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Mary Treacy

Mary Treacy

Please check out my blog at:http://marytreacy.wordpress.com  One time librarian and former executive director of the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information I am currently a very happy independent consultant exploring untold options.  My passion is to contribute the bit I am able to an informed and engaged community in which everyone's story can be told - and heard.  This means using a dynamic array of media - newspapers, websites, television, radio, social media and whatever comes on line tomorrow.  It means being willing to plumb the depths of a story - and it means having the courtesy, if not the intellectual curiosity, to learn from others. My sons are both enmeshed in the information maze.  Rick Birmingham is the Manager of IT Services  at MAP for Nonprofits.  Steve Birmingham works his magic on the public access terminals in Hennepin County Library.  Grandson Will Birmingham, 19 months, loves food, slides, puddles and books - in that order. A graduate of what was then the College of St. Catherine I went on to get a MS in Library Science.  Truth to tell, I didn't work in real libraries that much, but I did work 18 years as Director of Metronet, a collaboration of nearly 600 public, academic, corporate, medical, school and other libraries and information services in the TC's.  In recent years I've worked in a number of consulting positions, most notably the Sisters of St. Joseph Ministries Foundation.  As a hapless volunteer I've worked with a host of nonprofits including the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information, Learning in Style, the DFL Education Foundation, the Village Farmers Market among others. I've also written several pieces for TCDP.  In recent weeks I've been joined the throngs of scribe wannabes by launching my own little blog called Poking Around With Mary - because poking around is what I do a good deal of the time.

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Northeast happenings: Lowry Bridge updates, Co-op Trivia, and more!

By Mary Treacy (Neighborhood Notes) | June 12, 2012

Last week was outdoor festival time in Northeast.

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Transit options free seniors from the angst of gas prices, GPS technology, driven drivers

By Mary Treacy (Poking Around) | June 12, 2012

The norm should be a graduated exiting from the licensed population

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Gay Pride Month highlights fiction for teens

By Mary Treacy (Poking Around) | June 7, 2012

A decade ago teens, their families teachers and confidantes, had scant opportunity to find answers in the printed word, particularly in the stories of kids who were grappling with gender identification issues. Continue Reading

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Minneapolis residents explore “digital divide”

By Mary Treacy (Neighborhood Notes) | June 6, 2012

After a political lull – and a sea change in telecommunications technology – cable is back on the pubic agenda.

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Good reads for GLBT-headed families

By Mary Treacy (Poking Around) | June 6, 2012

Kids who grow up in loving families headed by same sex parents are a rapidly growing “market” for children’s authors, bookstores and libraries. Continue Reading

Good reads in fiction for Gay Pride Month

By Mary Treacy (Poking Around) | June 6, 2012

Beginning June 1, Gay Pride Month features many fetes and many faces – theatrical productions, T-shirt sales, concerts, games, picnics, posters and the 40th Annual Gay Pride Festival, June 23-24. Continue Reading

Erosion of voters’ rights – a slow rising tsunami

By Mary Treacy (Poking Around) | June 5, 2012

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people. (Thomas Jefferson)

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Picturing peace: Youth photography exhibit kicks off June 5 at Minneapolis City Hall

By Mary Treacy (Neighborhood Notes) | May 31, 2012

Bombarded by the media’s unrelenting coverage of a world at war, it must be a stretch for young people to imagine a world, even a neighborhood, at peace.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Stinson Conservancy invites volunteer gardeners to help plant on June 13

By Mary Treacy (Neighborhood Notes) | May 31, 2012

Though passersby speeding up and down Stinson Parkway (the number and their speed seems to increase each day) may scarcely notice, the joggers, dog walkers and stroller pushers of Windom and Audubo

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Prayer Vigil for Antoinette Hawkins in NE Minneapolis on Saturday

By Mary Treacy (Neighborhood Notes) | May 31, 2012

Windom Park and Audubon residents, along with other Northeasters, will share the grief and lend support to the parents of neighborhood resident Antoinette Hawkins who was murdered last week in her

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Arts

  • Dance as deep listening: “Weave” by Rosy Simas Danse comes to the Ordway

    Rosy Simas of Rosy Simas Danse is Haudenosaunee, Seneca, Heron Clan. She brings a Native feminist lens to the contemporary dance world with her body of work, the latest of which is “Weave,” a collaborative dance project. “Weave” will make its debut on Jan. 12 at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, a co-commissioner in […]

  • Ritual and revelation: Black Ensemble Players reimagine Shakespeare

      “It was kind of a whimsical artistic impulse,” recalled Antonio Duke, as he reminisced on this past spring when Ashawnti Sakina Ford drove him home each night after their rehearsals for a production of “Imaginary Invalid,” a play by 17th-century French actor and playwright, Molière. Duke mentioned that he would love to play Puck, […]

Food and restaurants

  • Project sweetie pie north minneapolis
    North Minneapolis takes back food systems, land through urban agriculture

    Transforming the community and its residents is the main goal of Northside food system organizers, who are using food as a tool to aid in that transformation.

  • Ha Tien Market
    Ha Tien Market still finds home along the Green Line, despite problems

    On a rainy, cool day Ha Tien is a warm and welcoming site.

Education

  • St. Paul’s school resource officer policies still leave district room for improvement

    On May 25, 2016, St. Paul School Resource Officer Bill Kraus forcibly arrested then 19-year-old Darion Bell outside of St. Paul Central High School. Bell, a Black youth who had recently transferred out of Central to the High School for Recording Arts, was on Central’s campus to visit one of his former teachers. Kraus used […]

  • Hiawatha Collegiate High School goes beyond ‘beating the odds’ for students of color

    Equity is one part of a broader vision for the Hiawatha network of schools.

Community Voices

  • [COMMUNITY VOICES] Non-criminal ‘technical violations’ are increasing Minnesota’s prison population

    When it comes to incarceration rates, Minnesota stands out as one of the few states who is experiencing an increase in their prison population despite prison overcrowding and crime at a 50-year low. While there are multiple factors for this, a significant part of this increase is due to the incarceration of formerly released individuals […]

  • Community Voices: [PHOTOS] Minneapolis comes out strong for “Families Belong Together” nationwide march

      On the afternoon of Saturday, June 30, Minneapolis was one of 600 cities and towns across the country to come alive with thousands of people vigorously and collectively denouncing the U.S. government’s federal immigration policies as part of the Families Belong Together nationwide march. Photographer Nancy Musinguzi’s recent photos captured the over 7,000 people […]

In Case You Missed It

IGGERS DIGEST | Katar River: flavors and aromas of Ethiopia

It's easy to miss the Katar River restaurant, hidden away in a little industrial strip behind the Lake & Hiawatha shopping center in south Minneapolis. And even if you saw the big sign outside, you probably wouldn't know that this is specifically an Ethiopian restaurant, and a very good one.

Lynnell Mickelsen: Why all the conspiracy theories and pearl-clutching in this year’s school board race?

This has been the hottest school board race I’ve seen in 25 years of living in Minneapolis, with lots of conspiracy theories and pearl-clutching. Many of my neighbors and friends see the furious posts on Facebook, with all the hysterical warnings about the imminent destruction of public education as we know it, and are honestly confused.

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