BY ELAINE KLAASSEN In his book “The Land Knows the Way—Eco-Social Insights for Liberation,” well-known artist/activist Ricardo Levins Morales offers a unique perspective on activism and politics as he finds parallels between nature and human social movements. If you are looking for a warmly personal, expressive, creative and non-academic-sounding “textbook”…
BY CRAIG WOOD Palmer’s had what it took to be a successful dive bar: A pool table, banged-up furniture and enough soft lighting to see initials carved into the bar, but not bloodshot eyes in the morning. Take-no-crap bartenders served stiff drinks along with pizzas and salty snacks, and when…
BY CAM GORDON Time for Local Electeds to Step Up and Lead Community pressure to close the downtown garbage burner continues to grow and county and city officials continue to talk and write about it. Both the Hennepin County Board and the Minneapolis City Council have formally voted to support…
BY DAVE GUTKNECHT I’ve learned to hate the Russians all through my whole life If another world war comes, it’s them we must fight To hate them and fear them, to run and to hide And to never ask questions, with God on our side —Bob Dylan, 1964 Russophobia—hatred and…
BY CLINT COMBS Lauren Gray was cut off from her mother after becoming pregnant while in college. Julie Edwards, a Medicaid recipient from South Carolina living with Type 1 diabetes, needed birth control. Their stories may seem random, but consider how Republicans are gutting Medicaid and Reproductive Rights. Gray couldn’t…
BY KAY SCHROVEN You might say that Diamond Lake Lutheran Church has had a rebirth in recent times. If you drive on Portland Avenue, you’ve probably seen the beautiful limestone church with the red doors. What you cannot see from the road is the lovely, renovated interior and the lush,…
BY DAVID PAUL THEBUS The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) recently unveiled its Hiawatha Links Concepts, a $43 million plan to redevelop the struggling Hiawatha Golf Course. This decision raises serious concerns about fiscal responsibility and the MPRB’s failure to adapt to evolving recreational trends, particularly the growing demand…
BY KATHRYN KELLY The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board revealed their latest Hiawatha Golf Course concepts. Homeowners, Beware! Homeowners should be worried. This information is very important: 809 to 812.8 feet – Current golf course elevation 814 to 815 feet – New golf course elevation 811 to 814 feet –…
BY AHMED THARWAT Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News pundit, has lately been raising eyebrows, causing a minor American awakening, posting and asking bombshell questions, but questions that we Arab/Muslims have been asking for years. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy made the American Zionist Council (an earlier version of AIPAC) register…
Dear Eliza, We are living in a state of relentless mental turmoil—an overwhelming chase that no world-class filmmaker or masterful storyteller could ever recreate. And if they tried, they would surely fail. We are facing suffocating despair and unbearable frustration amid circumstances that have stripped life of its simplest essentials.…
ANOTHER LOVE LETTER TO CHIEF O’HARA BY ED FELIEN Congratulations,_Chief O’Hara. The report by the City Auditor found that you did not violate the city ordinance that prohibited you from providing assistance to immigration agents when you led officers from the MPD to Lake and Bloomington on June 3. A…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Two openings and no closings The major opening is D’s Banh Mi! Yes, finally. Even in my crazy month of August, I managed to go there in person and order a banh mi so I could tell you all that it’s great! And it’s just down…
BY STEPHANIE FOX A quarter century ago, a first-time children’s book author’s book got published, after 473 rejections from various publishers. Candlewick Press accepted the book when a young editor found it in a pile of unsolicited manuscripts sent by hopeful authors. The first bookstore to carry “Because of Winn-Dixie”…
BY ED FELIEN Early this year people were reminded that the City of Minneapolis was going to have municipal elections this November, and anybody who had an issue with City Hall should go to a DFL precinct caucus in early April. A precinct caucus is like a neighborhood meeting. You…
BY STEPHANIE FOX For those from Minneapolis who think they need an excuse to travel to St. Paul, here’s a good one: Grand Avenue hosts the kind of fun-to-visit and lively shops and restaurants not seen elsewhere in the Twins Cities. Here are a few of these excellent businesses. Iron…
