A guide to St. Paul for the news media

By Teresa Boardman, Teresa Boardman on TCDP

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. The local news media even those who write for our newspaper. . .the one that has been serving the city since the late 1800s have a hard time understanding the geography of St. Paul and the names of our neighborhoods so they re-name parts of the city to make things easier for themselves and at the same time they show us St. Paul natives that they are not from our beloved city.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Twin Cities Community Radio WORLD RADIO DAY! Wednesday, February 13th 2013

By Erika Coe, Free Speech Zone

Photo by Kat Vann

I first had the opportunity to learn about Twin Cities Community Radio when I began working at Waite House this last October.

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Apology not accepted: On Joel Brinkley, Vietnam, and intent vs. impact

By Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre, Guante.info

In a February 1 piece for Tribune Media Services, Stanford journalism professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Joel Brinkley wrote about how Vietnamese people are aggressive because they eat so much meat, especially dogs.

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What's in a name? On Nemo, the Weather Channel, and the utility of naming storms

By Erik Hare, Barataria

Nemo. The name doesn’t exactly strike fear, but it has its share of loathing. Who picked that dumb name? Why would you name a winter storm after a fish? Isn’t it just a publicity stunt by the Weather Channel?

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Minnesota resident Aaliyah Kellogg joins Scholastic News Kids Press Corps

By Chris Garner, Insight News

A love for music and an inquisitive mind have landed 11-year-old Aaliyah Kellogg opportunities of a lifetime and a chance to report for Scholastic News Kids Press Corps. The daughter of Mint Condition lead singer, Stokley Williams, and Sylvia Williams (owner and creator of Sweet Sylvia), Kellogg has been exposed to celebrities and musicians at an early age.

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'Dear Abby' columnist Pauline Phillips dies in Minneapolis

By Staff, American Jewish World

Pauline Phillips

Pauline Phillips, the woman known to the world as the advice columnist behind “Dear Abby,” has died at the age of 94. Phillips, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, died in Minneapolis on Jan. 16, after years of battling Alzheimer’s disease.

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Civil discourse and social media

By Julie Landsman, The View From Here

My father believed that competition was healthy . He was convinced that our success as a country depended heavily on winning: whether it was wars or business or the St.

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MPR framing on frac sand mining: total news fail

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

One of the talking points industry uses to marginalize citizen concerns about the impact of frac sand mining in Southeastern Minnesota is to insist that those raising questions about the industrial scale mining on their property values, safety, health, communities, landscapes, and future economic opportunities are either misinformed and think fracking itself will be happening in their neigborhoods.

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Looking ahead — gloom and doom and dancing?

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

Dancers at Idle No More Flash Roundy at Mall of America

Well, 2012 has come and gone, and the world didn’t end. We have a new president (same as the old president), and in Minnesota we successfully blocked both the Marriage Amendment and the Voter I.D. amendment. But as happy as I was post-election, there’s a certain nagging feeling that I have as I look ahead to 2013. And I hate to say it — I was a big doubter about the whole concept of living in a “New Normal”, but looking back at the reporting I’ve done this past year, it certainly feels like that’s what we’re in right now.

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Creating many ripples: Citizen journalism in 2012

By Robin Sauerwein, TC Daily Planet

When I looked back at the stories I‘ve written for the Twin Cities Daily Planet this year, I noticed that the stories always seem to have a few things in common: They involve my community. The subject is important in some way and needs to be covered. And it spurs my curiosity.

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