I’m thrilled to announce that after nearly two months of heroic interim leadership by Holly Yeager, The Washington Independent has a new editor: Mary Kane, our beloved longtime economy reporter.
Mary knows the ins and outs of TWI as well as anyone. She joined the team before the site even More…
Anybody who’d been following the ace reporting of TWI’s Mary Kane on the foreclosure crisis knows she’s one of the best in the business. Still, it’s nice for her to receive some official recognition of that fact.
At the Society of Professional Journalists DC Pro Chapter’s Dateline Awards Dinner on More…
This morning’s Wall Street Journal has an interesting story on how the government’s $4 billion neighborhood stabilization program isn’t nearly enough to address the problems faced by communities with thousands of homes in foreclosure.
But wait, haven’t I read this story before?
As Jerry Garcia put it, “Every silver lining’s got a touch of grey.”
Finally, home sales have begun to rebound. But as Mary Kane points out in an insightful analysis, the rising sales of foreclosed homes are more a sign of the housing market’s troubles than a harbinger of More…
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