Category: Phillips/Powderhorn
Been thinking about Tony Bouza: Doris and Tony
Been thinking about Tony Bouza: Gay rights and Tony
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BY PHIL WILLKIE Don Fraser picked an outsider to be chief of police. Before Fraser was elected mayor in November of 1979, Charlie Stenvig, head of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, had been elected mayor three times in the previous decade, running law-and-order campaigns. He was defeated twice, but…
Restaurant news, State Fair food, and two mini-reviews
Did you know? U.S., Canada and Monsanto gang up on Mexico for its glyphosate ban
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BY JOHNNY HAZARD Early in Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s term as president, then-secretary of the environment Víctor Toledo worked on an ambitious agenda to prohibit the pesticide glyphosate (Roundup) and genetically-modified corn. This article will focus on the first of the two substances. Months earlier, López Obrador (AMLO) participated as…
Why are we so mad at China?
What about the homeless?
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BY DOMINICK BOUZA On Nov. 19, 2022, I was video recording the encampment under the I-35W bridge on 31st Street while driving. Twelve tents or so lined both sidewalks. Lacking water or any amenity, the wind howling trough the underpass, this encampment was destined for disaster should a kerosene heater…
After critical findings from DOJ, what should come next?
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BY CAM GORDON On June 16, a quiet Friday afternoon before a three-day weekend, with little advance notice, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and other United States Justice Department staff held a press conference with city officials to announce the results of their two-year investigation into Minneapolis police and an…
Rent control canceled by a minority on the City Council
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BY JOE HESLA, TC-DSA RENT CONTROL WORK GROUP COCHAIR In a sneak attack, the conservative minority on the City Council killed the scheduled public hearing on rent control scheduled for Tuesday, July 25. While three of the Muslim council members were observing a religious holiday, the conservative minority had enough…
Tony Bouza Oct. 4, 1928 – June 26, 2023
Malcolm X
Culture on the West Bank, political victory in East Phillips, and the small business scene on Cedar Avenue
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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Stuffed full of culture – Minneapolis’s Cedar-Riverside (the West Bank) With numerous theaters, music venues and more, Cedar Avenue’s northern stretch from Washington Avenue to Franklin Avenue is a cultural corridor like no other. There’s Minneapolis’s oldest community theater, Theatre in the Round, at 245 Cedar…
Summer in Richfield on East 66th Street
Summer in Highland Park – update on Highland Bridge and more
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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Highland Bridge development I made a couple of reconnaissance trips to Highland Bridge, the development in Highland Park headed by Ryan Companies. There are people living there and the parks are mostly finished, but overall it still has an “under construction” feeling of raw newness. Here’s…