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Book Highlight: The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones
by Staff, Center for American Progress, reprinted in Metro CERTS.
In The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, acclaimed activist and environmental leader Van Jones tackles the challenges of oil dependence, a sagging economy, and global warming itself, transforming these looming threats into enormous f
Midwest energy news: Minnesota to cut mercury emissions
by RE-AMP RoundUp • 9/29/08 • The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has announced the state’s largest polluters have agreed to cut their mercury emissions, according to Minnesota Public Radio. Since only ten percent of the states’ mercury comes from local sources, officials say they will pursue international efforts. This and other environmental news from the upper Midwest on the Re-AMP RoundUp newsroom.
Where is the school nurse? - a survey of Minnesota school nurses
Minnesotans know that students who are in good health will achieve greater academic success and that good health will help students become happier, more productive adults. School nurses provide that health care.
Unfortunately, the demands on school nurses have increased both because of increases in diagnoses and increases in the number of under- or uninsured children at the same time as a serious downturn in school funds allocated for nursing services. This has resulted in less student access to health care in schools. MORE »
Ritchie: Changes to Minnesota law should prevent voter-challenge shenanigans and conflicts
It’s that time again. In the past couple of weeks, the thoughts of the left-lib blogosphere have turned back to fears of voter harassment and disenfranchisement schemes of the sort that made headlines in 2000 and 2004. The discussion is driven in part by a story that our sister site the Michigan Messenger broke on September 10, when reporter Eartha Jane Melzer wrote that one GOP county chair there was “planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.” (Today Melzer updates that story with news that House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers has asked the Justice Department to investigate those claims.) MORE »
Minnesota unemployment rate hits 22-year high
Minnesota’s unemployment rate hit 6.2 percent in August, marking the highest unemployment rate in the state in more than 22 years when the rate hit 6.3 percent in December of 1985. MORE »
The GOP’s Palin bounce; Al Franken’s Barkley bounce
After a couple of weeks on unscheduled hiatus during MnIndy’s coverage of the Republican convention and its aftermath, David Schultz and the Schultz Report are back with us today. Schultz talks about Sarah Palin, evangelicals and swing voters, and he discusses a surprising turn in the Minnesota US Senate race: Independence Party endorsee Dean Barkley, who most observers expected to hurt Al Franken, seems to be peeling away Sen. Norm Coleman’s more tepid supporters and helping Franken. MORE »
35W Bridge survivor works to prevent another tragedy
Kimberly J. Brown of Minneapolis survived the deadly collapse of the Interstate Hwy. 35W bridge last year. Now she’s working to keep that kind of tragedy from happening again in Minnesota. MORE »
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In selling parkland to pay bills, mighty Duluth joins little Lilydale
Recent headlines out of Duluth haven’t been pretty — except when they’ve been over pictures of the Tiffany window that the city may auction off to get out of a $6.5 million budget hole. City officials’ efforts to sell off another public asset — parkland along picturesque Park Point — puts Duluth in the same league as one of the Twin Cities metro area’s tiniest towns: little Lilydale, Minn. MORE »
