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Girls get a voice

By Shannon Drury , Minnesota Women's Press

After nearly a decade of imagining, networking, fundraising and planning, Laura Jeffrey Academy (LJA), a new girl-focused public charter middle school, plans to open its doors in St. Paul this September to its inaugural class of fifth- and sixth-grade students. Eventually the school will serve girls (and possibly a boy or two) in grades five through eight. The school is a dream of its founder, Cindy Reuther, who envisions a school where girls learn not only about math, English and science, but just as importantly. “[that] all girls get confidence in their smarts at a very young age.” MORE »

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Drinking Mississippi mud

By Mark Twain

“The man they called Ed said the muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to drink than the clear water of the Ohio; he said if you let a pint of this yaller Mississippi water settle, you would have about a half to three- quarters of an inch of mud in the bottom, according to the stage of the river, and then it warn’t no better than Ohio water – what you wanted to do was to keep it stirred up – and when the river was low, keep mud on hand to put in and thicken the water up the way it ought to be. MORE »