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Jason Yang's death after a police chase on November 13 leaves a grieving family, and increases anger and mistrust of Minneapolis police in the Hmong community. Grief and unanswered questions for family of Jason Yang By Sheila Regan Late on Friday, November 19, Mee Yang finally saw the body of her husband, Jason Yang, who died on November 13 after a police chase from the Epic nightclub in downtown Minneapolis. Yang was allowed to view her husband's body, accompanied by a registered nurse, after obtaining a court order. She was accompanied by Michelle Gross, from Communities United Against Police Brutality who is a registered nurse, but had to stand behind glass to see the body. They were not allowed to bring a photographer. MORE » A Thanksgiving season with consequences The Sunday newspapers were filled with so-called "loss leader" advertisements from food retailers encouraging shoppers to stock up for Thanksgiving feasts. While practically giving away turkeys and other staples of feast meals, retailers are counting on shoppers stuffing carts with other items not on sale or increasing in price. MORE » MOVIES | Home movie: Mark Wojahn's "Trampoline" is a raw portrait of a Twin Cities familyIn Mark Wojahn's new documentary Trampoline, which screened Wednesday at the Heights Theatre, husband (and stepfather of four) Nathaniel muses to the camera that maybe the world is divided into two types of people: those who have teenagers, and those who don't.MORE » Minneapolis property tax increases outrage residentsDeborah Gorman was shocked when she got her property tax assessment from Minneapolis and Hennepin County. MORE » Emmer wants recount rules changed The Republican Party of Minnesota and Tom Emmer's gubernatorial campaign want changes made to the recount rules ahead of the State Canvassing Board meeting on Tuesday. Specifically, Emmer wants Rule 8 changed to make inspection of challenged ballots the job of the five-member canvassing board and not the 87 county auditors. The move, which could cost more time in the recount process, comes after the Emmer campaign filed a petition with the Minnesota Supreme Court to look for "phantom votes" in all 87 counties. Dayton called Emmer's moves "desperate" in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio on Thursday. MORE » Inside the Daily Planet, 11/22/10THEATER | Theatre in the Round's Born Yesterday is a good alternative to holiday fare by Kate Gallagher, TC Daily Planet • Harry Brock's "got a preposition for you." Just don't try to tell him he may not mean what he says or you'll swiftly be bullied into rewriting grammar rules to suit him. It's this and other brief lines and small gestures that endeared Theatre in the Round's staging of Born Yesterday to me. Community engagement in metro transitway projects: Hearing it, not seeing it by Jessie Lieb, TC Daily Planet • On November 17, the Community Engagement Team for a new $5 million HUD grant (see sidebar) held an information session about the grant for the community that was less than informative. MUSIC | KT Tunstall plays a solid show to a chatty crowd at Epic by Kate Gallagher, TC Daily Planet • As we waited for opening act Hurricane Bells to begin Thursday night at Epic, the ads for upcoming concerts by Far East Movement, DJ Pauly D, and the Wu-Fest Tour cycled on the video screens-artists who are from a different musical planet than Scottish headliner KT Tunstall. As the concert got underway, however, it was the crowd that seemed like it was on a different planet, offering mostly lukewarm cheers and muted applause for KT Tunstall's mixed breed of pop, folk, and rock music. Exchange student says Pakistan and America share morals by Falak Sher Marri, 16, of Avalon School, ThreeSixty • Before arriving in this country, I was curious about Americans. I often wondered about their lifestyle and culture. As an exchange student, my task is to answer the questions I had before coming here. NEW IN BLOGS DOWNSTREAM | The Woman From Beijing by Emilio DeGrazia • It probably doesn't matter that I've forgotten her name. She was on loan from a university in Beijing, a soft-spoken woman who had left a young child behind in order to take learning wherever in the world it was going. She had experiences unimaginable to me, was old enough to have survived the Cultural Revolution, had read widely and thoughtfully. 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. SIDEWALK DOG | Local Lit: Dogs and the authors who love them by Meredeth Barzen • There are dog people (it's safe to say Sidewalk Dog's entire readership falls under this category, no?), and then there are people who eat, sleep and breathe dogs. Linda and Allen Anderson are two of the latter category's best representatives. This Minnesota couple founded the Angel Animals Network, an online forum for stories about how pets are making our lives better one tail wag at a time. LOON COMMONS | Cud-chewing contrarians by Brian DeVore • Did cattle evolve to eat grass, or is all that talk about rumens, abomasums and cuds just a bunch of baseless, elitist, tree-hugger new-age propaganda? Don't ask that question at Iowa State University, where corn is not only King, it's Master of the Universe.
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21 Kasım 2010 Pazar
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