Month: January 2017
Go to your precinct caucus April 4
Re-thinking Our Revolution: a proposal for a rural strategy
BY ED FELIEN What happened? Clinton lost Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. She almost lost Minnesota. Why? When people were interviewed they said she and the Democratic Party were not speaking to them. Trump talked to the people who were hurting from lack of jobs and from small town economic…
Our Revolution: The unhappy fate of the resolution against sulfide mining
FROM WHERE I STAND: Stop the spread of nuclear weapons
BY POLLY MANN On Jan.18, diplomats from 65 countries at the U.N. Conference on Disarmament in Geneva will meet to begin talks on a treaty that would stop the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. Cutting off production of fissile materials for weapons could provide the…
QUEEN OF CUISINE: Preview of coming attractions
Hundred Flowers, 1970 (continued)
Go to your precinct caucus April 4
Saying good-bye to Adrian’s Tavern
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Adrian’s Tavern, beloved institution of Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis, closes forever on Jan.10. Adrian’s was tucked into a small slot between the Parkway Theatre and, most recently, Town Hall Tap. There has been a business in that space since the 1930s, and a place called…
Bayard Rustin –The Man Behind the Dream
Re-thinking Our Revolution: a proposal for a rural strategy
BY ED FELIEN What happened? Clinton lost Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. She almost lost Minnesota. Why? When people were interviewed they said she and the Democratic Party were not speaking to them. Trump talked to the people who were hurting from lack of jobs and from small town economic…
