This Saturday is the DFL convention for Senate District 65. We’ll show up early at Central High School so that we have plenty of time to greet old friends and comrades we’ve worked both for and against through various elections and issues. With the temperature poking up over freezing, it may prove to be a hard day to keep us all focused on the politics. But March has more happening than a little warmth and a few state tournaments – it’s the real start of political season.
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Ha Tien
On University Avenue, around Western, sit a cluster of stores with a very distinct purpose. They sit aside other things around them, despite being in the middle of Saint Paul, for one very important reason – they serve different customers than the big stores further down by the Snelling off-ramp. This is the part of the city that has yet to achieve a strong name or definition on its own despite its different nature, a part of the city more likely ignored than given a name like “Little Asia” or “New Vietnam”. Anyone who pledges to care about the future of University Avenue, or especially Saint Paul, should spend some time getting to know this world. A good place to start is the grocery store called Ha Tien.
Steel in the Street
As February winds down, a deadline may be passing for the Central Corridor LRT line in Saint Paul. It’s unclear if earlier statements that the lawsuits this plan has generated still have to be settled in order to proceed to final design now that the Federal Government has given the project $45 million through a back door. What we can be sure is that the project is in some trouble. This, along with the Legislative bonding session, has generated some new cheerleading to advance the project. Some of it is far more enlightening than the writers intended.
Blog Series
The blog, as we know it, is a deeply flawed platform for discussing complex ideas. It emphasizes quick bites of text and an obsession with newness. With a little modification, however, I happen to believe that a blogger can create works of great relevance if they carefully pay attention to the organization of what they are trying to say. One method for accomplishing this is the simple device that I call a “Blog Series”.
The Living Lincoln
Heroes come and go in a nation as large and diverse as the USofA. The ones that stand out are the ones that keep coming back to us in times of trouble, re-evaluated and reclaimed for a new generation. None of our heroes has the ability to comfort us in difficult times like Abraham Lincoln, and his resurgence recently is a wonderful mirror through which we can see where we stand with a strong clarity and resolve. As great as he was, his presence as a myth is even more powerful than the man himself.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 