Student Loans & Rising Interest Rates

Student Loans & Rising Interest Rates
7 On Your Side has some advice for college students on the best way to avoid rising loan rates.

State agency offers loans for small businesses
Front Porch, a state-funded agency, offers loans for small businesses of up to $7,500. Details regarding the loan and other services available at the Central Economic Development Center were discussed during a free workshop tonight.

Cavs look to help LeBron
Wizards at Cavaliers First round, Game 5 Series tied, 2-2 8:30 p.m. today Quicken Loans Arena TV TNT, FSN Ohio CLEVELAND - A 3-1 series lead was looking like reality. Suddenly, the Cavaliers went in...

SBA makes disaster assistance now available to local small businesses
Alfred E. Judd, director of the Small Business Administration's disaster field operations center, has announced that small, non-farm businesses in 117 Texas counties, including Grimes County and Montgomery County, may now apply for low interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) up until November 7, 2006. These disaster loans offset economic losses due to reduced

Consolidating student loans
www.loanconsolidation.ed.gov/borrower/borrower.shtml

Slidell officials question plan to raise wages
A few Slidell City Council members have found fault with Mayor Ben Morris' plan to give employees a raise next year of nearly 4 percent on average, saying officials are relying too heavily on a temporary post-Katrina sales tax boom and on loans that the city likely will have to repay to finance the increases.