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Jim Haddadin Daily News Staff @JimHaddadin FRAMINGHAM — Working in the church and traveling around the country as a youth mentor, Joshua Horrigan said it became clear to him that a new generation of leaders is needed in government. The country’s political system pits people against one another, Horrigan said, hurting those who are most in need of help. "One thing that I've seen over these last years as I've gotten older is that there is a problem with the system,” Horrigan said, “not necessarily with the people.” Horrigan, 25, said the time has come for members of his generation to take responsibility for their future. And he hopes to begin that work in his hometown. Horrigan, the youngest of seven candidates vying to be Framingham’s mayor, discussed his decision to run for office and his vision for the community during an interview last week with staff from the Daily News. While he lacks political and managerial experience, Horrigan said his time in the church gives...

CJ Reisdorf Great apartments with even better amenities and the shuttle to and from campus is great for us students. … more » Great apartments with even better amenities and the shuttle to and from campus is great for us students. laura nelson I definitely regret living here. They randomly raised my rent, I've went in and called multiple times , and emailed them, over two weeks later I've STILL heard nothing. The deposit isn't … refundable either, they keep $125 per resident for "carpet cleaning" more » I definitely regret living here. They randomly raised my rent, I've went in and called multiple times , and emailed them, over two weeks later I've STILL heard nothing. The deposit isn't refundable either, they keep $125 per resident for "carpet cleaning" Kathie Mayerle We were told at signing today that the only fee out of the lease is shampooing of carpets @$125. Nothing else. … more » We were told at signing today that the only f...

Rich and Poor. Credit: Flickr/Sandra Cohen Rose and Colin Rose. Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0). Originally published on  Everyday Feminism . The brownstone I lived in for eight months in 2009 and 2010 had few amenities – the building often smelled like leaking pipes, the carpets were threadbare in many places, and the steam heater in the corner was completely out of my control, resulting in quite a few freezing mornings and sweltering nights. It did, however, have a gas stove and oven which, the landlord had told me, was pretty new and “worked great.” Unfortunately, everything else in the unit was electric, which meant that I’d need to set up separate utility accounts and pay for the gas every month just to run the stove and range. “It’s like $10 to turn it on and then another $20-$30 per month depending on how much you use it,” she explained. Yeah, I’m just not going to do that, then,  I thought, doing the math in my head. At that point, $30 was just a little bit less than my tak...

CEO Deidre Schmidt of CommonBond Communities, Minnesota’s largest owner and manager of affordable housing , just paid $16 million to buy a 112- unit Apple Valley apartment complex that the organization intends to preserve for its working-class tenants at a time when for-profit owners are scooping up rental units, adding amenities and hiking rents — causing a housing crisis for some amid a red-hot market. And CommonBond did it without any government subsidy. That’s very rare in a business where nonprofit owners such as CommonBond, PPL and Aeon, who house and provide support services to the working poor and first-generation immigrants, often need public assistance to subsidize rents or buy down a mortgage on a new development or purchase-and-rehabilitation project that might otherwise be acquired by an owner aiming for an upscale clientele. However, government resources for affordable housing are limited for assisting the crowd of maintenance and day-care workers, beginning teachers a...

On a Sunday morning in July—specifically the middle Sunday of Wimbledon, when the players rest and the trampled lawns recover— Serena Williams awoke from one of those vivid dreams that are a common feature in the hormonal rush of pregnancy. In it she was competing, except that she wasn’t at Wimbledon or even on a tennis court. Instead this was the Williams Invitational, the mock-seriously titled (but very real) dance tournament that Serena and Venus Williams have mounted each spring for the better part of a decade and that, Serena explains , has gone from fun to serious to Broadway to Vegas in short order. In the dream, Serena was suspended from the ceiling, twirling inside a hoop attached to a long ribbon. (True story: Williams has an aerial-dancing coach in Florida and another in California.) Sequins and wigs may also have been involved, though the details are fuzzy. “What do you think it means?” Williams asks as her fiancé, Alexis Ohanian, 34, works on coffee and soft-scrambled eg...