May 23, 2015, 5:00pm Business
We can't count the ways that legitimate and not-so-legitimate businesses come after our pocketbooks, and how often they find our vulnerabilities despite our best defenses. Few among us have escaped being drawn in by too-good-to-be-true deals for discounts or financial deals that ended up costing us in the long run. Read story
May 17, 2015, 5:00pm Columnists
Could some of the nearly 67 million Americans who live in communities governed by homeowner associations — condominiums, master-planned developments, cooperatives and others — face much tougher underwriting and higher interest rates when they apply for a mortgage? Read story
May 10, 2015, 5:00pm Columnists
Anyone who has taken out a home mortgage knows that one of the borrower's key responsibilities is to pay hazard insurance premiums on the property and not let the policy lapse. Read story
May 3, 2015, 5:00pm Columnists
Could there be a way to help senior homeowners with their cash flow needs without saddling them — and ultimately their families — with high costs? Read story
May 2, 2015, 5:00pm Business
Nationally and locally, for-profit schools are in the news these days. And the news isn't good for the schools or their struggling students. Read story
April 26, 2015, 5:00pm Columnists
Could it be time to cash out some home equity by refinancing your mortgage? For growing numbers of owners, the answer this year is an emphatic yes, at least according to new data from some major lenders. Read story
March 30, 2015, 12:00am Columnists
Move over, Yelp. The federal government's top consumer agency has just begun allowing mortgage borrowers to vent publicly -- in full narrative detail -- about the bad experiences they've had with financial institutions. Read story
March 29, 2015, 12:00am Business
When high-end digital pen maker Wacom sprung the news this month that it would bail from Vancouver for a glitzier corporate address in Portland's Pearl District, company spokesman Doug Little acknowledged the move would be a loss to Vancouver and its technology business sector. Read story
March 22, 2015, 12:00am Clark County News
I'm stuck. Stuck between two schools of thought about the inexorable shift toward higher levels of technology, toward the further distillation of automatic, mobile, social, virtual -- everywhere, at all times. Read story
February 15, 2015, 12:00am Business
Mercifully, the Port of Vancouver has been on the sidelines in the battle between West Coast port operators and the Longshore union that has turned increasingly nasty in recent weeks. The port's union dockworkers, having endured an 18-month lockout at the United Grain Terminal before reaching a contract deal in… Read story
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