MUSIC PREVIEW | The Tribe & Big Cats! stay innovative to keep on top of the Twin Cities hip-hop game

By Tony Wagner, The Minnesota Daily

Photo by Blake Leigh

The Tribe & Big Cats! will be the first to tell you that the Twin Cities hip-hop scene is over-saturated. TruthBeTold, aka Chris Hooks, and producer Big Cats, aka Spencer Wirth-Davis, are slugging away anyway, and they set themselves apart in the crowded scene because they won’t settle for being hometown heroes.

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MN VOICES | Mikkel Beckmen finds dignity and poetry at St. Stephen's homeless shelter in Minneapolis

By Grace Grinager, TC Daily Planet

Courtesy Michael Beckmen

I sat down to talk with Mikkel Beckmen, executive director of St. Stephen's Human Services, in the midst of the organization's move to its new site at 2309 Nicollet Avenue.

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Scam alert: The feds will NOT pay your electric bill

By Mary Turck, News Day

The scammers are at it again — big time — hitting thousands of Minnesotans with a phony promise that President Obama has a program to pay their utility bills. The Better Business Bureau warns:

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As lawmakers haggle over food-aid cuts, some numbers to consider

By Cynthia Boyd, MinnPost

The number of students in Minnesota receiving free or reduced price lunch through the national School Lunch program has risen, from 30.4 percent in school year 2005-2006, to 37.3 percent last year. (Photo: REUTERS/Mike Blake)

As you sit down to soup or salad or a sandwich for lunch today, consider this:

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For one Minneapolis family, gay marriage is a matter of fairness

By Selin Kurtoglu, ThreeSixty

Will (left) and Taylor Doherty, Lori Luchsinger’s 20-year-old sons, joined their mother and her partner for a discussion of same-sex marriage. “I wish some people could see that we aren't that different,” Will said.

For Lori Luchsinger and Karen Salmey, gaining the right to marry is simply a matter of fairness.

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