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         <title><![CDATA[San Jose City Council OKs developer incentives to build downtown apartment high rises]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[City approves incentives to persuade developers to build downtown residences]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Tracy Seipel tseipel@mercurynews.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 May 2012 11:53:40 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[San Jose: Crews digging up coffins from forgotten cemetery on Valley Medical Center campus]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Santa Clara County officials say they have dug up 15 pine coffins from a pauper s cemetery dating back more than 100 years that was discovered in February by construction crews at Valley Medical Center.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Mark Gomez mgomez@mercurynews.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 May 2012 09:54:06 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Oakland expands crackdown on blighted homes]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Oakland officials are expanding efforts to cut down on blighted homes by going after properties in the earliest stages of foreclosure.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 May 2012 08:41:35 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[City Slicker Farms is accepting bids to turn old Oakland paint factory into a farm]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The urban food justice nonprofit City Slicker Farms is accepting bids from qualified businesses to provide professional services for the design, community process and construction management of the West Oakland farm and park project in West Oakland.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Angela Woodall&lt;br&gt;Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 May 2012 06:39:26 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Foreclosures drop across Bay Area]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Every step in the foreclosure process -- from default notices to homes seized by banks -- dropped across the Bay Area in April.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Pete Carey pcarey@mercurynews.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 May 2012 18:00:17 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Martinez to approve deal Wednesday to sell historic downtown building]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[MARTINEZ -- After years of struggling to find a developer with the money to turn a historic building into a restaurant, city leaders are poised to ink a deal they hope will spark a downtown revival.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Lisa P. White&lt;br&gt;Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 May 2012 21:38:35 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Four sentenced to federal prison for Bay Area senior home mortgage fraud scheme.]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Real estate agents, residential care facilities owners obtained $20 million in fraudulent loans to buy businesses.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Sam Richards&lt;br&gt;Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 May 2012 07:28:41 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Underwater homeowners get help with mortgages]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Underwater borrowers with loans held by two government backed companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, finally have a shot at reducing the amount they owe on their mortgages.
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         <dc:creator>By Pete Carey pcarey@mercurynews.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 May 2012 21:17:56 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Facebook's expansion plan clears first hurdle; Menlo Park City Council is next]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[As far as the Menlo Park Planning Commission is concerned, Facebook should be allowed to expand at its new campus. Following a three-hour meeting, the commission voted 6-0 Monday night with Peipei Yu absent to forward its recommendation to the city council.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;p class="bylinejb"&gt;By Bonnie Eslinger&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="bylineaffiliation"&gt;Bay Area News Group</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 9 May 2012 07:19:52 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[BofA initiates home loan modification offers]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Homeowners with a Bank of America mortgage have good reason to check their mailbox]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 9 May 2012 06:49:39 PDT]]></pubDate>
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