Post in TC Daily Planet: Rumors of police sweeps; Still protesting, still praying; Police-community forum; Who will get the true story?

FRIDAY, AUGUST 29



HEADLINES



Rumors circulating of possible police sweeps in Minneapolis this weekend

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/13911

by Andy Birkey, Minnesota Independent

Could a roundup of anti-RNC activists be on tap for this weekend in
Minneapolis?



Char Madigan: Still protesting, still praying

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/13758

by Jeanette Fordyce

Char Madigan will be praying for peace during the RNC this year, a
continuation of a career of prayer and protest that goes back more
than thirty years.



Police, community exchange views at forum

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/13888

by Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Police Chiefs John Harrington (St. Paul), Tim Dolan (Minneapolis) and
John Laux (Bloomington) met with around 70 community residents August
19 at St. Paul's Martin Luther King/Hallie Q. Brown Recreation Center
to discuss criminal justice issues and concerns. The event was hosted
by the Council on Black Minnesotans (CBM).



VOICES | 15,000 reporters, but will we get the true story?

URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/13856

by Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

In the years I've lived in the Twin Cities, I've witnessed some pretty
high-profile events: a Super Bowl and the visit of Soviet Premier
Mikhail Gorbachev. But nothing compares to the hype surrounding the
upcoming Republican National Convention.



How to save $18 billion in health care costs

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/13885

by Elizabeth Rich, Minnesota 2020

The health care crisis. It's an issue that tops Minnesotans list. Last
year, Minnesota spent an average of $6,500.00 on out of pocket medical
expenses. In 1970, we spent about $390.00 annually. What if there was
a way to cut between $8 and $18 billion off that number? What if,
while doing it, we could help work on healthier Minnesotans and fight
abuse and neglect? The Academy on Violence and Abuse thinks they can
do just that.



INSIDE THE DAILY PLANET



THINGS PEOPLE SAY | Oral Roberts U grad Bachmann says Harvard grad
Obama 'isn't well-schooled'

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/13912

by Karl Bremer, Minnesota Independent

Michele Bachmann recently told the Hometown Source, an online
extension of ABC Newspapers in the northern suburbs, that Barack Obama
"isn't well-schooled and prepared to be President of the United
States."<br><br>That's an interesting observation, coming from a
graduate of a law school that once lost its American Bar Association
accreditation.



Food and Restaurants



Italiani's Family Restaurant Grill & Bar

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/13858

by Jeremy Iggers, The Rake

I got a hot tip recently - a sighting of a pasta making machine at
Italiani's Family Restaurant Grill & Bar, 3508 E. Lake Street. That's
pretty rare these days - making pasta by hand is very labor intensive.



A fresh alternative in bar & grill country

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/13806

by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project

Sometimes it seems like the owner of the <a href="http://www.cafewren.com
">Café Wren</a> has a better idea of what's going on in John Adams'
vegetable plots than he does. "I think she has spies in the garden,"
Adams joked on a recent August afternoon while showing me his produce
operation near Luck, in western Wisconsin's Polk County. "She knows
when my stuff is ripening. She knows her stuff about food and
promoting local food."



Bridgeland makes the most of sidewalk season

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/13891

by Jeremy Stratton, The Bridge

In Minnesota, we hold our summers precious. The long, Siberian-like
winters mean we make the most of our temperate days, the likes of
which So-Cal and Florida take for granted.



Common Roots Cafe's "Rootsy Lucy"

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/13899

by Brian Moen, East-Lake.net

On Saturday night, I went to the Common Roots Cafe for dinner to try
the newest competetor to the Juicy Lucy universe. The Rootsy Lucy is
made withThousand Hills beef stuffed with 12 month aged cheddar on
foccacia with heirloom tomatoes, lettuce and aioli.



NEW IN BLOGS



Weekend what's what 8/28-9/1: Republican party!

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/13908

by l'etoile magazine staff, Arts Orbit

As Republican delegates from all over the country breeze into town in
preparation for next week’s RNC melee, the city is literally ablaze
with more art, entertainment, and political buzz than you can shake a
stick at (no State Fair pun intended). Show your stripes by hitting up
such inspired events as the Liberty Parade, the Call & Answer Block
Party, or the Take Back Labor Day Festival—all of which give the term
“political party” a whole new meaning.



Be a Real Man, the Mike S. Adams way

by Jeff Fecke, Blog of the Moderate Left

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/13829

Ah, Mike Adams. You remember Mike Adams; he’s the UNC-Wilmington
professor who singlehandedly devalues my friend’s brother’s college
degree, the idiot who once argued that we should end abortion so women
will stop having sex.



A place for the perplexed: Part two

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/13871

by Emilio DeGrazia, 8/25/08 • Whitman, poet of democracy, urged us to
be tolerant and large, to contain multitudes, to connect and make
passages to all parts of the globe.  So it’s tempting to think
boyishly big again—to be stirred by the democratic idealism of
manifest destiny and American exceptionalism and to cheer on the new
globalism.



Big pigs and barn tours

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/13919

by Mary Turck, Minnesota State Fair

big boar is back, despite a dearth of entries that put this year's
exhibit in doubt until the last minute.