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On the 42nd anniversary of the Clean Water Act, a new report from Environment Minnesota, “Waterways Restored,” was released, highlighting the success the law has meant for Powderhorn Lake taking it
This fall NOC has been getting out the vote by engaging thousands of community members in the electoral process.
Nobody asked me, but I am extremely happy about a conference that took place Oct. 9 at Neighborhood House in St. Paul.
That line, Ladies and Gentlemen, was from the opening remarks of candidate Amy Dawson at a judicial candidate forum last Friday (October 24th) in south Minneapolis. And it was followed up with, as best I can recollect, “…and I’ll probably have to recuse myself from some cases if I’m elected.”
The ground has been broken.
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If you’re anything like me, you’re seeing daily headlines about climate change and the catastrophic consequences. When you see another article about species extinction, or sea level rise, or increasingly severe storms, do you stop and click through, or do you wince and scroll quickly down the page in favor of cat videos or that new Marcel the Shell video? Continue Reading
Most of us don’t get to the Capitol to witness the inner workings of our government.
In the future, there will be no journalism. I’m almost sure of it.
To Mayor Betsy Hodges,
Last month, I attended a forum at the Minneapolis Urban League about police-community relations. One of the panelists, longtime community leader and media presence Ron Edwards, pointedly mentioned that all of the debates about problems of police conduct were not so different from debates in the 1960s — we’ve had 50 years of a community looking for positive reform but getting very little.
The newly released report on Chicago charter school performance by the Institute on Metropolitan