Grant to help Twin Cities refugees start child care businesses
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Recently, Resources for Child Caring (RCC), Hmong American Partnership (HAP) and CAPI received a $175,000 grant from the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement
VISUAL ARTS | Come together: Tarnish & Gold gallery re-opens and relocates
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After a summer without gallery space, Northeast Minneapolis newcomer Tarnish & Gold reopened on November 4 in a new location. The gallery moved a few blocks from its original location on Marshall St. to The Foundry on 13th Ave. NE after the rent was raised due to renovations according to gallery co-founder Caitlin LaFlash.
Occupy MN continues U.S. Bank protest but delays account closures
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Occupy MN protesters delayed their original plan, to close their bank accounts at U.S. Bank on October 26, after they received news that the bank had given in to one of their demands earlier that morning, but they still marched on the bank. The demand involved Ruth Murman, a woman going through foreclosure. U.S. Bank and GMAC agreed to give Murman an extra two weeks to vacate her house.Ruth Murman has lived in her home in Plymouth for five years, along with her 79-year-old father, a disabled Korean War veteran. According to Murman’s attorney, Zach Crain of Moore Costello & Hart, the redemption period for Murman’s home ended September 18.The confusion started when Murman received her first notice after her redemption period ended. “I received a notice on the door that they needed to know who was living there and what the plans were,” recalled Murman. “I called and talked to a gal named Jen Crockett. Continue Reading
MN VOICES | Angelique Kedem becomes the director in one of the nation’s first Promise Neighborhoods
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Growing in up in apartheid South Africa and witnessing her country’s first democratic election shaped the philosophy and character of Angelique Kedem, the new director of St. Paul’s Promise Neighborhood.After receiving a Master’s of Public Administration from the University of the Western Cape, Kedem moved to the U.S. in 2001 at the age of 25. She taught developmental English in the junior college system in Texas, and then special education at an Oklahoma elementary school during her first year in the United States.In 2002, she moved to Minnesota, volunteering for organizations such as the African American Teen Pregnancy Collaborative, the Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE), and the State Council on Black Minnesotans. Kedem became the state director for the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI), where she helped battle the disparities that affect children of color in the justice system.Now, Kedem is at the helm of the Promise Neighborhood initiative, headed by the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, as the project moves from a year-long planning phase into the implementation phase.The planning phase, which took place over the last year, assessed the major assets and needs of the community, with a focus on “an effort to build a continuum of cradle to career supports that help ensure the success of all children in St. Paul,” said Kedem. Continue Reading
OccupyMN weekend: Tents up, tents down, what’s next?
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Over the weekend, OccupyMN put up tents, police took them down, and one person was arrested. Now protesters say they may move off county property and onto city property — or onto bank property. Either move would mean a switch from the jurisdiction of Hennepin County Sheriff, who ordered the tents taken down, to the jurisdiction of Minneapolis police.OccupyMN organizers and supporters rallied at the Hennepin County Government Center on Saturday, October 15 for day seven of Occupy Minnesota, a spinoff of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS) which began almost a month ago.Protestor’s reasons for attending varied, from rising school tuition to unemployment, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to healthcare, foreclosures and homelessness to defending the private sector — yet a unified, overarching theme remained clear: serious changes to the economical structure need to happen, and they need to happen now.”I’m so glad to see so many people come out today for so many different reasons,” declared Anti-War Committee (AWC) member, Misty Rowan, at the rally Saturday afternoon.”I want you all to raise your hand if you have millions and millions of dollars,” Rowan continued to a reaction of laughter, “everybody else, repeat after me — we are the 99 percent!”However, the rally’s main agenda was a matter of logistics that day: the protesters needed shelter. They declared the day an international day of solidarity, referring to the erection of tents among several of the current Occupy cities around the world. Over at the south side plaza, Occupy MN protestors placed several tents made of transparent plastic, despite a ban on structures there. Continue Reading
The new carny code at the Minnesota State Fair: Don’t cheat
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When St. Paul resident Edward Kline popped two balloons at the game booth, he expected to be given a large Scooby Doo stuffed animal—the one his daughter had been asking him to win. Instead, the game booth attendant pulled out a box of smaller toys, squirt guns mostly, from underneath the counter, offering them to Kline.
St. Paul’s Unify University parade continues amid heavy construction
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University Avenue experienced even slower traffic between Grotto Street and Galtier Street last Saturday, August 20, but not because of the light rail construction. The St.
St. Paul food shelf will host first Local Foods Night August 18
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The Hallie Q. Brown Food Shelf is partnering up with University of Minnesota’s Simply Good Eating to host their first annual Local Foods Night on Thursday, August 18 at St.
Introducing guerrilla gardening: A new Twin Cities movement, or just a fad?
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We first saw the term guerrilla gardening popping up in our own backyard in 2009. Over in the United Kingdom, Richard Reynolds had been gardening “with or without permission” since 2004, encouraging people to simply beautify and make use of unused and uncolorful areas around the city, despite who owns it.