Lessons from Nicaragua
Mary TurckNicaragua is not sending waves of refugees to the United States. Instead, Nicaragua, along with Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and Belize, is receiving waves of refugees coming from El Salvador,...
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Clean veggie plate club: Members wanted
PatriceMy daughter is one of those uber-healthy girls who runs and does yoga and is never without a snack sack of veggies. She eats spinach for breakfast, carrots for lunch, and kale for dinner,...
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Minneapolis Monarch Festival
screen_shot_2011-08-31_at_2.40.31_pm.pngSat, 09/06/2014 - 10:00am - 4:00pmThe Sixth Annual Nokomis Monarch Festival is back with more colorful fun this year, but at a new location due to flooding and...
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Interfaith Action: Calling All Volunteers
interfaith-action-september-6-2014-2_5pm-1600-plymouth-ave-north-791x1024.jpgSat, 09/06/2014 - 2:00pm - 5:00pmDowntown Congregations to End Homelessness and Project Sweetie Pie invite you to an...
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The Wedge 40th Anniversary Block Party
40th-site-header.jpgSun, 09/07/2014 - 12:00pm - 6:00pmThe Wedge is celebrating 40 years, and thanking the owners and neighbors who made it possible with a free block party! Featuring food, live music,...
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Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
moonfestweb.jpgSun, 09/07/2014 - 4:00pm - 6:00pmThe Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is a family-friendly festival, a traditional Southeast Asian harvest moon festival co-presented by the Vietnamese Community...
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Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash
ring-of-fire-920.jpgp1 This rocking country jukebox musical celebrates the songs of an American music legend: The Man in Black himself, Johnny Cash. Ring of Fire includes performances of such Cash...
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Trapped in a Room With a Zombie
1405628214-zombie_071714.jpgp1 Don't just sit in a dark theater and watch a zombie movie on the screen. For this interactive experience, you're trapped in a room -- and an actual hungry zombie is there...
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Bye Bye Liver: The Twin Cities Drinking Play
1408168499-bye_bye_liver_tickets.jpgp1 Drunken friends, overserved basket cases, pushy bouncers and all the other hallmarks of bar culture collide in the hilarious, booze-fueled sketch comedy of Bye...
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WOMEN AGAINST MILITARY MADNESS (WAMM) 30th ANNUAL SILENT AUCTION & CELEBRATION
sa14px730.jpgSun, 10/05/2014 - 5:00pm - 8:00pmThe WAMM Silent Auction has been called "the best Silent Auction in town" and features hundreds of items such as restaurant gift certificates, gourmet...
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WOMEN AGAINST MILITARY MADNESS (WAMM) 30th ANNUAL SILENT AUCTION & CELEBRATION
sa14px730.jpgSun, 10/05/2014 - 5:00pm - 8:00pmThe WAMM Silent Auction has been called "the best Silent Auction in town" and features hundreds of items such as restaurant gift certificates, gourmet...
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The social life of yards with Ursula Lang
Bill LindekeThe podcast this week is a conversation with Ursula Lang, a PhD candidate in geography at the University of Minnesota who is just completing her dissertation on the social life of yards; I...
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When grit isn't enough
Michael DiedrichThere’s a certain bias many of us seem prone to when thinking about improving schools, and that’s focusing too much on just a handful of aspects of education to the neglect of...
View ArticleMinnesota takes steps to make work pay
Clark Biegler Minnesota passed two high-impact strategies for making work pay this year: increasing the Working Family Credit (our state’s Earned Income Tax Credit) and raising the minimum wage.A new...
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Public input meeting: Accessory Dwelling Units Text Amendment
564671_10150749609961346_160311773_n.jpgTue, 09/16/2014 - 5:00pm - 7:00pmWed, 09/17/2014 - 7:00pm - 9:00pmAccessory dwelling units (ADUs) – also known as “granny flats”, “mother-in-law apartments” or...
View ArticleMinneapolis explores allowing "granny flats"
Lyndale Neighborhood Association Should Minneapolis residents be able to build additional, small dwellings on their property?Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) also-called "granny flats" or "mother-in-law...
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A 'hidden level of government' few understand: County boards
Charles HallmanThree of the seven Hennepin County Commissioner seats are up for election this November. If more people understood the importance of these positions, the Hennepin County Board might come...
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Pay attention to secretary of state
Eric FergusonDemocrats still sometimes ignore elections or secretaries of state (SOS), despite Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004. If you don’t get those references, that illustrates the problem. The problem...
View ArticleAmend the Constitution to restore the democracy the Roberts court killed
David SchultzMoney is not speech. Corporations are not persons. Most of us intuitively understand that. The Supreme Court clearly does not. In Citizens United v. FEC, it ruled that corporations have a...
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