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Minneapolis Police Chief Harteau: Treating people like family

By Grace Kelly, Minnesota Progressive Project

Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau is a beacon of hope, speaking at the monthly “Breakfast with Gary Schiff” event at Mercado Central on Lake Street. Chief Harteau wants her police force to act on the guiding principle “Did my actions reflect how I would expect a family member to be treated?”. She wants her police to not assume everyone is a criminal. The oath of office and professional attire is a reminder of the commitment to working with the community.

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Persuasion: Decoys, anchors, brands

By Grace Kelly, Minnesota Progressive Project

Context is so important in making a choice. Context can even fool us. In the central circle illusion, both of the two central circles are the same size. The punchline is if you want to be noticed, surround yourself with smaller circles.

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Know where you eat, and where those restaurants stand on paying minimum wage

By Nelson Inz, Minnesota Progressive Project

Today the President of the Minnesota Restaurant Association, JJ Haywood said that the Association wants a Tip Penalty for servers and bartenders attached to the current minimum wage bill. Apparently the association thinks tipped employees make too much money.

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Howling for Minnesota's wolves

By Jeff Strate, Minnesota Progressive Project

Sport hunting and trapping of Minnesota grey wolves prompted Minnetonka’s Dr. Maureen Hackett to form Howling for Wolves, a citizen-driven campaign to get the DNR, Governor Dayton and/or the Legislature to replace such activities with humane and environmentally smart management protocols. When the Grey (Timber) Wolf was removed from the endangered species list by the Federal Government, the State, as we all know, provided a hunting season of it. Dr. Hackett and Nancy Nelson are not at all happy about this. They discuss the issues surrounding this important predator on the current edition of Democratic Visions. But you can see the segment and with this link.

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A surge of Iraq revisionism on the 10th anniversary

By Eric Ferguson, Minnesota Progressive Project

Perhaps the effort on the right to make the second war with Iraq appear to be some sort of success is just a visceral refusal to acknowledge having brought about the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people while being very wrong about 911, WMDs, the reception we’d receive, pretty much everything. Certainly having neocons mark the anniversary with a panel of the guilty talking about how great they were lends a sense of deliberateness to the efforts to spin the war as a success, or at least claim it ended well as a result of “the surge." Whether it’s deliberate or just a reaction isn’t really the thing to be concerned about however. They’re trying to spin history. The story they hope is remembered is the war went poorly at first, but then the neocons came up with their brilliant “surge” and all came out OK. Can they really cover up one of the biggest blunders in US history? Yes. It’s been done before, after another contender for biggest blunder.

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