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The lowlights: the fallout from a loss of airline flights and last year's 30 percent downturn in the real estate hot spot of the past several years -- Padre Island. Roland Mower, CEO of the Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corporation; Keith Arnold, president and CEO of the Corpus Christi Convention and Visitors Bureau; and Gene Guernsey, real estate agent with Remax Metro Properties, met with members of the Corpus Christi Rotary Club on Thursday to discuss their forecasts. "I really think we are setting up 2009, 2010 and other years for a really good housing market," Guernsey said. "I think the housing market will remain a buyer's market, and we will have about an eight-month inventory. It will continue to be strong compared with national figures." Month-supply inventories ranging from six to nine months -- meaning the houses take that long to sell -- are considered balanced markets.
Catholic school closures, vouchers are in national spotlight
When President George W. Bush gave his State of the Union address Jan. 28, he briefly mentioned something Catholics know all too well: Their inner-city schools are closing. Although the president did not specifically name Catholic schools, the reference to "faith-based schools" that are "disappearing at an alarming rate in many of America's inner cities," clearly described what has been happening to the nation's inner-city Catholic schools. According to the National Catholic Educational Association, enrollment in Catholic elementary schools has dropped 15 percent nationwide since 2001-02, and more than 212 U.S. Catholic schools were closed or consolidated during the 2006-07 school year. In response to the steady decline of inner-city "faith-based schools," the president said this spring he would "convene a White House summit aimed at strengthening these lifelines of learning." Sister Dale McDonald, a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the NCEA's director of public policy and educational research, has attended some of the planning sessions for the summit, scheduled to take place in late April.
Kinbauri Identifies New Gold-Copper Zone at El Valle, Intersects 12.9 ...
Kinbauri will be hosting an exhibit at Booth Number 2543 at the upcoming Prospectors and Developers Association Convention in Toronto from March 2-5. - Separately, Kinbauri has also been selected to exhibit its core samples in the Core Shack Exhibition at the same event (Booth 5005A). Some of the high grade skarn and epithermal mineralization from El Valle will be on exhibit. - Kinbauri will also be featured at Booth 1H78 at the annual INVEST 2008 Exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany from April 11-13. Kinbauri is a TSXV - Tier 1 Mineral Exploration Company focused on the development of mineral properties, primarily precious metal prospects in northwestern Spain, Nevada and Canada. Its immediate focus is to expand and upgrade resources to reserves at the El Valle property in Asturias, Spain in order to start operations at the mine and existing mill complex there in 2010.
Inside Jamie Lynn's Troubled Life: Trapped & Bitter
She's just 16, but Jamie Lynn Spears already has a reputation for hard drinking in her hometown, Star reveals in its new issue. And the pregnant teen has accepted she may never return to her glam life in Hollywood. Instead she and boyfriend Casey Aldridge have decided to keep the baby -- and even buy a double-wide trailer to start their lives together. Star has also learned the Zoey 101 star has often cheated on Casey, the 18-year-old she has identified as the father of her child. "I know for a fact that Casey was not the first guy she slept with -- or the last," says one fellow teen in Kentwood, La. "There were at least two others. I know that 110 percent." Another friend says that before her pregnancy Jamie Lynn partied hard but always in private. "Some people drink to have a good time.
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