Tag: Brooklyn Park
De’Vonna Pittman running to bring ‘positive change’ to Hennepin County Board...
Author, entrepreneur, and public servant De’Vonna Pittman is vying for a seat on Hennepin County’s Board of Commissioners representing District 1. The district includes...
Boyd Morson seeks Brooklyn Park City Council seat to bring diverse...
Long time Brooklyn Park resident Boyd Morson is ready to expand his role in the community by vouching for a seat on the city’s...
Henry Momanyi discusses his candidacy for the Brooklyn Park City Council
Community organizer and nonprofit executive, Henry Momanyi, is challenging incumbent Brooklyn Park City Council member Susan Pha in this year’s general election in the...
Minnesota encourages residents to participate in national census
Today April 1 is Census Day and state and local government officials have been using the weeks leading up to it to encourage all...
Election 2018: Historic Liberian-American wins in Minnesota
The groundbreaking victory during last week's midterms by Ilhan Omar as the first Africa-born black person to be elected to the United States Congress...
Miguna Miguna to Raila Odinga: You are a prisoner of yourself
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. - A Miguna Miguna diaspora forum in Minnesota veered into unexpected territory last weekend for those unfamiliar with his non-public persona:...
University of Liberia Research Institute head to speak in Brooklyn Park
The director of the institutes for research and policy studies at the University of Liberia, Dr. Carl Patrick Burrowes, will speak tomorrow in Brooklyn...
Meet Brooklyn Park’s new assistant city manager, Wokie Freeman
After leaving her native Liberia as a teenager during the start of the civil war in 1990, Wokie Freeman and her family moved to...
Brooklyn Park City Council gives municipal consent for Blue Line light...
The Brooklyn Park City Council voted 5-2 on Monday evening (Feb. 22) to give municipal consent to the Blue Line Extension, a 13-mile light...
Brooklyn Park residents have their say on the Bottineau LRT
The City of Brooklyn Park held its first of two public hearings on the proposed Blue Line Extension on Monday, January 25th at the...
First homeless Youth Shelter to open in “African suburb” of Brooklyn...
The first of its kind in a Minnesota suburb, a homeless shelter for youth in the City of Brooklyn Park, will open tomorrow (Saturday,...