* Mortgage lending continues to slide (Times Online)
* Banks must go back to basics and become boring again (Mirror)
* Wyandotte County records property value drop of 6 percent (Kansas City Star)
* Mortgage rates drop (Jamie Smith-Hopkins, Baltimore Sun)
* Declining mortgage rates expected after Fed move (Daily Oklahoman)
* Columns > Race to the Bottom > Bucking the bailout > Americans protest Bushs plan to rescue Wall Street. (R.V. Scheide, Chico News & Review)
* New jobless claims fall more than expected to 646K (Christopher S. Rugaber)
* Has it come to jail time to wipe out graffiti? (C. W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle)
* On Broadway, a muddy mess (News Tribune)
* ‘Too big to fail’ must end, policymakers say (Marcy Gordon)