Opinion

Knowledge is power. Knowledge is also a job path to prosperity and stability. Prosperity and stability flow from the purposeful application of knowledge to public and personal circumstance. The sooner we realize that expanding knowledge builds a better, growing Minnesota, the sooner we’ll get there.

The English Learning Center, a school for adult immigrants and refugees, celebrated the end of its spring term on April 25th with a party honoring the hard work of students and volunteer teachers.

This will be the last portfolio show for Jack Mader, the Photography and Digital Imaging program’s founder and lead faculty.

At a recent rally in Minneapolis, representatives from labor, business and the faith community stood shoulder to shoulder with immigrant communities in calling for commonsense immigration reform (see story, page 12). Few issues have so polarized our nation in the past. Yet, in recent months, a national consensus is growing that we must take action to amend our immigration laws and create a pathway to citizenship for millions of people who have come to the United States to work and create a better life for their families.