trouble

There seems to be trouble on my blogspot. I keep sending stuff here that never appears.
A woman down the street was knifed in the stomach Friday night. This is the second time that woman has been attacked by a man wearing a hoodie and a mask, in the middle of the night. She's in the hospital. It seems that her son was dealing drugs out of her house and did some people really bad, so the suspect is one of them, wreaking vengeance on the mother since her son is long gone to another location. It's scary, but he attacks only her. They know who it is, but can't prove it, and by the time the sheriff gets here, he is, of course, gone. We don't need any more bad publicity, and Channel 6 seems to have it in for us. We're now really known as slums. They never show the wonderful places like where I live, but keep coming here and filming and showing all the garbage left by people who had to move because their houses were foreclosed on. The bankrupt landlords won't clean it up, and certainly the former residents won't--so there it sits, in all its glory, and Channel 6 in Marquette is very glad to come out and film it and show it to the public. The landlords bought the properties for a song ($15,000 for a duplex, for example), rented to anybody without a background or credit check, and just never maintained the properties, and thus got into foreclosure. One of the landlords owns two restaurants in Marquette, and it would seem that somehow that could be attached to pay for the cleanup. It's a real problem, and I hate being called a slum resident, because my landlords (the Ste. St. Marie Chippewa Indian Tribe) are very particular about whom they rent to, and take very good care of their properties. Channel 6 never shows that!

Muthah