Category: Riverside
Immigrant spaghetti, food and restaurant news, and two mini-reviews
‘Jersey Boys,’ a cautionary tale
The fantasy of ‘progressive’ U.S. militarism in Ukraine
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BY WYATT MILLER From Iraq, to Afghanistan, to Libya, to Vietnam, if there’s one lesson to be drawn from modern-day U.S. wars and interventions, it’s that they don’t help! No matter how bipartisan the call, no matter how morally urgent intervention was portrayed as being, in retrospect we know these…
Medea melee in the peace movement
The left’s confusion harms the Ukrainian people
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BY KIERAN F. KNUTSON, PRESIDENT OF CWA LOCAL 7250 On May 19 Medea Benjamin, the famous peace activist/celebrity, brought her book tour to south Minneapolis – and a modest protest of veterans, peace activists, Native Rights defenders and anarchists met her outside. Why would anyone be protesting a famous peace activist?…
DFL conventions – Ward 12 and Ward 10
Open Streets’ first event on East Lake Street means that summer has truly begun
MPHA proposal addresses long-term public housing needs
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BY CAM GORDON The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) has released a new proposal that could secure long-term funding to preserve, improve and produce more public housing in Minneapolis. On May 10, they made a formal request to the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) that would raise $12 million…
How we got here, Part Two
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BY RICHARD TAYLOR NATO’s existence became justified by the need to manage threats provoked by its enlargement. —Historian Richard Sakwa As Americans, we must ask: Did U.S. policy inflame the crisis that led Russia to invade Ukraine? To answer, let’s examine key events in Europe from 1989 to 2022. 1989…
Vets for Peace response
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BY MIKE MADDEN, VFP CHAPTER 27 Richard Taylor provides good background to the current proxy war being waged in Ukraine. I would add a few important points to his chronology: • The American role in overthrowing President Yanukovych was extensive. In addition to Sens. John McCain and Chris Murphy joining…
Structural racism in city’s neighborhood funding programs
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BY ROBERT THOMPSON In 2011, the city of Minneapolis took control of the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) in what many considered a hostile takeover. In 2019, the city declared that the NRP was an example of structural racism and continues to insist that NRP and neighborhood organizations only benefit white,…
My (non)dinner with Brian
MAY DAY
An appeal for free legal advice
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BY ED FELIEN Attention dear friends in the Minneapolis legal community: I hope you have the opportunity to read the following brief asking for injunctive relief from the District Court to compel the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and CenterPoint Energy to remove barriers that are artificially raising the level…