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THURSDAY, MAY 5
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LIFT-ing the Black employment
rate<%20http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/47471><http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/47471>by
Charles
Hallman <http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/profiles/charles-hallman> Minnesota
Spokesman-Recorder<http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/partners/minnesota-spokesman-recorder>
A group of concerned citizens say its time to stop talking and start
doing something about the existing high unemployment rate among Blacks
locally. Leading Individuals and Families Together to End Poverty (LIFT),
which began in 2005, is a group of community inspired individuals in St.
Paul that regularly meet and hold classes on how to advocate for themselves
and the community.
NEWS DAY | NRP battle moves to St. Paul <goog_833489094> <goog_833489094> by
Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet After months of
controversy<http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2011/01/26/fighting-city-hall-neighborhood-revitalization-program-versus-city-minneapolis>over
the move
by Minneapolis city government to take previously-allocated Neighborhood
Revitalization Program (NRP)
funds<http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2010/12/16/minneapolis-taxes-budget-and-nrp-decisions>,
the battle has moved to the legislature. Minneapolis representatives
(Phyllis Kahn, Diane Loeffler, Karen Clark, Jeff Hayden, Joe Mullery) and
senators (Ken Kelash, Linda Berglin, Patricia Torres-Ray, Warren Limmer,
Linda Higgins) sponsored a bill that would preserve funding through an
orderly transition period.
Sibley Bike Depot advocacy in the form of a bike
shop!<http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/47332>by Demae DeRocher and
Bill Sorem, The
Uptake <http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/partners/uptake> Sibley Bike
Depot<http://www.sibleybikedepot.org/>doesnt just encourage you to
ride a bicycle as your means of transportation
they make sure you have one! And, if you have one, they make sure you know
how to maintain and repair it. And, if you know how to repair it, they make
sure you can get the parts for it.
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THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST | Talking with Brady Kiernan, director of Stuck
Between Stations
<http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/47366>
Jim Brunzell III When
all is said and done, the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
will have had 357 screenings of 200+ films over the course of 22 days, with
the annual Best of Fest series starting this Friday. It all leads up to
the locally produced closing night feature, Stuck Between Stations. Only a
few weeks ago, Stuck Between Stations had its world premiere screening at
the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and sold out all of its five
screenings. Originally there were four planned, but a fifth was added due to
overwhelming popular demand. The MSPIFF screening has roughly 100 tickets
remaining, but a third show could pop up, probably due to popular demand by
locals.