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 | Close Your Eyes And Count To Ten

Domestic abuse is something we can't trace back to a date. We have formed an acceptance for domestic abuse; we are aware it's going on, but hardly do anything to help prevent it.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Media: A Part of Life

The technology available in schools helps students learn and be more interested.  I am in The Digital Media Studies Program at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis.  We are u

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Where are the healthy alternatives?

At every average public school you always hear bad things about school lunches students say they are nasty some say that they need something new.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | College Housing

When I first Stated this process of housing I thought about all types of housing but I thought about doing college housing because now today there are so many students graduating from high school w

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Making A Change In The Lao Community

As a first generation Lao-American in Minneapolis, Minnesota, it's been hard for me to find free time between attending Lao and American schools.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Minnesota Preventing Obesity

Throughout time, obesity has increased in Minnesota, especially because of all the advancements in technology that has made our lives easier.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Do YOU know about TAPPP?

As a Minneapolis Public high school student, throughout my high school experience, I have seen many teenage pregnancies.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Welcome To The Roosevelt Automotive Program

Walking into Roosevelt High School, most visitors go straight to the auditorium or the office for a meeting or presentation, but in the very southeast corner of the school, there is the only high s

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Are You too Cool to Buckle Up

Many people think that teens are crazy and outgoing. To be honest you are right; we want to have our own experiences.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | The Gaza Freedom Flotilla

As I write this the Israeli Navy may be surrounding, boarding, detaining the crew and passengers of, and possibly disabling the six ships left in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.

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