfly face. No matter, the point of it is that grille was distinctive and it made the vehicle easily recognizable as a Lincoln.