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I have been receiving emails and even phone calls asking for the location of the HUD Mortgagee Letter about this all morning so I thought I needed to go ahead and post the details that I have. [Details are now available here ] In a speech this morning HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan announced that FHA has come up with a way to allow first time home buyers to use the $8000 first time home buyer tax credit as a down payment at the time of purchasing a home. They will no longer have to wait until the following year and their tax refund to ... Read Full Story

Announces eligibility for borrowers up to 125% underwater in Las Vegas with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Congresswoman Dina Titus WASHINGTON – U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced an expansion of the Obama Administration’s Home Affordable Refinance Program to include participation by borrowers who are current but up to 125 percent [...] Read Full Story

It's a space so nice, they built it thrice. And on Tuesday, February 17, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends all gathered at the James C. Colgate Student Union to cut the ribbon on a newly remodeled Donovan's Pub. With a jazz trio playing on-stage, guests mingled beneath the bar's hand-carved inscription, "Céad Míle Fáilte," Gaelic for "a hundred thousand welcomes." Others sat in the café, where a flat-screen television showed pictures of the construction process -- a vivid reminder of just how far the pub has come during the last year. Donovan's Pub, first constructed in the mid-80s, was the brainchild of John ... Read Full Story

I was going to do a post on the keys to Sunday’s game, but I can really sum it up 3 bullet points… Get pressure on Kurt Warner Control the clock No bad turnovers We are the better team, and if we play within ourselves (and cover Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin), we should win. We aren’t the guarantee some would make it seem, but we should win. Instead of getting into a discussion about the obvious, I’d like to open up a discussion that has been popular around the area this week: Is Donovan McNabb a future NFL Hall-of-Famer? It’s a strange question ... Read Full Story

Donovan Quinn is a singer-songwriter from San Francisco, possibly better known to readers of this blog as one half of The Skygreen Leopards (along with Glenn Donaldson). Quinn has released a couple of enchanting 'solo' albums, 2007's 'October Lanterns' and 2008's 'Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month'. The son of Dave Carter, from the legendary 60's psychedelic rock group Country Weather and named after Donovan Leitch, Quinn began writing songs at a young age. 2001 saw the release of the first Skygreen Leopards CD-R, with whom he has since released several records. 'October Lanterns' , Quinn's first album on his own (not counting various ... Read Full Story