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Can St. Paul's College of Visual Arts be saved?

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

On January 16, St. Paul’s College of Visual Arts (CVA) announced that due to financial difficulties, the institution, which was founded in 1924, will close its doors. The announcement spurred an outcry among students, alumni, staff, and the greater visual arts community in the Twin Cities, who wondered why such a drastic step has been taken and what can be done to save the school. While some point to missteps by CVA’s leadership—in particular to the former president Ann Ledy, who has since resigned from her position—others want to stay focused on steps that need to be taken to make sure the college can stay afloat, even if it means drastic changes.

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Bdote Learning Center plans 2014 launch in Minneapolis

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Educator Jim Rock speaks

In January, a small gathering of interested parents met at Migizi Communications to learn and ask questions about Bdote Learning Center, a new charter school that aims to offer Dakota and Anishinabe language immersion as a key part of its curriculum. Organizers hope the school, which would be the only school in Minneapolis to offer immersion courses beyond kindergarten, will open in the fall of 2014, starting enrollment for K-3 students (with a goal of 100 students) and then adding grades each year. 

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Comparing Dayton's sales tax proposal with taxable sales in other states

By Jeff Van Wychen, Minnesota 2020

Governor Dayton’s sales tax proposal has drawn considerable scrutiny and some criticism. The most common complaint is that the Dayton budget would expand the sales tax base to include many goods and services that were previously tax exempt. However, for the most part, there is ample precedent in other states for the sales tax base broadening that Dayton is proposing.

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Mortgage banking double-cross leaves some homeowners out in the cold

By Stephanie Fox, TC Daily Planet

Caylin Crawford (Photo by Stephanie Fox)

Homeowner Caylin Crawford had been paying the mortgage on her St. Paul home on time since she bought it in the spring of 2009. Then, in January 2011, she had a snowboarding accident. Told that she would be unable to work for the next three months, she called US Bank, her mortgage servicer, to see if they could make adjustments until she was back on her feet.

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PFLAG's Cultivating Respect conference promotes safe schools for LGBT and all students

By Bruce Johansen, TC Daily Planet

Close to 250 people gathered in St. Paul on January 18 for the second annual Cultivating Respect: Creating Safe Schools for All Students conference. Organized by the Twin Cities chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), the day-long event featured presentations and breakout sessions, followed by an awards dinner and entertainment in the evening. Hamline University's Hedgeman Center for Student Diversity Initiatives and Programs hosted the conference, donating space at the campus's Anderson Center to PFLAG. 

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Gay and lesbian athletes and allies speak out against homophobia in sports and schools

By Bruce Johansen, TC Daily Planet

Patrick Burke, Colin Wieberdink, Carol Curoe, Nick Kleidon, Esera Tuaolo

Esera Tuaolo, once an NFL defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers, is convinced that he’d be dead if he had come out as gay in high school. By contrast, Nick Kleidon, former player on the Breck School hockey team, and 25 years Tuaolo’s junior, did come out in high school, with no negative consequences. Tuaolo, who remains a Twin Cities resident, described "getting choked up,” when he first met Nick, standing alongside his partner, Colin.

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The future of the Southeast Minneapolis Library, part 3: Marcy-Holmes loves its library

By Bill Huntzicker, TC Daily Planet

This is the third article in a six-part series on the future of the Southeast Library in Minneapolis. Previously, part 2: Design library dreams for Prospect Park.

The Marcy-Holmes board passed a resolution October 16 calling for keeping the Dinkytown library in their neighborhood because “it has always been an important part of our community and because it is accessible to all the Southeast neighborhoods via public transportation and serves our neighborhood’s 10,000 residents, including students at the University of Minnesota.”

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CORRECTED: 2013 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day calendar of events

By Staff, Insight News

CORRECTION BY TC DAILY PLANET: 

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Macy's closing, another casualty of the recession

By Eleanor Arnason, Facts and Fictions

CORRECTED 1/21/13 (see below)

I got my hair cut today. On the way home, I stopped at the St. Paul Macy's to buy lemon pear marmalade. It's closing in two months. Everything is on sale, and the normally quiet store was full of shoppers looking for deals. I'm not surprised that this Macy's is closing. It's always been marginal and has stayed open only because the original owners, the Dayton Corp., had a commitment to the Twin Cities and some kind of agreement with the city of St. Paul. The agreement has expired, and the store is now owned by an out of state corporation. So -- poof!

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THEATER REVIEW | Rude Mechs' "The Method Gun" at the Walker Art Center: Avant-garde mockumentary

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Video by ArtsEmerson

The Method Gun, the work by Rude Mechs that's currently opening the Walker Art Center's 2013 Out There series, is a mockumentary-style tribute to the fictional theater guru Stella Burden. Like the films of Christopher Guest (This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind), The Method Gun both pokes fun at and pays tribute to its subject—in this case, collaboratively created theater.

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