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Housing crisis and Minnesota remedies

By Molly Priesmeyer , Minnesota Monitor

It seems that every week brings new proposals aimed at stemming the tide of foreclosed and abandoned homes. But aside from new predatory lending laws, most of the solutions for strapped homeowners have been met with stiff opposition. Foreclosure packages at the federal level are being hashed out this week, each day bringing new provisions and exclusions, often at the behest of the financial-services industry. It could take months until anything resembling relief is finalized, and even then implementation is unlikely to be swift. MORE »

Things People Say

Oral Roberts U grad Bachmann says Harvard grad Obama ‘isn’t well-schooled’

By Karl Bremer , Minnesota Independent

Michele Bachmann recently told the Hometown Source, an online extension of ABC Newspapers in the northern suburbs, that Barack Obama “isn’t well-schooled and prepared to be President of the United States.”

That’s an interesting observation, coming from a graduate of a law school that once lost its American Bar Association accreditation. MORE »