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From Minnesotans breakfasting at Perkins to democracy protesters in Cairo, people are talking about Wisconsin, unions, legislators, and demonstrations. With workers' statements, pizza video and more, our coverage starts here.Will parking problems derail business along the Central Corridor? By Sharon Rolenc Parking and access to businesses along the Central Corridor was the prevailing concern voiced at two open house style town hall meetings on Thursday, February 17. The meetings were hosted by the Federal Transit Administration and the Metropolitan Council to gather feedback about the potential loss of business income during Central Corridor Light Rail Transit (LRT) construction. MORE » The whole world is watching ... Wisconsin! From the credit union line to breakfast at Perkins on Saturday, conversations buzzed with talk of Wisconsin, unions, legislators, and demonstrations. Minnesota's Capitol will see a demonstration in solidarity with Wisconsin public workers Tuesday, organized by Minnesota labor unions.MORE » Immigrants get unique civics lesson at today's 'Girls Rock! The Capitol' event By Cynthia Boyd To a young Ethiopian-American woman I met not long ago, American politics isn't quite working.MORE » How young is too young?.jpg) As she had done so many times before, Lynn Johnson dropped off her daughter at day care on June 16, 2006. STYLE | University of Minnesota fashion design students showcase their work with "Distortion" On February 19, University of Minnesota fashion design students displayed their best work in the atrium of Rapson Hall. The fashion show is an annual event; the theme of this year's show was "Distortion."MORE » Inside the Daily Planet, 02/22/11Snowiest winter since ??? by Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet • YouTube user Gallina 11 uploaded this video during December's Snowmageddon, but it's good enough to watch again as we dig out from the latest record-breaking snowfall. (Which records? Paul Douglas is still counting: MUSIC | Tennis at the 7th Street Entry: 20-something love by Sarah Heuer, TC Daily Planet • When Tennis took the stage on Saturday night at the 7th Street Entry, their demeanor was precisely what one would expect from listening to their debut album, Cape Dory. Demure, stoic, almost sheepish; the band slinked on stage with their heads down and their gazes averted towards the floor. Without a word, they jumped right into their 13-song set, the opening track "Seafarer" instantly transporting us to a place where you could nearly feel sea spray on your skin and young love in your heart. Cuts force a SECIA move by Evelina Smirnitskaya, The Minnesota Daily • For more than seven years the small building with green awnings on the corner of 15th and Rollins Avenues Southeast has been a symbol of a strong community presence in an eclectic neighborhood. MUSIC | Party for Life Session 2 to benefit ailing singer-songwriter Michael McElrath by Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet • There's folk on the Twin Cities independent music scene who truly care about each other. You saw it with Party For Life when friends of Jazzy J flocked to BarFly in the summer, rallying to throw a benefit for the cancer-stricken owner of Twin Cities Radio. Artists from all walks-singer-songwriters, poets, strippers, fashion designers, models, you name it-pitched in to constitute a bill that pulled in enough cash to considerably help with Jazzy J's treatment. NEW IN BLOGS FRONT ROW SEAT | Walking Shadow Theatre Company's Drakul fails to catch John Heimbuch's Transdimensional spark by Jay Gabler • On Sunday afternoon I caught Drakul, the new production by Walking Shadow Theatre Company. (Rebecca Collins previously reviewed Drakul in the Daily Planet.) Well, actually, the term "caught" is a little too breezy. Written and directed by John Heimbuch, Drakul is a three-hour epic based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. BLUESTEM PRAIRIE | Well sod me sideways: observations on Minnesota's dormant Tea Party grassroots by Sally Jo Sorensen • Admittedly, the national Tea Party-related groups, Tea Party Express, Freedomworks, and Tea Party Patriots, seem to be staging high profile media events. However, Minnesota's tea party groups look to be hibernating just as grassroots energy begins to infuse the American left. CRAZY BOY FARM | The center of hospitality by Amy Doeun • Traditionally the home was the center of industry and productivity. When you think about it so much of our culture developed in the home. I am a total home body so I really dig the home centered lifestyle. Just to give you an idea Valentine's day was celebrated at home with homemade eggrolls, sparkling Lingon berry juice and movies. DRINK.CHAT.POLICY | Something to Chew On: BTW, what is Medicaid, and how do we stop if from costing an arm and a leg? by Justin Elston • As many, many people have mentioned before, our Federal Government is running a deficit; i.e., it's borrowing some money on an ongoing basis to pay the bills, as the revenue coming in from taxes isn't enough to cover everything. Both the Obama Administration and now the Republican-controlled House of Representatives have put forth budgets to address the nation's fiscal picture. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they don't like each others plans. However, both are being ridiculed for focusing on the very small part of the budget that is labeled "discretionary", rather than looking at the much bigger "entitlement" portion of the budget. EYETEETH | Day of Remembrance: Dorothea Lange's Japanese internment photos by Paul Schmelzer • Sixty-nine years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the executive order that led to the internment of Japanese Americans, forced migrations -- later referred to by Congress as "fundamental violations of the basic civil liberties and constitutional rights of these individuals" -- commemorated through today's Day of Remembrance. Photographer Dorothea Lange documented the forced evacuation of Japanese (and other Asian) Americans to camps; eventually, around 120,000 people were detained for the duration of World War II. Of those, 62 percent were American citizens. (A far smaller number of Germans and Italians were affected by the order as well.)
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