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Collin County Real Estate News: Frisco Goes Frigid Over Section Eight

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Published Feb. 11, 2010 at 10:13 a.m.

Frisco residents are up in arms over the possibility that the growing-like-weeds City of Frisco may soon see Section 8 Housing, that is, low-income housing subsidized by the government for low-income wage earners. Often, when homeowners hear the words “Section 8″, they cringe, fearing lead-ballon-like drops in real estate values, increases in drugs, crime and [ ... ] ...

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Tom Tom in West Village Closed

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taxes

Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 2:01 p.m.

According to Disher Brown, Tom Tom Noodle House in West Village is closed. Sign on the door says the property was seized for failure to pay state taxes ...

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Crime Alert, Fitzhugh Area

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Published Feb. 2, 2010 at 4:01 p.m.

I’ve just received word of two Dallas Realtors who thought their lives were going to be snuffed out Sunday night/Monday morning at one a.m., sitting in their car, when a perpetrator placed an 8 mm gun to one agent’s chest, demanding her purse. Gathering details now — fresh news just for you, Baseball Mike ...

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Dallas County Property Taxes Due Today!

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Published Feb. 1, 2010 at 9:00 a.m.

Dallas County property taxes are due today, February 1, 2010, since the 31st fell on a Sunday. Click here to pay by credit card and print a copy of your confirmation number. But before you pay, call your bank and prepare them for the fact that your mega-charge is coming. This is even more important [ ... ] ...

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Update:Dallas County Property Taxes Due February 1

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Published Jan. 29, 2010 at 7:13 p.m.

Dallas County Property taxes are due Jan. 31, which is a Sunday. The Dallas County website says this year’s due date is actually Monday, February 1. But I have been seeking the place where you can pay by credit card and must be missing something — am I? ...

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Crime blog: More sentencings set in Dallas City Hall public corruption case

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Published Dec. 24, 2009 at 1:42 p.m.

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Genband CEO: Total bid cost for Nortel unit more than $400 million

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taxes

Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 11:48 a.m.

Although Genband Inc. is bidding $282 million for a unit of bankrupt Nortel Networks, the total cost of the bid will be "well north" of $400 million when expenses like restructuring and taxes are figured in ...

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Garrett Avenue is Not “Knox-Henderson Area”

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Published Dec. 8, 2009 at 1:02 p.m.

Here is what happened (and where) as reported by the DMN’s Crime Blog:A 20-year-old woman walking from a party with a group of friends to their car in the 1800 block of North Garrett Avenue early Saturday was grabbed at gunpoint by two men, Dallas police say. The men abducted her into a dark colored [ ... ] ...

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Maybe Tom Leppert Should Take a Hint from Nashville’s Mayor?

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convention center, mayor

Published Dec. 8, 2009 at 12:39 p.m.

Or I guess I should say, “Maybe Tom Leppert could invent a time machine, go not too far into the future and see how other cities handled the convention center hotel issue, come back to Dallas and the present, and change his mind about public funding.” From Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, which, for some reason, [ ... ] ...

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Kilpatrick Buys Wife ‘Very Personal’ Plastic Surgery

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mayor

Published Dec. 8, 2009 at 11:52 a.m.

Software company Covisint is nearing completion of a deal that could net disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick $300,000 in commission. That’s what the Southlake resident told a Michigan judge to explain why he’d sought a delay for a hearing on what restitution he owes the city of Detroit.Another revelation of yesterday’s proceedings showed that [ ... ] ...

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