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Betty McCollum

McCollum, challengers seek endorsement this weekend

By Lawrence Schumacher, TC Daily Planet

Ramsey County DFLers meet on Saturday to decide whether to endorse U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., for a sixth term in Congress, as Republicans meet to see who should challenge her this fall.MORE »

Is this pork?

By Lawrence Schumacher, TC Daily Planet

There's $45 million for the Central Corridor light rail project. And $300,000 for juvenile crime prevention on the north side of Minneapolis. And $200,000 for afterschool programs for Somali youth in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.

They are among the $300 million in congressional earmarks being sought by Minnesota's Democratic members of Congress in the House of Representatives.MORE »

Minneapolis Congressional hearings focus on foreclosure and housing crisis

By Sheila Regan
By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Congressmember Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chair of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity joined Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Betty McCollum (D-MN) for a congressional hearing examining the foreclosure and affordable housing crisis in the Twin Cities on January 23 at Central Library in Minneapolis.MORE »

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• ASAP: Foreclosure crisis hits the East Side of St. Paul ($25)
• May 30: We Are Sabathini exhibit ($25)
• June 16: World Refugee Day ($25)  
• June 29-July 1: Chalchiutlicue ($25) 
• July 21: Rondo Days ($25)



• North Minneapolis block party celebrates, remembers. Keith Ellison skips rope!
• Northside tornado "treecovery." Thanks to generous donors, more trees are being planted than were lost.
• Ice House Plaza opening marks a new era on Eat Street. Things are hopping at Nicollet and 26th.
• Feeding the poor: But is it healthy food? Cynthia Boyd reports.

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