Month: May 2016

BY JOHN KARRIGAN I don’t have thousands of out-of-state Sandhill Cranes to write about this month, but the park water birds have been quite good. On the last day of March, three Great Blue Herons were on the lake and one or two have been on the lake almost every…

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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE A couple of years ago, there were serious fears in some quarters that the arrival of the Seward Co-op Friendship Store on 38th Street would open a wedge (if you can pardon the pun) to gentrification of the adjacent Central and Bryant neighborhoods. Even before that,…

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An Open Letter to Mayor Hodges, I supported your election and have been grateful for your effective leadership in our community. I ask that you extend that leadership to address the need to fund more adequately the upkeep of our neighborhood parks.  Carol Becker’s article in the April edition of…

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BY ED FELIEN He was disconnected from his family when he was 4, and it seemed like he never got connected after that.  A gangsta armed robbery when he was 19 got him 41 months in prison.  He got out and got busted for smoking grass—“Rich people do it in…

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For the past five years, the Minneapolis public schools have been slowly laying off educational assistants, a classification of paraprofessional, because they don’t meet new college experience requirements different from when they were hired. At this point, there are 17 EAs left in the district, all with 25 or more…

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