Editor’s note: It is disgraceful that a city that can afford to subsidize billionaire sports promoters (half a billion for a baseball stadium; $155 million for renovating a basketball arena; almost a billion for the city share of the new Vikings stadium over 30 years) can’t afford to house homeless…
Southside Pride asked all the candidates we knew about who were running in legislative districts 60B, 61 and 62 how they stood on issues. We received responses from Susan Allen (SA), incumbent representative from 62B; Ilhan Omar (IO), candidate for State Legislature 60B; Captain Jack Sparrow (CJS), candidate for State…
BY ED FELIEN On Sunday, Jan. 3, around 6 p.m., 61-year-old Daniel Wiese, a resident at the nearby Dungarvin Group Home’s Hiawatha Campus, was hit and killed by a northbound train at the 32nd Street intersection while trying to cross the tracks in his electric wheelchair. Other disabled residents have…
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN Meredith Webb, the third-grade teacher at Hiawatha Leadership Academy, at 38th Avenue South and 56th Street, called Southside Pride asking if someone could talk to her class about newspapers. In the absence of our owner/publisher/editor-in-chief, who was out of town, I was the logical candidate since I’m…
BY CARLA WALDEMAR Giordano’s 2700 Hennepin Ave. S. 612-444-3143 Take-away orders: www.orders/giordanos/com “Is the Pope in town?” I wondered, trying to make my way down South Hennepin through crowds of the devout. Well, sort of. Blame the traffic hazard on Giordano’s, the Holy See of stuffed pizza. The new Uptown…
You’ve probably never heard of DARPA, the secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Defense Department. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the 1990s, DARPA has been active in many areas, from solving infectious disease to transforming humans for the theater of war. For example, with…
BY ED FELIEN Before the 20th century, drama entertained by telling a story. The first modern innovation came with Henrik Ibsen’s introduction of social purpose to the story; his plays used drama to prove a thesis: a woman’s need for self-actualization—“A Doll’s House”; the need to confront a community about…
BY LARA NORKUS-CRAMPTON The Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar Clark held a rally and march despite frigid temps on Dec. 19. Hundreds of peaceful protestors representing a diverse coalition of civil rights, community, labor and faith groups marched for several hours from the 4th Police Precinct to Downtown…
