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9 Things to Buy Secondhand for Your First Home

Filed under: Buying, Lifestyle, Renting Mira/Alamy By Trent Hamm There can be great joy in moving into your first apartment or your first home. You finally have space all to yourself. You can decorate how you want. You can spend your time how you want. Sadly, that initial burst of joy is often deflated by the realization that you need a lot of little things when you move to a

Indonesia says Newmont running out of time on new export permit

[Reuters] – Newmont Mining Corp’s Indonesian copper export permit will not be renewed beyond Friday unless the U.S. miner submits a progress update to the government on its plans to develop a domestic smelter, a mine ministry official said. Newmont, Indonesia’s second-largest copper miner, reached an agreement with the Indonesian government a year ago to develop local mineral processing facilities to end an eight-month tax dispute that halted exports. The

Parent's Hunger Strike Reveals Flaws in Chicago's Education Reforms

It’s a drastic, painful, potentially fatal tactic more associated with third-world political movements calling attention to brutal regimes, or history lessons about legendary protest leaders, like Mahatma Gandhi and Cesar Chavez. Leaders say they launched the strike because city leaders, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel, have repeatedly turned a deaf ear to their complaints about the fate of Walter H. Dyett High School in the historic, majority-black Bronzeville neighborhood. Emanuel’s administration,

Miami Heat part-owner cannot suppress tongue-wagging photo

A federal appeals court said a minority owner of the Miami Heat basketball team cannot stop a woman from running a scathingly critical blog featuring an unflattering photo of him with his tongue protruding askew from his mouth. Raanan Katz, who is also a Florida real estate developer, had sought to stop Irina Chevaldina, a disgruntled former tenant in one of his shopping centers, from using the “ugly” and “embarrassing”

World Trade Center developer gets new chance for damages

A federal appeals court has given the developer Larry Silverstein a new chance to recoup more money for rebuilding the World Trade Center site in New York, on top of the $4.1 billion of insurance proceeds he has received. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court judge incorrectly calculated that Silverstein lost just $2.805 billion on his 99-year lease for the site, signed six weeks before