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Teen pregnancy especially high among Minnesota’s Latinas

By Kevin Keen , La Prensa de Minnesota

Minnesota’s teen birth rate increased 7 percent between 2005 and 2006, the Minnesota Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention and Parenting reported. The organization also reported that the teen birth rate among Minnesota’s Latinas increased considerably more—by 13 percent. Experts point to a lack of sex education and communication among Latino teens and their families. They say information and opportunities can help decrease the ever-growing trend of teen pregnancy. MORE »

Things People Say

Readers sound off on disco, the Unabomber, and Santa Christ

By Jay Gabler , TC Daily Planet

“If there was any deep division in the music scene in 1977, it wasn’t people scratching their heads at less than stellar releases from Kansas, Foreigner, Styx, or Steely Dan and Neil Young, it was the demise of live music as disco came to prominence. I could make the argument that Kansas, Nugent and other arena acts GAINED fans because people who hated disco REALLY hated disco (myself included).”
-comment on “Sucking in ’77”

“John Jansen’s comments made me think of some of the bad things white people have done. Timothy McVeigh! Terry Nichols! The Unabomber! Not to mention almost all the serial killers in the U.S.! And all those Arab terrorists — they’re Caucasian! I just don’t think we can afford to have white people running this country. They are way too dangerous.”
-comment on “The Battle for Pine County”

“I really used to be amazed how these individuals could be so blatant about who they really are, and yet have their assemblies still pour money into their pockets so they can live like movie stars…and then you have those who are of the new faith: CASHIANS and followers of Santa Christ.”
-comment on “Mac Hammond’s Living Word facing IRS investigation” MORE »