Advise and Dissent: Aiesha Bluntson

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What would you like to tell president-elect Barack Obama? Advise and Dissent features opinions on what the new president should be thinking and doing. This opinion came from Your Turn — Teens advise the next president on what youth need.Stop gangs and gun violence: You could stop the sale of guns to kids or making it so easy to get hem. Make more kids go to school so they can do something positive with their life. Stop all the gangs, pay more attention to the little people because we are the future, and if you don’t help us now while were young the future does not look so bright. Continue Reading

Advise and Dissent: Sienna Cohen

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What would you like to tell president-elect Barack Obama? Advise and Dissent features opinions on what the new president should be thinking and doing. This opinion came from Your Turn — Teens advise the next president on what youth need.Save the world: The teenagers of America don’t want to have to tell the next generation that there were once polar bears, we want to show them. We don’t want to only show them pictures of the rainforest, we want to be able to visit them. — Sienna Cohen, 13, of Southwest High School Continue Reading

Advise and Dissent: Morgan Wilcock

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What would you like to tell president-elect Barack Obama? Advise and Dissent features opinions on what the new president should be thinking and doing. This opinion came from Your Turn — Teens advise the next president on what youth need.Dreaming of college: I would describe to him how my older sister and I are more worried than ever about each being able to afford the college we wish to attend. I would tell him how we feel deep pressure to obtain good grades. I would inform him how as a freshmen, I am already concerned with preparing for my SAT and ACT exams, because high scores may make that much of a difference … I would hope that from information like this, the next president would vow to make a student’s dream college more accessible, and less of a dream but more of a dream come true. Continue Reading

Advise and Dissent: Ben Tracy

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What would you like to tell president-elect Barack Obama? Advise and Dissent features opinions on what the new president should be thinking and doing. This opinion came from Your Turn — Teens advise the next president on what youth need. End the war in Iraq: I would tell them that I want a quick and efficient way of moving our troops out of Iraq. This is important to the lives of young Americans because we worry about our own fates when we become adults; some of us fear that there could be a draft if this war continues on. Continue Reading

Advise and Dissent: Tate Pashibin

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What would you like to tell president-elect Barack Obama? Advise and Dissent features opinions on what the new president should be thinking and doing. This opinion came from Your Turn — Teens advise the next president on what youth need.Money for schools: One of the best things the president could do for America’s youth is to make sure that schools are getting all the funding that they need, without raising the local taxes too much. Looking at Southwest Senior High, there currently are way too many students in each class. Many classes have 40 or more students and this can overwhelm teachers and leave students unnoticed and not getting the attention needed for a quality education … During “B Lunch,” many teens have realized that there was no more food to be eaten … Hungry teenagers are not a pretty sight, and … can cause students to be distracted in classes and fall behind. Continue Reading

Two-word reviews

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Paul Rudd in Role Models: Justenoughhair onhischest

Nick Cave: Sweet moustache

Paul Rudd on SNL: Toomuchhair onhischest
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Homeless youth in Minnesota: Watch. Read. Think. Talk.

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Join the discussion of homeless youth in Minnesota. Speak up, speak out, send your opinions to us.• Watch Homeless Youth: Finding Home, a documentary following six homeless youth in Minnesota on TPT Channel 17 on November 22nd, at 8 pm. (If you miss it, see part of the documentary right here:

• Read the TC Daily Planet article on Homeless Youth: Finding Home Read the summary or full report from Wilder on youth and young adult homelessness in Minnesota
• Think about it, and share your thoughts. Some questions that might start a discussion at home or with friends, or that might send you to the keyboard to send your insights to editor@tcdailyplanet.net for publication:
What are some of the challenges of getting homeless youth the help they need? What would you recommend to law-makers about how to help homeless youth? Continue Reading

Minnesota “monster”?

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Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times on Wednesday that this election marked “the end of the monster years.” He explained that what he meant was that the past fourteen years had been dominated by “Monsters like Tom DeLay, who suggested that the shootings at Columbine happened because schools teach students the theory of evolution. Monsters like Karl Rove, who declared that liberals wanted to offer “therapy and understanding” to terrorists. Monsters like Dick Cheney, who saw 9/11 as an opportunity to start torturing people.”Krugman didn’t write about Minnesota, but his readers did, as they challenged his thesis that the “monster years” are over.Four of the first fifteen comments on his column mentioned our own, re-elected Michelle Bachmann. A commenter from Chicago summed up their sentiments: “I wish I could agree with you. Continue Reading