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Fighting cynicism, over breakfast

By Jennifer Holder, TC Daily Planet

Keith Ellison (left) and Gary Schiff. Photo by Jennifer Holder.

Looking out at the crowd seated for breakfast in the atrium of Mercado Central, U.S.MORE »

May Day parade aims to provoke political discourse

By Hilary Brueck, Minnesota Daily

Community members paint signs and props for the MayDay Parade on Tuesday at In the Heart of the Beast Theater in Minneapolis. The celebration will occur on May 4 in Powderhorn Park. (Photo by Stephen Maturen)

Look down - the first crop of mushrooms is already popping up. Their earthy, flesh-colored fungal spores are rooting into the cool earth.MORE »

Will I ever make it to the middle class?

By Steven Lang, TC Daily Planet
Will I ever make it to the middle class?

I am a 37-year old Minnesotan, and my income has always averaged considerably less than thirty thousand dollars per year.

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What’s up on Chicago Avenue?

By Dennis Geisinger, Southside Pride
Reconstruction of Chicago Avenue between 7th Street downtown and 28th Street is scheduled to begin this summer in conjunction with construction of a tunnel that Children’s Hospital is building as partMORE »

How's the neighborhood?

By Molly Priesmeyer, Minnesota Monitor
Now that the ice has thawed and Minneapolis residents are shaking off that long hibernation, the cusp of spring is revealing new colors: red foreclosure signs on front doors; orange letters of condemnMORE »

Midtown Farmers Market returns May 3

By Lori Wolter, TC Daily Planet

Bustling market in 2007. (Photo courtesy of Midtown Farmers' Market)

The popular Midtown Farmers’ Market returns May 3, kicking off at 8 a.m. with opening-day festivities that include sheep shearing at 10 a.m.MORE »

New High School on the block

By Edwin Okong'o, Mshale

Trish Flock-Johnson, a physical science teacher at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School supervises student performing an experiment on density. Photo by Edwin Okong'o

A normal American high school student wishing to take a job may be doing so only to earn a few dollars for a movie with a girlfriend or to buy a cool gadget like an iPod.MORE »

It's all about the worms

By Jeanette Fordyce, TC Daily Planet

Will Allen. Photo by Jeanette Fordyce.

Good food can be grown in pots, in backyards, or in community gardens, so long as the soil is good.MORE »
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