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Door-to-door foreclosure outreach
Teams of volunteers hit the streets of North Minneapolis Monday evening, knocking on doors to offer help in avoiding the nightmare of foreclosure. The Northside Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) and several partners and allies began working on their plan months ago. The first step was identifying at-risk homes. Volunteers spent several months combing through mortgage records to identify homes with adjustable rate mortgages. Now they were ready to contact those homeowners directly, offering help in dealing with banks and lenders as their mortgage payments were about to re-set. MORE »
Blowing smoke: Is there a movement to recall Dave Thune?
St. Paul City Council member Dave Thune has long provoked passionate responses from both his admirers and detractors. He drew the ire of bar owners by championing a smoking ban (despite his own long-standing nicotine jones) and initially opposed expanding liquor-license hours during the Republican National Convention for fear of puking GOP lobbyists. Thune further annoyed some residents by participating in protests during the RNC. MORE »
Indian princess in Duluth?
Early this fall, the Indian Scout and I fell into a conversation about the City of Duluth-owned stained glass window that the Duluth mayor wanted to sell to ease the budget deficit. A Duluth artist created the 115-year-old window called “Minnehaha” that shows an Indian woman.
The window and its cash value had been the object of a flurry of newspaper and television stories that described the window Indian as a “princess.” After much hand-wringing, Duluth city officials decided against selling the window. MORE »
The miracle on easy street: Top tier accepted tax message
by Dane Smith, Growth & Justice • Another big projected state budget shortfall will soon be revealed to us.
Local news round-up—December 3
The Daily Planet can’t cover all the neighborhood news in the Twin Cities, but we keep on trying to get more of those stories. Here’s a sampling of stories we have recently published:
From North End in St. Paul: ACORN organizes new chapter in Saint Paul’s North End by Mary Thoemke in the TC Daily Planet
From Como Park in St. Paul: Happy Birthday Bags by Mary Thoemke in the TC Daily Planet
From Phillips in Minneapolis: Phillips Neighborhood Clean Sweep video from MTN
From Whittier in Minneapolis: Whittier Green Fair video from MTN
From McKinley in Minneapolis: McKinley Harvest Festival video from MTN
From North End in St. Paul: Amateur radio operators “share all they know” by Mary Thoemke in the TC Daily Planet
From Phillips and Powderhorn in Minneapolis: Ready, aim … fire those glue-guns! by Sheila Regan in the TC Daily Planet
From St. Paul’s Lexington-Hamline neighborhood Lex-Ham Community Theater features Shakespeare’s “Winter Tale” from the Union Park District Council newsletter
From Seward in Minneapolis: Seward Neighborhood Group reaches settlement with NRP over misspent housing funds from The Bridge
From Uptown in Minneapolis: First Universalist prepares for sesquicentennial year from Uptown Neighborhood News
From Uptown in Minneapolis: Senior center unveils mosaic from Uptown Neighborhood News MORE »
