Archive for November 2017
Local Coops Help Keep Internet Under Public Control As Net Neutrality Repeal Looms
Communications Commission (FCC) says it will vote to repeal net neutrality on December 14. Supporters of net neutrality say the vote would benefit giant telecommunications companies and hurt everyone else.…
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Philando Castile’s Death Inspires Black Economic Movement
“We have to find another tool for resistance aside from the bodies of Black youth.” — Me’Lea Connelly, director of the Association for Black Economic Power (ABEP), which formed after…
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Small Independent News Outlets have Outsized Impact
A new study shows hows that even small independent news outlets can have a dramatic effect on the content of a national conversation.
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MN Senate Announces Layoffs In Budget Dispute With Governor Dayton
Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka (R) announces impending layoffs of Senate employees and last paychecks for Senators. He is making the move in response to Governor Mark Dayton's veto…
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In 2021, St. Paul’s First African American Mayor Looks Back At His First Four Years
What can you expect from St. Paul first African American mayor? Days before Melvin Carter won a surprising first round ballot election he gave a speech pretending he had already…
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Human Rights Advocates Alarmed by ICE Request To Expand St. Paul Detention Center
St. Paul is one of four cities where Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to build additional detention centers. Human-rights and immigration-law groups from Minnesota sent ICE a letter of objection.
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