The Daily Circuit hosted Professor Jack Geller, Chuck Hassebrook, executive director of the Center for Rural Affairs in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Jeff Kletscher, mayor of Floodwood, to talk about rural vitality in America.
Assistant Commissioner of Education Elia Dimayuga-Bruggeman raised Latino graduation rates in Sleepy Eye, where she was principal. Now, she’s looking to take those efforts statewide.
Today on the MPR News Update, MPD Blue looks a little more rainbow these days. Illegal immigrants are speaking out more and more. And, the state considers changing the status of dozens of animal and plant species.
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The combination of snow and ice that hit the Twin Cities early this week lingers. There is some hope that above-freezing temperatures on Wednesday will improve conditions.
The roads in Roseville are ridiculous Fairview in Cnty rd C still have tons of ice. twitter.com/FlamerockDan/s…
— Flamerockdan (@FlamerockDan) December 12, 2012
I think they can/should clear off the roads better…… #horriblejob twitter.com/MKaeM24/status…
— Marina Marcus (@MKaeM24) December 11, 2012
Some Minnesotans are seeking alternative transportation.
“Roads are bad…I think I’ll just take the snowmobile to work this morning.” #MinneSnowtaProblems twitter.com/michellekaylee…
— Michelle Jacobs (@michellekayleen) December 11, 2012
Big data poses big questions for police and citizens. Minnesota police are using Automatic License Plate Readers to capture images and locations of licence plates that monitors criminals and average citizens going about their day.
The state doesn’t have a law on the books for dealing with this type of data that can be used to determine patterns of travel for specific individuals. The Criminal & Juvenile Justice Information Policy Group are beginning the process of creating legislation to address the use of this data.
The Star Tribune previously laid out the privacy-security tensions.
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David Brauer has pulled together a comprehensive list of Minnesota media folks on Twitter. The list is sortable and has the potential to aid your quest to keep your Twitter experience interesting and heck maybe even informative.
As in newsrooms, white males dominate.
The top-ranked woman? MPR’s Cathy Wurzer at 35th, with KARE’s Rena Sarigianopoulous, MPR’s Kerri Miller, WCCO’s Erica Mayer and the Strib’s Rachel Stassen-Berger comprising six women in the top 50. Near as I can tell, the Strib’s LaVelle Neal (third/22,126 followers) is the only black in the top 50, and Ojeda-Zapata (20th/12,967) the only Latino.
via Minnesota news media: Who tops the Twitter 1,000 | MinnPost.
It looks like another rough commute this morning.
A major wreck involving 10 vehicles has traffic at a near standstill on westbound/northbound 94 at 394 in downtown Minneapolis. A backup is developing and stretching back to the Hennepin/Lyndale Avenue exit. Traffic getting by in the right lane only.
via Star Tribune.
TV person says MSP officials say chemicals on roads don’t work ’til temp gets close to 30. Isn’t that close to when snow melts w/o chemicals
— Bob Collins (@NewsCut) December 12, 2012
“Behind the scenes, low interest rates are impacting most financial aspects of area agriculture,” via Grand Forks Herald.
