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COMMUNITY VOICES | Open Saint Paul: In addition to baseball games, what types of events would you like to see at the Lowertown Ballpark?

By Staff, Open Saint Paul

The Lowertown Ballpark will be for more than just baseball. In fact, the ballpark may host more than 100 community events throughout the year. These events would bring thousands of visitors to downtown Saint Paul, creating new energy in the Lowertown neighborhood. Please let us know what type of community events you would like to see at the Lowertown Ballpark.

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Twins' diversity talk seems mostly for show

By Charles Hallman, Another View

A new movie on the life of Jackie Robinson premieres Friday. It has support from people in high places.

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Youth sports build more than just muscle — Laverne Turner helps students achieve academic success, learn leadership skills

By Jamal Denman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Top row, (l-r) Coach Tally Washington, Mohamad Yusuf (17), Dorian Butler (18), Davarius Wright (19), Marcus Wilson (16). Bottom row (l-r) Edrise Johnson (17), Antonio Pettis (19), Darrell Moore (19), Mercell Johnson (18), and Coach Laverne Turner. (Photo by Jamal Denman)

As a youth, local community leader Laverne Turner was heavily involved in organized team sports, and he remembers how positive an impact it had on him growing up. As an adult in 2003, he says he noticed there were no athletic programs for youth in his community, which motivated Turner to develop a sports program for young people in his South Minneapolis Phillips neighborhood — the East Phillips Park Sports Association (EPPSA).

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Baseball and farming: This is the year

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020

It's not an ideal day for baseball, but that won't stop the Minnesota Twins from opening their 2013 season today at Target Field, which also means the planting season is fast approaching for Minnesota farmers. An uncertain weather forecasts also looms over the farming season's open, with prospects for both spring flooding and summer drought.

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Minnesota Vikings and pulltab revenues: Should we be shocked?

By David Schultz, Schultz's Take

Are we to be shocked and surprised that the estimates for the pulltab revenues for the Vikings stadium were essentially made up by gambling interests and not verified by the governor and legislature? Perhaps we should be no more so than was Captain Renault in the movie Casblanca when he declared that: “I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” The story of the Vikings pulltab debacle unfortunately is a common occurrence, the result of pressure politics, money and politics, and the often lack of capacity or will of public officials to analyze and digest complex information.

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2013 election issues: Housing preservation, development, and the Vikings stadium

By Jeff Skrenes, North by Northside

In past elections, this blog has been used as a platform to endorse specific candidates. This year, or at the very least this early on in the campaign season, I'm trying a different approach. Because ranked-choice voting and a lack of an incumbent running for either mayor or the fifth ward, a large number of candidates are expected to stay in the running for those seats for much of the election. Instead of openly endorsing anyone here, I plan to lay out issues that are important to me and hopefully pertinent to north Minneapolis as well. In that way, more candidates will craft their strategies around these issues.

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Fueling up at the City of Lakes Youth Hockey spaghetti dinner

By Margo Ashmore, Northeaster

Andrew and Lauren Daher enjoyed their spaghetti at a benefit dinner for City of Lakes Youth Hockey. About 93 boys and girls skate for the Titans, and parents volunteer for coaching, board member, and fundraiser duties. (Photo by Margo Ashmore)

Their website feels as raw and gutsy as the sport of hockey itself; in person their enthusiasm carries through, from the pre-schooler pushing the dessert cart at the fundraiser, to the parent slinging the spaghetti. It’s City of Lakes Youth Hockey pushing the puck toward the goal since 2009 when Edison Youth Hockey Association disbanded.

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Minnesota Vikings at TCF Bank Stadium: What will be the impact on surrounding neighborhoods?

By Bill Huntzicker, TC Daily Planet

TCF Bank Stadium photo by Jenni Konrad (Creative Commons). Mascot image courtesy Minnesota Vikings.

In fall 2014 the Minnesota Vikings will move into TCF Bank Stadium just as the Minnesota Gophers did three years ago—but the professional team’s impact on the surrounding neighborhoods could be greater than the stress created by the home college team, and the Vikings have not yet agreed to a plan to compensate for the impact on the surrounding neighborhoods.

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Chester Bowl in Duluth: The upside of a downhill winter program

By Lisa Steinmann, Word Canoe

We drove carefully along Duluth’s Skyline Parkway toward Chester Park Saturday morning. The streets were thick with fresh, wet snow and fog shrouded our slow progress into the forest. We knew we had arrived at our destination when we spotted a set of wooden buildings decked out in a rainbow array of old skis. We had come on a mission to discover the Shangri-La of community-run ski hills, Chester Bowl.

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