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The Speech

By Tom Heuerman, Ph.D. , View from Fargo

I see in Barack Obama the potential and possibility of transformative leadership. When I listen to Barack Obama speak, I feel hopeful. Maybe we can renew our nation. Perhaps we can recommit ourselves to the noble values and grand purpose of America. He reminds me of the best energy of the 60s. MORE »

Many worlds

By Tom Heuerman, Ph.D. , A View from Fargo

I grew up as a man in white America. I had an unconscious assumption that everyone experienced life and saw the world as I did. MORE »

El-Kati explores legacy in film at Golden Thyme monthly series

By Maya Beecham , Insight News

September’s Old Black Movie Night features Within Our Gates on Friday, September 28 at Golden Thyme Coffee Café in St. Paul. MORE »

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Things People Say

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 »