Phillips/Powderhorn
Our Revolution endorses candidates
BY LILY KEIRE, ORMN VOLUNTEER Our Revolution MN (ORMN) DFL endorsed candidates at the March 4th DFL State Central Committee meeting. By working to get progressive candidates in office at all levels of government, ORMN seeks to create a progressive Minnesota that works for ALL people. These candidates are progressives…
QUEEN OF CUISINE: Welcome Home
BY CARLA WALDEMAR Lake & Irving 1513 W. Lake St. 612-354-2453 www.lakeandirving.com “You Can’t Go Home Again,” the conflicted Thomas Wolfe entitled his final novel. Thank goodness brothers Chris and Andrew Ikeda paid no heed. The Minnesota-born bros, Culinary Institute of America grads, earned their cooking chops in the fantasy…
CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREPENTANT MAOIST: Hundred Flowers, 1970 (continued) The power of the press
Anti-war protest March 18: Stop the Endless U.S. Wars in the Middle East!
BY MICHAEL LIVINGSTON Soon after President Trump took office General John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, told Congress that the U.S. faces a stalemate and needs several thousand more troops (New York Times, 2/10/2017, p. A3). The seemingly endless wars in the Middle East continue under Trump…
Lakewood Cemetery holds hidden treasures of art, architecture and history
Why should I go to my precinct caucus?
NENA plans to pretty us up!
BY STEPHANIE FOX At the February NENA board meeting, three new projects, designed to help residents beautify their neighborhood, were approved. Grants to improve curb appeal, matching grants to create butterfly and pollinator friendly boulevard strips and an expansion of the community garden at St. James Episcopal Church were given…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Change needed for 11th Ward City Council
Come McMasters of War
Seward Cafe launches donation drive
FROM WHERE I STAND: U.S. leads in police killings
Geezerhood
FROM WHERE I STAND: Spend money on food, not arms
BY POLLY MANN The Guardian Weekly is a British publication and therefore its criticism of the British government has a greater impact than that, say, of an American newspaper. Thus its criticism of that country’s arms shipments to Yemen is important. The question I ask is, why shouldn’t Great Britain sell…
‘The Awakening’ reopens the Southern for 2017
BY ADAM MICHAEL SCHENCK Perhaps unlike any other social movement, American feminism seems forced to argue continually for its relevancy. The history books put the movement into “waves,” such as first-wave feminism in which women argued for their right to vote. As legal rights expand and social roles get redefined…