The email to the editor started with a tale of woe: "A woman came to my front door this morning and asked me if I could rent her the second story of my duplex.  I recognized her as a friend from an apartment on Pillsbury Avenue, just across the alley from my backyard.   I asked her why she is moving.   She answered, 'We are all being kicked out by Mint Properties.'  She was the fifth person to tell me this story."

Recently I've enjoyed finding new ethnic markets in the Twin Cities suburbs—but with the price of gasoline spiking, I needed to find an ethnic grocery a little closer to home. I headed up Chicago Avenue toward the Lake Street, then turned east keeping my eyes open for some place interesting. That’s how I ended up at La Alborada Market at the corner of Lake and 19th, a mostly Mexican grocery owned by the Cruz family.

Green Central is implementing a program called Developmental Dual Language, one of four dual language approaches in MPS, along with Two-Way Dual Language Programs, Transitional Dual Language Programs, and Heritage and Culture programs. The program is also in place at Jefferson in grades K-2 and at Andersen United elementary school. A working document from MPS describes the goals of DDL:

I've attended a number of meetings at schools, but I've only been told to leave one.