By David Hawley Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 3:10 pm The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's 2010-11 season, which was announced today, is nimble, extravagantly varied - and you can hear a lot of it without mortgaging the farm.

An alarming number of banks recently have been urging sellers to commit short sale mortgage fraud as a condition of short sale approval. It's happened to me in Sacramento several times already. Most recently, a well known bank sent an email to a law firm that is negotiating a short sale for one of...