Sunshine on Friday! And if that's not enough reason to get out of the house, take a look at the Minneapolis & St. Paul Home Tour and the many offerings in the St. Paul Art Crawl. When visitors come to North Minneapolis this weekend to see the six homes on the Minneapolis & Saint Paul Home Tour, they'll also see 25 for-sale homes bedecked with balloon bouquets, promoting new financing incentives to jump-start the spring market.MORE »  Here's a sample of the stories that I wish I had time to cover, from goats to infant mortality to the St. Paul Art Crawl. Goats come first, under the heading of "wish I had written that story." Madeleine Baran covered the Minneapolis City Council decision to bar goats from inside the city limits, and the eloquent (albeit completely wrong-headed) statement by council member Meg Tuthill:
"I do not want hoofed animals next door to me," said Council member Meg Tuthill. "I'm fine with bees, and I'm fine with chickens, but I spent enough time on farms as a kid picking cucumbers for pickle factories, cleaning barns, slopping the pigs, the whole shooting match. I've chosen not to have that lifestyle. And for those of you that are unfamiliar with that lifestyle, when the wind blows the right way, it can be very fragrant in our homes."MORE »
By Riordan Frost, Minnesota 2020 Suburbs aren't emptying at any rapid pace, but their growth in Minnesota has significantly slowed. While the latest suburban counties' census maps indicate major increases, this was mainly due to rapid growth in the past decade's early years. Population growth slowed significantly in the later years.MORE » On March 9, Governor Mark Dayton swore in 15 new Metropolitan Council members. The council, a regional planning committee, works with the community to provide a framework for the region's bus, water and park systems as well as providing public planning, forecasting population growth, and ensuring affordable housing.MORE » Federal funds for the Central Corridor are assured and may be slow in arriving, but nobody's standing around waiting.MORE » By Mordecai Specktor, American Jewish World Works of art can pose moral questions in unique ways. In the case of the Holocaust, vexing moral issues continue to provoke us more than 65 years after the liberation of the death camps. A stylishly made documentary, Strictly Confidential, which is screening as part of the MORE » Inside the Daily Planet, 4/29/11 Labor of love for St. Paul doctor by Jennifer Thaney, Minnesota Women's Press • When Carolyn Johnson Wesenberg was 7 years old, her father, a surgeon, gave her some homework. She was quarantined for three weeks because she had chicken pox, and he asked her to practice tying suture knots. "He told me that he wanted me to work with him someday," she recalled.
THEATER | Further Fidgety Fairy Tales, a "mental health musical," comes to the Basilica by Jose Munoz, TC Daily Planet • "What we're trying to do…is present this idea that the best way for people to live is to be in community with each other, and to care about each other and to accept each other," composer and lyricist Marya Hart, 53, said when talking about her latest children's musical, "Further Fidgety Fairy Tales."
MUSIC | The Pixies at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium: Good as new by Stacy Schwartz, TC Daily Planet • Just before the closer "Gigantic," Kim Deal instructed us all to "Watch. We learned how to bring it down over 20 years. We learned how to bring it down." Bring it down they did, and we went with them head over heels. I walked out whistling into the cool night air satisfied that one of my favorite bands hadn't changed a bit—and I liked it that way.
UJAMAA Place: Transforming lives by Ivan Phifer, Insight News • Ujamaa (pr. oo-jah-Ma-ah), Swahili for familyhood, is a word that encompasses within itself bonds like brotherhood, kinship and extended family. At Iris Place, 1885 University Ave in St Paul, the Ujamaa Place is a program initiated by Executive Director Roy Barker—who appeared on the April 18 broadcast of "Conversations with Al McFarlane" on KFAI 90.3FM.
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OPRIDE | Dire Dawa Restaurant debuts in NE Minneapolis by Oromsis Adula • It's Sunday afternoon and the weather is brisk in Minneapolis. The owner of Dire Dawa Restaurant cleans the backyard where he plans to open a balcony for social outings. He tells me that he is prepping for spring and summer. Inside the restaurant, three men are chatting away, waiting for food and watching Al Jazeera's coverage of the uprising in Libya.
RESTLESS GRAY GIRL | Coming out at 319 Ellis Avenue by Lisa Gray • I spent two years living at 319 Ellis Avenue. It was a crackerbox house situated a mere block from the campus at what was then called Mankato State University. What was best about this place, however, was that it was cheap. Legally, six people could reside there. In practice, the number hovered around nine. I say hovered because it seemed to fluctuate with needs of the inhabitants and their friends.
BLOG OF THE MODERATE LEFT | YA RLY! Conspiracy, racism and the GOP by Jeff Fecke • So today we learned that Barack Obama was, in fact, born in Hawai'i, just like he always said he was. Okay, "we" is kind of misleading. Most of us already knew Obama was born in Hawai'i, because, you know, he released a Certificate of Live Birth back in 2008, and also, because he said he was, and his grandparents said he was, and there was that birth announcement, and he had a passport, and because (and this is the key point) we're not racists who assume that Obama can't be an American because he isn't white.
EVERYDAY PHOTOS | Caption Max by Jennifer Larson • I had the pleasure of hanging around photographing at Caption Max today–a superstar closed captioning company right here in Seward. There are just a handful of companies that do this work in the US–they have an office is California as well, where they do most of their captioning for live shows. Along with closed captioning, they do subtitles, translation, and audio description for blind viewers. Thanks to Max Ducker and all of the friendly folks at Caption Max for welcoming me today.
HINDSIGHT | Ortman's changing tax tune by John Van Hecke • Like its name suggests, the Minnesota Renters' Tax Credit is a property tax credit for renters. It extends, in a limited fashion, property-owning based tax advantages to renters. As a practical matter, the renters' tax credit is property tax relief for low and middle income earners. It's also targeted by conservative policymakers for reduction if not elimination. |
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