Education
Students provide health care for the homeless
When Carolyn Bramante began working with the homeless, she could provide a hot meal but couldn't treat a bad cut on the road to infection.
"I thought, man, even simple health care ... it could really go a long way," Bramante said.MORE »
Bilek ponders the future of books—and his bookshop
In the age of Amazon and Barnes and Noble, Jerry Bilek is one of a dying breed of independent booksellers. He is the owner of Monkey See, Monkey Read, an independent new and used bookstore in downtown Northfield.MORE »
NEWS DAY | MN college funds gone
Minnesota college scholarship funds for the year ran out, and officials dipped into next year’s budgeted funds to keep their promises to this year’s students, reports the Star Tribune.MORE »
Big Brothers/Big Sisters exec challenges Black men to mentor youth
The Black community currently is in a "state of emergency" because there are so many young Blacks who need mentoring, especially Black males, says Darlene Bell. MORE »
Joyce preschool earns national accreditation
Right here in Uptown, a unique preschool program celebrates our community's diversity by bringing children together across language and cultural barriers.MORE »
Questionable ethics: a textbook case
When Chris Thompson received a free textbook in his Eyes, Nose and Throat class he took a look at the logo in the corner and rolled his eyes.
The symbol was for Daiichi Pharmaceutical Corporation, which distributes an ear infection solution called FLOXIN Otic.MORE »
Green-gloved trash-sifter
When lunch is a slice of pizza and a carton of chocolate milk, sorting the trash is easy: pizza crust, milk carton and napkin in the green organics bin, Styrofoam tray in the trash. A brown bag lunch brought from home is more complex. "Could you please empty that?" I ask. Wordlessly, the student shakes baggies, a granola bar wrapper and an empty chip bag into the red trash bin. She looks at me, holding up the paper bag. "Organics," I say, pointing to the green bin. "Food and paper go in here to make compost." MORE »
Students are applying to more colleges
When public relations sophomore Marissa Metzler was applying to colleges, she sent out applications to seven different colleges in hopes that even if she didn't get into her first choice college, the University of Minnesota, she would still have somewhere to go. MORE »
Twin Cities literary scavenger hunt, part 3
Last week's question: In 1898, a 13-year-old boy named Harry ran away from his Minnesota home to serve as a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War. He didn't make it out of Sauk Centre that day, but later, as the first American to win a Novel Prize for Literature, he traveled widely.MORE »
State forcing schools to beg for money today
Make no mistake about it, the levy referenda appearing today in 63 Minnesota school districts is not simply about finding more money to pay for education. The levies are an indictment against a state underinvestment that has abandoned Minnesota and has left our children the poorer because of it. MORE »
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