Category: Phillips/Powderhorn
Virtual caucusing and virtual conventions this year
Monuments
A new Good Grocer does good on Eat Street
The legacy of Lisa Bender – Letter to the Editor
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Thank you for your excellent piece on Lisa Bender, published a few issues back [all February editions of Southside Pride]. I’ve lived in my own home here in the Wedge neighborhood since 1995 and I’m a semi-retired architect. I’ve also been on various neighborhood committees, beginning at the time when…
The Biden health care plan doesn’t go far enough
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BY JOHN KOLSTAD Is President Biden’s proposal regarding health care the improvement we need? How does it compare to Universal Single Payer (Improved Medicare for All)? Biden’s plan reads like a campaign promo piece. He speaks in glowing terms about how great the Obama Affordable Care Act (ACA) is and…
It’s just a concept!
Minneapolis needs rent control — panel discussion hosted by Robin for Minneapolis
Cam Gordon convenes Housing Forum
‘Unceasing Militant’
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BY CAROL HOGARD “Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell” is the newly published biography by Dr. Alison M. Parker, department chair of American history at the University of Delaware. Dr. Parker has righted the historical record by this definitive work about one of the most important, but long…
The legacy of Lisa Bender
Dying
Celebrating Valentine’s Day in the 2021 Weirds
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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE 2020 is gone but the Weirds are definitely lingering on. As February rolls in and we congratulate ourselves on surviving the first full month of what could be another very stressful year, we acknowledge two things—one, we’re just past the one-year anniversary of the first publicized…
Who’s running for mayor of Minneapolis?
Notes from the desk of peace activist Polly Mann (b. Nov. 19, 1919)
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COVID vaccinations Israel leads the world in per capita COVID vaccinations, with more than a million and a half Israelis having been vaccinated. Authorities estimate officials can administer the vaccine to some two million Israelis before the end of March, if not earlier, and hope to have the bulk of…