Mary Turck

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. Today is a day to think about Dina Meza, because today — as far as I know — she is still alive. Tomorrow ... that's hard to say. Dina Meza is a journalist in Honduras, where 26 journalists have been killed in the past decade, 19 of them since the 2009 coup, and two of them this year. Why is Dina Meza a journalist to think about today? Here's her story, from Reporters Without Borders:MORE »

"I'm an addict of history," says Minnesota historian Rhoda Gilman, the author of Stand Up! The Story of Minnesota's Protest Tradition, in a Minnesota 2020 video interview. Her book, published in 2012 by the Minnesota Historical Society, draws on that addiction and on Gilman's passion for progressive politics to "connect the dots" and portray protest as central to Minnesota's history.MORE »

Sherlock Holmes visited Minnesota several times—but maybe you already knew that. I confess that I didn't, though I've long been a Sherlock Holmes fan, and also knew Larry Millett as the Twin Cities' preeminent writer on architectural history.MORE »

The Minnesota House of Representatives, in its infinite Republican wisdom, just voted 77-52 to limit the power of cities to govern themselves. Specifically, in a vote cloaked with the grand rhetoric of protecting the nation from 9/11 terrorism, the House voted to invalidate all local immigration separation ordinances.MORE »