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Corinthian Colleges, a country-wide for-profit college company, recently collapsed while under federal review. For-profit colleges like to portray themselves as a good option for students who haven’t succeeded anywhere else but this happy story doesn’t always match reality. Corinthian’s story illustrates how the for-profit approach to college can go very wrong. Continue Reading
Did you know July is National Ice Cream Month, and the third Sunday of July (July 20) is National Ice Cream Day? We here at the Daily Planet our doing our part to help you celebrate this sweet holiday by highlighting a few choice ice cream shops around the Twin Cities, as the first in a series of local business roundups. Get the scoop below:Izzy’s Ice Cream1100 Second Street South, Minneapolis | 612-206-3356Mon – Sun: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.2034 Marshall Avenue, Saint Paul | 651-603-1458Mon – Sun: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.Izzy’s Ice Cream in Minneapolis may look more like an office building or apartment complex on the outside, but don’t be fooled – a flavorful ice cream experience awaits inside.(Izzy’s in Minneapolis)Featuring hand-crafted and artisanal flavors, Izzy’s has something for everyone with flavors ranging from Green Tea Oreo, Hot Brown Sugar, Church Elderberry, and Dinosaur Egg, to the usual Cookies N’ Cream, Strawberry, Chocolate, and a range of Soy and Sorbet options. Venture out and try a bold flavor with the Izzy Scoop, a smaller scoop of ice cream topped on all single and double scoop orders. A cup of Cinnamon with an Izzy Scoop of Dinosaur Egg. Grand Ole Creamery750 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul | 651-293-1655Sunday -Thursday: 11 a.m. -10 p.m. Friday – Saturday: 11 a.m. -11 p.m.4737 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis | 612-722-2261Monday – Thursday 12 p.m. -10 p.m. Friday – Saturday 11a.m. – 11 p.m. Sunday – 11a.m. – 10 p.m.(Grand Ole Creamery in Minneapolis)The lines may get long sometimes, but your taste buds will be rewarded for the wait at this Twin Cities ice cream favorite. Continue Reading
With the Republican gubernatorial primary less than a month away, the campaigns are departing from Gaylord B. Parkinson’s 11th Commandment for endorsement battles as they try to distinguish their brand for those likely to cast ballots in the August 12 vote. Continue Reading
Vacant Dinkytown storefronts aren’t a sign of a waning business district, property owners in the area say.
It’s been four years since owners of the Thunderbird iron mine near Virginia, Minn., told state officials they will have to move Hwy. 53 out of the way to allow expansion of their taconite extraction operation. The state is supposed to relocate the so-called Main Street of the Iron Range by 2017 under terms of a 1960 easement agreement, but the Department of Transportation announced last week that it almost certainly can’t meet the deadline. Continue Reading
“The contraceptive mandate, as applied to closely held corporations, violates RFRA.”
Justice Alito for the majority in Burwell v Hobby Lobby. Continue Reading
We often think of all our wireless communications as traveling separate on paths: television, radio, Wi-Fi, cell phone calls, etc. In fact, these signals are all part of the same continuous electromagnetic spectrum. Different parts of the spectrum have different properties, to be sure – you can see visible light, but not radio waves. But these differences are more a question of degree than a fundamental difference in makeup. Continue Reading
Last April, when New York governor Andrew Cuomo was deciding how to allocate $2 billion for classroom technology, he turned to a three person council for advice. One of the advisors he selected was Google chairman Eric Schmidt, prompting criticism about a potential conflict of interest. Would Schmidt recommend Google-favorable learning technology? This controversy illustrates a larger concern with the growing acceptance and adoption with educational technology: how much of a role should corporations be allowed to play in our education system? Continue Reading
Five votes. Five Catholics. Five men. One decision. Potentially millions of American women denied contraceptive coverage. This what the recent Hobby Lobby decision is about, but it also reveals three deeper problems–the sexism pervading the current Supreme Court along with its religious parochialism, a serious problem with the role that religion has come to occupy in American society, and the elevation of corporate rights and power that is strangling American society. Continue Reading
Guns aren’t banned at Target. But they’re no longer welcome thanks to nationwide pressure from mothers like Rebecca Lowen of Minnesota.