Phillips, West Phillips, Midtown Phillips, Phillips East
Phillips Community Center Pool: Sometimes miracles do happen
One of the neat things about following the same story over a matter of years is that you get to find out what happens. I’ve been writing for the Daily Planet since 2008, and over that time, I’ve covered all sorts of different topics. Sometimes there will be an issue that I write a number of articles about, and then it will pop back up again a year or two later. This can be depressing, as I watch neighbors fighting over and over again about the same thing, for example. But it can also be satisfying, as it was a week ago when I wrote about the Phillips Community Center Pool.MORE »
Teaching kids the wrong lesson
This time it's not a parent or a teacher, but the news media who are teaching kids the wrong lesson - about politics, about protest, and about civic participation.MORE »
About the Pool in Phillips: A Matter of Perspective
Some notes from my own experience.
The Whittier Neighborhood had its troubles in years gone by. No need to go into that laundry list of bad news. But we also had some determined stakeholders and the wherewithal for some creative problem-solving. IMHO, money is nice, but creativity is nicer!MORE »
East Phillips improvement coalition policy statement summary in opposition to Xcel Hiawatha powerline proposal
At the request of the EPIC Board, Carol Pass, Board President, submitted a 35 Page Position Statement to the State Of Minnesota Office Of Administrative Hearings For The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) expressing the community's strong opposition to these Overhead High Voltage Electrical Transmission Lines.
The brief focused on three issues:MORE »
Studio Furniture: The Next Generation
New trends in studio furniture are on display in this exhibition of fifteen young artists. The artists, recent graduates of notable furniture programs, merge the traditions of fine craftsmanship and limited production with experimental materials and concepts. The result is a convergence of art and design in furniture that prompts reconsideration of our relationships with everyday objects.
Two Chairs Telling: Courtney McLean and John Berquist
It's banjos, accordions, mandolins and the stories of such people and places (oh my!!) with Courtney McLean, a core member of the Rockstar Storytellers and the Dirty Curls band and John Berquist, a folklorist/musician who divides his time between Rochester and Eveleth, Minnesota.
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