BY ED FELIEN The race for DFL endorsement for Mayor of Minneapolis is tightening, but so far, the leading candidate among City Convention delegates is Uncommitted. The big news in the contest is that Council Member Emily Koski dropped out. We thought she could get as many delegates as Frey. It turned…
BY CAM GORDON The role of special interest money in Minneapolis is growing. A new — mostly rental property owner-funded — independent expenditure political committee (IEPC) is here. They call themselves We Love Minneapolis (WLM) and, according to their first campaign finance report, they raised $132,890 and spent $115,833 in…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Coffee Shops along East 38th Street — quality and quirk There are no bad coffee shops on East 38th Street! At 3745 Nicollet Ave. S. there is Five Watt Coffee, one location of a familiar local artisan roastery. Five Watt is known for its unique menu…
BY STEPHANIE FOX As spring has sprung, the focus about what’s needed to be done around the home and lawn change from shoveling snow to home and garden renovations. Expensive? Maybe. But there are ways to make improvements without breaking the bank. It’s not about being cheap, it’s about planning…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Culture and art Culture abounds on Minnehaha Avenue South! The corner of Lake and Minnehaha is unofficially “Downtown Longfellow” and it’s one of the few places in the Twin Cities with not one but two bookstores! (Three, if you count the “Uncles” separately.) Moon Palace is…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Retail shopping — groceries and more The hub of businesses at 34th Avenue, between 49th and 51st Streets, is the largest in the Nokomis neighborhood. It tends toward retail and services. Oxendale’s market is the largest physically. Oxendale’s has been on that corner for decades. In…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Openings, closings, and changes The newest tenants at Eat Street Crossing are Hikari Hand Roll Bar (opened January) and El Sazon Tacos & More (opened March.) I have tried Hikari Hand Roll, and it’s good. I have not yet tried FRGMNT coffee and they are now…
By Ed Felien In an interview with ABC Trump, admitted he could free Abrego Garcia, “I could,” but, in defiance of a unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court and the rule of law, he said he wouldn’t. Habeas Corpus, the right to a hearing before a court of law, is…
BY ED FELIEN The 11th Ward Convention will be May 31 at Washburn High School, but it’s beginning to look more like a Coronation of the Homecoming King than a normally raucous DFL Convention. Jamison Whiting played cornerback for the Washburn Millers before he graduated in 2013. He currently coaches boy’s football at…
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN On Saturday, April 12, dozens of citizens — most of whom are affiliated with Christian denominations or with other faith groups — walked from the nature center at 49th Ave. N. in North Minneapolis, down the Mississippi River to Bdote, the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota…
BY STEPHANIE FOX Melissa Fritz had worked for nearly a dozen years assisting families circumnavigating the transitions of aging, when she found herself helping her own family through the process. Her father had begun suffering with the symptoms of Alzheimer’s, and when the pandemic began, the isolation made her usually…
BY ED FELIEN I believe the people who live on the land must be recognized as the rightful owners of that land. No foreign army should determine their sovereignty. There must be plebiscites to allow the people of Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk to vote on whether they want to align…
BY ED FELIEN You can change the world. Trump is not as great as he thinks he is. He needs us to bow before him. If you stand up, if your neighbors stand up and say, “No,” then he is reduced to the clown we know him to be. Wouldn’t it be…
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN In the March issue of Southside Pride, Ed Felien, the owner, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the newspaper, wrote this: “We have mourned the unfair and untimely death of George Floyd for almost five years. Perhaps it’s time now to celebrate his life. He worked security for local night…
BY CAM GORDON While the city has struggled to create the truth and reconciliation process it committed to nearly 5 years ago, one small Southside group is making progress of its own. On March 22, the Reclaiming Edmund Boulevard Coalition and Ward 12 Council Member Aurin Chowdhury hosted a meeting…
