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.) 

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The City of Ramsey is looking for local musicians, jugglers, school or community bands, choral groups, dance troupes, martial arts demonstrators, spoken word artists and other entertainers to perfo

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Free Drinks at St. Paul Schmidt Brewery

Free beverage will be available for a short time at the historic Schmidt Brewery in St. Paul. This time the beverage is 36,000 year old pure water.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Nice Ride Minnesota: a goofball greenwash

I'm all for improving conditions for bicycle riding and for increasing the number of bikes on the road.  People who live short distances from school, work, shopping and entertainment destinati

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Have We No Decency?

Many years ago attorney Joseph Welsh asked our great American patriot, Senator Joe McCarthy, "Sir have you no decency?" This was during the McCarthy Communist witch-hunts on the Army.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | AIM still sharp after 42 years

AIM leaders gather to celebrate and reminisce on 42 years of work. (Photo by Lloyd Wittstock)

The American Indian Movement (AIM) gathered in its 42nd year to reflect on victories and the challenges still ahead. AIM founder Clyde H.

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What our daughters and sons deserve

Last week brought some very disturbing news from the Centers for Disease Control: there is a steep rise in the number of sexually active teens who are using the rhythm method as a primary method of birth control. As a "method," it is highly unreliable, and, according to national experts, points to why the decline in teen pregnancy rates has stalled.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Grandma’s Marathon: Running until it hurts

This next weekend will be marked by my favorite athletic event of the year, far surpassing the significance of the Superbowl is Duluth, Minnesota's annual Grandma's Marathon.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Powerful Insights From Stillwater Inmates

"Cost of Redemption," by C. Fausto Cabrera.  One of the pictures in "From the Inside Out"

In summing up a slim but stirring 129-page book, Carleton Professor Deborah Appleman wrote, "For them, writing is the key to healing, to redemption, to the survival of the soul."

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | NENBA launches new website in support of local businesses

Local Biz BucksTM online coupons from neighborhood businesses

Shelley Leeson

In its continuing effort to find ways to support local businesses and strengthen our neighborhood economies, the Northeast Neighbors & Business Association has just launched a new website, Loca

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