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MinMon video: North side story — a vacant-home tour

By Molly Priesmeyer | 04.11.08 | 10:00 am

Story by Molly Priesmeyer, video by Dan Haugen

You don’t have to go far into North Minneapolis to see it: Homes made dark by boards covering windows and doors. Most of the boarded homes here are festooned with gray plywood.…

Minnesota and the mortgage crisis: We’ve only just begun

By Molly Priesmeyer | 03.25.08 | 10:32 am

Mortgage fraud. Negative equity. Exotic loans. As the former assistant attorney general for the state of Minnesota and current attorney for the Housing Preservation Project, Mark Ireland has seen his fair share of…