| Sluggish sales and falling housing prices ruled the California scene
The housing market suffered a major slump in 2007, representing this year's top business story. Reminiscent of the housing slump of the last decade, home sales took a major dive in 2007, with a double-digit year-over-year plunge nationwide. That was followed by a drop in home prices that also reached double digits in some markets, including Southern California. In November, Los Angeles County saw a nearly 12percent drop in the value of previously owned houses compared with a year earlier, according to the Los Angeles-based California Association of Realtors. Sales fell almost 37percent. Statewide, prices also sank about 12percent, with sales down 36percent. According to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller national home price index, prices in October posted the largest drop since early 1991.
Viewers' Comments On Randy Salerno - Part 9
He could have been aggressive and pushed his way through crowds regardless of whom he was knocking around, like most reporters. Instead he was so kind and careful not to get in the way. Most importantly I suffer profoundly from depression. I am unable to work or sleep much. I would look forward to his personality and wit every morning when I woke up feeling awful because he could always make him smile. I'm devastated. He was such a part of my life and I didn't even know it. I can't believe it happened on Thursday and somehow I didn't learn of it until Sunday. I missed the last two broadcasts because I actually slept late. I can't help crying. He was so young. All my condolences go out to his family and those close to him who loved him. It came through his TV personality that he was very happy and lovable.
Enthusiastic Nashville crowd welcomes Hillary Clinton tonight
This election is about you, your lives, your health care, your future. What people want are solutions. That's what I'm offering. I have in the past year been very specific about what I want to do because I want you to hold me accountable," she said. Her visit was the first of a spate of candidate visits leading up to the Feb. 5 Super Tuesday balloting in Tennessee, Arkansas and more than 20 other states. Former senator John Edwards has scheduled stops in Chattanooga and Nashville Monday, if he remains in the race after his third place showing South Carolina, where he was born. Clinton's husband, former president Bill Clinton spoke at Fisk University here last week. On the Republican side, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has two stops in Nashville Monday, including the State Capitol.
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