FREE SPEECH ZONE | Migratory Plastic Bags

Migrating plastic bags have become a major environmental problem in the Pacific Ocean and Minnesota’s metro area streams and lakes.  Here, “The Magnificent Plastic Bag,” a superb mockumentary produced by Heal the Bay (Santa Monica) is tagged with a Timid Video Theater (Eden Prairie)  take in the metro region.  Both parody the grand, reverent, wow moments of, say, a PBS documentary on wildebeest migrations in the Serengetti.The motivation of the video presentation is to remind people to pick up after themselves and to pass legislation that will ban plastic bags. Free Speech ZoneThe Free Speech Zone offers a space for contributions from readers, without editing by the TC Daily Planet. This is an open forum for articles that otherwise might not find a place for publication, including news articles, opinion columns, announcements and even a few press releases. Continue Reading

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Workout Series: CorePower Yoga

October was a crazy gym membership month. Trying to balance my time between the Ivy and Corepower Yoga. I guess it’s a good problem to have when you just don’t know where to work out. I’ve been going to Corepower since 2006 – off and on. It was much more affordable when I was a student. Continue Reading