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COMMUNITY VOICES | Streets.mn voter guide: Andrew Johnson, Minneapolis Ward 12

By Andrew Johnson, Streets.MN

Twin Cities Daily Planet media partner Streets.mn developed a short series of questions related to transportation and land use designed to give voters more information on Minneapolis mayoral and city council candidates and expand the conversation about these topics. This is candidate Andrew Johnson's response to that query.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Streets.mn voter guide: Kendal Killian, Minneapolis Ward 10

By Kendall Killian, Streets.MN

Twin Cities Daily Planet media partner Streets.mn developed a short series of questions related to transportation and land use designed to give voters more information on Minneapolis mayoral and city council candidates and expand the conversation about these topics. This is candidate Kendall Killian's response to that query.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Streets.mn voter guide: Meg Tuthill, Minneapolis Ward 10

By Meg Tuthill, Streets.MN

Twin Cities Daily Planet media partner Streets.mn developed a short series of questions related to transportation and land use designed to give voters more information on Minneapolis mayoral and city council candidates and expand the conversation about these topics. This is candidate Meg Tuthill's response to that query.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Streets.mn voter guide: Kevin Reich, Minneapolis Ward 1

By Kevin Reich, Streets.MN

Twin Cities Daily Planet media partner Streets.mn developed a short series of questions related to transportation and land use designed to give voters more information on Minneapolis mayoral and city council candidates and expand the conversation about these topics. This is candidate Kevin Reich's response to that query.

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Q&A with Chris Lautenschlager, Minneapolis Ward 12 city council candidate

By Rebekah Peterson, My Broadsheet

With the election races already heating up, we wanted to find out more about the people running for City Council in our local wards. All candidates seeking endorsement were invited to participate in our Q&A. Thanks to everyone who submitted questions for the candidates!

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The Hub grand opening: Pedal powered party

By Rebekah Peterson, My Broadsheet

It was perfect weather on Friday for the grand opening of The Hub, the new mini-store that has moved in next to Spokes in Seward.

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Preferred Sands of Minnesota touts "maintaining and sustaining" while Wisconsin site's runoff woes continue

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

The chief refrain repeated by the sorrowful violins of the lobbyists for Minnesota's sand mining industry and its allies is that if the state legislator puts additional safeguards in place for our water and communities, the industry will fail to thrive in Minnesota as it has in Wisconsin.

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Bluestem Prairie

Race, money, and all of our politics

By Joe Bodell, Minnesota Progressive Project

This is the kind of thing I was starting to talk about in my previous post: we get caught up in a story that, really, is pretty much over other than the human-interest and prosecution phases, and miss a story that represents a larger tragedy both in lives lost and in its sad connection to our own lives.

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Minnesota Progressive Project

Proposed bans on BPA, formaldehyde raise case for federal action

By Susan Hegarty, Session Weekly/Session Daily

Minnesota would add two more chemicals to a list of items kept out of children’s personal care products and food containers.

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Fighting for the little guy with the Minnesota Second Chance Coalition: A profile of Sarah Walker

By Jacob Wheeler, The Uptake

The Second Chance Coalition, co-founded by Sarah Walker, is blazing a trail for Minnesotans with criminal records who are reentering society and struggling to find jobs, housing and the right to vote.

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