Bob CollinsDisrespect without accountability seems to be at the heart of a lawsuit the Young Conservatives Club of Edina High School has filed after some students refused to stand during taps at a Veteran’s Day observance at the school.
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Tag: Edina
It’s not quite clear whether Edina thinks raising the smoking age to 21 is merely a message or whether the city believes it will make a difference. Read more →
The last time the people of Edina knew what it was like not to win the girl’s state tennis tournament, there was a Clinton in the White House, the Dow was breaking through 6,000, Princess Diana and Prince Charles were still married, and the DVD player had just been introduced. Read more →
Writer Yasin Mohamud pens an all too familiar tale in the Star Tribune’s 10,000 Takes series about the time he was stopped by the cops in Edina because he fit the description of those involved with ‘keying’ cars at the Macaroni Grill. He was 16 at the time, he writes today. Read more →
‘Edina would be a nicer place if we could all talk to each other and not be awkward for not knowing each other,’ Stanley Wu, a 16 year old, wrote in his letter to Mayor James Hovland.
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Here’s something you don’t hear every day. A neighbor applauding the tear-downs happening on her street.
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The mayor of Edina says taxes are going up in his community because people aren’t buying as much booze at the city’s liquor store. Read more →
Edina loves its sports success and there aren’t too many cities with more of it.
But now it’s pushing the traveling youth teams to a younger age — fourth grade. Is it too much, the Star Tribune’s Mike Kaszuba asks in his story today?
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The push for sidewalks in Edina is meeting with significant unfriendliness.
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An anonymous senior at the school today left 3,000 paper cranes around the school, apparently to help dispel the image of the Edina student as a self-absorbed rich kid Read more →