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COMMUNITY VOICES | Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid embarrasses itself

By Chuck Turchick, Community Voices
A "News of the Weird" section would be a more appropriate site for this post.
 
On Thursday evening, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid (Minneapolis
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Happy birthday to us! A party celebrating seven years of citizen journalism

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

On May 1, the Twin Cities Daily Planet marked seven years since its official launch in 2006. On May 21, we celebrated with a big party at Cause Spirits & Soundbar.

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Love it or list it? HGTV challenges for public schools

By Mary Turck, News Day

Imagine the public school system as a house, Mary Cecconi said. The house is not working for us. Do we move? Do we tear it down? Do we renovate? To me, that sounds a lot like Love It or List It?, the popular HGTV program in which interior designer Hilary tries to renovate a family's home to make it work for them, while real estate agent David tries to find and sell them a new home.

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Streetcar desire heats up in the Twin Cities and across the U.S.

By Conrad deFiebre, Minnesota 2020

It's been nearly six years since I last posted about Minneapolis' plans for a streetcar revival, but except for a short park ride at Lake Calhoun, no trolleys are clanging in the Mill City. These things take time.

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Poverty doubled in Twin Cities suburbs over past decade

By Branden Largent, The Minnesota Daily

As the suburban landscape changes, so has poverty.

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Meet Golden Nest, new assisted living facility in Northeast Minneapolis

By Margo Ashmore, Northeaster

A church site that once served seniors through a hot meal program may again serve seniors, in a different way. When the Northeast United Methodist leaders sold the former Trinity Methodist Church at 2501Taylor St. NE to Faith Tabernacle Ministries of the Church of God in Christ, they sold the newer building addition to Golden Nest for an assisted living and adult day care facility.

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Invasive bugs and beetles ravenous and ready as spring arrives

By Gail Olson, Northeaster

After devastating losses of elm trees—and in anticipation of future losses of ash trees—Minneapolis Park Board staff has begun planting mixed groupings on city boulevards, including Kentucky coffee, maples, honey locust, and disease resistant elms. (Photo by Gail Olson)

The emerald ash borer has arrived in Northeast, Dutch elm disease never left, and the next fearsome pest on the horizon just might be the Asian longhorn beetle, big as the first joint on a human thumb, with antennae that measures two inches across. That beetle, by the way, isn’t so fussy about its diet and shows a fondness for many different types of trees.

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Minnesota native Rabbi Julie Gordon caught in midst of Haredi youth protest at Women of the Wall service in Israel

By Staff, American Jewish World

Israeli riot police scuffle with haredi Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall plaza in a bid to keep them away from Women of the Wall’s monthly prayer service at the holy site in Jerusalem on May 10. (Photo: Flash90)

Early in the morning on Friday, May 10, thousands of haredi Orthodox youths gathered at the Kotel, the Western Wall plaza, to protest Women of the Wall as they held their Rosh Chodesh prayer service.

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Augie’s Secrets: A mensch among Jewish gangsters

By Neal Gendler, American Jewish World

It’s a shame Neal Karlen called his 2004 autobiography Shanda, because if ever a book deserved that title, it’s this one.

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New taxes, same-sex marriage mark 2013 session

By Sarah Lemagie, Session Daily

New taxes and the legalization of same-sex marriage were hallmarks of a legislative session in which DFLers wielded more power than they’ve had in a generation.

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