Category: Phillips/Powderhorn
Hiawatha groundwater and stormwater pumping update
Key activities in Phase Two include investigations that support a full exploration of options related to pumping. While the general implications of two options—continuing pumping at current volumes or stopping pumping—were described in the June meetings, this stage of work will be more explicit in demonstrating the implications of those…
Eyes Wide Open, on the dangers of leftists joining the Popular Front against Fascism represented by Bernie joining with Hillary
Living on the wind: Carnival de Resistance
Vote November 8
Whither Dinkytown?
“Unaccountable” is out in paperback
Remembering Armistice Day
FROM WHERE I STAND: BASUG
Dorothy, after Oz
QUEEN OF CUISINE: Vive la France!
BY CARLA WALDEMAR Barbette 1600 W. Lake St. 612-827-5710 barbette.com What was all that ooh-la-la-ing coming my way from street bands and sultry chanteuses on a recent July weekend? Oh, right: the annual Bastille Day celebration at Café Barbette. Good reminder that I hadn’t supped there in ages, and it…
Occupation of Peavey Park
BY DWIGHT HOBBES Summer 2011 the Minneapolis Police Department struck at the South Minneapolis intersection of Chicago and Franklin. Crack dealers, along with hookers and other junkies, accustomed to complacently setting up camp at the Thrones Plaza entrance to Peavey Park, hardly knew what hit them. Literally overnight, coordinating undercover work, camera surveillance and snitches, …
Asking for help
THOUGHTS ON RACE BY A BIRACIAL GIRL: Do I care what people think?
Why you should vote ‘Yes’ to more taxes
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Howard Zinn once said “Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.” He was talking about trying to affect militarism and foreign policy, after acknowledging that there were times when the margin between…