Category: Phillips/Powderhorn
Restaurant and food news, plus a mini-review of Café Racer’s ‘Breaking Bread’
Hiawatha Golf Course – what is the Met Council’s stamp of approval worth?
No Justice, No Peace
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By Ed Felien The Mayor, the Police Commissioner, the Chief have to realize they will never regain the trust and respect of the community until they hold police officers accountable for crimes against our community. In the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Terrance Franklin, Mike Padden proved…
‘I am Mookie’
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BY KAY SCHROVEN “The shoot first, think later approach to policing needs to stop.” – Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Before George Floyd, before Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and before body cameras were worn by the Minneapolis police, there was Terrance Franklin, aka Mookie. The case did not get…
The Terrance Franklin case
Felien contra Bouza
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BY ED FELIEN I think Tony Bouza is correct to begin his analysis of the Terrance Franklin homicide with an account of Franklin’s encounter with police Sgt. Katherine Smulski. Smulski heard a burglary suspect had returned to the Greenleaf apartment building on Lyndale Avenue South. The apartment’s security camera footage shows…
Ups and downs in public education outlook
Roof Depot demolition delayed
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BY KAY SCHROVEN There was plenty of sun and the temps were above freezing on Sunday, Feb. 26, as the East Phillips and Little Earth communities and their supporters celebrated Judge Edward Wahl’s recent injunction to allow the Minnesota Court of Appeals to review the activists’ request to permanently stop…
Hope burns eternal to douse the flames at HERC
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BY CAM GORDON County’s new Zero Waste Plan could end garbage burning downtown Once again, people are organizing to shut down Hennepin County’s downtown garbage burner. The burner, known as the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC), has been fraught with controversy since before it opened in 1989. “Communities have been…
You can have the power
It’s time for statewide Ranked Choice Voting
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The Minnesota Legislature is poised to consider a bill that would bring Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) statewide in a measured, thoughtful manner. Minnesota is ready to take this step, and I encourage our South Minneapolis representatives to push it forward. Minneapolis is one of over 60 jurisdictions across the country…
Passing: Patty Guerrero
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Obituary at Willwerscheid Funeral Home & Cremation Service, written by her children: After 85 years of a courageously led life, the world lost a beautiful and well-loved person. On February 21, 2023, our mom Patty died peacefully at her home in St. Paul, a place from which, despite otherwise gentle encouragement…
U.S. sabotages European pipeline
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BY DAVE GUTKNECHT In the January online edition of Southside Pride, the editor generously published my response to his pro-war editorials: https://southsidepride.com/2023/01/28/a-response-to-sspride-ukraine-columns/. Since then, U.S. war aims have only become clearer, thanks in part to investigative journalism outside the mainstream. The U.S. helped sabotage Ukraine negotiations, then sabotaged critical infrastructure of Germany…