10 ways to spend your tax refund - 2004-03-28
With tax-filing in full season, millions of filers have already got their refund checks from the Internal Revenue Service. The average refund check coming to a tidy $2,128.

Add to your mortgage payment.
"For most people, this is better than putting it in a savings account," says Robert Van Order, chief economist in the financial research division of Freddie Mac.
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R.I. attracting Bay State home buyers - 2004-03-28
Rhode Island: A nice place to visit, and you do want to reside there.

Massachusetts home buyers seeking a less expensive alternative to the still-hot real estate markets of Greater Boston and Cape Cod helped push Rhode Island's single-family home sales to record levels last year.

The lowest mortgage rates in more than a generation also prompted a sales surge.
Read the full story at Boston Globe