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Three-Day Series

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/special_packages/foreclosure/

summary stolen from (http://www.thescoop.org/)

Charlotte Mortgage Foreclosures
Posted by Derek on January 18th, 2006. Filed under Fed Data, Mapping.

Lisa Hammersly Munn, Binyamin Appelbaum and Ted Mellnik of the
Charlotte Observer have a three-part series on mortgage foreclosures,
finding that home loan failures have more than quadrupled in Mecklenburg
County since 1999. More foreclosures are filed here, per person, than any
other county in the state. On average, 11 Mecklenburg houses are sold in
foreclosure auctions every business day. The owners are evicted, their
credit ruined, and they face thousands in court fees and moving expenses.
Included with the series is an interactive map of Mecklenburg County
foreclosures and a sidebar reporting that local loans from the Federal
Housing Administration are failing at almost twice the national rate.

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The Numbers Guy - WSJ

by JTJ on Fri 20 Jan 2006 09:40 PM MST

Ex-WSJ editor helps journalists do a better job with numbers

Wall Street Journal
Richard Holden says journalists at his seminars often don't find the problems in his examples of poorly presented numbers from newspapers. "I'm surprised with professional newspaper people, how frequently it goes right over their head," he tells Carl Bialik. "Many times, I'm greeted by 30 blank stares." Part of the problem is embedded in the culture of the profession, he says. "Journalists always prided themselves on knowing so little about math."

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