It’s city budget season. You know what that means. No one’s happy. Something is getting cut. Something is getting funded. And someone doesn’t like it. You can’t please everyone. …
“The mind can circumvent all obstacles to action, and turn them to the furtherance of its main purpose, so that any impediment to its work becomes instead an auxiliary, and the barriers in its path …
I’ve been thinking about phonies again. Not because of social media. Not because of politics. Because of "The Catcher in the Rye," a book I first read in Mr. Caldwell’s ninth-grade English …
Big things start small. A conversation. A drawing. A student imagining flowers outside a school entrance. Sometimes, a garden begins long before the first seed touches the soil. At …
Problems are a call to action. It's time to act. In my April column for Southwest Voices, " War, taxes, and the power of local change ," we asked residents to help shape the future of …
It’s tax season. So do you like how your tax dollars are being spent? Many Americans don’t. As of early April 2026, the Iran war has cost United States taxpayers over $42 billion, …
The first casualty of war is truth. Unless truthtellers are on the ground. Minneapolis has an army of them. And they've been relentless. Over the past several months, residents across the city …
Schools talk about preparing students for the real world. But learning often gets stuck in worksheets, test prep, and abstract concepts. Knowledge is delivered without ever asking students to act. …
They say love conquers all. But today, hate calls the shots. On Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman, Renee Good, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
My 10-year-old son said something the other day that no parent wants to hear. "We’re headed for World War III." He said it in a quiet, matter-of-fact way, the way kids do when they’re …
The United States is one of the richest nations in the world. Yet millions of our neighbors go hungry every day. Today, 47 million people in this country, including 13 million children, face …
Now more than ever, we need to protect the First Amendment. And the community voices it empowers. Those voices are under threat in Minneapolis. Buried deep in the proposed 2026 city budget …
Our city was shaken by an unthinkable tragedy on Aug. 27. Two children, 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski, were killed in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in south …
East Phillips is ready to rise. In Minneapolis – a city long divided by race, pollution, politics, and pain – this Southside neighborhood is showing a new way forward. It’s a path …
The 15-year-old host grabbed the mic and looked into the camera with confidence. “Hi, my name is Christian Flores," he said to begin this "Youth Community Journalism" show, introducing a …
Forget the stereotypes. Most immigrants are hardworking, law-abiding people who come to the United States for a better life. And the data proves it. According to a 2024 explainer by the …
Dr. Meghan Swanson is a neuroscientist at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She conducts research at the University of Minnesota's Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB), a …
Challenges bring opportunity. So do connections. The other day, I met a Minneapolis fire inspections field operations manager who told me the city's fire department is understaffed . "I …
Our world is out of balance. It has been for a while. In 1980, on Thanksgiving Day, John Trudell , one of the most respected and influential Indigenous rights defenders, delivered an empowering …
Focus on what's strong. Not what's wrong. This is the essence of asset-based community development . It's also what sustainable community building looks like and how we can create …
