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October 2008

Phillips/Powderhorn: October 2008

South High student recognized for literary achievement

by Dennis Geisinger
published October 6, 08


Molly Hensley-Clancy, winner of the Davidson Institute Fellows Scholarship.

South High senior Molly Hensley Clancyhas been awarded a $10,000 Davidson Institute Fellows Scholarship for authoring a series of stories told through the eyes of young female characters who show that common bonds bring us all together as human beings.

Among the 20 students nationwide named as 2008 Davidson Fellows, Hensley-Clancy received her award at a ceremony held on Sept. 24 at the Library of Congress. While in Washington, she and another Davidson Fellows Scholarship winner from Minnesota, Edina High School senior Michael Cherkassky, met with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobucher and the office of Sen. Norm Coleman, Reps. Jim Ramstad and Keith Ellison and the House Committee on Education and Labor to discuss challenges faced by gifted students.

Lies, big lies, and Norm Coleman

by Ed Felien
published October 6, 08

The biggest lies are sometimes not the things said, but, rather, the things left unsaid.

For most of his time in the U. S. Senate, Norm Coleman has been chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Harry Truman was chair of that committee at the outbreak of World War II. He investigated war profiteering and saved the taxpayers millions of dollars. He also investigated businesses that were helping the Nazis, and he closed them down. In 1942, he closed down Union Bank for selling bonds to re-arm Germany.

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Do you say Murderapolis?

by Dennis Geisinger
published October 6, 08

Depending who you talk to, there is good evidence on both sides for a debate over whether as the summer of 2008 draws to a close, our city can be legitimately tagged “Murderapolis.” The Minneapolis City Council says in a press release published Sept. 12 that according to the results of the 2008 Minneapolis Resident Survey, 86 percent of Minneapolis residents rate the city as a very good or good place to live. Poll numbers say 84 percent say their neighborhood is a safe place to live and 79 percent say that people in their neighborhoods look out for each other.

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Candidates for the Minnesota State Legislature

The General Election is Tuesday, Nov. 4. We do not have the space or time to give you background information on all the candidates that will be on the ballot, but we thought we could give you background information on the legislative candidates running in our community. In 61A, the incumbent, DFLer Karen Clark, will be facing a challenge from Republican S. Andrew Sheppard. In 62B, there is a three-way race to fill the vacant seat left by the retirement of Neva Walker.

R. T.'s response to the police actions

published Sept. 08/08

Thank you for your message regarding freedom of speech and the protests occurring around the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis Saint Paul. I want you to know that the City of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Police Department have been working diligently to defend the First Amendment speech rights of those who wish to protest and peaceably assemble in Minneapolis.

A response to RT

by John Hazard
published Sept. 08/08

To R. T. Rybak:
Is this the best you can do after five days of your personal and official silence in the face of police repression perpetrated by personnel under your control? You offer a defense of pre-emptive raids, of enthusiastic cooperation with the same federal authorities who are responsible for torture in Abu Graib, Guantánamo, and many other places we may not know about. Ah, but you “reject tactics that have a chilling effect on free speech.” Name one such tactic that you have NOT employed

Improved quality of health care does not violate privacy

by Linda Berglin
published Sept. 2

There appears to be some crucial information missing in the August 4 editorial on the new health care reform laws and how they apply to patient privacy. As the author of this legislation, I spent thousands of hours on taskforces, committees, working groups and commissions to come up with a package that would reduce unnecessary health care spending in Minnesota, increase access to health insurance for the working poor, small businesses and farmers, and improve the quality of health care services being offered.

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City shelves NRP's "framework"

by Dennis Geisinger
published Sept. 2

In what Corcoran Neighborhood Organization (CNO) Interim Director Eric Gustafson termed “a whopper of a public hearing,” on Aug. 20 the Minneapolis City Council’s Committee of the Whole voted to postpone further discussion of its proposed “Framework for the Future,” its attempt to reinvent the city’s 20-year-old inner-city investment mechanism, the Neighborhood Revitalization Project.

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Letter to the Editor For Middle East Peace

Dear Editor,

Minnesota born Macalester alumni Jeff Halper, head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolition, is a member of a delegation, sponsored by the Free Gaza movement, seeking to move relief supplies from Cyprus to the citizens of Gaza, who are imprisoned in their own homes, exposed to extreme military violence, deprived of the basic necessities of life, and stripped of their most fundamental human rights and dignity.

Southside early ed:
Green is go, stop is red

published Sept. 2

Kristin Green’s tutoring program for third and fourth graders at Grace Trinity Lutheran Community Church is moving forward.

The Lowry Hill East congregation that eight years ago created and funded the program for helping students who have fallen behind in math and reading, and Green, an educator who says she only discovered her administrative talent when she joined it three years ago, are making it go.

McCain, the Manchurian Candidate?

by Ed Felien
published Sept. 2

In the classic film “The Manchurian Candidate,” Lawrence Harvey is programmed through devious and elaborate North Korean brainwashing techniques to assassinate a leading candidate for President. The decorated war hero seems perfectly normal until he sees the Queen of Diamonds, and that sets him off on his murderous mission.

Cut-Rate Labor for any job

by Jim Hightower
published Sept. 2

Just when you think that, surely, the offshoring craze has peaked, here come more stories of “Globalization Gone Wild.”

McClatchy Company, the California-based newspaper chain, has announced that it is outsourcing some of its jobs to India. Copyediting and design work for certain sections of its Miami Herald newspaper are being shipped to a New Delhi corporation with the mindboggling name of Mindworks Global Media. Ironically, part of the work to be handled 8,400 miles away from the Herald's readers is editing and design for a weekly section on community news.

Nokomis: September 2008

The shredding of the Bill of Rights in St. Paul

No cool-down for affordable housing debate in Tangletown

Human Rights in Minnesota

R. T.'s response to the police actions

A response to RT

Vote in t he Primary September 9

Improved quality of health care does not violate privacy

City shelves NRP's "framework"