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Living in Ebert's childhood home 'kind of cool'

2015-04-18 16:45:00| Automakers - Topix.net

As a 12-year-old newspaper carrier, Josh Bubniak had no clue that Roger Ebert's childhood home was on his route. Later, he would come to understand the history of the small, craftsman home at Washington and Maple streets in Urbana - when he visited his friend, Michael "Guido" Esteves, who lived there for 10 years.

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House Republicans Attack Protections For Poor People Living In Mobile Homes

2015-04-14 14:12:25| Mobile Homes - Topix.net

The House will vote Tuesday to repeal consumer protections for low-income borrowers in rural America who have seen the promise of affordable housing turned into a financial sinkhole by a mobile home industry that makes pre-manufactured houses far more expensive to buy than they need to be. The bill is part of the GOP majority's campaign to chisel away at specific pieces of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul that became law in 2010 but which left many details to be filled in later by regulators.

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