Patrick Condon

2 months ago | theconversation.com | Patrick Condon

Racial disparities played a significant role in shaping unequal COVID-19 mortality rates. What is less widely understood is how overcrowded housing conditions were an even deadlier variable. In California’s Bay Area, for instance, residents of overcrowded apartments — many of them recent immigrants — were found to be significantly more likely to die from COVID-19 than residents of demographically similar, but less crowded, apartments. Even less examined is the root cause of this overcrowding.

2 months ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Patrick Condon

The gap between wages and housing prices is widening, fuelling the affordability crisisRacial disparities played a significant role in shaping unequal COVID-19 mortality rates. What is less widely understood is how overcrowded housing conditions were an even deadlier variable.

Mar 17, 2025 | startribune.com | Paul Walsh |David Taintor |Patrick Condon

Boy, 14, shoots himself in head in his St. Paul home and ‘is not expected to survive,’ police say“It is unknown how the juvenile was able to have the gun,” said Police Sgt. Toy Vixayvong. Jerron Chapman (With permission from GoFundMe)A 14-year-old boy shot himself in the head over the weekend in St. Paul and was gravely wounded, officials said Monday. The shooting occurred about 9:25 p.m. Saturday at the boy’s home in the 300 block of Bates Avenue, police said.

Mar 12, 2025 | startribune.com | Paul Walsh |Patrick Condon

Police raid small-town massage parlor south of Twin Cities suspected of promoting prostitutionOne man said he had sex there three or four times, a court filing revealed. New Prague Police Department (New Prague Police Department)More than two years after receiving their first tip about suspected sex trafficking at a downtown New Prague massage parlor, police raided the business and arrested its owner on allegations of promoting prostitution.

Feb 10, 2025 | spacing.ca | Derek DeLand |Patrick Condon |Sean Ruthen

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