Opinion

At Your Service: A Conversation with St. Paul Public Schools Community Education Service Learning Program Staff

By Neil Cunningham, Free Speech Zone

From left to right: Ginny Newman, Kia Moua, Bev Blomgren, Roxie Laugeson.

If you’ve seen groups of kids stenciling anti-pollution messages near storm drains or planting native prairie plants along hillsides, chances are good that you may have seen a community service learniMORE »

Head & Heart Vie for Vote

By Lydia Howell, Free Speech Zone
In the weeks leading up to today—Super Tuesday—I've felt like a political pinball, torn by the concerns that have shaped by activism since the 1970s, especially as it relates to the two Democratic hiMORE »

Pawlenty’s immigration plan contradicts King’s values

By Dr. Luke Trip and Dr. Margaret A. Villanueva, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
“There is much work to be done to erase racism and provide opportunity for all. I hope Minnesotans will take time to consider Dr. King’s words and actions.”MORE »

You don't know Jack, but you do know Norm -- and he's in trouble

By Jeff Fecke, Minnesota Monitor
Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., is a talented and resilient politician.MORE »

The debate that wasn't

By Lydia Howell, TC Daily Planet
Courteous debate with hints of humor and (mostly) harmonious agreement marked the Obama-Clinton debate.MORE »

Recession or not, fixing an underperforming economy requires investment

By Dane Smith, Growth and Justice
We can declare a recession officially and pin the blame on the elephant or the donkey, on Gov. Pawlenty or anybody else. Or we can wait and pray for a narrow escape.MORE »

Discovering Oz, rediscovering me

By Ka Vang, Minnesota Women's Press
I have felt like Humpty Dumpty since my divorce, a round egg broken into a million little pieces. All the King's Horses could not put me back together.MORE »

Caucus for change: Being a leader on Super Tuesday

By Michele St. Martin, Minnesota Women's Press
What are you doing on the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 5? You could catch Christine Rosholt crooning jazz standards at O'Gara's Garage in St. Paul.MORE »

The program formerly known as NRP

By Justin Eibenholzl, TC Daily Planet
That is what will be said about NRP (Neighborhood Revitalization Program) if the "Framework for the Future" is enacted by the City.MORE »

Voting & vision: ballots to build progressive movements

By Lydia Howell, TC Daily Planet
In the aftermath of the South Carolina Democratic Party's primary, the February 5th primary/caucus could be summed up as a referendum that boils down to “Past or Future?” Full disclosure: I'm strugglMORE »
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