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| Cheryl Luger, TCDP reader since Day One and community volunteer, says: "Bringing together the best in independent local media and reporters is only one reason TCDP is 'required' reading in a sea (or swamp) of information." Support the Daily Planet by contributing to our annual fund drive! Sweeping changes, some closures ahead for St. Paul parks and recreation centers A draft of the St. Paul Parks and Recreation System Plan, proposing sweeping changes to parks, buildings, and other recreational facilities across the city, sparked discussion at the first of five public meetings, held November 3 at the Hillcrest Recreation Center. The proposed closing of the Duluth and Case Recreation Center, located at 1020 Duluth St. in East St. Paul, and added dog parks were attendees' main concerns. MORE » Want to feed the poor in Minneapolis? Not without a permit! The Hospitality Train has been derailed again, this time by the Minneapolis Department of Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED.) Last month, TC Daily Planet's Amanda Noventa wrote about the project of Missio Dei, a group that for the past two years has hosted meals on Saturdays at a West Bank vacant lot. Local businesses and City Councilmember Cam Gordon voiced support for the group's soup and socializing mission. MORE » Storm the boards! Applications nearly due for compensated citizen slots on panels and agenciesDozens of positions on many government panels and committees are open today – but of course this isn't widely publicized. Some panels pay salaries, others daily expenses or nothing at all.MORE » Kline to push for controversial religious school vouchers Republican Rep. John Kline is likely to chair the powerful House Education and Labor Committee in the new Congress and already he's drawing fire from both sides of the aisle. Kline caught praise from religious conservatives when he expressed his support for educational vouchers for Washington, DC, parents that will allow them to spend taxpayer money on religious schooling. But he also has drawn the ire of fiscal conservatives by saying he doesn't intend to push for the elimination of the Department of Education. MORE » THEATER | "Cowboy Versus Samurai" by Mu Performing Arts at the Guthrie Theater: Tofu con queso Is it just that I was a kid excited to be putting my homework off, or were 80s sitcoms like The Cosby Show, Family Ties, and Roseanne actually good shows, sometimes handling serious themes with substance and gravity despite the presence of goofy supporting characters like Skippy the neighbor and little Rudy's misogynist boyfriend Bud? The question is relevant to this review because if the answer is yes, it means that there might have been a way for Mu Performing Arts' Cowboy Versus Samurai to succeed.MORE » Inside the Daily Planet, 11/15/10Getting planning on track: Twin Cities organizing around $5 million HUD transit corridor grant by Jessie Lieb, TC Daily Planet • As planning for development along the five major corridors begins, community members hope to have a say in the process. On October 14, HUD awarded the Metropolitan Council a $5 million grant, which is part of a nationwide $100 million HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant to create sustainable communities by integrating affordable housing, the environment, and transportation. Lounge Act: New business at Calhoun Square by Bruce Cochran, Uptown Neighborhood News • Good friends Dan Vargas and Terry Terwedo haven't slowed down much. Vargas has owned and operated Vstate Clothing in Calhoun Square for about four years and Terwedo is currently co-owner of Atmosfere, a clothing store across the intersection from Calhoun Square. But between 2001 and 2008 these two created club parties on the order of about one a month acting as primary promoters. They still throw their annual New Year's party they claim is the best in the city and they've just brought their promotional talents to Suburban World Theater for a Halloween blowout. They don't produce quite as many parties now but Vargas is still noticeably restless about doing more in the nightlife genre. Doorway to the world by Norma Smith Olson, Minnesota Women's Press • When an image in her artwork makes a healing connection for someone, then Jodi Reeb-Myers knows she has done her work. "I think that is the most fulfilling thing I could have ever hoped for," she said. NEW IN BLOGS ARTS ORBIT | You sure this is how Richie Havens got famous? Part V: The lull by Dwight Hobbes • Done basking in the glow of having got back to gigging. And am reasonably assured that there's no expiration date on having chops. Recalling what Jackson Browne sang, "It ain't bad work if you can get it, but you gotta make it stick." BLUESTEM PRAIRIE | Greater Minnesota newspaper opinion on the recount: fast and nonpartisan by Sally Jo Sorensen • What are Greater Minnesota newspapers saying about the recount process? Fairly consistently, editors insist that the process work as smoothly and swfitly as possible with as little partisan bickering as possible. FLYOVER LAND | Turtle River Pasties by Amy Rea • Recently I talked about a bar and grill in the small town where I grew up. Just a few miles away is another little town called Turtle River, and in Turtle River there is Turtle River Pasties. NEWS DAY | Storytelling in the snow by Mary Turck • Last year's TC Media Alliance forum had low attendance because of sun—such nice weather that people stayed home to enjoy it. This year the problem was snow, falling quietly but persistently, slushing up the roads, skidding cars, making it easy to say, "I think I'll stay home today."
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