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Putting names on unmarked state hospital graves
The dead here didn't get names, only numbers. Thousands of Minnesotans who were housed in the state's mental hospitals simply disappeared this way. The asylums are long gone, but the unknown graves remain.
Have you changed how you listen to music?
“YouTube is preparing a premium on-demand music service — akin to a Spotify, but with video — to launch later this year, according to several sources familiar with the plans,” writes Alex Pham for Billboard. The service, designed with mobile listening in mind, will have a free component and a premium tier that offers unlimited…
Marking the graves of those long forgotten
Every year the Remembering With Dignity organizers and volunteers have observances and place markers at cemeteries around Minnesota where state hospital residents were buried and identified with only a numbered brick.
Minneapolis mayoral candidate bio: Cam Winton
Seventh in a series. With 35 candidates on the ballot, there has been no shortage of press conferences in the Minneapolis mayor’s race. But none compares to Cam Winton’s. For a recent one, he rented two rabbits to illustrate his plan to speed up business licensing. The event also featured a 25-pound African tortoise. When Read more →
Day 11: Wilderness bushwhacker is wet, cold and in Canada
If you think you had a rough start to your day, read this: “It was one of those mornings that started by putting on cold, wet boots and hiking through alder thickets at seemingly every turn. And then it started to snow again, and the wind howled, biting at me as it whipped in full Read more →
Minneapolis mayoral candidate bio: Don Samuels
Sixth in a series. Don Samuels might have been a Jamaican gospel music star. Instead, his improbable path led him to the Minneapolis mayor’s race. Samuels, who chairs the Minneapolis City Council’s Public Safety, Civil Rights and Health Committee, is one of eight candidates waging the most active campaigns in the race. A Star Tribune Read more →