BY DEANNA BOSS I live across the street from Lake Nokomis on the west side. This past month I’ve dealt with three episodes of water in my previously dry basement. I couldn’t determine the source of the problem since the obvious causes (clogged gutters, faulty landscaping, roof damage, defective water…
BY POLLY MANN Once again, the United States tops the list. Its incarceration rate is now more than four times the world’s average with about 2.2 million people in prisons and jails. Economists Jason Furman, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action…
BY POLLY MANN The headline of the three-page Dec. 30 New York Times article (large pertinent snaphots included) was “By Molding Tax System, Wealthiest Save Billions.” Yes, indeed, they molded. They’ve been using their influence to “steadily whittle away at the government’s ability to tax them.” The details, no doubt,…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The Richfield Historical Society has a motto on its website home page—Proudly Suburban since 1854. The 1854 part refers to the fact that Richfield claims to be Minnesota’s oldest suburb. The “Proudly” part indirectly references the fact that suburban had become something to be slightly ashamed…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The northernmost part of Cedar Avenue vanishes into a small theater district. Three unique performance spaces in Minneapolis are there, two in Seven Corners, where Cedar Avenue actually terminates, and one a few blocks away. Just off Cedar in the other direction there is the U…
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN “The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes” is a book that challenges not a few assumptions. And Frank Bures is a writer for whom nothing is weird. To research the book, seasoned traveler Bures criss-crosses…
