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Issue of March 13, 2006 |     |
Permission GrantedWith Senate recommendations for commercial permitting reform stalled in the Legislature along with the rest of the job-creation bill in which it is included, a separate plan to streamline permitting is gathering steam on Beacon Hill. Security Check According to a new study, though Boston’s Logan International Airport is located two miles across the water from the heart of the city’s Financial District, the Hub’s travel hub is home to a sizable portion of the city’s economic activity. Housing and the Election By Aaron Gornstein A recent University of Massachusetts-Donahue Institute poll found that housing costs are a concern for 87 percent of Massachusetts residents. This same poll also found that residents ranked housing as the third-most important issue, following closely behind access to health care and public education. Best Practices, Common Sense Help Detect Mortgage Fraud By Anna DeSimone Mortgage fraud in the United States is pervasive and growing. Over the past three years, the number of SAR (suspicious activity report) filings related to mortgages has tripled and the number of investigations processed by the FBI has quadrupled. By definition, mortgage fraud schemes contain some type of material misstatement, misrepresentation or omission in the funding, purchase or insuring of a loan. Check and Balance Banker and Tradesman's political cartoon. |
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