Folks Who Went to the Herald Evicted -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Link here.

Several tenants of Western Apartments — the Williston apartment complex where managers recently announced a rent increase from $700 to $2,000 per month — were given eviction notices last week, according the residents who live in the apartments.

Sanford said she and her husband have been in the apartment since last November, and have been good tenants, paying their rent on time. "I have a feeling that she is singling us out," Sanford said, adding the management saw her speaking to one of the seniors who spoke with the Williston Herald recently about the news of the rent going from $700 to $2,000 per month by next April.

Other items in the on-line edition of the Williston Herald today:

First published on Friday, the furor/backlash over bonus payment.

In a special meeting on Wednesday the Williston Area Chamber of Commerce Board decided to give Executive Director Kevin Paschke a bonus, that some say could be up to $25,000, for organizing last month’s Williston Basin Energy Festival.

The decision ignited a string of angry emails and discussion across town Thursday as several companies who are members of the Chamber were not happy with the estimated bonus amount, and that backlash apparently caused the Chamber Board to reverse its decision in a special meeting Thursday night.

The Williston Herald publisher and member of the chamber explained why she voted to take back the bonus -- it's available at the paid on-line Williston Herald edition.

Another editorial on landlords raising rent from $700 to $2000 overnight with the headline: it's not about "supply and demand." If the ability to raise the price from $700 to $2000 overnight on a two-room apartment is not about "supply and demand," I don't know what is.

An article about the new Busek development in Minot was also published in today's on-line edition of the Williston Herald, paid subscription. It's a very well-written, long article on the story. Here's the story from the Minot Daily News about a month ago, which I linked before.