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Jeremy Stratton is a journalist living in Minneapolis. His experience includes writing, reporting, editing, photography and blogging for a number of print and online publications.


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The families behind Minnesota's MFIP numbers

By Jeremy Stratton and Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

In the past decade, tens of thousands of families have received cash- and non-cash assistance through the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP). Administered by the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), the program is intended to "help families work their way out of poverty by expecting, supporting and rewarding work," according to a DHS fact sheet. The number of families on MFIP decreased from 2002 to 2007, as the program helped famlies to transition off the program and into jobs.  MORE »

MFIP by the numbers: Hitting the wall with welfare-to-work

By Jeremy Stratton and Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

When Bill Clinton signed the welfare reform bill of 1996 - ushering in the era of "welfare-to-work" - the State of Minnesota was already working on its own welfare reform. The reform limits the total number of months of benefits in a recipient's lifetime. Fourteen years later, in the depths of a recession, how is that working out?  MORE »

Under the Census microscope: Africans and African-Americans in Minnesota

By Jeremy Stratton, TC Daily Planet

Minnesota's Black or African American population has grown steadily throughout the decades, but it still accounts for a small percentage of the population of the state, which is nearly 90 percent white.  MORE »

Under the Census microscope: Immigrant Minnesotans

By Jeremy Stratton, TC Daily Planet

A look at the origins of Minnesotans born in other countries reveals a tapestry of an estimated 339,680 foreign-born Minnesotans from around the globe.MORE »

Decision on downtown garbage burner increase postponed

By Jeremy Stratton, TC Daily Planet

A new round of public debate on a proposed increase in the amount of garbage burned in Downtown Minneapolis at the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) ended before it began on July 23.MORE »

Roundabouts, signals among alternatives for Franklin, East River Parkway makeover

By Jeremy Stratton, Bridgeland News
Prospect Park and Seward residents and area commuters got their first look last week at a number of early ideas for fixing the five-legged intersection at the east end of the Franklin Avenue bridge.

Jim Grube, project manager for Hennepin County, and consultants from Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc.MORE »

A look back at 40 years of neighborhood news

By Jeremy Stratton, Bridgeland News
Even as we head into an uncertain yet exciting future, it is with heavy heart that we put to rest The Bridge newspaper, the final (for now, at least) descendant of a 40-year history of community print journalism in South and Southeast Minneapolis.

In April 1969, the Seward Neighborhood Group (SNG) published the first Seward neighborhood newsletter; the next month, the second issue announMORE »

CityKid Java serves U students, urban youth

By Jeremy Stratton, The Bridge
Zulianna Speltz had never had a job until she joined the staff of CityKid Java, which opened in January inside the University of Minnesota’s Carslon School of Management, 321 19th Ave. S.
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BOOKS | "The Grass" speaks of memory and forgetting

By Jeremy Stratton, The Bridge
In the fall of 2004, when asked what he would do with his imminent retirement, then-City Council Member Paul Zerby said he planned to finish his novel about the Korean War.

(Full disclosure: I read Zerby’s early draft as a favor and returned it, as requested, with a lot of red editor’s marks.MORE »

Farmers’ markets kick off 2009 season

By Jeremy Stratton, The Bridge
The Midtown and Mill City farmers’ markets open for the season in early May.

On Saturday, May 2, Midtown begins its seventh — and possibly final — season at 2225 E. Lake, the parking lot of Anishinabe Academy. A week later, the Mill City market opens in Downtown East at 704 S. Second St., next to the Guthrie Theater.MORE »

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