Post in Twin Cities Daily Planet Headlines: RNC protest plans; Northside home opportunity tour; High rent vacant homes; NWA workers fear for jobs

May 17 00:50 UTC

SATURDAY, May 17

HEADLINES

RNC protesters agree to a diversity of tactics

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/11507

Julia N. Opoti, TC Daily Planet

Come join a discussion of past experiences, concerns and plans for
how to make the RNC demonstrations powerful, read an email in my
inbox. My interest was immediately piqued.

TODAY: Northside Opportunities Home Tour shows possibilities for home
ownership

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/11553

by Anissa Hollingshead, Northside Opportunities Blog

Are you or someone you know thinking about buying a home? Have you
always wanted to own your own home but didnt know how to make it
happen? Have you considered living on the Northside? Why or why not?
These are the questions a special event on Saturday, May 17th, is
being designed to help answer.

Deluxe vacant-home tour: executives are the newest squatters

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/11499

by Molly Priesmeyer, Minnesota Monitor

Sure, it's no secret that the Twin Cities metro area is suffering from
a serious glut of homes for sale, most of which are seeing a price
drop of 10 percent this year. But did you know that, according to the
most recent research from the Minneapolis Area Association of
Realtors, there's a 15.9-month supply of homes worth more than
$500,000 just sitting alone and gathering dust? That's nearly twice
the 8.7-month supply of those in the median-home-price range of
$190,000-$200,000. And did you know that homes worth more than a
million bucks are growing the stalest of them all, totally stripped of
their copper furnishings and artwork and forced to wait out the 24.3-
month supply of those just as opulent as they are?

Northwest Airlines workers fear for jobs in merger with non-union Delta

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/11470

by Steve Share, Minneapolis Labor Review

Coming off work, Northwest Airlines workers in their gray uniforms
with red and white reflective stripes attend a late-night union
meeting April 28 at the Eagles Club near the airport. They look tired.
The 11 p.m. meeting lasts until 1 a.m., the day's fourth informational
meeting for members of Local 1833 of the International Association of
Machinists.

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Headwaters Foundation moves to support 15 immigrant workers fired from
D'Amico

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/11525

by Anna Pratt, Minnesota Monitor

The Headwaters Foundation for Justice, a local organization that
fights for social justice causes, recently announced it would boycott
a venue catered by D'Amico & Partners to show support for the 15
Latino workers who were let go from the metro-area restaurant chain on
March 31. Its annual "Allies for Justice" dinner will be held
Wednesday at the Minneapolis Hilton instead of the University of
Minnesota's McNamara Center, where D'Amico has an exclusive contract.

KBEM on Access to Art

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/11456

Staff, MTN

Non-commercial Jazz radio station KBEM which operates out of North
High School has been training students in broadcasting since the
1960s. Access to Art Correspondent Hamil Griffin-Cassidy recently
visited the station and talked to staff and students. See video in
multimedia box in column 3 of front page.

NEW IN VOICES

Minnesota in the transportation safety slow lane

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/11469

by Conrad deFiebre, Minnesota 2020

In a sad reflection of the U.S. misadventure in Iraq, Minnesota
leaders for decades have sacrificed enormous amounts of blood and
treasure in the name of some ineffable idea of "freedom."

NEW IN BLOGS

Shocking statistics about Minnesota college/university graduation rates

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/11555

by Joe Nathan, School Talk

A recent, little-noticed report provides some stunning, even shocking
information about Minnesota's colleges and universities.  While a
great deal of attention rightly has focused on our K-12 system,
"Minnesota Measures: 2008 Report on Higher Education Performance," by
the Minnesota Office of Higher Education shows that improvements also
are needed urgently  in higher education.