Community Voices

Community Voices is a space for reader contributions—including news articles, opinion essays, and personal stories—moderated, but not edited, by Daily Planet staff. This new section includes stories from the Our Stories, Our Scene, Neighborhood Notes and MN Videos series, as well as republished posts from E-Democracy forums and unedited articles such as those formerly published in the Free Speech Zone (which this section replaces). This section is a forum for community members to share their voices directly with our readers. We invite you to post stories, send us stories, or suggest stories for inclusion in Community Voices.

The opinions expressed in Community Voices are their own and not necessarily the opinion of the TC Daily Planet.

Want to add an article to Community Voices? Here's how:

Step 1: Register as a TC Daily Planet user, which is easy to do. After registering, you need to respond to the registration email. Then just log in by clicking in the blue box in column 1, and click on "Write an article" in the blue box in column 1.

Step 2: Either I'll see the article waiting to be published, or you can email me (editor [at] tcdailyplanet [dot] net) to tell me it's there. I'll then add the "Community Voices" designation and publish it. 

Step 3: I'll add it to the newsletter for at least one night, and it will remain in the Community Voices feature box on all pages until several more people have published Community Voices articles. (Hard to tell how long this will be, but usually at least a couple of days.) 

COMMUNITY VOICES | Streets.mn voter guide: Elizabeth Glidden, Minneapolis Ward 8

By Elizabeth Glidden, Streets.MN

Twin Cities Daily Planet media partner Streets.mn developed a short series of questions related to transportation and land use designed to give voters more information on Minneapolis mayoral and city council candidates and expand the conversation about these topics. This is candidate Elizabeth Glidden's response to that query.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Streets.mn voter guide: Ken Bradley, Minneapolis Ward 10

By Ken Bradley, Streets.MN

Twin Cities Daily Planet media partner Streets.mn developed a short series of questions related to transportation and land use designed to give voters more information on Minneapolis mayoral and city council candidates and expand the conversation about these topics. This is candidate Ken Bradley's response to that query.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Streets.mn voter guide: Lisa Bender, Minneapolis Ward 10

By Lisa Bender, Streets.MN

Twin Cities Daily Planet media partner Streets.mn developed a short series of questions related to transportation and land use designed to give voters more information on Minneapolis mayoral and city council candidates and expand the conversation about these topics. This is candidate Lisa Bender's response to that query.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Streets.mn voter guide: John Quincy, Minneapolis Ward 11

By John Quincy, Streets.MN

Twin Cities Daily Planet media partner Streets.mn developed a short series of questions related to transportation and land use designed to give voters more information on Minneapolis mayoral and city council candidates and expand the conversation about these topics. This is candidate John Quincy's response to that query.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Streets.mn voter guide: Andrew Johnson, Minneapolis Ward 12

By Andrew Johnson, Streets.MN

Twin Cities Daily Planet media partner Streets.mn developed a short series of questions related to transportation and land use designed to give voters more information on Minneapolis mayoral and city council candidates and expand the conversation about these topics. This is candidate Andrew Johnson's response to that query.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Streets.mn voter guide: Kendal Killian, Minneapolis Ward 10

By Kendall Killian, Streets.MN

Twin Cities Daily Planet media partner Streets.mn developed a short series of questions related to transportation and land use designed to give voters more information on Minneapolis mayoral and city council candidates and expand the conversation about these topics. This is candidate Kendall Killian's response to that query.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Streets.mn voter guide: Kevin Reich, Minneapolis Ward 1

By Kevin Reich, Streets.MN

Twin Cities Daily Planet media partner Streets.mn developed a short series of questions related to transportation and land use designed to give voters more information on Minneapolis mayoral and city council candidates and expand the conversation about these topics. This is candidate Kevin Reich's response to that query.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | An awakening East African movement in Minneapolis' municipal elections

By Abdiqudus Donyale, Community Voices

I have lived in Minneapolis since I was 7 years old, and for the first time in my life I have never felt more at home despite owning a housing property and the fact that my kids were all born in Minneapolis. There was always this inherent thought in the back of my mind, which prescribed me to a pre-destined utopia (Somalia) that was compatible with my identity. So I developed a distant relationship to a place, of which my only contact had been a deep sense of love and imagination.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Success in education begins with housing: Support Homes for All!

By Chad Schwitters, Community Voices

School success is inextricably linked with housing stability. In 2011-12, over 11,000 children in Minnesota public schools were identified as homeless or highly mobile1.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | April 27-28: Longfellow neighborhood weekend events

By Rebekah Peterson, My Broadsheet

How could this weekend be bad with spring finally here? We’ve got lots of great activities to get you out in the sunshine. As always, check the events calendar for the complete collection of everything that’s happening in our neighborhoods.

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