President Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight is a road map for an America that’s built to last, the America the middle-class deserves. But before we get to that, let’s start with some indisputable facts: after inheriting an economic catastrophe, President Obama has delivered 22 straight months of private-sector job growth. Mayors like me [...]
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I’m very pleased that this week, we rehired eight rookie police offices whom we had to lay off in late 2009 because of budget cuts, just as they were beginning their careers. I’m especially happy that six of these eight officers are people of color, and that one is a woman. For years now, we [...]
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Seven years ago, in the gym at Edison High School, I told a group of 9th graders about what was then a new summer-jobs program called STEP-UP. One of the students who heard me was Hashim Yonis. Hashim applied and a few months later, he had a STEP-UP job at the downtown law firm of [...]
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One of the top goals of Homegrown Minneapolis has been to get more healthy local food in our schools. Now Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson has taken a significant step to make that possible by hiring Bertrand Weber to the top food position at the school district. I first learned of Bertrand’s pioneering work through [...]
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