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Local teachers keep busy during the summer
With school out for the summer, many teachers can take a momentary break, but most teachers keep plenty busy over the summer months. Some teach summer school, some take professional development classes, and some pursue other employment. MORE »
Federal judge rules that civil rights lawsuit against the MPD should move forward
A federal judge’s ruling on Wednesday allows the civil rights lawsuit filed by Sgt. Giovanni Veliz against the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) to go to trial, despite the city’s efforts to impede it. MORE »
Practicing art...even in prison
Northeast artist James Bailey said his father was a thief and his grandfather was a brawler. When they once passed each other at a prison’s entrance his father going in and his grandfather getting out a local paper did a story on it, joking that the grandfather had handed off his toothbrush to his son. MORE »
What the heck is going on with Lake of the Isles?
History looks different from different perspectives. There’s the history that people remember, the history that is written down, and the history that really truly existed. Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis possesses mystique and romanticism, but its current renovation and reconstruction project is controversial. Disagreements arise because of differences in what people believe the lake should look like, what they imagine it looking like in the past, what it has become due to man-made manipulation, and what it naturally tends toward. MORE »
