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Your help is needed to close one hole in Minnesota safety net
06 February 2012 3:11 PM | No CommentsYou may have read about Charles Van Heuveln in Jon Tevlin’s Star Tribune column a few weeks ago. A good program that benefits people with disabilities — Medical Assistance for Employed People with Disabilities (MA-EPD) — has a loop hole in it. A hole that...
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Theater of Public Policy
02 February 2012 12:19 PM | No CommentsPolitical satire and improvisational theater have a long history in the Twin Cities thanks in part to Dudley Riggs. Huge Improv Theater on 30th and Lyndale in south Minneapolis is adding a new chapter to this legacy with the Theater of Public Policy. In partnership...
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Communities Built to Last
30 January 2012 8:11 AM | No CommentsLast week, President Obama gave his annual State of the Union address, in which he raised the call for creating an economy that is “built to last.” For anyone who is a fan of business guru Jim Collins, this is a familiar term and title...
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Finding the Right Size for Community
Posted on February 23, 2011 | No CommentsEarlier this month, I found myself in a dark crowded room and almost giddy in anticipation for what I was going to hear. Concert? Sadly, no. It was Sarah Susanka, architect and author for the ‘Not So Big’ series of house design, remodeling, and community... -
Choices, Choices and More Choices
Posted on January 20, 2011 | 1 CommentNow that I have a child nearing school-age, I’ve learned that the months of January to March have a special designation–”school selection season.” At least in St. Paul from what I can discern, it starts with an overwhelming information fair, progressing to a seemingly endless... -
Cooking up Community
Posted on December 1, 2010 | 1 CommentAre you a locavore? I am, or at least I’m trying to be. Food with a smaller carbon footprint has been a growing movement for some time with the rise in Community Supported Agriculture, farmers’ markets and farm-to-table efforts in local restaurants. But there are... -
Dora Knows: Neighborhoods are the Lifeline for Community
Posted on September 23, 2009 | 5 CommentsCommunity is a word that is used regularly and has many contextual meanings and definitions—an online community, a professional organization, a place where people look out for one another. While I was in college, I experienced, for the first time, a true sense of community....
