Post in TC Daily Planet Headlines: Fringe bloggers; Fewer students, fewer dollars; Civil rights lawsuit against MPD; Go ask Jesse, Dragon Festival

Jul 07 02:19 UTC

MONDAY, July 7

The Daily Planet is pleased to officially announce the debut of five
bloggers covering the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Matthew A. Everett,
Wendy Gennaula, Kate Hoff, Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, and John Munger
are experienced "Fringlings" who will be bringing you the inside scoop
on everything Fringe. Stay posted to our newsletter and our special
Fringe blogs page for all the latest news and views on one of the
country's premier theater festivals.

HEADLINES

Fewer students, fewer dollars  blame the charters?

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12539

by James Sanna, TC Daily Planet

The numbers certainly look dramatic  St. Paul enrollment alone is
projected to fall 1,700 students between 2007 (K-12 enrollment 39,550)
and 2009, according to the SPPS website  but does the declining
enrollment in Minneapolis and St Paul public schools mean charters are
winning the battle for "customer choice"?

Federal judge rules that civil rights lawsuit against the MPD should
move forward

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12538

by Anna Pratt, Minnesota Independent

A federal judge's ruling on Wednesday allows the civil rights lawsuit
filed by Sgt. Giovanni Veliz against the Minneapolis Police Department
(MPD) to go to trial, despite the city's efforts to impede it.

Go ask Jesse

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12563

by Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

With the July 15 filing deadline almost at hand, Minnesota's maverick
ex-gov Jesse Ventura is keeping mum about his plans. According to the
<a href="">Minnesota Independent, Ventura told his former press
secretary John Wodele last week that it's still "way too early" to
make up his mind. (When he ran for governor, Ventura filed on the last
possible day.) The Independence Party formally endorsed southern
Minnesota farmer Stephen Williams as its candidate for Senate, but he
would probably defer to Ventura, and would certainly be swamped in the
September primary, if Jesse chooses to run.

Dragon Festival Q & A

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12486

by staff, Asian American Press

What is the story behind the Dragon Festival?

INSIDE THE DAILY PLANET

  Hispanic Fanatic on Huffington Post

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12569

By Mary Turck , TC Daily Planet

Congratulations to the Daniel Cubias, the Twin Cities writer who blogs
as the Hispanic Fanatic! The Hispanic Fanatic blog has been on the TC
Daily Planet, and now it has been picked up by the Huffington Post.
Read the Hispanic Fanatic in the Twin Cities Daily Planet. And give
him a Buzz Up at the Huffington Post to boost his numbers there, too!

Practicing art...even in prison

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12476

by Gail Olson, Northeaster

Northeast artist James Bailey said his father was a thief and his
grandfather was a brawler. When they once passed each other at a
prison's entrance his father going in and his grandfather getting out
a local paper did a story on it, joking that the grandfather had
handed off his toothbrush to his son.

Domestic Abuse

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12298

by volunteers, MTN

South High students Carey deVictoria-Michel, Saoirse Goff, Sammie
Henry, Ariana Marston and Britt McFadden made this moving look at the
issues surrounding domestic abuse. This video, which contains intense
language and images, was produced with help from the Minneapolis
Television Network (MTN) through the Voices program.

NEW IN VOICES

  The value of small business

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12570

by John Kolstad, The Bridge

Small, independent businesses have a vital role to play in Minnesota
and the Twin Cities. They provide more than half of the employment all
across the USA, according to the Small Business Administration (SBA.)
During the Clinton recovery in the 1990s, small businesses created 85
percent of the new jobs, while the Fortune 500 had negative job
growth. A survey of Hennepin County businesses in the 1990s, and a
recent study of Minnesota businesses by the Minnesota House Research
Service, showed that 90 percent of new jobs are in small businesses.

NEW IN BLOGS

  The All-American Independence Day

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12568

by Daniel Cubias, 7/4/08  In the park where we gathered each July 4
when I was a kid, my family was just one the groups who turned the
area into a smaller, less-bloody reenactment of one of Americas
numerous land rushes. Each clans blanket on the bumps and dips of the
main lawn signified sovereignty, at least for the day. Grills were
stoked and coolers were stocked, while people lounged in the sun and
blared radios that were tuned to salsa or Sousa or Casey Kasems Top
Forty.

Uptown street art update

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12564

by Dustin Nelson, Minneapolis Street Art Observer

You've been warned.

Fringe-for-All #1

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12558

by Wendy Gennaula, TC Daily Planet

Its advent season for fringers. The first candle is this Monday night
at the Fringe-for-All #1.

Twin Cities Improv Festival: Part one of three

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12560

by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, TC Daily Planet

Reviewing improv is a strange thing. Without the security of a
unifying text, its easily possible that the same show might be side-
splitting one night and horrifically, jaw-droppingly bad the next.

Returning favorites3 Sticks

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12561

by Matthew A. Everett, TC Daily Planet

Defeated by the enemy, the General and her entourage traverse
fantastical lands as the Gypsy spins their fortunes through
electrifying music in this physically daring ensemble created show.

Poem: Daly & the daylights

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12567

by Ryan Bird, InDigest Magazine

 From his chintz print armchair, Daly

addressed the nightly news anchors.

He spoke in tones which lesser men

might use when muttering instructions

to porn stars.