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Rick Hanson of Military Families Speak Out has a 21-year-old son serving in the marines, who is not in his second deployment in Iraq. Hanson said: “The solution will not come from .. the arrogance of blaming the Iraqi people for incompetence, but from the humility of acknowledging that we should not have invaded Iraq in the first place. ... We need to bring our troops home now … and take care of them when they get here.”
A Twin Cities watershed organization has a quarter million dollars of grant money to divvy up over the next few months, and they’re hoping groups that have traditionally not applied for funding will show up for an information meeting on Monday, September 8.
“Look at the demographics of our watershed,” explains Jenny Winkelman, Education & Outreach Coordinator for the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO), which covers portions of the cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Lauderdale, and St. Anthony. “We have a huge audience we’re trying to reach, many of them fairly recent immigrant communities, such as the Hmong and Somali communities. Most traditional watershed materials are produced for a literate, English-speaking audience and may miss important populations.” MORE »
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