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Tie a Yellow Ribbon: The endless war comes home again

By Rich Broderick, TC Daily Planet

In the mid-1960s, when American cities erupted in rioting that left dozens dead and billions of dollars of devastation, many people rightly perceived the events as a sign that the unprecedented violence of the War in Vietnam was "coming home to roost."

What better way to perceive the killings this week at Fort Hood?MORE »

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Off-leash: Dogs, Paris, Heaven-on-Earth

by Rich Broderick | September 28, 2009 • The first off-leash dog park I ever visited was a 10 acre forested site centered on a bowl-shaped meadow in the middle of Battle Creek Regional Park.MORE »

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Whistlin' Dixie: The Slave Power rises again

by Rich Broderick | September 8, 2009 • Like the birther cult, like baseless claims that Barak Obama is a secret Muslim, socialist or fascist - take your pick - like the lies about "death panels," like the frightening displays of armed unreason at this summer's townhall meetings, the trumped up controversy over the anodyne speech the President delivered to schoolchildren on Tuesday was just anoMORE »

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Drug for “Restless Boy Syndrome” making critics jumpy

by Rich Broderick | 6/2/09 • Controversy has broken out over Merck Pharmaceuticals’ heavily promoted new prescription drug “Sitztilaty,” which the company claims is an effective treatment for “Restless Boy Syndrome," a recently identified disorder affecting pre- and early-adolescent males.
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News Day

NEWS DAY | Homes at risk in Minnesota / Dragons, dinosaurs and Quist / Students vs. superintendent candidate

By Mary Turck, News Day

Minnesotans losing homes A record 92,500 Minnesota homes are either in foreclosure or in danger of foreclosure, reports the Star Tribune. Altogether, that's just over ten percent of the 900,000 home loan mortages in the state.  Some 62,000 mortgage holders were behind don their mortgages during the third quarter. MORE

• Minnesotans losing homes Foreclosure and delinquency rates at record levels
• Dragons, dinosaurs and Quist Allen Quist is back, as a far-right First District candidate
• SPPS superintendent candidate sees no relation between race, achievement gap

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News you can use

NEWS YOU CAN USE | Click for food shelves!

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

My friend Ken writes "I know that food shelves are really hurting this year," and then passes along a painless way to send donations:MORE »

KARE 11 & Land O'Lakes are donating $1 for every person who clicks on their web site.   Go to the website listed below and on the right side of the screen (at the top) there is the green area where it says:   You Click, We Donate.   It's that easy. Please pass to all of your friends.

Thanks, Ken!

THEATER | Barbara Berlovitz's "Stories as Told in a Bed": An intimate and sublimely humorous journey

By Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet

It is tricky business reviewing a work in progress, putting the writer in a barely tenable position. How can you be fair to the playwright, casting comment on a script that's still in development? Critique the weaknesses and you're a villain for kicking the play's legs out from under it before it's had a chance to actually stand on them. Praise the strengths and you're a cheerleader clapping the author on the back before the job's finished being done.MORE »

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Stories we are working on

These are some of the stories we are working on. If you would like to contribute information or opinions, please e-mail the writers!

• Emerald ash borer Ramsey and Hennepin Counties are under quarantine for Emerald Ash Borer.  Have you been affected? Email sheila@tcdailyplanet.net

• Thanksgiving recipes No - not the turkey and the pumpkin pie. We're looking for your favorite non-traditional recipe, like Aunt Harriet's vegetarian non-meat loaf. Send them to editor@tcdailyplanet.net

• What's your story? Is there a story you'd like to write? Or a story you think we should be covering? Email editor@tcdailyplanet.netMORE »