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Oct 02 01:57 UTC
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2
TCDP HEADLINES
Minneapolis July home prices down 13 percent over last year
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/14844
by Molly Priesmeyer, Minnesota Independent
On the brink of the greatest Wall Street bailout ever, home prices continue
to decline nationwide, according to the most recent S&P/Case-Shiller Home
Price Index. Data released today reveals that 20-city home-price composite
indices have reached record-level declines of 16.3 percent for the period of
July 2007 to July 2008. In fact, every city was saddled with a year-to-year
decline, with Minneapolis reporting a 13.1 percent price drop.
Minute clinic: moving Minnesota health care policy forward, or two steps
back?
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/14810
by Elizabeth Rich, Minnesota 2020
The story on the website goes something like this. It's cold in Minnesota
during the winter. And when you have a sick child, that cold is your enemy.
A small prescription or pink eye can turn into an ordeal if you end up
digging your way out. Doctor's offices close, and many end up in the
emergency room with sick kids. One Minnesota dad decided that there must be
a better way to deal with the issue. And thus Minute Clinic was born.
A "Pub-lican" at the RNC
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/14854
by Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet
On the fourth night of the RNC, pub owner and self proclaimed "Pub-lican"
Kieran Folliard found himself with a ticket to the RNC, and with a little
Irish charm and wit snuck his way into the private party rooms of the
convention. He was the Irish Trojan Horse of the Convention.
RNC week business slow, yet prospects bright
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/14809
by Al McFarlane and B.P. Ford, Insight News
The Republican National Convention experience is getting mixed reviews from
businesses who reported their fortunes, or lack thereof, to a Saint Paul
Area Chamber of Commerce "listening session" which was held in partnership
with the St. Paul Mayor's Office.
Como Park changes get neighbors' attention
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/14814
by Anne Holzman, The Park Bugle
After years of meetings, both formal and informal, neighbors living around
Como Park have found focus for concerns about traffic, noise and other
conditions that arise from having a regional park in one's back yard.
VOICES | McJustice
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/14853
by Senator John Marty, Apple Pie Alliance
Even young schoolchildren learn about the need for fair and impartial courts
to protect our rights, resolve disputes, and keep dangerous people off the
streets. Democracy, we learn, depends on it.
INSIDE THE DAILY PLANET
Views and Reviews
Theater note: A tedious "Life in the Theatre"
URL: http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/14839
by Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet
The Jungle Theater is the Twin Cities' lone professional,
Off-Broadway-caliber venue devoted to white theater. The company produces
white playwrights, works with white directors, and, with rare exceptions,
employs white actors. Which is fair, since places like Mixed Blood Theatre,
Penumbra Theatre Company, and Pillsbury House Theater make it their mission
to hire professionals of color. After all, white is a color too, and
Caucasian folks are entitled to have an intimate, quality house in which to
see their culture and sensibilities reflected.
VOICES | First Ave's lesson well-learned
URL: http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/14691
by Almostred, Rift Magazine
There used to be a homeless shelter across the street, before the bus depot
moved a third time. On cold nights it would fill up fast, leaving a hobo
convention milling around outside the club. They would hit people up for
change, run ticket rip-offs on teenagers and just generally act annoying. A
favorite game of the skinheads was to verbally goad a bum to the front doors
of the club, where they would be pulled indoors under some pretense of
illegal activity. Once inside, they were cuffed with cable ties, then
dragged to the employee bathroom and beaten.
Xerox, Scotch tape, rubber glue, and Letraset
URL: http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/14749
by Andy Sturdevant, mnartists.org
Flyers for art shows are traditionally afterthoughts; the artist's name, the
date of the show and the gallery, and an image from the show to pique the
interest of the viewer. The purpose of such pieces are surprisingly
practical and straightforward: it's simply a way of saying "here is what
this artist's art looks like, so come see the show at this date and time if
you like this image." Now, doesn't it seem unbelievable that fine art, a
field that rewards visual innovation, beauty and craftsmanship, should not
have developed an incredible subculture of imaginative artists and designers
whose primary interest is creating visual materials promoting exciting
alternative arts spaces and risk-taking galleries?
NEW IN BLOGS
ARTS ORBIT | A million teddy bears find a million buttons
URL: http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/14835
by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet
As part of a national effort organized by the Boston-based early education
organization Jumpstart, the Guthrie Theater has invited local children and
their minders to stop by tomorrow morning to be regaled with one of many
readings of Don Freeman's Corduroy. Jumpstart, it seems, is attempting to
set a record for the world's largest "shared reading experience."
GOING GREEN | Midwest energy news: Minnesota to cut mercury emissions
URL: http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/14855
by RE-AMP RoundUp
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has announced the state's largest
polluters have agreed to cut their mercury emissions, according to Minnesota
Public Radio. Since only ten percent of the states' mercury comes from local
sources, officials say they will pursue international efforts. This and
other environmental news from the upper Midwest.
FROM THE SOAPBOX | Obama and the Art of Argument
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/14802
by David Doody
In conceding that John McCain was correct on some issues in the first
presidential debate, Barack Obama showed he takes those issues seriously
enough to see them from all sides.
ARTS ORBIT | Rift 36 Hour Songwriting Contest #6
URL: http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/14822
by Greg Swan, Perfect Porridge
The songwriters will get a topic, they will have 36 hours to write a song,
they get to perform it in front of a live audience who will ultimately
decide who gets a large and flamboyant trophy.