Ellison Opines on Payroll Tax Cut, Aids Foreclosed Homeowner
The day before Christmas Eve, a Fifth District resident heard she could stay.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
An Empty Shoebox, A Bare Christmas
Utility bills wiped out the money one unemployed mother had been saving to give her 12-year-old son a Christmas.
There’s a shoebox tucked away in Sheryl Martinson’s home. The shoebox itself isn’t anything special, but its contents promised a holiday reprieve from the daily struggles that plague this unemployed single mother. Martinson had squirreled away $500 in that little box. To her, the money was about more than greenbacks and the toys it could buy. It was about carving out a harbor of tranquility that could shield her 12-year-old son from the full storm of their financial difficulties. Martinson graduates from college next fall. If she could just make it through this Christmas, she thought, she’d have a good job by the time the holiday rolls around next year. But in the spring, Martinson’s financial difficulties overcame her ability keep up with…
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James Warden
5:02 pm on Wednesday, December 14, 2011
If you're interested in helping Ms. Martinson, shoot me an e-mail with your real name and a phone number where I can reach you. more ›
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Apartments Help Hopkins Fend off Worst of Housing Crisis
Fewer available homes mean fewer foreclosures, which in turn signify an underlying strength of the Hopkins real estate market.
Look around Hopkins and you'll find plenty of apartments. High-rise, low-rise, senior housing, assisted-living — all available. Then there are the condos, duplexes, fourplexes and all the other ways families gather under one roof. On the surface, this might seem as another dreary marketplace example of supply exceeding demand. But all those apartments may have helped Hopkins weather the housing crash a bit better than other communities did. The city's foreclosure rate is less than half that of Hennepin County, as a whole, and a little more than a third of the national average, according to data from RealtyTrac, which monitors foreclosure rates across the country. Beneath this is another telling statistic: Just 30 percent of Hopkins' …
Kevin O'Donovan
4:17 pm on Saturday, December 31, 2011
There are several possible definitions for the word "Rhetoric". One definition is to communicate. an idea effectively. Dennis has done a very good job. Chris Fields has done a pretty good job. If anyone thinks Mr.Fields platform is in perfect pitch with Conservative principles, you might want to look again. He is closer to Conservative ideas than Ellison is. Communist China is closer to … more ›