When Banks Become an Obstacle to Lending

Sandra Hines tells the story of her painful foreclosure in the Applied Research Center’s Race and Recession Report. “They busted up my mother’s antique furniture, our belongings that we had accumulated for 40 years. We lost the home our parents bought,” she said. “Now we’ve lost all of it.” Soon after the family moved into a rental, their landlord’s foreclosure forced them out of yet another home

Changes urged to state criminal records law

Legislators, government officials, and community organizers called today for changes to the state's criminal records law that they said would help ex-offenders reenter society, including shortening the waiting period to seal records and a simplification of the sealing process.Supporters of the changes to the Criminal Offender Record Information law, speaking at a State House rally, argued that

New affordable housing opens for seniors

Frances Pacheco is coming home to a place that she can afford on her fixed income.The 69-year-old retiree is one of the first tenants to move into Legacy Senior Residences at 1005 N. Elma, Casper’s newest affordable senior residence.Pacheco retired in Las Vegas from jobs “doing all the hard work,” like cleaning houses and working in laundries. She wanted to return to Casper to be with an extended