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Dec 03 01:36 UTC
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3, 2008
Northfield: a small town with big ideas on citizen journalism
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/16296
by Mackenzie Zimmer, Special to the TC Daily Planet
On any given day at the Goodbye Blue Monday coffee shop in downtown
Northfield, you will see several people scanning their computers
instead of perusing a newspaper, as they nurse their morning coffees.
Paid sick days: help in a tough economy
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/16295
by Patricia Tanji, Minnesota 2020
It's no secret that times are tough for working families right now.
Family budgets are dangerously tight even though parents are working
more hours than ever. And while they're working hard just to hold onto
their jobs, family responsibilities still await them when they get
home at the end of the day.
Improving math numbers
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/16348
by Staff, Session Daily
Plans to address mathematically challenged Minnesota students could be
offered early in 2009. A six-member, bipartisan task force is expected
to meet later this month to look at ways to improve the unimpressive
test score numbers. A report of change ideas is likely to be shared
next month.
VOICES | Civil rights for all - or just some?
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/16309
by Ka Vang, Minnesota Women's Press
Tears of joy streamed down my cheeks on election night when I heard
Katie Couric call Barack Obama our next president. When I was a little
girl growing up in St. Paul's Frogtown neighborhood, I never dreamt a
man of color would be the leader of the free world. I felt that our
nation was voting for hope, love and change.
INSIDE THE DAILY PLANET
Todo sobre mi bicicleta
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/16363
by James Sanna and Cass Sanford, TC Daily Planet
This summer, it seemed like everyone was riding a bike. Whether
people were commuting, running errands, or just cruising on a sunny
day, Minneapolitans and St Paulites were putting the fun between their
legs and going for a ride. It felt like The Twin Cities, Land of the
Bicycle, where Thor cruises on his Schwinn World Tour.
THEATER | Soap opera star returns home to Osseo to pull off a Christmas Miracle
URL: http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/16357
by Jean Gabler, TC Daily Planet
Yellow Tree Theatre is a professional theater created in a space
vacated by an Osseo furniture store. Two months ago, with rehearsals
set to begin, they suddenly lost the rights to their holiday show:
Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol. Three weeks later, playwright Jessica
Lind, a co-founder of the company, had written Miracle on Christmas
Lake and they were back in business.
BOOKS | Growing Up White
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/16303
by Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet
In her newest book, Julie Landsman looks unflinchingly at her life,
from childhood through college, marriage, teaching and retirement. She
recounts early experiences of race and racism, growing up in
Connecticut, Massachusetts and, for a few years, in Texas. In college
during the sixties, she began to engage issues of race -- and gender
and class. Activism "lit a fire under me," she writes, and it is clear
that the fire continues to burn.
Camouflage
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/16247
by Unknown Talent Films, PCTV
A short narrative film about a high school student who is considering
joining the military and how the people around him react to his
decision. Made by teens in the summer 2008 AVID!
NEW IN BLOGS
FRONT ROW SEAT | Little Joey Peterson may be only 10, but let me tell
you: his acting stinks.
URL: http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/16335
by Jay Gabler • We wouldn't actually call out a little angel (or
shepherd, or sheep) for forgetting his lines, would we? Of course we
wouldn't…but when does a young actor cross that line and ask to have
his or her work taken seriously? Tatum O'Neal won an Oscar for her
performance in Paper Moon when she was only 10. Should she not have
been nominated, to have spared her the risk of being disappointed at
losing?
FRESH.MN | Free Winter Bicycling Classes in December
URL: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/16255
by Erica Mauter
When I started riding my bike to work this summer, I had big ideas of
continuing it into the winter. At least up until it snowed.
ARTS ORBIT | 150 best Minnesota books #34 and #35: Professional (i.e.
successful) explorers
URL: http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/16353
by Patrick Coleman • Well, I got my wrist slapped for snottily
suggesting that Pike was not the gold standard for either an explorer
or a diplomat. To avoid sounding critical of iconic Minnesota figures
I'm sticking to the undisputed success stories with the next two
nominations for Minnesota's 150 best books.