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From dark BBC ads to Minnesota deficit news. Hundreds gather to reclaim Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis By Lisa Peterson-de la Cueva, TC Daily Planet It was frigid and slippery, but that didn't stop more than 300 people from showing up at "Peace in Powderhorn: a vigil to reclaim the park."MORE » Mark Dayton leads Tom Emmer by around 9,000 votes By Andy Birkey, Minnesota Independent On the third day of the Minnesota gubernatorial recount, DFLer Mark Dayton's campaign said it may have eclipsed the 9,000 vote mark in his lead over Republican Tom Emmer. Also on Wednesday, Emmer's team increased the number of frivolous ballot challenges to 2,141, far exceeding Dayton's 39, according to numbers released by the Dayton campaign.MORE » 2010 British Television Advertising Awards to make a somber impression at the Walker Art Center By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet If the advertising firms of the United Kingdom have done their jobs well this year, after the Walker Art Center's sold-out run of screenings of winners of the 2010 British Television Advertising Awards, there will be several thousand Minnesotans slightly less likely to do cocaine, drive after doing cocaine, smoke cigarettes, get into an unmarked cab, tolerate being the victims of domestic violence, drive over the speed limit, take an airline flight, carry a knife, or drink and drive—though slightly more likely to drink in general, though slightly less likely to drink to drunkenness. If you notice a lot of mildly buzzed people riding the bus...oh, wait, we have that already.MORE » Walker Art Center Forecast: Minnesota budget deficit grow to $6.2 billion By Nick Busse, Session Weekly/Session Daily Minnesota's projected biennial budget deficit swelled to nearly $6.2 billion in the latest economic forecast, state budget officials announced.MORE » Minnesota State Capitol OPINION | My husband's a teacher, and I'm darn proud By Ann Long Voelkner, Minnesota 2020 My husband is a Teacher. He has been a teacher for 21 years. He has earned a Bachelors of Science in both Forestry and Education; and a Masters in Science Education. He has worked as a Forester until returning to school to pursue his life's work as a teacher of young people. He believes in the future and educated children are the future.MORE » Inside the Daily Planet, 12/2/2010 MUSIC | Jenny O.: "I don't think it's very healthy to draw from the present all the time" by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet • Recently I spent a couple of days listening to the (digital) pile of new music sent to the Daily Planet by artists hoping for some coverage. Most of it wafted by in an undifferentiated sea of indie-rock angst and overpolished pop, but Jenny O.'s EP Home caught my ears and kept them. MUSIC | David Hanners: "I'll never use Auto-Tune, no matter what the critic in Duluth says" by Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet • There is a long line of those who'd kill to stand in St. Paul singer-songwriter David Hanners's shoes. On top of a successful music career, Hanners owns a Pulitzer Prize for journalism. He followed his acclaimed recording debut, Nothingtown, with last year's highly touted The Traveler's Burden and is now back promoting the disc. Consumer's role in sustainability by Tom Niemisto, Minnesota 2020 • The 2010 Made in Minnesota Report highlights local retailers and manufacturers that are embracing sustainability as a business model.  Upfront costs can be higher but in the long term, sustainability means efficiency.  But sustainability is a two-way process.  It is also up to consumers to insist upon sustainable goods and services.  Choosing recycled or reclaimed materials, eco-friendly cleaning products, items with limited packaging can help support a market for environmentally conscious producers. NEW IN BLOGS FRONT ROW SEAT | Best tweets of November by Jay Gabler • A very subjective selection. ARTS ORBIT | Budrus: An inspirational documentary about Israel and Palestine by Dorothy Scholtz • If you think that Israelis and Palestinians—sometimes referred to as "the most divided people on earth"—will never resolve their differences, you need to see the inspirational documentary Budrus.MORE » HINDSIGHT 2020 | Zellers and more of the same by John Van Hecke • Like Minnesota State House of Representatives Speaker-in-Waiting Kurt Zellers, I, too, grew up on a farm. That experience deeply informs and guides my life. And, according to a St Paul Pioneer Press profile story, Zeller's farm upbringing does the same for him. But that's where the similarities end. EYETEETH | Minneapolis gun-ban signs by Paul Schmelzer • Minnesota's 2007 "concealed-carry" law allows permit-holding gun owners to carry an unlimited number of handguns on their person in public except for certain cases and when businesses specifically post their policy banning guns on site. SCHOOL TALK | Great new book & presentation impresses local district & charter public school educators by Joe Nathan • Teach Like a Champion (Jossey Boss) is not about educational theory.  It's about how teachers can maintain a well disciplined, positive classroom through specific praise of students who are doing what the teacher wants, and quiet, non-disruptive actions for students are not behaving.  It's about not just setting theoretical expectations that "all students will succeed," but about developing teacher skills so that this does happen.
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