Tag Archives: activism

Transportation Day at the State Capitol

• February 10, 2015

Another big transportation event is happening this week in the Minnesota State Capitol. Sponsored and organized by Transit for Livable Communities and Move MN, Thursday, February 12 is Transportation Day of Action. The main event of the day will be a march from the National Guard Armory (600 Cedar Street) to the State Capitol. Supporters can […]

A protester holds forth from one of the few remaining branches of a soon-to-be-felled oak

Book Review: “Our Way or the Highway: Inside the Minnehaha Free State”

• February 6, 2015

In my work as a librarian, I have the extreme pleasure to curate my branch’s local history collection.  Since I took up that charge, Mary Losure’s Our Way or the Highway: Inside the Minnehaha Free State (U of M Press, 2002) has been staring me down, begging me to pluck it off the shelf and check […]