Daily Planet Headline: Working Minnesotans are worse off than they were seven years ago
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Mary Turck
Date:
Jan 30 01:35 UTC
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Wednesday, January 30
<b>HEADLINES</b>
<b><a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9210">Working
Minnesotans are worse off than they were seven years ago</a></b>
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9210
by Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota
As President Bush delivers his final State of the Union address and
Congress considers an economic stimulus package, local leaders
presented a very sobering picture of the challenges facing many
Minnesotans. By nearly every measure, working class people are in
worse shape today than they were seven years ago, the speakers said
at a roundtable discussion Monday at the state Capitol.
<b><a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9112">Gaining dignity
through words</a></b>
by Deb Pleasants, TC Daily Planet
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9112
Once a week for the past five years, Peter Blau has stepped away from
his paid job as a writing instructor to teach a creative writing
class to a group of women at the Volunteers of America Residential
Correction Center in Roseville. The women gather in a classroom
anxiously awaiting his arrival. They want to share their storiesin
their own words.
<b><a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9187">Ending poverty in
Minnesota</a></b>
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9187
by Matthew Little, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Prior to the official opening of the 2008 Minnesota State Legislature
on February 12, there is still the hustle and bustle of committees
and regular staff personnel in preparation for the sounding of the
gong. One of the most active is in an obscure office located in the
basement of the State House Office building.
<b><a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9209">Snow sculpting
saved by Vulcans</a></b>
by Melissa Slachetka, TC Daily Planet
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9209
"Make way for the true kings of the Winter Carnival!" Vulcans
bellowed excitedly as they circled the snow sculpture competition on
a red fire truck dressed in their signature blazing red. Earlier this
January the competition was cancelled due to lack of funds. The
Vulcans came to the rescue with funds and a new location for the
event: the State Fairgrounds.
<b>INSIDE THE DAILY PLANET</b>
<b><a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9189">January 30, 31
readings: Chia Youyee Vang on Hmong in Minnesota</a></b>
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9189
by Tom LaVenture, Asian American Press
Chia Youyee Vang, Ph.D. a Twin Cities raised Hmong woman is now an
Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of
Wisconsin Milwaukee, has authored Hmong in Minnesota, the latest
of the People of Minnesota Series of books published by Minnesota
Historical Society Press.
<b><a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9204">Paulsen announces
congressional bid, invokes Ramstad and Frenzel</a></b>
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9204
by Joe Bodell, Minnesota Monitor
Republican state Rep. Erik Paulsen made his bid official yesterday to
succeed former boss Jim Ramstad in Congress, showering praise upon
Ramstad and his predecessor, Bill Frenzel.
<b><a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9191">The wild ride of
the South Minneapolis real estate market</a></b>
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9191
by Stephanie Fox, Southside Pride
Go to your local daily newspaper or turn on the television or radio
news station right now, and you'll probably find a story on the
collapsing real estate market. There are wildly contradictory
predictions about what will happen and what it all means.
<b>NEW IN VOICES</b>
<b><a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9139">Caucus for
change: being a leader on Super Tuesday</a></b>
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9139
by Michele St. Martin, Minnesota Women's Press
What are you doing on the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 5? You could catch
Christine Rosholt crooning jazz standards at O'Gara's Garage in St.
Paul. Go to Magers & Quinn in Uptown Minneapolis and listen to Susan
Wicklund read from her book about life as an abortion doctor. Or you
could hang out at home, reading a good book or vegging out in front
of "American Idol."
<b>NEW IN BLOGS</b>
<b><a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9166">Somali
immigration obstacles</a></b>
by Hussein Yussuf, January 2008, New Minnesotans Speak
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9166
For nearly two decades now, due to the civil war and the displacement
of many Somalis, emigration has been increasing. From 2002 to 2004,
10,000 Somalis came to Minnesota. According to the Minnesota
Advocates for Human Rights, by 2004, an estimated 25,000 Somalis
lived in Minnesota.
Mary Turck
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