I probably posted this back when the state NPR affiliate aired it but pretty cool to see it go national.
Category Archives: Minnesota News
‘The Avengers’ and ‘Star Wars’ get Ojibwe and Lakota dubs from Indigenous language experts
This is an amazing project, even more so than it will be officially hosted by Disney. Plus, a local Minnesota connection to boot.
Louisiana court says mostly white enclave in Baton Rouge may secede and form its own city
White supremacy always exists to keep resources away from the folks who don’t fit their criteria. Indeed, if someone isn’t getting hurt by their actions, are they really even doing it right?
In what is now a prosperous suburb of Baton Rouge, the racists are proud of their new city, and are striving to separate themselves from the community school system. Separate and unequal.
But it isn’t just the South. Here in Minnesota, folks trying to build a BIPOC nature center and running into resistance from white neighbors worried about “noise” and disrupting their “way of life”. You know, because every nature center I have ever been too has been as insane as Burning Man, right?
Code words and outright blatant separatism when allowed.
Minneapolis library offers books, but also snacks, socks and a safe space to sleep
Up here in the Northwoods, our public servants actually try to serve the public.
Well, we do whenever we aren’t allowing state sanctioned executions.
Hinckley-Finlayson district wrong to bar Ojibwe song at graduation ceremony
So…you can likely invite a preacher to most school functions.
You can have the Pledge of Allegiance, which has included religious reference since the 1950s to start the school day or at most events. I mean, *I* don’t include it – I was raised right – but the indoctrination is in there for the past few generations.
But don’t you dare include a native ceremony into a graduating class celebration that is 1/3rd native.
Minnesota Historical Society will repatriate the ‘Mankato Hanging Rope’ to the Prairie Island Indian Community
Small steps in making things right around these parts. Symbols matter though.
Like it’s 1865: The Rochester Roosters are bringing back vintage ‘base ball’
Neat to see these guys get some coverage. We usually catch a game or two every year.
Rochester Public Library launches Convert-O-Lab to digitize older media
This is pretty great for us local folks. Now, if they only let you scan photos in bulk so you could digitize them….
A year after Minnesota became a trans refuge, ‘transplants’ make themselves at home
On the heels of one story about how the local county is becoming more left-of-center, here is one on how the whole state has set itself as an enclave for those merely trying to be their best selves.
Yeah, that’s it. No agenda, not trying to piss anyone off. Just trying to rugged individual in ways narrow minded folks do not understand, but should agree is their right to do so. But intellectual comprehension is not anything I have expected from conservatives for a very, very long time.
As Olmsted County shifts left, political observers see battle brewing over control of a complicated electorate
Hmm, the key takeaway here is that smarter people don’t vote for insurrectionists. Mostly, because giving a shit pays dividends to society and makes a better community.
Funny how a lot of folks can’t figure that out. Glad we moved here when we did.
