| Two vie for open seat on school board
The upcoming race for a seat on the Sherwood School Board involves issues related to increased growth, adequate funding and the creation of a business/school mentoring program as two residents vie for a seat in the May 15 election. Sue Hekker and John Miller are seeking a four-year term for the Position 1 slot. The seat is being vacated by Wayne Lowry who announced earlier this year that he wouldn't seek re-election after spending eight years on the board. Ballots will be mailed out April 27. Hekker, 39, works as a sales representative for Schering Plough, a pharmaceutical firm that sells cardio-vascular products. Miller, 49, works in insurance and membership sales for AAA of Oregon. Here's a look at both candidates: SUE HEKKER Hekker most recently served as chairwoman for Care for Kids, the group that pushed for the successful November bond measure worth $98 million.
Browne could lose his job over 'bidding frenzy' fiasco
London: Speculation is growing that Des Browne will lose his job as defence secretary when Gordon Brown takes over this summer. His position worsened as the bodies of four soldiers killed last week in Iraq were flown back to Britain, striking a solemn contrast with the bidding frenzy sanctioned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) when Faye Turney and the 14 other former Iranian captives came home. The Chancellor is planning a sweeping reshuffle after Tony Blair quits office and MPs predicted that Browne would be moved to a less sensitive post. Distanced Blair distanced himself from the fiasco yesterday by saying he was not consulted on the decision. Sources said he found out from the newspapers - although some No 10 officials were aware of the situation at least a day earlier.
Why we shouldn't be bailing out subprime lenders or borrowers
For starters, there's no easy way to bail out homeowners without bailing out the lenders and investors who were largely responsible for the subprime mess. Many experts say we are in the early innings of the foreclosure cycle. If we bail out people today, will we be willing and able to help people who fail later in the game? Propping up borrowers who took a gamble on a house and lost reinforces gambling. "If people think they can take out a bad mortgage and they get bailed out, that's called moral hazard in social insurance and it's a very bad thing," says Thomas Davidoff, an assistant professor in the Haas Real Estate Group at UC Berkeley. Bailout advocates say they want to help people who were duped, not gamblers. But even if you could separate the swindled from the speculators, there's no guarantee that people who get a bailout will keep their homes.
Kaminski Auctions Announces its Annual April Auction Featuring ...
Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts' premier antiques and fine art auction houses, announces their Annual April Auction. This outstanding auction will feature several estate collections, 18th-century heirlooms from the Hannah Davis family of Concord and Bedford, Mass., as well as fine colonial furnishings returned home from California to their origins in New England. The auction will take place Sunday, April 22, at 10:30 a.m., with an on-site preview offered between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Boston, Mass (PRWEB) April 5, 2007 -- Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts' premier antiques and fine art auction houses, announces their Annual April Auction. The auction will take place Sunday, April 22, at 10:30 a.m., with an on-site preview offered between the hours of 8:30 a.m.
King Corn puts used equipment in hotter demand
Bob Rottier had little idea what bids to expect for the assortment of equipment at his first big farm auction of the year last weekend in Grant. But he was pretty certain a 1950s-era John Deere 290 two-row corn planter would not bring much. So the co-owner of Fremont-based Auction Connection Inc. was surprised when a man planning to grow corn on the east side of Michigan bought the planter for $550. "Five years ago, you couldn't get $100 out of them," Rottier said. Times have changed in farming, with $4 per bushel corn prices fueling optimism and pushing corn acreage nationwide up 15 percent from 2006. A U.S. Department of Agriculture study forecasts farmers will plant more than 90 million acres of corn this year, the most since 1944.
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