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To our readers
Yesterday a server problem meant that the Twin Cities Daily Planet was unavailable for about half the day. We apologize for this inconvenience. In order to make yesterday’s stories more accessible, today’s front page includes all of yesterday’s stories, as well as today’s stories. Thank you. MORE »
May 1: Minnesota Poets Against the War at Black Dog
“You are allowed to forget that
it’s even happening—this
is a new kind of war—it
occurs while you didn’t notice—
it depends upon you not noticing—
an entirely abstract war—”
From “The War” by Tim Nolan
“Clumps of nests in bare trees.
Bird wheels overhead,
nimbleness of a Blackhawk.
Down here ghosts blow
back and forth in the wind.”
“Caution” by Cary Waterman
What’s up on Chicago Avenue?
Reconstruction of Chicago Avenue between 7th Street downtown and 28th Street is scheduled to begin this summer in conjunction with construction of a tunnel that Children’s Hospital is building as part of a $200 million expansion on Chicago’s 2500 block. MORE »
Slippery Slope: America goes Bananas
• by Rich Broderick, 4/27/08 • In recent months, some commentators have argued that the U.S. is evolving toward a peculiarly American form of fascism. They have based their analysis on a checklist of characteristics common to fascist states – the glorification of the military, the loss of civil liberties, the replacement of politics with spectacle – all of which certainly do sound familiar.
