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Minneapolis Star Tribune - Music and poetry again will be at the heart of the intimate performances and classes, along with another yet-to-be named art form. Next month festival leaders are expected to reveal the third art form and name the artistic line-up. “What we’re trying
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According to a large story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on January 26th, income inequality is widening. Wrote David Westphal, "income inequality is likely to deepen beyond its growth of the 1980s and 1990s, when incomes of affluent Americans grew more than three times faster than those of the low-income."
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McClatchy Co., which publishes The Tacoma News Tribune, The Sacramento Bee, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and other newspapers, said third-quarter profit fell 1.1 percent, driven lower by one-time litigation costs. Net income fell to $38.6 million, or 82 cents a share, from $39.1 million, or 83 cents, a year earlier, Sacramento-based McClatchy said.
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The Minneapolis Star Tribune (free subscription) ran an editorial this week about the continued need for student loan consolidation. Citing the Republican backed legislation in the works the newspaper is arguing the needs of loan consolidation to help recent grads manage the growing cost of higher education.
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Summer interns at the Minneapolis “Star Tribune” were asked to comment on the state of the journalism profession. Design intern Matt Quintanilla, who is majoring in journalism with a minor in politics at Ithaca College, said newspapers advertise the greatest product in the world. “We’re selling democracy and building an informed society (with some comics and sudoku, OK). For 50 cents a day! Can’t beat that.”
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The Minneapolis Star-Tribune's recent three-part series, "The Lost Youth of Leech Lake" (April 25 - 27), seems to have been written in the same spirit as its plight-portraying predecessors. Documenting a depressed reservation youth culture defined by violent crime, addiction, abuse and neglect, the stated purpose of the series was "to wake-up the outside world to a true crisis," according its author, Larry Oakes. A Star-Tribune editorial defending Oakes's depiction of "the violent, hopeless, drug-and-alcohol-drenched lives" of Leech Lake youth called the portrayal "reality" and suggested that a proper reaction wouldn't be "shock" so much as "familiar sadness."
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