| Analysis: New US Attorney Scandal Uncovered in Minnestota
Minneapolis - U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose has only been on the job for a little more than a year, and she's already managed to alienate four of her top staff to the point that they've all voluntarily demoted themselves from being the heads of her criminal and civil divisions - not to mention that one was her top administrative officer - down to simply being federal prosecutors. One other employee, Tim Anderson, a non-attorney who had been the acting administrator in the office, also gave up his post."This is a decapitation of the office," said a source with knowledge of the situation, according to Shannon Prather of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "I've never heard of anything like this. People work all their lives to be at these high levels in the office. This is an extraordinary event." Why? According to the MyFOX Twin Cities website, it's because Paulose has "earned a reputation for quoting Bible verses and dressing down underlings." And what type of prosecutions do U.S.
Writers on the Range: Down but not out in Missoula, Montana
The American dream is alive and well in Missoula, Mont., sort of. Not long after arriving here in the late 1990s, I found myself in the same conversation about real estate, hearing the same words and sharing the same sentiment. "You can't eat the landscape," someone would say, and everyone within earshot would laugh at the cliche;, though it would usually be followed by an uncomfortable silence.
Here's what wasn't funny then or now: In a recent Missoulian article, local realtors tallied their statistics and calculated a whopping $206,850 median price for a house, but only a median income of $43,200.
At that income level, according to the article, a family could afford to buy a house for $143,000, and at the time the report was completed, there were all of nine such houses for sale.
‘Lives Lost, Lives Found’: Jewish immigrants’ moving stories New ...
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