Published in Phoenix Business Journal Contributing Writer Alejandro Barahona Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton unveiled a program yesterday offering mortgage down payment help to local school teachers, paramedics, firefighters and police officers. The program is an expansion of the Home in Five Advantage program created in 2012 by the Phoenix and Maricopa County industrial development authorities to help low- and middle-income buyers purchase homes. The program offers down payment and closing-cost assistance to borrowers, military personnel and now teachers and a host of first responders. To qualify, borrowers’ incomes must be below $88,000 per year and homes priced lower than $300,000. The program … Continue reading Phoenix program gives mortgage down payment help to teachers, paramedics, police and firefighters

Police forces across the United States have been under extensive scrutiny recently, and while the reasons vary, one thing is unquestionably clear: People are fighting back for their rights. Just north of Miami, Florida, a group of videographers were trying to film in the tropical paradise when they were met with the heat of Deerfield Sheriff’s deputies who abandoned protocol and deprived the team of Preplex Productions their right to the first amendment. Larry Paz, Nick Giassi, Pedro Anjos, Michael Martins, and Ace Barros were filming for their personal YouTube channel, Uh Oh Monkey, on an observation deck, which was … Continue reading Youtube Collaborative, UhOhMonkey, fights for the right to film