Minnesotans anxiously await rent help as a fraction of federal aid has gone out Minn. program seen as model but start date is behind national average. May 26, 2021 6:10pm Text size Copy shortlink:
It s been a stressful week and a half since Nicole LaFavor-Bostwick applied for state help covering $5,000 in rent and utilities payments she owes on her Hastings home.
Every day matters to LaFavor-Bostwick, who fears her landlord will kick her out in early June if she doesn t get the money despite a state ban on such evictions. I haven t heard anything back yet, said LaFavor-Bostwick, who has repeatedly checked the state website for updates only to find her application is still under review. It s kind of nerve-racking, because I have to be out in two weeks or less.
Minnesota tenants worry and landlords fume over eviction ban
As a new program rolls out to provide financial assistance to people late in their rent and utilities or those soon to be behind, Minnesota Housing Commissioner Jennifer Ho said lawmakers need to proceed carefully in how they fashion an off-ramp to an eviction moratorium.
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Gov. Tim Walz, left, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Minnesota Housing Commissioner Jennifer Ho listen to residents of Kings Crossing in St. Paul Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, as they discuss their fear of losing federal housing assistance because of the month-long partial shutdown of the federal government. (Christopher Magan / St. Paul Pioneer Press)
ECU graduates celebrate their big day during spring commencement. | Photo: Cliff Hollis
For the first time in too many months, cheers of PURPLE! and GOLD! rang through Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium Friday as East Carolina University celebrated the accomplishments of more than 4,200 graduates during a series of spring commencement ceremonies.
In his first commencement as chancellor, Dr. Philip Rogers welcomed students from the Class of 2021 as well as the Class of 2020, whose graduates had online ceremonies last May and December due to the coronavirus pandemic. Three in-person commencement ceremonies on Friday allowed for social distancing with fewer people in the stadium for each event.
“Most of my life, I’ve lived up north,” Larocque, who is Métis, told the
Thompson Citizen in a May 11 interview. “My parents met in Churchill. I’ve lived in Wabowden, Leaf Rapids, Flin Flon, The Pas, Wanless, Thompson. The north is my home and it always has been. When I got married, I left the north and then when I came back I noticed that nothing had changed. It broke my heart to see the condition of the north when it used to be so prosperous.” In Larocque’s view, having an MP who is not part of the government is a disadvantage to the riding, which has been held by the NDP for all but two terms since 1979, with the Liberals capturing the seat in 2006 and 1993. Elijah Harper, who won the 1993 election, is the only MP for Churchill (which became Churchill-Keewatinook Aski in 2015) to have been a member of the governing party.