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PFCs from 3M: an ongoing source of debate

By Anna Pratt , Special to the TC Daily Planet

For a half-century, ending in 2000, 3M produced some kinds of “perfluorochemicals” (PFCs) for use in stain resistant, anti-grease household products, most notably Scotchgard and Teflon (eventually sold to the Delaware-based DuPont Company), among others. Through the 1970s, the company dumped PFC wastes into local landfills, as was conventional and legal back then. From there, some PFCs seeped into groundwater, migrating into municipal and private wells in Lake Elmo, Oakdale, Cottage Grove and Woodbury. Numerous residents of these communities claim PFC contamination of groundwater has had a negative effect on their physical wellbeing while also causing their property values to decline. MORE »

Articles we are working on

By Mary Turck , TC Daily Planet

December 1, 2008 – We are working on stories on:

• Jordan Area Community Council
• Minnesota Court of Appeals appellate mediation project
• What’s happening to the 3M property in Dayton’s Bluff?

If you have information, anecdotes, or ideas about these stories, we want to hear from you — email editor@tcdailyplanet.net MORE »

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Advise and Dissent: Bethany Gustafson

By Emily Bright , TC Daily Planet

What would you like to tell president-elect Barack Obama? Advise and Dissent features Minnesota opinions on what the new president should be thinking and doing.

Mr. President-elect, because you were elected on the hope for change, I ask you to seek advice from a wide variety of people, to look to people who have experience as well as to new voices outside of Washington and outside of the corporate establishment. MORE »

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THEATER | "White Sheep of the Family," a sharp farce at Theatre in the Round

By Dwight Hobbes , TC Daily Planet

You’re not going to find a stronger theater company in the Twin Cities than the Theatre in the Round Players, and they’ve done it again, mounting yet anotther first-rate production. The White Sheep of the Family, by L. du Garde Peach and Ian Hay, is a splendidly written, sharply directed, beautifully acted farce you’re going to rush home and tell family, friends—pretty much anyone who’ll listen—all about. MORE »