Dear Editor: Corporate tobacco companies continue to aggressively market their products to young people. As a queer woman, this is a particularly important issue to me because LGBTQ-identified people in Minnesota are 2.5 times more likely to smoke than their cisgender heterosexual counterparts. I am encouraged by the growing number…
Minneapolis city officials are working overtime to uphold the status quo. They have manipulated the charter amendment process and skated around both long-standing city rules and state law in an effort to keep our Police Insurance Amendment off the November ballot. And they’re hoping you don’t notice. The City Charter…
The Star Tribune has run several editorial columns and letters recently about the morass of gun-inflicted violence in which America is mired. Every suggestion, reasonable or not, for restricting sales or possession of guns instantly generates controversy and resistance. On the other hand, obviously there does exist a consensus in…
The Star Tribune has run several editorial columns and letters recently about the morass of gun-inflicted violence in which America is mired. Every suggestion, reasonable or not, for restricting sales or possession of guns instantly generates controversy and resistance. On the other hand, obviously there does exist a consensus in…
In the absence of any communication from Senator Hayden regarding supportive strategies for new arrivals in our subsidized senior citizen highrise, we are now told that a 10th of our units are newly reserved for individuals coming out of the homeless shelters around town, and we are discovering, not surprisingly,…
You’ve probably never heard of DARPA, the secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Defense Department. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the 1990s, DARPA has been active in many areas, from solving infectious disease to transforming humans for the theater of war. For example, with…
Right now is a prime window of opportunity for energy sector labor unions, clean energy experts, advocates for low-income residents, business owners, building owners, environmental justice advocates and other energy stakeholders to be asking City Hall to include community input into the anticipated city utility partnership. The City of Minneapolis…
Section 8, a government-funded housing voucher program, continues to experience budget cuts that directly affect tens of thousands of low-income families and their accessibility to affordable housing. While Section 42 is another common form of government-funded housing, many of the eligibility requirements that come with it can be deeply problematic.…
