Voices
Bullies
My son was bullied at school this past week. He’s only nine years old. He’s still in this wonderful stage of life where he’s rambunctious yet sweet, demanding yet compromising, naïve yet growing more aware of the larger world we all live in. The words spewed at him were harsh- spoken loudly in the lunchroom at school. “I hate you!” Undertones of “I want to kiMORE »
Saving the Electronic Commons
In the 1970’s, civic minded visionaries created a federal plan to insure that the corporate cable giants wiring our communities would have to share a piece of the profit with the people, public access television was born.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | We Have To Demand Power Won't Concede
When abolitionist Frederick Douglass said, “Power never concedes anything without demand. It never has, never will,” it was the middle of the nineteenth century. He was certainly prescient. Here, in the United States, in the 21st century, the struggle continues.MORE »
Why I joined the picket line
I've never been a member of a union. In fact, I was raised in an anti-union family. My father-in-law broke a union picket line as a management-level worker before I was married. My lens was always from the management side of the labor equation.MORE »
OPINION | What "The Hurt Locker" gets wrong about soldiers in Iraq
As a soldier who served in Iraq I appreciate any effort to tell the story of those who serve there, especially the truly brave souls who serve in Explosive Ordnance Disposal. The problem here is that it appears that the makers of the movie The Hurt Locker made no effort to portray what is really going on there.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Rogues Gallery
When Sarah Palin announced her Going Rogue book tour was swinging through the Mall of America on Dec. 7, I wondered if her son Trig, who was born with Down syndrome, would be joining her. I, too, have a child born with that same extra chromosome. His name is Ryan and he is 23, the fourth of my five children.MORE »
Claiming their rights: When nuns, social workers, and librarians confront the Military Industrial Complex
by Steve Clemens | September 11, 2009 • It wasn't the usual group of criminal defendants in Hennepin County's Courtroom 14D this week where Judge Lloyd Zimmerman presided. Minnesota judges are used to facing defendants who have been charged with drunk driving, burglary, assault, and even murder.MORE »
VOICES | Teaching to students', not industry's, needs
Rebecca Bauer is an English teacher at St. Paul Central High School
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OPINION | Handy-dandy guide to surviving a homeless shelter
VOICES | Coincidence or consequence, declining Minnesota exports reveal weaknesses
Such reflection isn't likely, however. State policymakers are preoccupied weighing how to use federal economic recovery money to cover state budget shortfalls.MORE »
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