The best way to stop foreclosure is to make up your back payments before the bank forecloses. But not all home owners realize that foreclosure is pending when they miss making a payment or two. By the time they realize that foreclosure is imminent, many sellers throw in the towel and do nothing....

Students and staff at Hopkins Senior High School are back at school after an emergency evacuation Wednesday morning.

By David Hawley Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 3:10 pm The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's 2010-11 season, which was announced today, is nimble, extravagantly varied - and you can hear a lot of it without mortgaging the farm.

An alarming number of banks recently have been urging sellers to commit short sale mortgage fraud as a condition of short sale approval. It's happened to me in Sacramento several times already. Most recently, a well known bank sent an email to a law firm that is negotiating a short sale for one of...

By Eric Black Published Fri, Feb 19 2010 5:58 am Psychiatrist Maureen Hackett of Minnetonka and former lobbyist Jim Meffert of Edina, who are seeking the DFL endorsement for Congress from the suburban Third District, debated Tuesday evening at an Edina middle school.

Maybe when it's Google Buzz. I liked this post from Chris Penn about Google Buzz. I am using Buzz, and think it's going to be useful, but I'm not yet sure. However, some quotes from the post are related to what I've been writing about all of the noise on Twitter. "We discovered that frankly, we didn't...

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Most people don't think in advance about their pets and power outages until they're in the middle of a power outage. The thing is you don't normally know how long a power outage will last. Pets are usually OK with a power outage duration of a few hours, but once the clock ticks past that time frame,...

GE is creating a world-class "Center of Excellence" for manufacturing reverse osmosis, nanofiltration and ultrafiltration spiral-wound membranes in its Minnetonka, Minnesota facility.

It's obviously still a major government focus to spur the housing market, but there's also interest in helping low income renters as well. Providing housing is the goal, so the FHFA is proposing new rules for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the purchase of multifamily mortgages. The full text of the news...