Buy a Phoenix home for only $20?
The Capitol Mall Association is raffling off two renovated homes in Phoenix. The tickets are only $20 each (or six for $100).
Phoenix Housing Market Continues Recovery
According to Michael Orr, real estate expert at A.S.U.’s W.C. Carey School of Business, the Phoenix housing market is continuing to recover. He also says that traditional homes sales are on the increase.
ASU Economist Estimates Jobs Recovery in Arizona Will Take 5 Years
Of the 314,000 jobs lost during the recession, Arizona has recouped only 78,000 of those positions. ASU economist LeeMcPheters estimates that it could take five years to create the additional 235,000 jobs needed to get back to pre-recession levels. Read more…
Illinois Man May Face Deportation To Nigeria
losangelesimmigrationlawattorney.com: According to this post:
In a very interesting case out of the state of Illinois, a young man is currently being held in an immigration detention center as a fugitive despite his insistence that he has sought to secure citizenship through the proper legal channels.
Eugene P., 28, was originally born in Nigeria, where he was part of the Ogoni tribe, who are well known for their protests against petroleum drilling in their region of the country in the 1990s.
It is rumored that in response to these protests, oil companies enlisted the assistance of the Nigerian military. This in turn, created an extremely chaotic and dangerous environment that Eugene P. sought to flee.
He is currently appealing the detention as his deadline for the appeal of his green card had not expired when he was taken into custody. Eugene also married a woman while living in the United States – three days prior to being arrested and detained by an ICE worker.
Employee Loses Job For 40 Year-Old Crime Conviction
miamicriminallawyer.com: “Even a small charge is worth fighting.” That was unfortunately true for the woman featured in this article, who lost her job when her employer, Wells Fargo, discovered a 40 year-old conviction. After five years of awards for employee excellence, she was terminated for a 1972 shoplifting conviction.