The 50 or so residents of the cooperative community called Gramercy Club of Edina are fighting for the right to stay in their homes. Read more in Sunday’s Whistleblower story.

My colleague Jim Walsh has reported on a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the Star Tribune. The federal agency says female employees were subjected to a “sexually hostile work environment” in the mailroom. That’s the area of the Heritage printing plant in Minneapolis where the newspapers are packaged. My company has already denied the allegations, saying that some behavior was “inappropriate” but not illegal. Nevertheless, the company has instituted training for employees at the Heritage plant to “to reinforce the Star Tribune’s strong commitment to a respectful work environment…”

In case you missed it, here’s the link to the Whistleblower story that was published Sunday about a proposed local reality TV show that didn’t go exactly as planned. In this case, the wedding went well, but the people who put on the big bash are going through a prolonged separation. If you know of a wedding that needs attention from Whistleblower, please let us know.

The end of the legal careers of Michael F. Swensen and Patricia Jean Ryerson, onetime husband-and-wife attorneys, can be traced to a mansion in Minneapolis, a house in Mound and a trail of forged signatures, falsified records and unethical real estate dealings.

In November 2007, the state disbarred Swensen, then said to be practicing in Minneapolis. Earlier this month, the state announced its plan to do the same with Ryerson, who’s based in Crystal. The two, who are no longer married, got involved in two real estate deals with a Wayzata woman who complained that she was deceived and defrauded by the lawyers and lost tens of thousands of dollars.

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