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The holiday season is here, with 75,000 poinsettias at Bachman's and the Hmong New Year's celebration of harvest, romance and food!NE Minneapolis up in arms over hazardous waste facility plans Whether it's called an "environmental facility" or hazardous waste "dump," the Hennepin County Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Center (HHDC) planned for Northeast Minneapolis has created a growing rift between those who want it there and those who don't. MORE » What 75,000 poinsettias look like: Bachman's stocks up for the holidays Not to brag, but if you happen to see a poinsettia anywhere in the Twin Cities this holiday season, chances are I've seen it already. On Monday morning I visited the giant Farmington greenhouse where Bachman's was preparing its entire 2010 stock of poinsettias to be shipped out. In total, the collection represents 32 varieties and numbers over 75,000 individual plants—that would be enough to give one to every child in the city of Minneapolis. CEO Dale Bachman was on hand to take a last look at this year's crop.MORE » The freshman legislator's dilemma: Local government aid Freshman legislators have the unenviable task of learning the ropes at the State Capitol during a session when they will be confronting a massive $6.8 billion budget deficit. Many pressing budget decisions confront them, including city Local Government Aid (LGA) funding. MORE » Hmong New Year: A celebration of harvest, romance and food!The only major holiday celebrated by the Hmong each year is the New Year's celebration timed to fall during the full moon at the end of the twelfth lunar calendar month usually around November. In Laos it falls after the rice harvest and also marks the beginning of the lunar New Year. MORE » Meet David Barton, Bachmann's constitution class teacherRep. Michele Bachmann announced last month that she wants to hold "Constitution classes" for new members of Congress in the hopes of preventing them from being "co-opted into the Washington system." She's already announced several people she wants to teach the classes, including David Barton, a controversial figure whose ideas about the Constitution and the founding fathers have drawn sharp criticism from both the religious and secular communities. MORE » Inside the Daily Planet, 11/23/10DANCE | Zenon Dance Company falls into fall by Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet • There's nothing more riveting than watching someone almost fall onstage. It's the ultimate gesture of risk-taking: a chicken fight that the performer has with him- or herself, a moment of reckless abandon, of complete vulnerability, followed by the landing, and a sigh of relief. And the people that do almost falling the best are the dancers at Zenon Dance Company. MUSIC | Free Energy cause the 400 Bar to collapse around them (almost) by Leslie Kruempel, TC Daily Planet • It always seems like a slight miracle when a band puts on a fantastic show at the 400 Bar and the ground doesn't cave in. The venue is small enough for you to be among a closely-knit audience, but big enough to pack in a sufficient number of stomping legs to make the floor feel like it's bouncing up and down three inches below your feet. During Thursday night's Free Energy show, the legs and fists were pounding as enthusiastically as I've ever seen them: this is a band who knows how to energize their audience. A head start in St. Paul: Model Cities' Central Corridor development plan by Jessie Lieb, TC Daily Planet • As planning begins along the Central Corridor, Model Cities wants to get a head start. Their latest project, which is in the first developing stages, is a mixed-use project that will include affordable housing along Central Corridor on University Avenue. According to the CEO of Model Cities Dr. Beverley Hawkins, they are looking at addresses 773-785 on University Avenue between Lexington Avenue and Dale Street, which are currently vacant. So far they have site control of two of these sites, 773 and 785, which they have acquired through their own funds. THEATER | Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells at Stages Theatre Company: "Wow!" by Tammy Rose, TC Daily Planet • Be a giver? Or just be shellfish That is the dilemma that Junie B. Jones has to face in Stages Theatre Company's delightful production Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, adapted from the popular series of children's books by Barbara Park. NEW IN BLOGS CABBAGES AND KINGS | Remembering the Neighborhood Youth Corps: Minneapolis, 1967 by Larry Maghrak • I was a participant in the Neighborhood Youth Corps in Minneapolis in 1967. I qualified for this program because I came from a family of 13 children and my dad only worked one job; Lord knows he had plenty to fix and do at home. OPEN ARMS MINNESOTA | Kelly: SNAP -- or snap! by Kelly McManus • I've been wondering about the intent behind the new food stamps acronym, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). When they renamed it, were they trying to imply, "Lucky you, getting assistance and buying food will be a snap!" Or were they implying, "Snap! We know this sucks, but do your best." I'm thinking it's the latter. MINNESOTA BUDGET BITES | Congress needs to continue added weeks of unemployment insurance until economy recovers by Scott Russell and Steve Francisco • The Lame Duck Congress needs to get to work for those who can't find work, passing a year-long extension of federal unemployment insurance benefits. It's a critical support for families on the financial edge, and it's a critical support to the economic recovery. BLOG OF THE MODERATE LEFT | Anti-choice trolling fail by Jeff Fecke • So let's say that I was a part of a couple, and one of us was pregnant. And let's say we were ambivalent about having a child for one reason or another. Let's say we were, as a couple, mulling over aborting the pregnancy. FLYOVER LAND | Sha Sha Resort by Amy Rea • This one requires a little backstory, but stay with me, because on this gray November day (which is fine by me, but I've seen lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth over on the Twitters about the weather), you might enjoy the sunny scenery to come.
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22 Kasım 2010 Pazartesi
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