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 StoriesOur SceneNeighborhood 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.) 

FREE SPEECH ZONE | Annual Purple Ribbon Auction draws crowd

Quality animals, quality kids, and quality buyers made the 31st Purple Ribbon Auction. The annual parade of champion beef, lambs, goats and swine set five new record prices and tied one.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Democrat's ineptness will cost them dearly in future elections

It is frustrating...aggravating...and ultimately harmful to our nation's future; and the Democrats just do not get it! It is the lack of effective communication skills the party has to win

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Reproductive Justice - Engaging Communities of Color

When we talk about engaging communities of color in reproductive justice, what are we really talking about? Are we talking about child spacing and birth control or digging even deeper into the well of family dynamics - the choices we make everyday which impact our family and society?

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Tangletown: Who are we?

The Tangley T

Greetings fellow Tangletonians, (Tangletowners?)

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Meet Seward Artist Mary Stiff

Mary Stiff hanging one of her paintings

Denise Rouleau

Name: Mary Stiff

Occupation: Administrative support for local law-firm (including go to jewelry repair person)

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Construction of the Central Corridor LRT line: When will it begin?

 I'm sure a lot of people are sick and tired of my ranting about the Central Corridor Project, but not half as sick and tired as I am of the propaganda claiming that construction of the LRT li

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Response to English only Law in Lino Lakes

I am saddened to hear of cities such as Lino Lakes enacting "English only" laws and I sincerely hope that other cities in Minnesota will not follow.

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