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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 »

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VOICES | Teaching to students', not industry's, needs

By Rebecca Bauer, Minnesota 2020
Margaret Virum taught in the Minneapolis Public Schools nearly 50 years. She has been listed among the most prestigious alumni from the University of Minnesota's College of Education and received many honors for her innovative teaching before her death one year ago.

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

By Dwight Hobbes, Southside Pride
More and more it’s less the usual clients in homeless shelters—chronic ex-cons, shiftless drifters, drug dealers and such—added to this mix these days are legitimate folk, regular men and women—some may even have jobs—who lost their home because they just don’t pull down enough scratch to make end’s meet.MORE »

VOICES | Coincidence or consequence, declining Minnesota exports reveal weaknesses

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020
A decline in fourth quarter manufactured exports from Minnesota announced this week should give state officials and lawmakers pause about what the state is doing to help business grow our way out of the current recession.

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?

By Tom Bottolene
By Steve Clemens
Is This Thing Working? Is This Thing On? By Steve Clemens. March 11, 2009

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

By Kaye Thompson Peters, Minnesota 2020
I am sitting here on President's Day, a day off of school, feeling guilty for taking time to write this column I promised to Minnesota 2020 months ago, because I still have 30 packets of research note cards to review for my ninth grade students and 120 commentaries to evaluate for my honors-level seniors. Actually, I guess I'm in pretty good shape-relatively.MORE »

The long view on the University of Minnesota

By Steve Cross, Special to Minnesota 2020
Editor's note: While the following is a work of fiction, it could become reality if we continue to neglect our colleges & universities. The piece is a guest commentary from November 24, 2039.MORE »

VOICES | State budget solutions shouldn’t pick winners and losers

By Bobby Champion, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Massive layoffs. Families losing their health care, others losing their homes.

Parents wondering how to send their kids to college, and senior citizens putting off retirement.MORE »

VOICES | Silent essentials at risk

By Elizabeth Rich, Minnesota 2020
By now you've heard the news. Those snack crackers you throw in your bag for lunch will get you. When they do, they're gonna make you very sick to your stomach. It won't be pretty. Between the sweats and the cramps, you'll think you're on one of those rehab reality shows. But when you look around and realize that there are no cameras, you'll know.MORE »

VOICES | Changing the Minneapolis City Charter

By Paul Ostrow, TC Daily Planet
Our City has changed in many ways since 1872. But our city's charter, which establishes how we govern ourselves, has changed very little.MORE »
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News Day

NEWS DAY | MN health care votes and Michele Bachmann’s lei / MN Job Watch / Deer hunting, baiting, eating / Afghan cops, Taliban

By Mary Turck, News Day

Minnesota Democratic Reps. Tim Walz, Betty McCollum, Keith Ellison and Jim Oberstar voted in favor of the health care bill, while Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson and Republican Republican Reps. John Kline, Erik Paulsen and Michele Bachmann voted against it. Oberstar joined Peterson and the Republicans in voting to bar all abortion coverage from the bill. The abortion amendment, which passed, provides that people who receive federal insurance subsidies cannot buy insurance plans that include abortion coverage. MORE

• MN health care votes and Michele Bachmann's lei
• MN Job Watch Biotech firm leaving
• Harder being unemployed How times are worse than in 1983
• Deer hunting, baiting, eating MN gun season opener was Saturday
• War reports Aghan police "penetrated by Taliban," suicide bombing in PakistanMORE »

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THEATER | Hardcover Theater's rollicking "She: Immortal Witch Queen of a Lost World"

By Matthew A. Everett, TC Daily Planet

With a title like She: Immortal Witch Queen of a Lost World, you know what you’re getting yourself into, if the theater company is doing its job right.  Hardcover Theater is definitely doing its job.  She is a rollicking good pulpy adventure tale, straight out of the best tradition of old B-movies.MORE »

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Stories we are working on

These are some of the stories we are working on. If you would like to contribute information or opinions, please e-mail the writers!

• Trader Joe What's with the new kid on the Twin Cities grocery scene? Tell sheila@tcdailyplanet.net what you think / like / dislike / wonder about Trader Joe. 

• St. Paul school superintendent The semi-finalists will be named this week, and the finalists by next week - any questions for them? Tell editor@tcdailyplanet.

• What's your story? Is there a story you'd like to write? Or a story you think we should be covering? Email editor@tcdailyplanet.netMORE »