Community Voices

Community Voices is a space for reader contributions—including news articles, opinion essays, and personal stories—moderated, but not edited, by Daily Planet staff. This new section includes stories from the Our Stories, Our Scene, Neighborhood Notes and MN Videos series, as well as republished posts from E-Democracy forums and unedited articles such as those formerly published in the Free Speech Zone (which this section replaces). This section is a forum for community members to share their voices directly with our readers. We invite you to post stories, send us stories, or suggest stories for inclusion in Community Voices.

The opinions expressed in Community Voices are their own and not necessarily the opinion of the TC Daily Planet.

Want to add an article to Community Voices? Here's how:

Step 1: Register as a TC Daily Planet user, which is easy to do. After registering, you need to respond to the registration email. Then just log in by clicking in the blue box in column 1, and click on "Write an article" in the blue box in column 1.

Step 2: Either I'll see the article waiting to be published, or you can email me (editor [at] tcdailyplanet [dot] net) to tell me it's there. I'll then add the "Community Voices" designation and publish it. 

Step 3: I'll add it to the newsletter for at least one night, and it will remain in the Community Voices feature box on all pages until several more people have published Community Voices articles. (Hard to tell how long this will be, but usually at least a couple of days.) 

Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

By Sunny Chanthanouvong
Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!
 
I was proud to see David Zander recognized this year at the Asian Pacific American Herita
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COMMUNITY VOICES | 2013 Minneapolis Urban Farmers Collaborative candidate questionnaire: Tim Springer, Ward 9

By Tim Springer, Community Voices

The Minneapolis Urban Farmer's Collaborative has invited candidates for Minneapolis City Council, Parks & Recreation Board, and Mayor to complete a candidate questionnaire to determine where the candidates stand on current policy issues relevant to urban agriculture, including food production on public park lands, on-site vegetable sales for urban producers, and ownership of chickens for small-scale commercial purposes. Completed candidate questionnaires are being posted on the Minneapolis Issues Forum at www.e-democracy.org for public viewing as they become available.

Below, read the response from Tim Springer, candidate for the Minneapolis City Council Ward 9 seat.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | 2013 Minneapolis Urban Farmers Collaborative candidate questionnaire: Elizabeth Glidden, Ward 8 City Council member

By Elizabeth Glidden, Community Voices

The Minneapolis Urban Farmer's Collaborative has invited candidates for Minneapolis City Council, Parks & Recreation Board, and Mayor to complete a candidate questionnaire to determine where the candidates stand on current policy issues relevant to urban agriculture, including food production on public park lands, on-site vegetable sales for urban producers, and ownership of chickens for small-scale commercial purposes. Completed candidate questionnaires are being posted on the Minneapolis Issues Forum at www.e-democracy.org for public viewing as they become available.

Below, read the response from Elizabeth Glidden, current City Council member and candidate for the Ward 8 seat.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | 2013 Minneapolis Urban Farmers Collaborative candidate questionnaire: Ken Bradley, Ward 10

By Ken Bradley, Community Voices

The Minneapolis Urban Farmer's Collaborative has invited candidates for Minneapolis City Council, Parks & Recreation Board, and Mayor to complete a candidate questionnaire to determine where the candidates stand on current policy issues relevant to urban agriculture, including food production on public park lands, on-site vegetable sales for urban producers, and ownership of chickens for small-scale commercial purposes. Completed candidate questionnaires are being posted on the Minneapolis Issues Forum at www.e-democracy.org for public viewing as they become available.

Below, read the response from Ken Bradley, candidate for the Minneapolis City Council Ward 10 seat.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | 2013 Minneapolis Urban Farmers Collaborative candidate questionnaire: Kris Brogan, Ward 4

By Kris Brogan, Community Voices

The Minneapolis Urban Farmer's Collaborative has invited candidates for Minneapolis City Council, Parks & Recreation Board, and Mayor to complete a candidate questionnaire to determine where the candidates stand on current policy issues relevant to urban agriculture, including food production on public park lands, on-site vegetable sales for urban producers, and ownership of chickens for small-scale commercial purposes. Completed candidate questionnaires are being posted on the Minneapolis Issues Forum at www.e-democracy.org for public viewing as they become available.

Below, read the response from Kris Brogan, candidate for the Minneapolis City Council Ward 4 seat.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | 2013 Minneapolis Urban Farmers Collaborative candidate questionnaire: Mayoral candidate Cam Winton

By Cam Winton, Community Voices

The Minneapolis Urban Farmer's Collaborative has invited candidates for Minneapolis City Council, Parks & Recreation Board, and Mayor to complete a candidate questionnaire to determine where the candidates stand on current policy issues relevant to urban agriculture, including food production on public park lands, on-site vegetable sales for urban producers, and ownership of chickens for small-scale commercial purposes. Completed candidate questionnaires are being posted on the Minneapolis Issues Forum at www.e-democracy.org for public viewing as they become available.

Below, read the response from Cam Winton, candidate for Minneapolis mayor.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | 2013 Minneapolis Urban Farmers Collaborative candidate questionnaire: Ward 3 City Council member Diane Hofstede

By Diane Hofstede, Community Voices

The Minneapolis Urban Farmer's Collaborative has invited candidates for Minneapolis City Council, Parks & Recreation Board, and Mayor to complete a candidate questionnaire to determine where the candidates stand on current policy issues relevant to urban agriculture, including food production on public park lands, on-site vegetable sales for urban producers, and ownership of chickens for small-scale commercial purposes. Completed candidate questionnaires are being posted on the Minneapolis Issues Forum at www.e-democracy.org for public viewing as they become available.

Below, read the response from Diane Hofstede Ward 3, current City Council member and candidate for the Ward 3 seat.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | May 2013 Phillips Powderhorn community calendar

By Staff, Southside Pride

Announcements

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MN VIDEOS | Volunteers of America and Kingfield Neighborhood Association mosaic project

By Dan Luke, MN Videos

Martin Luther King park in south Minneapolis was chosen as the site for a community art project. A proposal for an off-leash dog area within the park had divided the neighborhood and the mosaic project was seen as a way to help mend the rift.

COMMUNITY VOICES | Streets.mn voter guide: Chris Lautenschlager, Ward 12

By Chris Lautenschlager, 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 Chris Lautenschlager's response to that query.

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