ABSTRACT This phenomenological study examined the experience of being the father of a child with severe cerebral palsy (CP). Participants were selected using purposive sampling. Two interviews were conducted with 6 English-speaking, biological...
Reports from two Long Island real estate brokerages show that the housing market is still struggling. Pending sales - homes in contract - dropped 7 percent to 4,134 contracts in the fourth quarter...
Manhattan listings ... For sale: 4,566 For rent: 2,332 Median home value: $455,300 Brooklyn listings ... For sale: 1,101 For rent: 467 Median home value: $527,311 Bronx listings ... For sale:......
Stories of Enron and Bernie Madoff's financial frauds and scheming grab headlines, but small businesses across the country are quietly being ripped off to the tune of millions every year. From the not...
"New Normal" Has Arrived for Buyers, Sellers NATICK, Mass. -- Historically low interest rates, renewed interest by investors, and job growth helped provide modest stability to the real estate market in 2011, according...
AUSTIN, Texas -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A+' rating to the bank notes corresponding to Houston, Texas (the city) Combined Utility System's (the system) commercial paper notes as follows: --$75 million bank notes...
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AA' rating to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's approximately $122 million Dormitory Authority of the State of New York revenue bonds, 2012 series 1. In addition,...
FDIC & OCC OD "Guidelines" to Cost Consumers $2 Billion More a Year LAKE BLUFF, Ill. -- Consumers are receiving a late economic Christmas present from the FDIC and proposed by the OCC...
LOS ANGELES -- Third graph, second sentence of release should read: December's sales were up 3.3 percent from November's revised pace of 504,420 and were up 0.1 percent from the revised 520,330 sales...
With the real estate industry - and just about everyone else - looking for some good news from the housing market, December's Long Island home sale statistics could provide a slight lift. Sales...
Some industry professionals say costs of system development charges in Portland are trending upward, and that the situation is starting to shape the face of their business. "They've been too high and they...
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AA-' rating to the following JEA, Florida electric revenue bonds: --$14.9 million electric system revenue bonds, series three 2012A; --$63.4 million electric system subordinated revenue...
Construction spending in the United States rose in November for a third time in four months, indicating the industry helped boost growth at the end of 2011. Budding outlays increased 1.2%, exceeding the...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Fitch Ratings assigns its 'AAA' unenhanced long-term rating to the following Salt Lake City School District, Utah general obligation (GO) bonds: --$18 million, GO refunding bonds (Utah School Bond Guaranty...
Veros' quarterly markets update shows CA and NV dominating bottom five performing markets. SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Veros Real Estate Solutions (Veros), an industry leader in enterprise risk management, collateral valuation services and...
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AAA' rating to the following Fairfax County, Virginia bonds: --$220.7 public improvement bonds, series 2012A; --$159.65 million refunding bonds, series 2012B. Fitch affirms the following bonds...
AUSTIN, Texas -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA' rating to the following Rockwall County, Texas' (the county) bonds: --$16.7 million unlimited tax (ULT) road bonds, series 2012. The bonds are scheduled for a...
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- As the new year begins, potential home buyers and sellers throughout the Mid-Atlantic region are anxious about how their properties will fare in this coming year. To explore the issue,...
When the roar of 18,000 Brooklyn Nets fans rocks the Barclays Center to life this fall, some will hear it as the clearest announcement yet that Brooklyn has arrived. As Borough President Marty...
San Diego's housing market remained in the doldrums last year and shows little sign of staging a robust comeback this year, say local realtors and housing experts. "We definitely have a year left...