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The Times Morgue File back on the shelves at Minneapolis Central Library

By Mary Treacy, Poking Around

Historians, scholars, intellectually curious Minneapolitans take note. In the spirit of openness the James K. Hosmer Hosmer Collection at the Minneapolis Central Library, has announced that The Times Morgue, the lynchpin historical record of the city, has not been dead, but only sleeping. The Times Morgue file which the Library acquired from the Star Tribune Company many years ago, is now accessible to the public again.

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Jerry Freeman of the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder talks about his new novel, "In a Kick-Ass Sentimental Mood"

By Dwight Hobbes, Sounding Off On Sound

It's said that those who can, do, and that those who can't, teach. In the publishing racket, more than one grousing writer would attest that those who can't do, edit. Not the case with Jerry Freeman of the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (MSR).

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How to market yourself on social media: 11 tips for artists

By Amina Harper, The Art House

Social networking is a tool: it will give you nothing more than you put into it, and how you use it will determine your results. If social networks weren’t so great for promoting my artwork I wouldn’t partake in them, but since so many great opportunities have come to me via social media I’d be crazy not to use them to the best of my abilities. Here are some tips to getting the most out of social networking while working in an artistic profession.

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Crime and controversy in St. Paul

By Mary Turck, News Day

Reactions to a recent TC Daily Planet article (St. Paul Challenge: "Love the house. Hate the neighborhood.") have been passionate. The article began with the story of a resident concerned about shootings on his block. In Facebook and E-Democracy posts, some readers expressed anger at the article:

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Reflections of New Minnesotans: When humor goes wrong - the hijab costume controversy

By Nekessa Opoti, AM950

(Photo from the 2012 "We're a Culture Not a Costume" Ohio University's STARS campaign)

Last week, photos of two St. Paul police officers in a hijab costume emerged and left many in the community concerned about the culture of racism that allows officers of the law to appear on social media in such racist cultural costumes. One of the officers appeared in blackface makeup -- a practice that has racist historical roots in the entertainment industry in the 1900s and has been an expression of racism since its advent.

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Privacy and the Internet: A challenging balance, especially when you're getting white supremacist hate mail

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

Image by The Tech Buzz (Creative Commons)

I got some hate mail this week. Most of it landed in my spam folder, thankfully, but a few ended in my inbox. I didn’t read every e-mails in full—just the first sentence, or long enough to realize what kind of correspondence it was. These tirades, calling for me to kill myself, or saying that I was a whore or whatever, came from a certain group of white supremacists who were angered by my column last week saying they were irrelevant.

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A guide to St. Paul for the news media

By Teresa Boardman, Teresa Boardman on TCDP

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. The local news media even those who write for our newspaper. . .the one that has been serving the city since the late 1800s have a hard time understanding the geography of St. Paul and the names of our neighborhoods so they re-name parts of the city to make things easier for themselves and at the same time they show us St. Paul natives that they are not from our beloved city.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Twin Cities Community Radio WORLD RADIO DAY! Wednesday, February 13th 2013

By Erika Coe, Free Speech Zone

Photo by Kat Vann

I first had the opportunity to learn about Twin Cities Community Radio when I began working at Waite House this last October.

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Apology not accepted: On Joel Brinkley, Vietnam, and intent vs. impact

By Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre, Guante.info

In a February 1 piece for Tribune Media Services, Stanford journalism professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Joel Brinkley wrote about how Vietnamese people are aggressive because they eat so much meat, especially dogs.

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What's in a name? On Nemo, the Weather Channel, and the utility of naming storms

By Erik Hare, Barataria

Nemo. The name doesn’t exactly strike fear, but it has its share of loathing. Who picked that dumb name? Why would you name a winter storm after a fish? Isn’t it just a publicity stunt by the Weather Channel?

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