Category: Phillips/Powderhorn
Winter and holiday events to keep your spirits bright
How to do it gracefully
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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Breaking it down This edition of “Gracefully” will focus on what elders, especially those living solo, need in order to thrive, and ways to satisfy those needs with resources available in south Minneapolis. We’re breaking down the needs into five categories; they’re not the usual categories,…
Small business street parking is one man’s concern
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BY STEPHANIE FOX You may not know Phil Vandervaart personally, but you know his work. He has been a Twin Cities professional sign painter since 1983, creating artistic and imaginative signage for hundreds of small businesses in Minneapolis since moving here from Chicago. Some of his works include Palmer’s Bar,…
Why did HCMC undercut patient well-being?
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BY DIANE J. PETERSON AND JOHN KOLSTAD Although one normally perceives hospitals, and the doctors who work in them, to be dedicated to the overall health of patients being served, HCMC (Hennepin County Medical Center) revealed that it compromised that ideal in May by lobbying against a bill intended to…
March in Mexico against Israeli aggression
Ukraine Chronicles
Restaurant and food news, plus a mini-review of Café Racer
Marty and Martha Roth
Are Hiawatha Golf Course pumping numbers meaningful?
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BY KATHRYN KELLY The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) states that keeping the 18-hole Hiawatha Golf Course dry requires too much pumping of groundwater. But are their stated pumping volumes for dewatering of Hiawatha Golf Course accurate? Documents and data that we received from the MPRB and the DNR…
More funding, fewer cops
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BY ETHAN BESSER FREDRICK Minnesotans have never paid so much for police departments only to have so few officers. In some places, police are disappearing altogether. In August, the police department of Goodhue, Minnesota, abolished itself – the entire department resigned for better paying jobs elsewhere. This is the most…
City Council elections
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BY ED FELIEN City elections are coming up on Tuesday, Nov. 7. All 13 seats are up for grabs. Here’s who we like: Ward 1—Elliott Payne. He votes right all the time, very progressive, without grandstanding. Besides, he’s a Black Diaper Baby. Children of communists and leftists are called Red Diaper Babies. Children of Black Panthers…