Voices
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 »
Is this thing working? Is this thing on?

In a recent album, Peace Queer, by singer/songwriter Todd Snider, there is a haunting parable delivered first as a spoken word piece and then sung. It is about a schoolyard bully who repeatedly beats up on younger or smaller kids.MORE »
VOICES | Good teachers

The long view on the University of Minnesota

VOICES | State budget solutions shouldn’t pick winners and losers
Parents wondering how to send their kids to college, and senior citizens putting off retirement.MORE »
VOICES | Silent essentials at risk

VOICES | Changing the Minneapolis City Charter















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