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Anissa Stocks (stock246@umn.edu) is a student at the University of Minnesota.


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Neighborhood groups lack student involvement

By Anissa Stocks, The Minnesota Daily

The Southeast Como and Marcy-Holmes neighborhoods have long sought involvement from the thousands of University of Minnesota students living in the two communities.MORE »

Crime rates drop in Cedar-Riverside

By Anissa Stocks, The Minnesota Daily

There has been a significant drop in crime rates in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.

Serious crimes in the area — like aggravated assault, burglary and homicide —  dropped nearly 40 percent since last year, according to Minneapolis police.MORE »

Week-old chemical spill leaks onto U property

By Anissa Stocks, The Minnesota Daily

A chemical spill seeping onto University of Minnesota property in the Southeast Como neighborhood has yet to be removed after being cornered off for nearly a week.

About 500 gallons of potassium hydroxide — a toxic and corrosive chemical used in bleaching, biodiesel and soap — being delivered to the Hawkins Inc. plant spilled during a transfer.MORE »

Few students turn out for Occupy Colleges march

By Anissa Stocks, The Minnesota Daily

The Occupy Colleges movement — one of the largest student protests to hit campuses across the country in decades — didn’t resonate with University of Minnesota students on Thursday.

Some students said miscommunication between organizers and protesters forced the University of Minnesota leg of the Occupy movement to stall.MORE »

Property tax hike to lead to increased rent in Prospect Park next year

By Anissa Stocks, The Minnesota Daily

Many residents in the Prospect Park neighborhood will see slight increases in rent next year.

Some landlords said they will increase monthly rent between $25 and $100 per home, depending on how hard their homes are hit by property taxes next year.MORE »

Dinkytown church to close, make room for new complex

By Anissa Stocks, The Minnesota Daily

Hundreds of emails and phone calls flooded Pastor David Kind’s University Lutheran Chapel office Wednesday after his congregation heard the church will close by the end of the year.

The board of directors at the Minnesota South District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, which owns the Dinkytown building, voted in favor of the $3.2 million property sale last week.MORE »

City speeds to clean Como junk

By Anissa Stocks, The Minnesota Daily

Brad VanRegenmorter noticed an unusual item in a Dinkytown yard a few weeks ago — a toilet. He’s seen a fair share of curbside junk since moving to the neighborhood a year ago.MORE »

Ten years on the Lake Street Bridge

By Anissa Stocks, TC Daily Planet
For ten years, Brigid McDonald has been part of the Lake Street Bridge vigil. “We are out there every Wednesday whether it’s the dead of winter or a humid summer afternoon," she said. "We will not be silent in our protests of the government’s continued policy promoting war and all that comes with it. I believe that is outright sinful to kill civilians. Losing soldiers is hard enough.MORE »

Listening to homeless people in St. Paul

By Anissa Stocks, TC Daily Planet
On a cool autumn evening in 2004, Albert found himself face-down at gun point. That’s when he vowed to leave Chicago and the past that, he says, plagued him.

The 28-year-old is a self-proclaimed modern-day vagabond, having lived in more than eight cities in three years. In a June interview, he called St.MORE »

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